Israel Launches Heavy Strikes On Southern Lebanon For First Time In Weeks Technically there’s still supposed to be a fragile (and not infrequently violated) Lebanon truce in effect.But fighting has been on the uptick in southern Lebanon of late, as encroaching Israeli forces target suspected Hezbollah hideouts and individuals. Wednesay saw the IDF launch a deadly drone strike on the Lebanese town of Qabrikha, which it said involved […]

Global Diesel Crunch Set To Last Well Into 2027 Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice,Asia’s crude imports have nearly recovered to pre-war levels, reaching 26.39 million bpd in October, while refined fuel imports remain 10% below pre-war volumes.Diesel shortages persist despite recovering crude flows, as damaged Middle Eastern refineries, Russian supply disruptions and reduced fuel shipments keep refining margins […]

Knives Out: Hegseth’s Wife Reportedly Paid By Trump-Connected Firm That Also Worked For Lockheed Jennifer Hegseth, the wife of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, was paid last year by Watchtower Strategy, a Trump-connected Washington consulting firm that counted Lockheed Martin as a client the same year, according to Hegseth’s annual financial disclosure report, as Politico’s Daniel Lippman first reported on Wednesday.SCOOP: Jennifer […]

“Ten Weeks Left”: Texas Republican Urges Gov. Abbott To Curb Emergency Powers Before Democratic Takeover Texas Republican Has A Plan For Abbott’s Final Ten WeeksTexas Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Midlothian) posted on X that Republicans still hold power in Texas for the next ten weeks and urged defeated three-term Governor Greg Abbott to convene an immediate special legislative session to curb executive emergency powers before Democrat […]

Biden-Nominated Federal Judge Tosses DOJ Lawsuit Demanding Harvard Admissions Data Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,A federal judge on Monday dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit that sought to force Harvard University to turn over detailed records showing whether its admissions policies are race-based.Biden-nominated U.S. District Judge Myong J. Joun in Boston rejected the Department of Justice’s case after finding […]

Trump Turns On Fox News In Series Of Blistering Statements There have been so many surprises in the last 24 hours – one of which is President Trump unleashing on Fox News, blaming his favored network for the Democratic midterm sweep.He on Wednesday turned on Fox in a blistering Truth Social post, writing that the channel [emphasis by ZH] “bears responsibility for these losses by constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat […]

Arrests, Prosecutions, & Deportations Fuel Record Drop In Crime Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations,The United States has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration’s embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in.The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported on Oct. 26 that felony violent […]

Crude Crashes As Blue-nami Sparks Market Chaos; Bullion, Bitcoin, & Bonds Bid Tl;dr: One word supports much of today’s equity exuberance: “hedged” as the ‘priced in’ anxiety over a blue wave came to pass and so protection was unwound, slamming vols, and driving up stocks from ugly (data-centers/AI CapEx is dead) overnight lows (though we might add the word “rotation” to today’s narrative). Tangential to this, oil priced […]

NTSB Finds “Very, Very Significant” Evidence Miles From Doomed Learjet’s Crater Federal investigators have recovered most of the left elevator from the Learjet 60 that slammed into a Greenacres, Florida, neighborhood on Sunday, in three pieces scattered between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the impact site, the clearest sign yet that the jet was coming apart before it hit the ground and killed all nine people aboard.”Finding that piece is […]

NASA’s Swift Telescope’s Journey Ends After Failed $30 Million Rescue NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, Nov. 4, almost 22 years after launch, after a $30M commercial rescue attempt was unable to recover it. NASA says the U.S. Space Force predicted re-entry at about 3:30 a.m. EST, give or take 11 hours. NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory satellite (NASA) The spacecraft weighed […]

“Lawyer Up”: Democrats Prepare To Unleash Political Rage In Congress Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley,Within minutes of the Democrats retaking power in the House of Representatives, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the expected chair of the House Oversight Committee, just posted a menacing two-word message: “Lawyer up.” Across the country, far-left politicians and pundits immediately demanded a spasm of investigations and […]

Major Steakhouse Chain’s Largest Franchisee Files For Bankruptcy As Debt Explodes The casual dining industry has suffered another major blow following the bankruptcy filing of Outback Steakhouse’s largest U.S. franchisee after years of soaring costs, declining customer traffic, and mounting debt.San Diego-based Out West Restaurant Group, also known as Cerca Trova Restaurant Group, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday in […]

El-Sayed Becomes First Muslim Elected To US Senate, Mocks AIPAC In Victory Speech Via Middle East EyeProgressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won a highly coveted Michigan Senate seat on Wednesday, and will become the first Muslim to serve in the upper chamber of Congress come January. El-Sayed declared victory with 80 percent of votes counted, showing him in a comfortable 51.8 percent lead compared to his Republican opponent Mike […]

Midterm Elections: Not A Mandate, Just A Rejection Authored by Ed Dowd via Ed Dowd Beyond the Narrative,The midterms delivered what a handful of clear-eyed observers had been flagging for months: a decisive Democratic sweep that handed them the Senate and put the House firmly in their column. Flips in Texas, South Carolina, Ohio, Kansas, and Iowa were not supposed to be realistic under standard models. Yet they happened, along with […]

Qualcomm To Power SpaceX’s Masive 5G Nationwide Network As Musk Takes Aim At Telecom Giants SpaceX’s bold move to challenge AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile became even clearer on Wednesday after Elon Musk’s company signed a multi-year hardware and software deal with Qualcomm. The agreement provides critical cell equipment for SpaceX’s terrestrial 5G network spanning thousands of towers, complementing Starlink’s low-Earth-orbit […]

Central Banks Just Bought Gold At Fastest Pace Since 2024, World Gold Council Says Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times,Central banks continue to add to their gold reserves amid global inflation and geopolitical risks.Total third-quarter central bank demand rose by 42 percent year over year to 321 tons, “eclipsing recent typical quarterly buying levels,” according to the World Gold Council, an industry body funded by major […]

Vance Boldly Admits Reason GOP Lost Midterms Is Iran War, Crude Slides (Update 11:10ET): The expected rapid blame-game has begun at the highest levels of the Turmp administration, with Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday morning saying bluntly that the Iran war is ‘the reason we lost’ midterms. He had in the opening days of Operation Epic Fury, and just before (per prior NYT reporting), expressed pushback within Oval Office […]

Texas’s New Democrat Governor Vowed To Stop Helping ICE – Here’s What She Can Actually Undo Democrat Gina Hinojosa’s upset of Gov. Greg Abbott hands the state’s border machinery to a lawmaker who spent the campaign attacking it.  Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa, D-Austin, puts a fist up as she speaks to the crowd during a Stop ICE Rally at Pan American Neighborhood Park in East Austin, Jan. 31, 2026 (Getty) Abbott conceded around 10 […]

Crypto Regulation After The $176M US Midterms Via Bitcoinist,Crypto Regulation has become one of the biggest questions following the 2026 US midterm elections, particularly after cryptocurrency-backed political groups spent approximately $176 million trying to influence congressional races.Despite that investment, the industry has encountered a changing political landscape, with Democrats gaining control of Congress and several […]

The Everything Bubble Is Bursting, In Real Time Authored by Daniel Lacalle via Daniel Lacalle,For years, extraordinary money supply growth and negative real rates have pushed asset prices to unwarranted levels. The resulting “everything bubble” spread across real estate, private equity, bonds, and stocks. Now, it is bursting.The process begins when cheap and elevated liquidity, which is the assumption underpinning inflated […]

UAE Planning Third Oil Pipeline To Bypass Hormuz Chokepoint Mess The United Arab Emirates currently operates one crude export pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz and announced earlier this year that it was building a second. A third pipeline is reportedly being planned to further expand crude capacity and reroute energy flows around Hormuz, reducing exposure to Iranian disruption and weakening Tehran’s leverage over the […]

AI The Next Dot-Com Bubble? Gene Munster Vs. George Noble Tonight At 7PM ET LIVE NOW:https://t.co/2YGsPu00Y6— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 4, 2026*********************Wall Street’s bulls and bears live in two different worlds when it comes to AI: Are we at the early stages of a technological revolution or another bubble destined to burst? And in the last month, the momentum has shifted towards the bears…October saw […]

“Extinction-Level Event”: Takeaways From The GOP’s Midterm Wipeout Democrats flipped seven Republican-held Senate seats and seized the House on Tuesday, handing President Trump what Punchbowl News called “an extinction-level event” for the GOP. As of Wednesday morning, NBC News had the Senate at 54-44 with two races still out. In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom led Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by 43 votes with more than 95% counted. In […]

Iran Says Four Oil Tankers Destroyed By Mines Near Strait Of Hormuz Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice,Four oil tankers were destroyed after hitting naval mines in an area south of the Strait of Hormuz proscribed by Iran as prohibited for navigation, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday, as attacks on vessels in the region intensify while crude oil flows have dipped from recent highs.The four […]

Oracle Kills $7BN Tencent AI Chip Deal Under Trump Pressure Trump administration officials went to Oracle with concerns about its chip leasing contract with Tencent, and the deal has since been cancelled, two people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times.The five-year lease, worth an estimated $7 billion, would have given the Chinese tech giant access to as many as 100,000 advanced AI chips across a string of Oracle data […]