Tourist Hotspot Mauritius Rocked By Worst Riots Since 1999 ‘Tis the season to riot? Mauritius, the island nation in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar and off Africa’s southeastern coast, is experiencing what Bloomberg describes as the worst riots in three decades amid an affordability crisis. “This time again, as in 1999, the police are the main target,” Jocelyn Chan Low, a political analyst, told the outlet. “The scale of the […]

Zelensky Confirms Second Night Of No Early Strike Warning From Partners Update(1715ET): Zelensky has taken to X to announce a second night of heavy Russian airstrikes, but without the early warning from Western allies that his government had previously been afforded. Ballistic missiles are rocking the capital overnight. At around or shortly before midnight Zelensky announced a new “Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv” as “Once […]

Supreme Court To Consider Government’s Power To Deport Terrorist Supporters Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Supreme Court justices will weigh arguments in a case involving a Nigerian man whom an immigration judge concluded materially supported a terrorist group by working as a cook. Justices on Oct. 13 said they granted a petition for review from the Department of Justice to consider overturning a lower court […]

OpenAI Says Employee Planted “Sophisticated” Recording Device In Office; FBI Arrests Saudi National OpenAI said Tuesday that it found a hidden recording device in one of its offices, used its own AI models to work out who put it there, fired the employee and handed the matter to the FBI, which made an arrest. The company posted the account on X from its newsroom handle: “We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was […]

Saudi Aramco Headquarters In Dhahran Struck By Houthi Missile Update(1629ET): Saudi Aramco facilities are once again under Houthi attack, with reports saying the kingdom is busy trying to intercept inbound ballistic missiles. Tuesday night saw several eyewitnesses report loud booms near the headquarters of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company in Dhahran. However, Aramco has not immediately given confirmation of impact or that its […]

So, Where Was Waldo? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, “Wait a second. I assumed Democrats were getting ALL their candidates from mental institutions.” – Margot Cleveland Let’s just say you were running for a US Senate seat in one of our country’s biggest states. . . and it was roughly one month to election day. . . and, goshdarnit, you caught the flu. According to the CDC, a normal course of the […]

Israel Imposes ‘Muslim Ban’ For Pilots & Crew In Wake Of FlyDubai Hijacking After the Sept.30th FlyDubai attempted terror hijacking, Israel is enforcing what’s effectively a ‘Muslim ban’ on all pilots and cabin crew flying passengers to Israel. While the order does not specifically invoke religion, it targets and forbids pilots and crew who have nationalities of countries that don’t have formal diplomatic relations with Israel. […]

Big Tech Pushes Back On Paying For A Grid That Was Crumbling Long Before AI When Big Tech signed President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge in March, promising to pay for all the new grid infrastructure upgrades required to service their data centers, we cautioned that “voluntary pledges from trillion-dollar tech giants have a habit of evolving.” Seven months later, the hyperscalers are pushing back on how much of the grid’s […]

FTC Seeks To Hold Martin Shkreli In Contempt For Allegedly Violating Lifetime Pharmaceutical Industry Ban Federal regulators are seeking to hold Martin Shkreli in contempt of court, accusing the controversial former pharmaceutical executive of repeatedly violating a lifetime ban on participating in the drug industry. The Federal Trade Commission, joined by seven states, filed a motion Tuesday alleging that Shkreli has continued […]

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Navi Pillay Accused Of Helping China Target Uyghur Dissidents Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Newly named 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay is facing serious allegations that she helped China’s communist government identify Uyghur dissidents during her tenure as the United Nations’ top human rights official. Uyghur activists and human rights watchdogs raised concerns over the […]

Disney Says FCC Used Early License Reviews As “Maximal Coercive Pressure” On ABC While Dodging The Courts Disney and ABC told a federal court on Monday that the FCC ordered early license reviews of all eight ABC-owned stations to pressure the network over its programming, and picked that route because the alternatives would have put the dispute in front of a judge. Disney’s attorneys wrote in the filing, as reported by TheWrap, […]

“Busiest Week Ever”: Goldman’s Trading Desk Sees Rush Into Brazil After Bolsonaro’s First-Round Win Brazil’s general elections earlier this month sparked a right-wing wave at the polls. Though most polls forecast socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly leading in the first-round presidential race, right-wing Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro beat the unhinged leftist by around 2 percentage points. Bolsonaro and Lula now head […]

Saudi Arabia Rejects Request From Netanyahu To Join Yemen Operations Israeli media is reporting that the Netanyahu government wants to join the fight against the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen, and is seeking the Saudi coalition’s permission to do so. At the moment, Saudi jets are patrolling the skies and conducing hundreds of bombing raids against territory held by the Ansar Allah movement, in support of the Aden-based government […]

How Long To Rebuild The Gulf? Paul Sankey And Arjun Murti Debate Oil’s Future Tonight At 7pm ET With Brent crude trading above $100 per barrel and the Iran war continuing to disrupt global energy supplies, a troubling question remains: if the fighting ends tomorrow, how long will it take to repair the damage already inflicted on the Middle East’s energy infrastructure? Tonight at 7pm ET, ZeroHedge brings together two of Wall […]

Judge Blocks Further Tree Removal At DC Golf Course Trump Seeks To Renovate Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, A federal judge issued a restraining order blocking further tree removal at a historic golf course the president plans to remake in Washington, after the Trump administration waited until nearly 5 p.m. on Friday to notify the court before removing hundreds of trees over the weekend. In an emergency hearing […]

491 Fugitives Hiding In Public Housing Arrested In Nationwide Sweep Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A multi-month law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of 491 criminal fugitives living in government-assisted housing. The Department of Housing and Urban Development in Alexandria, Va., on May 29, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe multi-agency initiative, Operation Clean House, was carried out by […]

“More Pain To Come”: Global Smartphone Shipments Plunge As Memory Crisis Crushes Budget Models Global smartphone shipments tumbled 22% in the third quarter as soaring memory chip costs forced handset manufacturers to scrap lower-priced models and focus on premium models, delaying purchases for working-class consumers, according to a new note by Loop Capital Markets. Loop Capital analyst John Donovan wrote early Tuesday that handset […]

Energy Department Orders PJM To Dispatch Units, Backup Power Through Mid-October Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Energy on Oct. 12 issued an emergency order directing PJM Interconnection, the largest U.S. grid operator, to dispatch specified generating units and order their operation as needed to maintain reliability. The emergency order, Order No. 202-26-50, also authorizes PJM to direct […]

Anthropic Issues Warning Over Self-Replicating AI – And Says A Chinese Model Pulled It Off Dario’s back with another one. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team (yes, really) warned Monday in a blog post that small AI models may be “months away” from copying themselves across smart ovens, off-brand Android TV boxes and other poorly secured gadgets in your home, forming a botnet with no off switch. “A replicator like this would be […]

“Our Message Is: Smash Everything”; Belgian Students Expose Ignorance Over Protest Purposes In Revealing Video Authored by – Remix News Staff – via Remix News, A video clip of a Black male student at ongoing protests in Belgium showed him saying he does not know why he is protesting, and that his message is to “smash everything.” The clip is being used as another piece of evidence that the protests are not really about reforms […]

The New-Keynesian Establishment Is Congratulating Itself On A Job Well Done By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank Give Yourself A Pat On The Back Growing up in Australia in the 1990s one would inevitably encounter curiously ‘Aussie’ cultural practises. One such practise was school children being directed by teachers to “give yourself a pat on the back” whenever you did particularly well at something. […]

Another Somali Shooter Walks Free Days After Murder Attempt Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Days after federal agents stopped an 18-year-old of Somali descent from buying an AK-47 to kill dozens at the Mall of America in an ISIS-inspired plot, another 18-year-old Somali is free after police say he opened fire outside a high school homecoming game. Investigators linked the Eden Prairie shooting to rival Somali gangs. […]

Six Flags Shares Crash After “Final Destination”-Style Roller-Coaster Incident Leaves One Dead Six Flags Entertainment shares plunged as much as 14% to the lowest level since December 2009 after a roller-coaster incident, in what can only be described as a “Final Destination”-style accident, left one person dead and several injured. Local police in Georgia are investigating what led to an incident at Six Flags Over Georgia that […]

Confessions Of A Newsletter Writing Market “Permabear”  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance On my jog yesterday morning I was listening to a podcast about gambling addiction and heard the host bring up the age-old story of a guy selling sports betting picks. The host laughed and asked the obvious question: if this guy is so good at picking winners, why does he need to sell his picks? Why doesn’t he just bet on them himself and get […]

Existing Home Sales Hover Near Record Lows As Affordability Gap Widens With mortgage rates soaring, expectations were for a fourth straight month of declines in existing home sales. Instead sales rose 1.5% MoM (-0.8% exp) thanks in part to a downward revision for August (from -2.0% to -3.2% MoM)… At least some of last month’s modest improvement predated the more than half-point climb in mortgage rates since early September to […]