Putin Plans To Skip Miami G20, Prioritizing China Trip: Officials Both the Kremlin and the White House had recently signaled mutual openness to the idea of President Putin actually attending the G20 Miami Summit which is set for December 14-15. Some reports have recently expressed optimism that some kind of grand Ukraine peace deal could emerge from such an engagement. However, Bloomberg has poured cold water on this, reporting […]

Houston-Area Birth Tourism Center Shut Down In Legal Action Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A birth tourism operation in the Houston area has agreed to close in a settlement, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday. An advertisement for a Houston-area “birth tourism” operation known as De’Ai Postpartum Care Center. The Texas attorney general filed a lawsuit against the center, claiming it has […]

Diesel Hits New Record Above $6.50 As Export Ban Fears Mount, Gasoline Squeeze Looms UBS analysts warned that the global diesel squeeze could get worse as two major suppliers potentially pull barrels from an already strained petroleum products market. Russia may extend diesel export restrictions through October, while chatter in Washington about a US fuel export ban continues to grow. As of Monday morning, AAA data show the […]

DOJ Charges 16 Individuals For Election Crimes Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sept. 18 announced charges against 16 people across seven states, alleging various election-related crimes. A voter at a polling site during the redistricting referendum in Alexandria, Va., on April 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe individuals are being accused of “unlawful voting by […]

12 People Arrested After Stealing $250,000 Truckload Of Frozen Chicken Stolen chicken used to pay off a drug debt?  It’s a true barter market in action.  Memphis police serving a warrant at an Economy Inn discovered 12 people (some reports cite 13 people) behind the hotel unloading pallets of frozen chicken from a hijacked Koch Foods 18-wheeler.  The suspects fled the scene but were all captured. Memphis police arrested 13 […]

Kunstler: Suburban Sprawl Is A ‘Death Trap’ For America’s National Spirit Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, The Late, Great Debate About Suburbia, An Apologia “It is difficult to design a place that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.” – William H Whyte Greenland, yes, yes, okay ! Smooth move. . . ! But. . . today we put aside the vagaries of national […]

Judge Rules EPA Must Reinstate $7 Billion Biden-Era Subsidies For Solar Promotion Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times, A $7 billion federal government grant program for solar promotion, authorized during the Biden administration, was reinstated by a federal judge on Sept. 18 in a ruling that rebuffed the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel it. Solar panel array at a solar farm near Lancaster, Calif., on June 17, 2026. […]

Verizon Says Cut Cable Behind FAA Ground-Stops East Coast Airports, Not Their Fault (Update 1540ET): Verizon confirmed the “unknown equipment issue” behind the massive ground stop in the tri-state area was a cut fiber cable in New Jersey. The company says construction contractors working near an Amtrak rail line dug it up, that Verizon’s facilities were fully functional until that happened, and that the carrier bears no […]

Bessent Declares All Iran Airlines To Be ‘Shut Down Around The World’ Wednesday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared on Monday that by Wednesday Sept. 23, “all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world.” “If they land, you cannot provide them with fuel, you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell them tickets, or you will be knocked out of the dollar system,” he described. Bessent on Iran: On […]

US Opens Foreign Funding Investigations Into Duke, University Of North Dakota Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The State Department and the Department of Education are investigating Duke University and the University of North Dakota over allegedly violating foreign funding disclosure rules. The statue of Washington Duke on Duke University’s East Campus with Baldwin Auditorium is shown in Durham, N.C., on April […]

Big Tech’s Next AI Battleground Is Your Face, Loop Capital Says Smartglasses are set to be the “next major computing platform,” according to Loop Capital analysts, as Meta currently leads the space, with Google, Samsung, Apple, and SNAP preparing their own AI-powered eyewear. Loop Capital analyst Rob Sanderson wrote in a note on Sunday that an “inflection point” has arrived for smart glasses, which are “transitioning from wearable […]

Trump’s 48-Hour Houthi Strike Whiplash Was Triggered By Desire To ‘Help His Friend’ MbS President Trump’s abrupt Saturday return to the White House from Camp David, where he had been slated to spend the whole weekend, had set off an avalanche of speculation on potential military escalation in the Middle East. The NY Times and Axios are reporting that the Commander-in-Chief was close to a ordering new anti-Houthi intervention but […]

Critical Metals Shares Soar On Trump’s Greenland Deal As Mining Stocks Eye Rebound After Summer Slump Critical Metals jumped 37.5% to $9.22, while Greenland Energy surged 126% and Greenland Mines soared 136% on news this past weekend that President Trump had announced a security deal with Denmark and Greenland. This is fueling Wall Street’s expectations of greater US access to the territory’s mineral resources. Trump said Friday […]

Wall Street Turns Its Back On Consumer Stocks As Fuel Costs Soar And Yields Surge US gasoline prices near $4.44 a gallon at the pump, record diesel prices of $6.40 a gallon, and the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike this week, its first since July 2023, are compounding pressure on household budgets and borrowing costs. Against that troubling backdrop, UBS warns that Wall Street is “turning more skeptical on consumer recovery.” […]

Powerful Explosion Rocks Aleppo Ammo Depot In Latest Mystery Blast A terrifying blast erupted outside the major northern Syrian city of Aleppo overnight, which caused area residents to evacuate their homes, and with sustained explosions visible for miles around. The explosion happened at an army base in an outlying town, injuring at least four people, after which a series of blasts persisted, which unleashed shrapnel across the […]

What Do You See Here? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A K-pop star holding a pair of Chuck Taylors was enough. Crop the frame, squint at a star-shaped spotlight, and a Nike subsidiary is suddenly in the business of hoods and hangings, according to disturbed leftists who see racism everywhere. Instead of ignoring the demented behaviour, Converse pulled the image, apologised on cue, and promised to “do better.” The […]

SoftBank To Sell $11 Billion In Junk Bonds At Soaring Yields To Fund OpenAI Investments It’s only appropriate that just hours after we published an extensive report looking at the trillions in debt funding the AI supercycle – which just this year stands at $568bn, of which $259bn issued in IG, followed by $256bn across Private Credit, Direct Lending, and other bilateral/non-syndicated lending (for SPVs and infrastructure finance), […]

Fertilizer Stocks Tumble As Trump Says “Working On Massive” Belarus Potash Deal “The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social just before 11 a.m. ET. Trump continued, “The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers.” The immediate market impact: Intrepid […]

Qatar’s Energy Minister Says Bessent’s “Worthless” Hormuz Claim Is “Completely Wrong” Qatari Energy Minister Saad Al-Kaabi blasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday, saying he was “wrong” to claim the Strait of Hormuz would become “worthless” to the oil industry in two years. “I think this is completely wrong,” Saad Al-Kaabi said Sunday at the Qatar Economic Forum in New York. Speaking to Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow on […]

Bessent Hails “Very Successful” China Talks As Trump-Xi Summit Puts AI, Rare Earths And Energy On The Table Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent emerged from roughly eight hours of talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on Sunday calling the meeting “very successful,” with Washington and Beijing agreeing to new mechanisms covering trade and artificial intelligence just days before President Donald Trump hosts Chinese […]

Bitcoin Soars Above $85k (Jan Highs) As Saylor Sees Clarity Act Collapse ‘A Win’ Bitcoin has surged above $85,000 this morning for the first time since late-January… The rally comes alongside advances in stocks and bonds, as falling oil prices and optimism ahead of a summit between US President Trump and China’s Xi Jinping are buoying markets more broadly. Rival digital assets have also bounced. Ether, the second-largest […]

Denmark Confirms Trump-Greenland Deal Would Boost Arctic Security Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A top Danish official said on Sept. 19 that an agreement announced by U.S. President Donald Trump for the United States to handle security for Greenland would lead to a better outcome in the region. Both Denmark and Greenland, an autonomous island that is Danish territory, expressed hope that the deal would end any […]

US Shipment Of F-35s Goes MIA In Shocking Detour To Hong Kong Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Lawmakers and the Trump administration are investigating the odd disappearance of a U.S.-bound shipment of F-35 fighter jet components from Australia, which were originally meant to be repaired on U.S. soil, according to new reporting by Politico. The report, published Friday and citing three anonymous sources, noted that an […]

Key Events This Week: Trump-Xi Meeting, Fed Speakers, PMIs And Durables After an extremely busy week for central bank decisions, the week ahead brings a mix of economic data, even more central bank decisions, lots of Fed speak, and geopolitical events. The first read of the September PMIs across the major economies on Wednesday should provide the most timely update on global growth momentum, while investors will also be watching […]

Another Tanker Struck In Strait Of Hormuz As Iran’s President Heads To NY Just as the Iranian delegation of President Masoud Pezeshkian is set to fly to New York City for this week’s UN General Assembly, where it’s expected that the Iranians could be engaged in some sideline diplomacy with the White House, another tanker incident has unfolded off in the Persian Gulf area. The UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency is reporting […]