Federal Government Backs Supreme Court Challenge To AR-15 Bans Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to side with gun owners challenging state and local bans on AR-15-style rifles. In a brief filed Friday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to overturn rulings from the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuits, which upheld AR-15 bans in […]

Biggest ‘Go Woke, Get Broke’ Story Of A Generation: S&P Nukes Nike From Elite Blue-Chip Index S&P Dow Jones Indices announced Friday that Nike is being booted from the S&P 100 after nearly two decades, another sign of how America’s most exclusive blue-chip benchmark is being reshaped by the artificial-intelligence spending boom. But that’s not the entire story…  Perhaps what really happened with Nike is that it […]

Trump: Michael Cohen Recanted Testimony Behind NY Cases Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Michael Cohen, a key witness in the New York criminal and civil cases against President Donald Trump, has “fully recanted” his testimony in both cases, the Republican president announced Friday via Truth Social. Previously known as Trump’s longtime fixer, Cohen was used by New York Attorney General Letitia James in her […]

A GoFundMe In Support of Lindsay Clancy Nears $1.2 Million After Mistrial A Massachusetts jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours over seven days and failed to reach a unanimous verdict in the case against Lindsay Clancy, resulting in Judge William Sullivan declaring a mistrial on Friday due to a holdout juror.  Clancy has admitted to strangling her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands […]

AfD Sweeps Saxony-Anhalt Election In First “Far Right” Victory Since WW2: “Signal To Berlin” Update(1400ET): In a political earthquake, the AfD has taken a massive lead, per exit polls, at the Saxony-Anhalt election in what the party’s state leader hailed as sending a resounding “signal to Berlin.” This moment marks the first time what has been dubbed a German “far-right party” taking power at a state level since World War II. […]

From Par To Pennies Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance Private credit’s reckoning is not arriving with one grand, spectacular crash. It is arriving slowly and steadily, one loan at a time. For years, one of private credit’s great attractions was the remarkable stability (or perceived stability) of its valuations. Public bonds could fall ten points in a week. Leveraged loans could gap lower after a bad earnings report. But […]

They/Them Communist Activist Declares Ozempic “Fascist” Plot To “Genocide Fat People” America’s socialist leadership increasingly looks less like a political movement and more like a circus where the clowns run the show. Its most radical theorists openly advocate dismantling capitalism and the institutions underpinning the Western order while romanticizing communist regimes defined by nation-killing economic ruin and political […]

Diplomatic Blitz: Witkoff, Kushner Hold “Substantial” Ukraine Talks After Putin Meeting President Trump’s diplomatic sprint shifted from Moscow to Kiev over the weekend, with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner arriving in Ukraine for talks with senior officials. The visit came one day after the pair met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian state media outlet TASS cited […]

Iran Vows ‘Faster, More Painful’ Response To US Attacks After Weekend Sea Battle Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday announced a heightened military posture in the war with the US, saying that new attacks on the country will “meet a faster, heavier and more painful response.” “If they haven’t understood by now, they should understand before it’s too late that the rules of the game have changed and that […]

Waste Of The Day: $79M To Not Work Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Contractors working for the State of Illinois took a 470,000-hour paid lunch break on taxpayers’ dime. A company hired during the Covid-19 pandemic to fill staffing shortages at hospitals and long-term care facilities spent more than a third of its time on “standdown,” a contract provision that paid them to be on-site and available in case […]

Twelve Companies Make DOE’s Latest Nuclear Launch Pad Cut The DOE’s National Reactor Innovation Center announced 12 companies covering 13 projects for its latest Nuclear Energy Launch Pad (NELP) round on August 24th. Similar to the project coverage from the first round, this new group also spans multiple stages of the nuclear industry.  As we covered when the first four companies were selected, the initial group included the […]

September Market Weakness: The Setup Has Teeth Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Setup Has Teeth Earlier this week, in our Daily Market Commentary, I flagged that the market was testing support after three straight down days, starting in September, with the calendar. That was just the warm-up, as the real story lies in a note from Scott Rubner at Citadel Securities, whose read on September market […]

UN Demands African Statues In London As Britain Is Told To Atone For Slavery Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The United Nations has decided that Britain has not grovelled enough. After years of toppled statues, boarded-up war memorials and official lectures about “colonialism,” a UN human-rights committee now wants the country that ended the Atlantic slave trade to fill its public squares with statues of “people of […]

Interpreting The Taliban’s Invitation For American Investments Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, This was arguably a preemptive de-escalation move that would also gauge the US’ intentions… The New York Times (NYT) interviewed Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul as part of their coverage of the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power. Muttaqi invited the US to reopen its embassy and invest in […]

Iran: Several Ballistic Missiles Fired At US Aircraft Carrier, Navy Destroyer Summary: Iran says it has attacked 3 ‘US-linked’ along with 3 American ships in the Hormuz Strait State media released footage of foreign vessels under attack in “response” to US aggression CENTCOM Confirms Iranian Tankers Hit Near Kharg Island Iranian Tanker Reportedly Hit By Missiles Near Kharg Island *  *  * Iran Unleashes Large Drone Swarm […]

IAEA ‘Unclear’ On Iran’s Nuclear Program As US, Europe Escalate At UN Security Council Western allies are pressing the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ‌board to bring a formal complaint and resolution before the UN Security Council and the General Assembly. Reuters reports Saturday that the US, UK, France, and Germany are behind the new pressure campaign, which hinges on a request that the nuclear watchdog’s director […]

Is This Peak ‘Clown World’? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Transport for London has dropped a dog house-shaped “calm space” onto the concourse at Ealing Broadway station and called it progress. The tiny pod features a bench, noise-dampening acoustics and a “soothing” forest mural. They claim that it is part of an effort to “boost accessibility for neurodivergent travellers under TfL’s Equity in Motion strategy,” […]

The Real Elites Vs. The Ruling Elites Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Always and everywhere, political institutions are controlled by elites. It doesn’t matter if the regime type is democratic or monarchical. It doesn’t matter if there is a written constitution or not. All political institutions – and certainly every sovereign state – are run by a group of elites who control the means of coercion.The myth of “rule […]

Hegseth’s Polygraphs Return To Pentagon In ‘Major Leak Hunt’ Over Iran War The polygraphs have returned to the Pentagon, after the Trump administration has been furious over what the president calls ‘leaks’ by US officials to the press, particularly regarding alleged diminished munitions stocks and missile shortages. The New York Times reports Saturday that Pentagon investigators have questioned roughly 50 personnel on the Joint […]

China Expands Online Content Controls, Putting More Pressure On Creators Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, China’s new rules governing companies that produce and distribute content for social media took effect on Sept. 1, potentially exposing both independent content creators and the accounts they manage to penalties for violations. Men play games on computers in an internet bar in Beijing on Dec. 16, 2015. Greg […]

New Images Reveal China’s Stealth Drone At Secretive “Area 51” Base Aviation researcher Andreas Rupprecht posted footage on LinkedIn that appears to show China’s next-generation high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drone, an aircraft he estimates is “comparable in size to the US Air Force’s B-21 Raider.” Rupprecht wrote on LinkedIn that the WZ-X drone was spotted at a secretive air base in China’s […]

US Sanctions Turkish Bank Over Alleged IRGC Transfers In Latest Action Via The Cradle The US Treasury announced sanctions on Friday on a Turkey-based bank and two of its subsidiaries, accusing them of moving tens of millions of dollars on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and facilitating Tehran’s movement of funds across the international banking system.  “”Financial institutions continue to […]

Meanwhile In Ceuta… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Viral footage out of the invaded Spanish enclave of Ceuta shows a bottlenose dolphin calf came in close to the sand at Playa del Trampolín in Ceuta this week, disoriented and still alive. A group of men who entered illegally in the July surge pulled it from the water, hoisted it like a prize, and – according to local reporting, a conservation complaint, and […]

DHS Seeks Faster Dismissal Of Some Asylum Claims Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to move quickly to dismiss more asylum cases found legally insufficient. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security in Washington on Feb. 17, 2026.(Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times) (The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department […]

COSCO Denies US Claims Its Container Ships Serve As Beijing’s Global Spy Network China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO rejected a report published last week alleging that the company had concealed advanced surveillance equipment aboard its cargo ships to monitor US military communications near the coastlines of target nations, including the US. Reuters quoted COSCO on Friday as calling the allegations “totally unfounded” and […]