Kidnapping Is Not A ‘Violent Felony’: Appeals Court Voids Two More Whitmer Plot Convictions A Michigan Court of Appeals panel on July 20 vacated the convictions of Pete Musico and Paul Bellar, two men a jury found guilty in 2022 of providing material support for an act of terrorism over their connection to the alleged 2020 plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks at an event in National […]

Most Adults Can Safely Drink Up To 5 Cups Of Coffee A Day: American Heart Association Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Most adults can safely drink five cups of coffee a day, according to the American Heart Association. The organization said in a July 20 statement that synthesizes research on caffeine that the latest studies indicate that for most adults, consuming up to 400 milligrams of caffeine a day – or up to […]

Two Saudi Crude-Laden Tankers Make U-turns In Red Sea Amid Houthi ‘Blockade’, Oil Surges Summary Shipping disruption: Houthi threats forced two Saudi oil tankers to turn around in the Red Sea as Hormuz traffic slowed sharply after more tanker attacks. Escalation in Gulf: Iran claimed strikes on infrastructure in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan, while Kuwait reported a second day of attacks on power and desalination plants. Trump […]

Border Patrol Records 14 Straight Months Of Zero Releases At Southern Border Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Border Patrol released zero illegal immigrants into the United States from the southern border for the 14th consecutive month in June. Border enforcement is at “historic levels,” and illegal crossings last month remained significantly low, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a July […]

GLP-1 Fight: Novo Sues Eli Lilly Over Nationwide “Deceptive Advertising” Campaign Novo Nordisk wrote in a press release that it is suing GLP-1 rival Eli Lilly in federal court in New Jersey, alleging nationwide “deceptive advertising” for Zepbound and Mounjaro. The company claims Lilly misleads consumers by comparing Lilly’s highest doses with lower doses of Novo’s Wegovy and Ozempic. Novo claims Lilly’s Zepbound advertising […]

“Demand Remains Strong”: GM Beats Expectations, Lifts Guidance For Second Time GM beat Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations on Tuesday, posting adjusted earnings of $3.57 per share on $48.03 billion in revenue as profitability improved despite softer vehicle sales. Adjusted EBIT reached $3.94 billion, up from $3.0 billion a year earlier, helped by lower tariff-related costs and stronger operating performance, according to Yahoo […]

Domino’s US Sale Growth Hits Five-Quarter Low As Budget Diners Pull Back Domino’s Pizza posted its softest US comparable-sales growth in five quarters as inflation and the national average price for regular gasoline above $4 a gallon pressured working-poor consumers. Second-quarter same-store sales rose a measly .1%, in line with estimates but trailing the growth expected across much of the quick-service restaurant industry (QSR). […]

Kazakhstan Stops Piping Oil To Black Sea After Spate Of Ukraine Drone Tanker Strikes Update(0803ET): This development certainly isn’t going to help global oil prices stay down… Following a drone attack out of Ukraine days ago on the Caspian ​Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal along the Black Sea Coast, Kazakhstan has newly confirmed a halt crude transfers there. “Kazakhstan is set to stop piping crude to a port on Russia’s […]

Futures Jump As Chipmakers Surge After Japan , Korea Bounce US stock futures are higher led by Tech after a strong bounce in chip stocks in Japan (memory stock Kioxia traded limit up after trading limit down on Friday and Monday was a holiday) and Korea, as evidence mounts that Momentum / Semis pullback have bottomed, with supportive price action elsewhere in Asia and Europe, though the JPM EU Trading Desk is not yet seeing […]

The Democrats’ Financial Situation Appears To Be Worse Than Previously Known The Democratic Party’s money problems have been an open secret for months. Federal Election Commission filings from around six months ago showed the Democratic National Committee entering the final stretch of last year with barely $12 million in its campaign account and nearly $16 million in debt, most of it stemming from a loan the committee took out the […]

Gold & Tech: How The Whales Trick The Retail Plankton Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Never in my 30+ years in the markets have I seen a monetary, precious metal and risk-asset setup more obvious yet more deliberately ignored than today. Below, we look at the converging signposts screaming from the tech/AI sector and the equally obvious (yet deliberately downplayed) signals from a precious metals market […]

Blackstone Just Made A Physical AI Bet On Actuator-Maker Powering Humanoid Robots Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, is making a big investment in Futronic, a 33-year-old automotive supplier whose motion-control technology has been adapted for industrial and humanoid robots, according to Reuters. The deal values the South Korean firm at about 1 trillion won ($676.04 million), according to a person with […]

Did Scientists Just Solve The Biggest Mystery Holding Back Solid-State Batteries Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Scientists have identified the root causes of solid-state battery failures, discovering that internal pressure cracks the electrolyte while electrical imbalances trigger lithium growth that causes short circuits. The findings could accelerate commercialization by turning a long-standing scientific […]

“Demand Signal Is Real”: US Bipartisan Senate Delegation Touts Defense Boom At Farnborough Airshow The Farnborough International Airshow kicked off on Monday and is one of the world’s largest aerospace, aviation and defense trade shows. It is held every two years at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire. A Reuters report says that a bipartisan group of nine US senators urged allied European defense giants to expand production, as there […]

Proposed US Deal For Saudi Nuclear Enrichment Is Without Safeguards Via Middle East Eye The Trump administration has greenlit Saudi Arabia’s nuclear enrichment project, but with no safeguards in place to prevent the development of a bomb, CNN reported on Friday.  The draft deal, viewed by the news outlet, showed Washington’s support for Riyadh’s civilian nuclear program is still awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature, […]

Three-Quarters Of Refugee-Linked Households In Vienna Rely On Taxpayer Handouts Via Remix News, Three-quarters of households in Vienna connected to migrants from popular asylum-origin countries are unable to support themselves without government benefits, according to figures analyzed by Statistics Austria. The analysis, cited by Kronen Zeitung, covered approximately 103,000 households across Austria containing at least one […]

Narrative Control: The Collapsing Authority Of The State Authored by Jacob Reynolds via ‘Academy of Ideas’ substack, Perhaps the central battleground of contemporary politics is the need of our political elites to control the narrative. Primarily, the role of establishment politicians is not to deliver changes and reforms, not to fix problems identified by people in their everyday lives, and not to change circumstances such that […]

Oregon Sees Disturbing Spike In Gender Transition Therapy For Children If you’re curious to see what the US would look like under an entrenched progressive regime, deep blue states like Oregon offer special insight.  Four years of woke Democrats running the show under the Biden Administration was bad enough – Pride flags draped across the White House and naked transgenders dancing across the lawn was an embarrassing moment for the […]

Is China Sabotaging America’s Data Centers? Authored by Lipton Matthews via American Greatness, China is the one foreign power with both the resources and the strategic incentive to shape American technology. Washington’s preoccupation with foreign influence has become almost reflexive, though curiously selective in its targets. Some lawmakers have built entire political identities around scrutinizing the influence of the […]

National Guard Deployment To DC Will Continue Until Trump’s Term Ends A new extension of the National Guard’s deployment to Washington will keep guardsmen in the nation’s capital until President Donald Trump’s term ends in more than two years. The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the mission for which National Guard troops were deployed will continue until Jan. 20, 2029, or until the president terminates it. The extension […]

The False Choice Facing American Agriculture Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, This week, I was talking with one of my neighbors, a good man who raises hay and runs a cow-calf operation. As we discussed different approaches to grazing and pasture management, he laughed and called some of my ideas “fantastical fairy tales.” We both laughed. A farmer moves cattle from one pasture to another at a farm outside Swoope, […]

Woman Walks Into Ontario Police Department With Live World War II Grenade An Ontario police department is warning residents not to bring unexploded military munitions to the station after a woman walked in carrying a live World War II grenade, according to the NY Post. The incident happened at an Ottawa-area Ontario Provincial Police detachment, where officers said a resident arrived with the decades-old explosive after finding it […]

Inside California’s Battle With The Marijuana Black Market Authored by Brad Jones via The Epoch Times, A convoy of sheriff’s deputies heads into a vast network of illegal marijuana grow operations in the foothills of Mount Shasta in California’s Siskiyou County. They drive into a dusty encampment strewn with garbage and piles of empty plastic fertilizer containers, a blight on the otherwise scenic landscape. Siskiyou County […]

NYC Street Vendors Now Openly Selling Illegal Prescription Pills Across 10 Blocks What looks like an ordinary row of street vendors in Washington Heights is, in reality, an illegal outdoor pharmacy, according to the NY Post. Along roughly half a mile of St. Nicholas Avenue, between West 179th and West 183rd streets, vendors openly sell prescription medications from folding tables, offering everything from antibiotics and pain […]

Winter Is Coming: The Work To Keep Us Warm Is Underway Authored by Larry Behrens via RealClearEnergy, As temperatures near 100 degrees across the country, the last thing on the minds of most Americans are worrying about is…heat. Not the summer heat. The other kind. Winter is coming, and in just a few months, millions of Americans will move from cranking up their air conditioners to firing up their furnaces. Fortunately, the […]