French Officials Say 1,300 Arrests Made Amid Latest Unrest Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, More than 1,300 people were arrested in another day of protests and riots, after a mass march in Paris a day earlier, according to authorities in France. The French Interior Ministry said officials responded to 75 fires during Saturday’s riots, and added that 24 shops were looted, reported the AFP news agency. “Several […]

“You Have This Superpower”: Jury Nullification Becomes The Latest Attack On The Court System Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, “You have this superpower.” That statement from Qiana Johnson is part of reported training material for residents to engage in “jury nullification,” whereby jurors ignore the law and incriminating facts in a given case to nullify any prosecution. Notably, Johnson is the newly elected clerk […]

Saudi, Turkey, Pakistan Officials In Tehran For Last-Ditch Diplomacy, As US Prepares 96-Hour Strike Window There are many indicators that the US and Israel could soon attack Iran again, with media consensus in the US pointing to the likelihood of a renewed bombing campaign after the midterm elections. In the interim, regional countries are scrambling for a diplomatic breakthrough, seeking to stave off the next escalation round, […]

Lula Runoff Shock Sparks Brazilian Market Carnage: Stocks Collapse, Real Plunges As ‘Bolsonaro Trade’ Implodes Summary: Ibovespa Stock Index Plunges 20%, Triggers Circuit Breaker  Real Crashes 11% To 5.58/USD Brazil Markets Crater After Socialist Lula’s Shock Victory; Bolsonaro Seeks To Annul Runoff Market Shock Brazilian assets crashed after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s surprise runoff victory over Flávio Bolsonaro […]

Appeals Court Raises Doubt Over Trump Admin’s Ballot Lawsuit Against California Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on Sunday expressed skepticism over the Trump administration’s bid to require California to set aside mail-in ballots from voters whom the government suspected of being noncitizens. The Ninth Circuit of Appeals held an emergency teleconference hearing after the Department of […]

Iranian Army Says It Shot Down US LUCAS Drone That Was Flying Over Southern Iran Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com, The Iranian Army said on Sunday that its forces shot down a US LUCAS drone over the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, an incident that comes as the US and Israel appear poised to launch another round of major strikes against Iran. So far, the US hasn’t confirmed losing a LUCAS and hasn’t responded to […]

Anthropic’s S-1 Is Out: A $974 Million Operating Profit, An $800 Billion Compute Bill, And Elon Musk As Landlord After three leaks, two “updated drafts” and one closed-door investor day, the real thing is finally here. At precisely 9:00:11am ET, Anthropic PBC publicly filed its S-1 with the SEC, applying to list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker “ANT”, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley […]

“Guppy-Level Death”: Musk Warns Of Mass AI Neocloud Failures Amid Funding Crunch Authored by Felix Ng and Yohan Yun via Cointelegraph, Elon Musk warns that over 200 specialist AI cloud providers could fail or consolidate as lenders tighten up their purse strings. Musk said Sunday on X that lenders had largely stopped providing financing to companies without substantial revenue streams outside AI data centers. He said SpaceX had […]

Futures Rise As Meta Jumps On $95BN Equity Raise, Oil Slides; Brazil Crashes After Lula Shock US futures are higher as oil slides on hopes that a regional delegation in Tehran can breathe some life into US-Iran peace talks, and as Meta jumps after finally unveiling how it plans to pay for its AI capex binge, offsetting a stunning comeback win by Lula in Brazil’s runoff which has sent Brazilian ADRs crashing as much as 30-50% […]

EU Climbs Escalation Ladder With Beijing, Plans Wider Curbs On Chinese Imports Europe’s political elite is belatedly confronting the electoral cost of deindustrialization, as right-wing gains in local elections expose surging voter anger over globalist policies that have crushed the industrial base. The push to curb cheap Chinese imports suggests Brussels is scrambling for political survival, as Nomura analysts recently said […]

Hold Or Fold? Skipper Warsh & His Hawkish Crew Authored by Philip Marey via Rabobank, Summary We expect the FOMC to remain on hold in October. However, we are likely to see Hammack, Kashkari and Logan repeat their July dissents in favor of a hike at this meeting. At the press conference, we expect Warsh to repeat the hawkish form of not providing forward guidance that he presented at Jackson Hole. He may say that the […]

iPhone Duo Resellers Demand Steep Premiums As Apple Stores Sell Out, Deliveries Slip To January Apple’s first foldable iPhone quickly sold out of limited in-store inventory Friday, with new orders placed Sunday facing delivery estimates stretching into late January. Early demand appears strong, but whether that momentum holds beyond the initial launch rush remains a big question. The iPhone Duo drew crowds from New York to […]

Former UK Prime Minister Listed As ‘Core Participant’ In Grooming Gang Inquiry Authored by Robert Spencer via PJ Media, The Muslim grooming gang scandal in Britain just keeps getting larger and more bizarre. Hundreds of thousands of British girls were victimized, and to add insult to injury, British police and other officials often turned a blind eye to their suffering, with their eyes more on political calculations than on the […]

BBC Caught Pushing Extreme Open Borders Propaganda To Kids Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity, The BBC has been forced to strip large sections of its Bitesize education website after an investigation revealed it was feeding extreme left-wing views on mass migration and Net Zero to 1.7 million schoolchildren every week. The platform, recommended by nearly every state school in the UK and used by almost half of all children […]

Everyone Wants Nuclear Power, Nobody Wants Nuclear Stocks: Inside The Great Uprate Rush On Monday, X-energy (XE) signed its second Amazon-backed reactor project in the US, a 960MW, 12-unit plant on the site of a retired AEP coal plant in Indiana. The same day, its stock sat at $10.36, the bottom of its 52-week range and 71% below its high. That, in one sentence, is the state of the nuclear renaissance in October 2026: the customers […]

Lula Leads After Last-Minute Voting Extension As “Bolsonaro Trade” Implodes; Trader Warns Of “Circuit Breaker” Chaos Summary: NYT: Several electoral lawyers say today’s vote could be annulled With 99.7% of ballots counted, Lula has 51.8% of the vote, while Bolsonaro has 48.2%. Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Extends Voting Time By Two Hours Brazil Runoff Enters Final Hour: Left-Right Showdown Could Reshape Latin America’s […]

Feds Probe Suspicious White Powder Envelopes Sent To Election Offices Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Letters containing suspicious powder were mailed to multiple locations across the United States, including election offices, federal officials said. The J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington on March 11, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesSuspicious substances have been found in mail sent to media […]

Ilhan Omar’s Deleted 2013 Tweet Could Be Key Evidence In Federal Probe Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) once posted a Father’s Day message that appears to identify her father as “Nur Said,” a name that closely matches that of her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. “Happy Father’s Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father …” Omar wrote in June 2013. She removed the post on the morning of Sept. […]

Disappearing Hurricanes Leave Disappointed Scientists Without Fuel For Climate Alarm Authored by Chris Morrison via The Daily Sceptic, Emergency explanations have had to be rushed to the climate catastrophizing front following the shocking news that hurricanes in the North Atlantic have largely disappeared this year. Until recently the area was heading for a double bagel – zero hurricanes with zero major hurricanes, although a […]

UBS Maps Super El Nino’s Energy Impact And ‘Black Swan’ Winter Weather Risks We extensively covered the unusually strong El Niño, its weather impacts by region, and the risks this adverse weather poses to crop production and global food inflation.  Here’s what this year’s El Niño looks like next to the three strongest that came before it. What stands out to you? https://t.co/owJvWsOvZl — Ben Noll (@BenNollWeather) October 3, […]

China Emits 2.7 Times As Much Greenhouse Gas As America, New EU Data Show China emitted 15,981 million metric tons of greenhouse gases in 2025, about 30% of the world’s total and 2.7 times the United States, according to the European Commission’s EDGAR database. The U.S. ranked second at 6,018 million tons (11.4%), followed by India (4,508 million, 8.5%), Russia (2,574 million, 4.9%) and Indonesia (1,359 million, 2.6%). The five […]

Turkey Begins Ratifying Mecca Defense Pact With Saudi Arabia And Pakistan Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, Turkey has begun ratifying the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a new pact signed with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The agreement has drawn increased attention since it was signed in August. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C), and Pakistani Prime Minister […]

Israel Has Its Pretext For Total War On West Bank Authored by Joe Lauria via Consortium News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened a major military offensive against the West Bank four days before he stands for re-election after two Israeli soldiers were killed on Friday in Hebron.  Consortium News on Thursday predicted that Palestinians killing an Israeli on the West Bank could trigger an all-out war against […]

Is It Time For Another Worldwide Civilizational Collapse? Authored by Robert Arvay via American Thinker, It has happened before in history. Those who think it can’t happen again are out of their minds… In 1200 B.C., worldwide civilization fell into ruin. That is only partially an overstatement. The Americas and Asia were on a separate path, but the Mediterranean complex of civilizations, the “known world,” was all but […]

Kentucky Could Go From Zero Reactors To America’s Biggest Nuclear Plant The Nuclear Company (TNC) unveiled plans on October 21st for Prosperity One, a campus on the Ohio River in Lewis County, Kentucky, with room for up to six Westinghouse AP1000 reactors. At roughly 6.6 GW, a fully built Prosperity One would top Georgia’s four-unit Plant Vogtle as the largest nuclear plant in the country. That’s more than a third of the roughly […]