Is America Winning The AI Race? Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times, The question of where the U.S.-China artificial intelligence arms race is heading weighs heavily on the future of both countries, as mastery of AI may determine the world’s economic and military leadership, experts say. To assess the state of the U.S.-China AI competition, The Epoch Times consulted 10 experts across the defense and cybersecurity sectors. […]

“Interplanetary Shockwave” Detected? Space weather website SolarHam reported that an “interplanetary shockwave” was detected Saturday morning as a coronal mass ejection (CME) struck Earth’s geomagnetic field. ALERT: X-Ray Flux exceeded M5 Threshold Reached: 2026 Oct 10 1507 UTC Noaa Scale: R2 – Moderate Comment: Issue Time: 2026 Oct 10 1509 UTC https://t.co/Sq7yuY89ZB — NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (@NWSSWPC) October 10, […]

Paramount-Warner Reveals The Extent Of California’s Control Authored by Tom Campbell via RealClearMarkets, Twelve state Attorneys General have just settled their lawsuit that tried to block Paramount from acquiring Warner Brothers. The case was brought under federal antitrust law. The settlement, however, goes far afield from antitrust. A state Attorney General is a political office-holder. It is neither surprising nor […]

Houthi Missile Attack On Busy Terminal At Riyadh Airport Kills 12, Injures 309 Update1610ET): The initial fatality and casualty count is horrific and unprecedented: at least 12 people have killed and 50 more were injured (NYT) in the Houthi missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Ryiadh on Saturday. A missile is reported to have directly struck the busy Terminal 3 of the major hub. Saudi state sources are listing […]

High School Wrestler Asks Supreme Court To Allow Her To Avoid Competing With Boys A Washington state high school wrestler, Kallie Keeler, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 5 for an emergency order letting her wrestle on the girls’ team without facing male athletes, after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by one during a match. She argues the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association violated Title IX by allowing male […]

Chinese Workers Return From Holiday To Find Factories Emptied, Owners Gone Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, Workers in several parts of China say they returned from the National Day holiday to find their workplaces emptied of equipment, managers gone, and months of wages still unpaid, according to workers and videos circulating on Chinese social media. Workers produce garments for fast fashion e-commerce company […]

Ukraine’s Drones Reach Russia’s Arctic “Gas Capital”; Is Nornickel’s Palladium Next? For most of the war, Russia’s Arctic was the part of the map nobody bothered to defend. That changed a month ago. On September 9, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said their drones flew “more than 3,000 kilometers” to hit two gas condensate plants in the Yamalo-Nenets region: Gazprom’s Novy Urengoy condensate treatment plant, with a design […]

Trump Says “Time For Ukraine To Get A New Leader” After Zelensky Ignored Six Pleas To Stop Refinery Strikes Update (1200ET): As he was boarding Air Force One on the way to Tennessee this morning, President Trump made his feelings clear over how he feels about Ukrainian President Zelensky. President Trump stated that “it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president”, criticizing Zelensky for bombing Russian oil refineries and […]

Moraes Orders Eduardo Bolsonaro Jailed For Lobbying Washington On Sanctions As His Brother Heads Into Brazil Runoff Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has issued an arrest warrant for Eduardo Bolsonaro and ordered the immediate start of his prison sentence, Anadolu Agency reports. Eduardo, a former federal lawmaker and son of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, was convicted of lobbying the Trump administration for […]

Some Safety Protections In ChatGPT For Teens Don’t Work, Watchdog Finds Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A phone with the ChatGPT app in a file photograph. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch TimesA number of new guardrails introduced by OpenAI in a special version of its widely used artificial intelligence tool do not work, according to a newly published assessment by a watchdog. Users of ChatGPT who say they are under […]

Ramaswamy’s Nuclear Startup Is Betting On A Reactor That Skips Enrichment Vivek Ramaswamy may be busy running for governor of Ohio, but the nuclear startup he cofounded just became one of the most richly valued names in the sector without having shown the public so much as a design drawing. Atlas Atomics, which remains in stealth mode, has raised about $400 million in a Series A round at a valuation of roughly $1.9 billion, […]

American Express Hit With $350 Million Fine For Anti-Money Laundering Lapses Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, American Express has been ordered to pay a $350 million penalty over what federal regulators described as “critical deficiencies” in its anti-money laundering controls. The American Express credit card is accepted at the front of a business in Chicago, Il., on February 11, 2025 Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe […]

UBS Sees Copper As “Highest-Conviction” Theme, Names Four Miners To Ride Supply Squeeze Copper futures in London closed near record highs to end the week, as desks at JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank have recently warned that dwindling global supplies of the industrial metal could produce another leg higher. Théa Ziegler, a member of UBS’ US equity advisory sales team, wrote in a note on Friday afternoon that “copper remains one of the […]

Who Thought This Was OK? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A small city in upstate New York sponsored a “family friendly” arts festival, then stood by while grown men stripped down and took cash tips a few feet from toddlers. Rather than issuing an apology, the Democratic mayor issued a lecture on free speech. Footage from the September 19 City of the Hills Festival in Oneonta now circulating online shows one […]

Trump Threatens Billions In Federal Funds If NYC Doesn’t Put ‘Little Italy’ Back On Map Authored by Nicholas Zifcak via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to withhold billions in federal funding from New York City unless the city updates a map of immigrant communities to include Little Italy. In 2023, the city created a map, “New York City Immigrant Enclaves,” that maps ethnic communities across the […]

This Won’t End Well… Seattle Becomes First City To Price-Fix Your Groceries Authored by Mark Harmsworth via the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) This week the Seattle City Council passed Mayor Katie Wilson’s “Fair Pricing and Transparency” ordinance in a 7-2 vote, a first-in-the-nation ban on so-called surveillance pricing. The ordinance takes effect in 2027. The Washington Retail Association warned for months that the […]

Indians Panic After Trump Sabotages Tech Firm Green Card Pipeline On October 8, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that the Department of Labor will not accept any new PERM applications (Permanent Labor Certification) or process any pending applications involving a list of prominent tech firms.  The action is being enforced amid ongoing federal investigations into alleged abuse of […]

Hair-Raising Case: White Baltimore Arts Executive Fired For Wearing Cornrows Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, A White Baltimore arts executive was recently fired in September from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. The reason was not that Kelly Carnes was chronically absent or failed to perform her duties as the new executive director. Rather, it was the hairstyle that she briefly adopted on vacation. You see, […]

Police Body Cam Footage Of 6-Year-Old Child Who Shot Teacher Finally Released The fatigue is real.  A 6-year-old first grader shoots his teacher with a 9mm he stole from his mother, lodging a bullet in the educator’s chest near her heart and nearly killing her, and the media and authorities suddenly go quiet about the details of the crime.  It’s an easy guess as to who is responsible and why.  The details of this story could not […]

New Jersey Pulls More Improper Voter Registrations, Adds Daily Audits At Motor Vehicle Agency Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Oct. 7 ordered daily checks of voter registrations processed through the state Motor Vehicle Commission after a review found about 1,090 additional registrations that were improperly handled. Sherrill ordered the review after disclosing in July that a […]

Trump Petitions Supreme Court To Reinstate Lawsuit Against Clinton & DNC Over Russia Claims Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Oct. 9 to revive his dismissed civil lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and others. The president alleges they conspired to create and spread a false story that his 2016 campaign colluded with […]

Vance Casts Doubt On Firing Squad Execution, Balks At Hegseth’s Live Stream Plan Vice President JD Vance seemed less enthusiastic and more ambivalent compared to other top officials in the US administration when asked about War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the Pentagon will livestream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan. A reporter asked Vance about the unusual development on Friday. Hegseth […]

Blackwater Bloodied: Erik Prince’s Congo Force Ambushed, Ex-UFC Star Tim Kennedy Shot In The Fight For The World’s Cobalt When Erik Prince signed on with Kinshasa last year, the brief was mostly about spreadsheets: help Congo’s finance ministry actually collect taxes on its minerals. But on September 17, it turned into a firefight. According to a Reuters exclusive published Friday, a team working for Prince’s Vectus Global was […]

‘Finfluencer’ Options Alerts Drive Buying Surges That Quickly Fade, Study Finds A new study suggests traders paying for options alerts on Discord may be helping create the gains they are trying to chase, according to Bloomberg. Researchers examining 15 paid Discord trading communities found a consistent pattern. An influencer posts an options trade, followers pile into the contract, volume explodes and the price jumps. The […]

In First, Putin Conveys High Level Message To Trump On Ending Iran War In a significant first of the seven-month long Iran war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has relayed to US President ⁠Donald Trump Tehran’s position on a possible resolution to the ‌US-Iran war, according to the Kremlin. So far it is only the Kremlin readout of the two leaders’ Friday call which mentions the Iran proposal was conveyed, however it didn’t […]