Trump Hints At Possible Meeting With North Korean Leader Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 12 that he might meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his planned visit to Asia next month. U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, on June 30, 2019. Susan […]

Selma Blair Hit With FBI Summons And State Assault Counts After Allegedly Biting Flight Attendant On Delta Flight Actress Selma Blair was arrested after a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles landed at New York’s JFK Airport on Sunday night, following an alleged assault on the crew, CBS New York reported. She was arraigned in Queens the next evening and pleaded not guilty to two counts of second-degree assault, and the FBI […]

Bank Of America Fined $1.2 Billion For Failing To Report $5 Billion In Suspicious Transactions, Including Chinese Money-Laundering Networks Most banks spend the night before their earnings call polishing the NII slide and fudging the reserve release calculations. Bank of America will be spending it reading a Treasury press release about itself. Just after the close on Tuesday, Treasury announced more than $1.21 billion in penalties […]

Jon Stewart Tells Democrats To Skip ‘Performative’ Impeachment Hearings If They Win Congress Comedian Jon Stewart told Democrats last week that a House majority should go to the economy and not to a new round of Trump impeachment hearings. Answering fan questions at the end of Wednesday’s episode of his podcast, The Weekly Show, Stewart was asked whether impeaching Trump would be a strategic mistake given that a conviction is […]

Iran Rebuilding Missile Stockpile For Possible Renewed Fighting, Israeli Officials Say Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Iran has rebuilt a significant portion of its ballistic missile stockpile and is working to expand it as it prepares for possible renewed fighting with the United States and Israel in the coming weeks, senior Israeli security officials told Epoch Magazine Israel. Missiles produced by Iran’s armed […]

Can Elon Musk Rescue Republicans In November? Elon Musk has given more than $276 million to Republican groups and his own America PAC since July, making him the largest known donor of the 2026 midterm elections, according to figures provided to The New York Times ahead of Thursday’s federal filing deadline. The spending marks a reversal from May 2025, when Musk said, “In terms of political spending, I’m going to do a lot less in […]

Tourist Hotspot Mauritius Rocked By Worst Riots Since 1999 ‘Tis the season to riot? Mauritius, the island nation in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and off Africa’s southeastern coast, is experiencing what Bloomberg describes as the worst riots in three decades amid an affordability crisis. “This time again, as in 1999, the police are the main target,” Jocelyn Chan Low, a political analyst, told the outlet. “The scale of the […]

Zelensky Confirms Second Night Of No Early Strike Warning From Partners Update(1715ET): Zelensky has taken to X to announce a second night of heavy Russian airstrikes, but without the early warning from Western allies that his government had previously been afforded. Ballistic missiles are rocking the capital overnight. At around or shortly before midnight Zelensky announced a new “Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv” as “Once […]

‘We Asked Her To Resign’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Out As Ambassador To Greece As we noted yesterday, odds of Kimberly Guilfoyle remaining as U.S. Ambassador to Greece were sitting right around 69% amid allegations of improper conduct. Now, the odds are at 97% after newly minted White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia announced that the administration has asked Guilfoyle to resign after reports that President Trump and Secretary of […]

Supreme Court To Consider Government’s Power To Deport Terrorist Supporters Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Supreme Court justices will weigh arguments in a case involving a Nigerian man whom an immigration judge concluded materially supported a terrorist group by working as a cook. Justices on Oct. 13 said they granted a petition for review from the Department of Justice to consider overturning a lower court […]

OpenAI Says Employee Planted “Sophisticated” Recording Device In Office; FBI Arrests Saudi National OpenAI said Tuesday that it found a hidden recording device in one of its offices, used its own AI models to work out who put it there, fired the employee and handed the matter to the FBI, which made an arrest. The company posted the account on X from its newsroom handle: “We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was […]

Saudi Aramco Headquarters In Dhahran Struck By Houthi Missile Update(1629ET): Saudi Aramco facilities are once again under Houthi attack, with reports saying the kingdom is busy trying to intercept inbound ballistic missiles. Tuesday night saw several eyewitnesses report loud booms near the headquarters of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company in Dhahran. However, Aramco has not immediately given confirmation of impact or that its […]

So, Where Was Waldo? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, “Wait a second. I assumed Democrats were getting ALL their candidates from mental institutions.” – Margot Cleveland Let’s just say you were running for a US Senate seat in one of our country’s biggest states. . . and it was roughly one month to election day. . . and, goshdarnit, you caught the flu. According to the CDC, a normal course of the […]

Israel Imposes ‘Muslim Ban’ For Pilots & Crew In Wake Of FlyDubai Hijacking After the Sept.30th FlyDubai attempted terror hijacking, Israel is enforcing what’s effectively a ‘Muslim ban’ on all pilots and cabin crew flying passengers to Israel. While the order does not specifically invoke religion, it targets and forbids pilots and crew who have nationalities of countries that don’t have formal diplomatic relations with Israel. […]

Big Tech Pushes Back On Paying For A Grid That Was Crumbling Long Before AI When Big Tech signed President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge in March, promising to pay for all the new grid infrastructure upgrades required to service their data centers, we cautioned that “voluntary pledges from trillion-dollar tech giants have a habit of evolving.” Seven months later, the hyperscalers are pushing back on how much of the grid’s […]

FTC Seeks To Hold Martin Shkreli In Contempt For Allegedly Violating Lifetime Pharmaceutical Industry Ban Federal regulators are seeking to hold Martin Shkreli in contempt of court, accusing the controversial former pharmaceutical executive of repeatedly violating a lifetime ban on participating in the drug industry. The Federal Trade Commission, joined by seven states, filed a motion Tuesday alleging that Shkreli has continued […]

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Navi Pillay Accused Of Helping China Target Uyghur Dissidents Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Newly named 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay is facing serious allegations that she helped China’s communist government identify Uyghur dissidents during her tenure as the United Nations’ top human rights official. Uyghur activists and human rights watchdogs raised concerns over the […]

Disney Says FCC Used Early License Reviews As “Maximal Coercive Pressure” On ABC While Dodging The Courts Disney and ABC told a federal court on Monday that the FCC ordered early license reviews of all eight ABC-owned stations to pressure the network over its programming, and picked that route because the alternatives would have put the dispute in front of a judge. Disney’s attorneys wrote in the filing, as reported by TheWrap, […]

“Busiest Week Ever”: Goldman’s Trading Desk Sees Rush Into Brazil After Bolsonaro’s First-Round Win Brazil’s general elections earlier this month sparked a right-wing wave at the polls. Though most polls forecast socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly leading in the first-round presidential race, right-wing Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro beat the unhinged leftist by around 2 percentage points. Bolsonaro and Lula now head […]

Saudi Arabia Rejects Request From Netanyahu To Join Yemen Operations Israeli media is reporting that the Netanyahu government wants to join the fight against the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen, and is seeking the Saudi coalition’s permission to do so. At the moment, Saudi jets are patrolling the skies and conducing hundreds of bombing raids against territory held by the Ansar Allah movement, in support of the Aden-based government […]

How Long To Rebuild The Gulf? Paul Sankey And Arjun Murti Debate Oil’s Future Tonight At 730pm ET https://t.co/ELMgqGJK9L — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 13, 2026 With Brent crude trading above $100 per barrel and the Iran war continuing to disrupt global energy supplies, a troubling question remains: if the fighting ends tomorrow, how long will it take to repair the damage already inflicted on the Middle East’s energy […]

Judge Blocks Further Tree Removal At DC Golf Course Trump Seeks To Renovate Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, A federal judge issued a restraining order blocking further tree removal at a historic golf course the president plans to remake in Washington, after the Trump administration waited until nearly 5 p.m. on Friday to notify the court before removing hundreds of trees over the weekend. In an emergency hearing […]

491 Fugitives Hiding In Public Housing Arrested In Nationwide Sweep Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A multi-month law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of 491 criminal fugitives living in government-assisted housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development in Alexandria, Va., on May 29, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe multi-agency initiative, Operation Clean House, was carried out by […]

“More Pain To Come”: Global Smartphone Shipments Plunge As Memory Crisis Crushes Budget Models Global smartphone shipments tumbled 22% in the third quarter as soaring memory chip costs forced handset manufacturers to scrap lower-priced models and focus on premium models, delaying purchases for working-class consumers, according to a new note by Loop Capital Markets. Loop Capital analyst John Donovan wrote early Tuesday that handset […]

Energy Department Orders PJM To Dispatch Units, Backup Power Through Mid-October Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Energy on Oct. 12 issued an emergency order directing PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. grid operator, to dispatch specified generating units and order their operation as needed to maintain reliability. The emergency order, Order No. 202-26-50, also authorizes PJM to direct […]