One Of The Longest-Running Partnerships In Fast-Food Industry Comes To A Sudden End KFC plans to ditch Pepsi in favor of Coca-Cola at thousands of restaurants across the United States, ending one of the longest-running partnerships in fast-food history. The fried chicken giant confirmed Thursday that it will begin replacing Pepsi products with Coca-Cola beverages in January 2027, with the transition expected to reach all of its […]

Russia Intercepts Over 600 Drones Even After Trump Called Ukraine’s Attacks On Refineries A ‘Disgrace’ On Friday Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that 644 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over 26 Russian regions as well as Crimea. Some Russian sources said among the targets was a data center owned by tech giant Yandex in Vladimir – after Ukraine made it known it is going after the country’s data centers, and as the war […]

Groups Sue DHS, Alleging Effort To Compile Voter Data Is Illegal Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Federal officials obtaining and compiling data on voters as part of an effort to combat voter fraud is illegal, three organizations said in an Oct. 15 lawsuit. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) compilation of the data from nearly every state violates the Privacy Act, which only lets agencies maintain […]

Russia Celebrates ‘Historic Moment’ After Trump Formally Waives Graham Act Sanctions The Kremlin is praising the Trump White House after the US President on Friday signed an executive order to waive a new package of sanctions and tariffs on Russia. What’s essentially a major and unexpected ‘stay of execution’ comes after in September Trump had signed the “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026” into law. It was […]

Gen Z Life Satisfaction Plummets, 1 In 4 Receiving Treatment For Depression; New Poll Finds Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A recent Gallup Life Evaluation Index poll shows that Generation Z’s mental health and life satisfaction have plummeted, completely inverting historical happiness trends. The New York Post reports that less than half now describe their lives as “thriving,” compared to their Millennial […]

LNG Tanker Off Yemen Attacked By Small Boat Fire It begins in waters off Yemen now? This has been a big fear for global energy prices amid the seven-month long Iran war and Hormuz Strait crisis. The Houthis have while fighting a war with Riyadh and its coalition in Yemen so far declared that international shipping remains safe, but that only Saudi and Israeli-linked vessels will be targeted. But on Friday a liquefied natural gas […]

Evacuation Orders Issued As Wildfire Burns Homes In Southern California Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Evacuation orders have been issued after a wind-fueled wildfire ignited Friday in a Southern California coastal community, burning through homes and 465 acres, fire authorities said. The fire started in vegetation in San Clemente, and strong winds quickly pushed it into neighboring San Juan Capistrano in […]

“Replacing Europe”: Undercover Film Follows The Money Behind Europe’s Taxpayer-Funded Mass Migration Pipeline A new documentary from investigative outlet Muckraker traces the migrant route from West Africa through Spain and France to Britain, examining what the outlet describes as a network sustained by taxpayer-funded aid programs, NGOs, and even Western governments. The 47-minute film, “Replacing Europe,” draws on months of […]

Global Gas Crunch Makes Europe’s Remaining Coal Plants Profitable By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com The global LNG supply crunch has made Europe’s last-standing coal-fired power plants profitable this year as gas supply costs soar while the need for conventional generation to stabilize grids remains. In Germany and Poland, which host most of the remaining operational or back-up-ready coal power capacity in Europe, coal-fired […]

After Brutal Hannity Interview, Katie Zacharia Sets Record For Fastest-Fired Trump Official Katie Zacharia, the Truth Social communications adviser and Fox/Newsmax fixture whom President Trump appointed on October 9 as his sixth White House press secretary, was fired Friday, barely a week after taking the job, the New York Times reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. Neither the White House nor Zacharia has […]

Two More Tankers Hit Off Saudi Coast As Brent Tops $110 Brent crude topped $110 a barrel to end the week for the first time since May as drone and missile attacks on energy infrastructure, from the Gulf to the war in Ukraine, cast a very dark cloud over oil and products market ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. The global benchmark rose 3.7% Friday, marking the second consecutive week of gains as traders ramped up bullish […]

Under Pressure From Trump, EU Introduces Corporate Levy Instead Of Digital Tax Submitted by Thomas Kolbe In the end, are we working only for the state? What was once dismissed as a light-hearted exaggeration is becoming reality step by step. In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the end of World War II, Germany has developed a fever for taxation. Berlin is raising levies unreasonably, from the sugar tax to tobacco and […]

Yellow Vests Return As French Protests Spread And Macron’s Crisis Deepens Remnants of the original Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) movement are joining the ongoing far-left riots/protests, potentially broadening social instability and increasing pressure on President Emmanuel Macron as he approaches the end of his term in crisis. France’s political, social and fiscal pressures are increasingly reinforcing one another, with high […]

Watch: Migrant Mobs Are Terrorizing German Children At School Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A young German student was punched, kicked in the head, and left defenseless on the ground by a mob of roughly ten youths outside the Heinrich-von-Kleist School in Frankfurt (Oder) this week. The attack is part of a widespread pattern of mobs of feral migrant background youths attacking German children. The attackers filmed […]

Zelensky Warns That 20 Million Ukrainians Would Pour Into EU If Russia Wins Is that a threat? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told EU leaders on Friday that if his country loses the war to Russia, as many as 20 million Ukrainians could be forced to flee to Europe. Such numbers would make the 2015 European migrant crisis look like a walk in the park. Zelensky warns: What will happen if we fall? 20 million Ukrainians will […]

Le Pen And AfD Join Forces: Heavy Headwinds For Von Der Leyen’s EU Mega-Budget Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A breather in the European bond market. After yields on ten-year French government bonds brushed against the 5-percent mark in late trading on Friday, the situation calmed again at the start of the week. Two politically significant developments, one from Germany and the other from France, apparently acted like circuit breakers […]

Everything Is Russia’s Fault (Even Global Warming!) Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, In the old days (which, in the age of social media, were only ten years or so ago), every problem in the world was blamed on “global warming.” Hot summers? Global warming. Cold winters? That was global warming, too. Christian churches mysteriously burning to the ground? Ooh…obviously global warming. Endless hordes of foreigners […]

Chinese Researchers Unveil Plans For Tank That Can Remain Submerged For Two Hours China is working on a military vehicle concept that could allow a tank to remain underwater for up to two hours, potentially giving its armed forces a new way to approach enemy coastlines during amphibious operations, according to the South China Morning Post. The proposed system would allow an armored vehicle to travel at depths of up to 164 feet […]

New Dementia Cases Projected To More Than Double Globally By 2050 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The number of new annual dementia cases worldwide is estimated to increase more than twofold by 2050 from 2023 levels, according to a recently published peer-reviewed study. Published in the JAMA Neurology journal on Oct. 12, the study analyzed data from more than 38,000 individuals across 18 nations and […]

Qatar’s Government Revenue Plunges 42% In First Half As Iran War Knocks Out Gas Exports Qatar’s government revenue fell 42% in the first half of 2026, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani told the Shura Council on Tuesday, October 13. The figure puts an official number on the damage that the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have inflicted on what was previously the world’s second-largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]

US Offers Another 17 Million SPR Barrels As Fuel Crisis Deepens By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice.com, The United States is putting another 17 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on offer, one day after the IEA accelerated emergency stock releases as governments scramble to get more oil and fuel into a tight market. The Department of Energy issued a request for proposals Friday for an exchange of up to 17 […]

Relief At The Butcher? Beef Prices Show Signs Of Easing Some promising government data show retail ground beef prices have begun to stall in the second half of the year, offering relief to consumers who have watched beef prices soar month after month. Prices still remain near record highs as the Trump administration seeks to ease the nation’s most severe cattle shortage in a generation.  Bloomberg reports that ground beef prices […]

The Precious Metals Crisis That Could Trigger A Global Financial Reckoning Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, It ended, apparently, in the spring. Gold ran to a record in the last days of January 2026 – $5,608 an ounce on one spot reading, roughly $5,405 on the LBMA benchmark, and $5,318.40 on COMEX futures, three figures describing the same metal and differing by nearly $300, which is a reminder that the price depends on […]

Why Have Saudi Air Defenses Failed To Intercept Houthi Missiles? Via Middle East Eye For years, Yemen’s Houthis have demonstrated their ability to strike some of Saudi Arabia’s most strategically important targets, from oil infrastructure to the kingdom’s capital. But repeated missile and drone strikes on Riyadh’s main international airport have raised fresh questions about the limits of the kingdom’s sophisticated air defenses. […]

A Horror Movie List To Get You In The Mood For Spooky Season The horror entertainment genre is a lot like comedy – Both require deep immersion and instinctive reactions.  Being browbeaten with overt political messaging in the middle of such films ruins them completely.  Nobody wants to hear a feminist sermon in the middle of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, they just want to watch that messed up dinner table scene. Parable and subtle […]