Declassified Documents Show FBI Probed Whether Trump Fired Comey At Russia’s Direction Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Newly declassified documents show the FBI probed President Donald Trump’s termination of the agency’s director as part of an effort to substantiate allegations that Trump colluded with Russia. Former FBI Director James Comey in Berlin, Germany, on June 19, 2018. Carsten Koall/Getty Images The […]

Fresh Panic As Pentagon Has Used ‘Virtually All’ Its Long-Range Precision Missiles On Iran US forces “used up virtually all” of their precision, long-range missiles during the course of the Iran war, and during the earlier heavy US-Israeli campaign of Operation Epic Fury, Reuters reported Tuesday. This has raised serious “concerns about the military’s ​readiness for future conflicts,” informed sources told the outlet. In […]

China’s Power Demand Hits Records As Heatwave Grips Key Regions By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com Electricity demand in much of China hit a record this week due to scorching summer temperatures, driving grid loads to all-time highs, the State Grid Corporation of China said today, as cited by Reuters. On Monday and Tuesday, the company said, electricity loads reached a record in the country’s northern, northeastern, and eastern […]

Federal Operation Takes More Than 800 Dangerous Truckers Off US Highways Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Federal authorities took more than 800 dangerous truckers off America’s roads in a three-day enforcement action, officials revealed Tuesday. In the operation, they targeted unqualified foreign drivers and unsafe commercial vehicles. A truck drives through the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 14, 2025. […]

Tit-For-Tat: China Hits Back At US With Tighter Drone Export Controls Sino-US relations are showing renewed signs of deterioration ahead of President Xi Jinping’s expected visit to the US in late September. Beijing is retaliating against a series of recent U.S. trade restrictions. The Financial Times reports that the Commerce Ministry is set to review exports of drones, critical components, and related dual-use technologies on a […]

Argentina’s Milei: Ending the Debt State By Holding Politicians Personally Accountable For Fiscal Excess Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Only contrast reveals one’s own mistakes. Javier Milei is the antithesis of Germany’s political class, and the comparison could hardly be starker. While Germany continues to expand the state, Argentina is slashing subsidies and radically reducing the size of its public bureaucracy. While Berlin piles […]

Japan Looks To Palantir For Battlefield AI Japan is preparing to introduce AI into the command-and-control systems of its Self-Defense Forces as part of a wider military modernization effort aimed at improving operational speed and interoperability with the United States, according to Nikkei.  Under the proposal, multiple U.S.-developed AI platforms would support commanders by processing battlefield data, assisting with tactical […]

OpenAI, Anthropic Models Created Fake Profiles, Tried To Trick Humans During Cyber Tests Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) models from Anthropic and OpenAI carried out unsanctioned actions targeting multiple people and organizations during a cyber evaluation, according to the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Illustration of Anthropic on June 18, 2026. Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas via AFP […]

Jim Cramer Just Sold His Bitcoin And Bulls Couldn’t Be Happier Looks like $100,000 bitcoin may be on deck, because Cramer is selling. The ultimate inverse indicator Jim Cramer says he is selling all of his bitcoin, warning that rapid advances in quantum computing could threaten the cryptocurrency’s security within the next three to four years, according to Cointelegraph and Coindesk. The CNBC host made the decision after […]

Iran-Oman Hormuz Route ‘Agreed To’ As Iran Warns Against US ‘Interference’ Summary Iran says Hormuz route is agreed: Tehran says it has finalized a shipping route with Oman, blaming U.S. actions for delaying a final agreement. Tehran claims victory: Iranian officials say the deal would lock in Iran’s wartime gains and strategic leverage over Hormuz. Mixed messages: Trump says a deal could come within days, while Iran insists the […]

DHS Confirms Over 3 Million Total Deportations, Highlights Arrests Of Five More “Worst Of The Worst” Criminal Illegals Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday arrested five more “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens convicted for heinous crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, criminal indecent exposure, aggravated assault, and fentanyl trafficking. […]

Sandisk Tumbles After Revenue, Earnings Forecasts Miss Estimates Sandisk was one of the largest public holdings of the hedge fund of 24-year-old former wunderkind, Leopold Aschenbrenner, and its July collapse from $2300 to $1000 was chief the main reasons why the former OpenAI employee had to liquidate his extremely overlevered hedge fund and sell all positions at a 10% discount to Citadel to meet a volley of endless margin calls. […]

They Really Don’t Care Authored by Todd Hayen via Off-Guardian.org, This might not apply to all sheep-types, but many of the ones I have encountered simply do not care. This could be the reason we can’t seem to get through to them with the facts we are constantly shoving down their throats. Of course, the ones I’ve talked to may just be saying they don’t care to shut me up, but I really don’t think so. They seem pretty […]

FAFO: Democrat Candidate Threatening Beachgoers Gets Knocked Out Cold On Beach A Democrat hopeful gunning for a seat in Congress is sitting behind bars on $1 million bail after police described a chaotic beachside confrontation on Maui that involved a knife, repeated threats, and the candidate left unconscious in the sand. Kirill Basin, the 40-year-old primary challenger to Rep. Jill Tokuda in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District, […]

Israel To Scale Back Gaza Strikes To Give Trump’s Hamas Disarmament Plan A Chance Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Israel has tightened restrictions on targeted strikes in Gaza, signaling that it intends to give President Donald Trump’s initiative to disarm Hamas a chance despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s firm public conditions for an Israeli withdrawal. Senior Israeli security and political officials […]

Hackers Launch ‘Vishing’ Cyberattacks Against Major Hedge Funds Several major Wall Street firms have been hit with a wave of sophisticated cyberattacks using voice phishing, or ‘vishing’ to trick employees into revealing sensitive information or granting access, Bloomberg reports.  Crash Override gets his ass handed to him by Acid Burn (Hackers) The attacks targeted some of the world’s largest hedge funds – including Citadel, […]

Former LAPD Officer Gets Life Sentence For Kidnapping Teen In $350,000 Crypto Robbery Authored by Brian Danga via TheBlock.co, Former LAPD officer Eric Halem was sentenced to life plus 15 years in state prison on Tuesday for his role in the December 2024 armed robbery of a 17-year-old in Koreatown, who was robbed of a hard drive containing $350,000 worth of bitcoin. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo […]

GTA VI Delay Fears Reignite As Ex-Rockstar Developer Says He “Would Not Be Shocked” Speculation about a delay to Grand Theft Auto VI is spreading online after a former Rockstar Games developer said that, based on his experience working on previous installments, he “would not be shocked” if the game slips again. Another postponement would add to the previous delays and spark frustration among gamers who have waited more than 13 […]

At Least Ten Agitators Arrested In Madison As Filthy ‘Autonomous Zone’ Is Dismantled Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Authorities in Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday sent in crews to clean up and dismantle the filthy and violent “autonomous zone” that was set up by left-wing agitators to protest the shooting of an armed violent felon. At least ten occupiers were arrested as of Tuesday morning, Fox 6 reported. […]

Ethereum Researchers Want To Rein In Staking; Critics Warn It Could Backfire Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, A group of six Ethereum researchers and developers, including Ethereum Foundation’s Justin Drake, has proposed changing the network’s issuance policy to cut validator rewards more sharply as the proportion of staked ETH rises.  The draft, called the Tapered Issuance Burn and currently being assigned the […]

Copper Tops $14,000 As US Stockpiling Drains Global Supply Ahead Of Trump’s Tariff Call Copper strength has returned to the London Metal Exchange this week as futures top $14,000 a ton. Another leg higher could be imminent, pushing prices into blue-sky territory as traders weigh tightening global supplies against robust metal inflows into the US ahead of President Trump’s expected tariff decision. The Commerce Department was […]

Citadel Soars 6% In July Thanks To Situational Awareness Firesale Liquidation Some have speculated that one of the most proximal catalysts behind the collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $45 billion and epically misnamed Situational Awareness hedge fund, besides his use of batshit insane Total Return Swap leverage that would make an average Korean momentum-chasing degen blush with envy, was Citadel’s vocal warning early last week […]

Google’s Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean Exits After 27 Years, Alphabet Shares Slide Alphabet shares slid after The Wall Street Journal reported that Jeff Dean, one of Google’s earliest employees and a key figure in its AI strategy (co-founder of Google Brain), is departing after nearly three decades to launch his own AI company. The exit raises fresh concerns about Google’s ability to retain top researchers as competition for AI […]

Second Foreign Vessel Attacked Off Yemen Within Hours, Amid Houthi ‘Siege For Siege’ Blockade Update(1235ET): The Houthis have apparently attacked two vessels off Yemen’s coast within a mere few hours on Tuesday, as clearly the assault on international shipping by the Iran-aligned group has grown. The below alert from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Centre is the second one today. Just hours before, an […]

Ukraine Shot Down Zero Missiles In Huge Russian Overnight Salvo That Killed At Least 21 According to a growing casualty count, a large barrage of ballistic missiles fired by Russia on Ukraine has killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens more. The overnight attack has raised the alarm for Ukraine’s Western backers, given it is being widely reported that among the over two dozen ballistic and anti-ship missiles fired, not a […]