China Lands Reusable Rocket On Barge, But SpaceX Remains Years Ahead China successfully landed the first-stage booster of a Long March 10B rocket on a floating barge during an orbital launch test earlier Friday, marking the first major step in reusable launch technology, albeit roughly a decade behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX. “This mission … signifies a historic breakthrough in China’s reusable rocket technology and a solid […]

Iran Rejects US Talks As Mojtaba Calls For ‘Vengeance’; Trump Warns 1,000 Missiles Are ‘Locked & Loaded’ Iran has thrown Trump’s ultimatum and Saturday deadline right back at Washington, saying that instead it is the United States that must first meet the agreed-upon conditions in order to normalize shipping and energy transit in the Strait of Hormuz. Fars news agency reports Saturday that Iranian leadership is demanding that […]

Without Subsidies, Is AI Unaffordable? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs. What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity […]

Maine Dems Will Pick Platner Replacement At Rushed Convention This Month After their nominee for the 2026 Maine Senate race dropped out on Friday in the wake of sex assault allegations, Democrats will pick his successor at a convention on July 25th, the state party chair announced Friday afternoon. That’s just two days before the deadline for making the change and securing a new nominees’ place on the general election ballot. It’s […]

Key Revelations From 4th Batch Of Pentagon UFO Files Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon released its fourth new batch of UFO files on July 10, including a transcript from a conference that included scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. This release of information on UFOs, which the government refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), has a total of 40 files, including 19 videos, 14 […]

Was SK Hynix’s US Debut The AI Bubble Top? BNP Says It’s Still 1998 With SK Hynix’s American depositary receipts now trading under the temporary ticker SKHYV as of late Friday morning, the seven-times-oversubscribed offering highlights Wall Street’s rush for more direct exposure to high-bandwidth memory amid the AI infrastructure boom. Against the backdrop of mounting concerns about an AI infrastructure bubble, Roth Capital […]

Muhammad Tops Baby Boys’ Names In England And Wales For Third Straight Year Official Office for National Statistics (ONS) data released today shows Muhammad – including variant spellings – has once again claimed the top spot as the most popular name for newborn boys in England and Wales. This marks the third consecutive year Muhammad has led the boys’ chart, continuing a trend that has drawn significant public attention and […]

Small Business Chapter 11 Filings Increase 50% Year Over Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Small business Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings jumped 50 percent in the first half of 2026 from the same period last year, signaling pressure on business owners. Chapter 11 is a type of bankruptcy filing that reorganizes a company’s debt to keep it afloat and allow the entity to become solvent. Subchapter V of […]

Cuba Plunges Into Second Island-Wide Blackout As Communist System Unravels Cuba suffered its second nationwide blackout in a matter of days late Friday, another sign that the communist-controlled island is sliding deeper into economic collapse amid tightening US sanctions and renewed pressure from the Trump administration. Havana blames US “gunboat diplomacy” and the financial sanctions for its economic demise, but the roots of the […]

Leftists Celebrate Murder Of Conservative British Politician Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The savage killing of 78-year-old Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe has unleashed a torrent of vile celebration from left-wing activists, revealing the depths of ideological hatred among the left in the UK. Widdecombe, the outspoken former Conservative MP and prisons minister, was found dead with serious injuries at her […]

Visualizing Europe’s Soaring Youth Unemployment Breaking into the workforce looks very different depending on where you live in Europe. While some countries have relatively smooth transitions from education into employment, others continue to struggle with stubbornly high youth unemployment. This visualization, created by DataPulse Research via Visual Capitalist, uses Eurostat data alongside additional analysis from DataPulse […]

Afghan Asylum Seeker Walks Free After Sexually Assaulting Multiple Young Girls At German Pool Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A 21-year-old Afghan asylum seeker stands accused of sexually assaulting at least four girls between the ages of 12 and 14 at the Bud Spencer outdoor pool in Schwäbisch Gmünd, southwestern Germany. According to police accounts detailed in German media coverage, the suspect touched the […]

Why Trump Is Right To Warn Americans About Communism Authored by William Brooks via The Epoch Times, Early this month, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered increasingly forceful warnings about what he sees as a growing communist threat within the United States. During what will be his final years in office, Trump appears more determined than ever to defend the principles of American liberty against the influence of Marxist […]

Socialist NYC Mayor Mamdani Inadvertently Hands ICE A Target Map To Catch Illegals Far-left New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has repeatedly denounced capitalism while promoting a socialist reconstruction of the metro area, sparked uproar this week after releasing a map highlighting 30 migrant enclaves while omitting historic Italian, Irish, and Jewish communities. The map includes areas such as Little Palestine, Little […]

The Day The Grid Failed: The Seventeen Minutes That Exposed The Fragile Foundations Of Modern Civilization Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, This is a fictionalized scenario exploring a hypothetical grid collapse. By the time the first official statement reached the public, the statement itself no longer mattered. Television networks were already off the air across much of the continent, mobile networks had fragmented into […]

With Friday Treasury Action, There Goes The ‘No New Sanctions’ Clause Of The MOU The United States unveiled new sanctions on Iran Friday, an act which crucially breaks a key aspect of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement signed last month – namely that no new sanctions can be imposed while the warring sides negotiate to reach a lasting peace. The ceasefire itself is already out the window, President Trump has said late […]

Self-Flagellation Nation Authored by Frank Filocomo via RealClearBooks, You’ve probably heard the refrain before, but it bears repeating: The West is the best. As I write this, it’s nearly one hundred degrees Fahrenheit here in Brooklyn. Thank God for air conditioning. The air conditioner, by the way, was invented by the New York-born Willis Carrier in the early part of the twentieth century. Willis was, without question, a […]

China Shuts The Helium Valve As Qatar Outage Deepens Global Supply Squeeze China has abruptly banned helium exports, a key component in semiconductors, which adds yet another serious constraint to a global market already reeling from the loss of production in Qatar. In a two-sentence Friday announcement, China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs said helium covered by customs code 2804290010 was subject […]

When Billion-Dollar Non-Profits Stop Looking Like Charities Authored by Jeff Patch via RealClearMarkets, AltaMed Health Services reported $1.72 billion in revenue in 2024, which is more than many publicly traded healthcare companies. Yet unlike a public corporation, the nonprofit entity answers to no shareholders, enjoys broad tax exemptions, and derives much of its revenue from taxpayer-supported healthcare programs. AltaMed […]

Turkey Seeks Moscow Permission To Offload S-400s, Paving Way For US F-35 Deal In a move that could break a years-long defense procurement deadlock with Washington, Turkey is finalizing the sale of its Russian S-400 air defense systems to Gulf states, potentially clearing the way for Ankara to buy US F-35 fighter jets, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports Friday. For Ankara, offloading the Russian hardware resolves a years-long costly […]

Saturday Deadline: US Orders Iran To Declare Hormuz Open, Toll-Free…Or Else Update(1855): The US is back to setting deadlines, coupled with new military threats, apparently. Judging by this week, which marked a dangerous return to guns-a-blazing in the Persian Gulf, it seems Trump is ready to back these warnings with new bombing raids. The only question will be the extent to which the Islamic Republic escalates in return. So far […]

Advanced US Nuclear Battery Deal Targets 3000 MW Power With $22.5 Billion Pipeline Authored by Aman Tripathi via Interesting Engineering, Energy project facilitator GridMarket and nuclear technology developer Deployable Energy have formed a commercial agreement to deploy modular microreactors across the United States. The 40-year contract carries an estimated total value of $145 billion. The collaboration follows a recent […]

Trump Left Orders To Obliterate Iran If Assassinated: ‘Bomb Them At Levels Never Seen Before’ The Iran war saga has seen its fair share of bizarre and wild twists, and Friday has brought yet another – with the NY Post reporting that President Trump said he “left instructions” for a massive bombing campaign against Iran in the event he’s assassinated by Iranian operatives. “I’ve been on their list for a long time. That’s […]

Russia’s New Bullets Disintegrate Into 3 Mid-Flight, Can Hit High-Speed Drones Authored by Prabhat Ranjan Mishra via Interesting Engineering, A Russian company has developed a new type of rifle bullets that split into three mid-flight, according to reports. This can help increase hit probability against high-speed drones. The development of specialized anti-drone ammunition reflects the changing nature of warfare. (Representational […]

Netflix’s Live TV Pivot Exposes Growing Engagement Crisis As Shares Falter Netflix shares are teetering on the edge of a bear market after a brutal stretch of underperformance and one of the stock’s worst first-half starts in two decades. Subscriber engagement has become an increasing concern for the streaming giant, and a new report suggests management may be considering a risky pivot toward live television to revive viewing time […]