California Man Accused Of Routing More Than $300 Million In Restricted Servers To China Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, A California man has been arrested on federal charges accusing him of helping route more than $300 million in export-controlled computer servers to China through Malaysia and Singapore. Greg Lui, 38, who also uses the name “Yiu Kong Lui,” is arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles County on […]

Search Intensifies Off Nantucket After Gulfstream Jet Vanishes From Radar A massive search is underway off Nantucket on Saturday morning after a Gulfstream G100 carrying six people disappeared from radar while flying from Bermuda to Boston. The G100 was operated by Latitude Air Ambulance, which provides medical evacuation and repatriation services. BREAKING: Gulfstream G100 with 6 persons on board has reportedly crashed into the […]

David Ellison Debuts New Name For Merged Paramount, Warner Bros. Studios Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Paramount and Warner Bros. studios will be combined under one company named Skydance, company CEO David Ellison announced Oct. 2 on his newly opened X account. David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, speaks during the Paramount Pictures presentation at CinemaCon at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 16, […]

Far-Left Riots “Tearing France Apart” Is Political Gift For Le Pen As Election Odds Soar Riots that French officials blame on far-left groups have morphed into a political crisis, leaving hundreds injured and more than 100 high schools severely damaged. The social unrest appears to be a gift to right-wing presidential contender Marine Le Pen, whose Polymarket odds of winning next year’s election have surged in recent days. At […]

Trump Announces One-Time $90 Payments To 20 Million Seniors In Medicare Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 2 that his administration would issue one-time $90 payments to more than 20 million seniors enrolled in Medicare. A file photo shows a federal Medicare office. Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesTrump said the payments were meant to help seniors cover Medicare premiums and would […]

US Again Rebuffs Riyadh’s Yemen Plea As 100,000-Man Force Readies For War Several reports have indicated that Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces are preparing for a major offensive against Houthi rebels in the coming weeks, which will mobilize a huge force with an aim to take back Yemen’s Red Sea coast and to ultimately secure the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, amid an ongoing threat to global shipping in the Red Sea area. Over […]

What Michael Milken Would See In AI Chip Financing Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack, Very few people in the AI financing debate are reading the deals like a credit trader would. We have had a week of headlines about who is raising what. Amazon is moving $8 billion of chips off its balance sheet. Broadcom is lending $42 billion to its own customer. Nvidia is offering to backstop $125 billion of the debt people use to buy […]

He Calls It Socialism; Marx Called It Communism’s Last Stage Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, On Theo Von’s podcast, Zohran Mamdani defined socialism as the government delivering whatever you need for a dignified life. That is Marx’s rule for communism’s last stage – and New York is already getting the invoice. Von asked him to define socialism. Mamdani said socialism means you will have whatever you need to live a […]

“Where Is The Onshoring?” UBS Questions White House Investment Boom As Foreign Money Flows Into Takeovers President Trump recently said that over $20 trillion in foreign investment has flowed into the US so far in his second term. “We have more money being spent from outside countries and companies. Over $20 trillion. That’s five, six, seven times higher than any country. Not just here, any country ever,” Trump said, adding […]

UAE Says Omani Flydubai Co-Pilot Attacked Captain With Axe, Tried To Seize Israel-Found Jet For “Terror Act” State news agency WAM quoted UAE Attorney General Hamad Saif Al Shamsi as saying the Flydubai Omani co-pilot accused of attacking the captain with a crash axe tried to seize control of the passenger jet bound for Israel and attempted to carry out a “terrorist attack.” Planning, attempted terrorist act behind flydubai flight […]

Turkey’s Fix For Its $20 Billion Hedge Fund Meltdown: Kindly Ask The Winners To Give The Money Back Two weeks after a cluster of Istanbul asset managers stopped honoring redemptions, triggering a market-wide circuit breaker and the liquidation of 131 funds held by some 455,758 Turkish retail investors, Ankara has unveiled its plan to make everyone whole. Or at least, to make everyone a little bit less un-whole. As Bloomberg […]

Black Smoke Reported Over Critical Aramco Refinery As Saudis Weigh Major Assault On Houthi Rebels Unverified reports and footage circulating on X early Saturday morning appear to show smoke rising from Saudi Aramco’s Riyadh refinery. The cause and any impact on operations remain unclear. Separately, Axios reports that Saudi Arabia is preparing a major offensive against Iran-backed Houthis in the coming days. President Trump’s […]

“One Month Until Drawdown”: UBS Sounds Alarm On Europe’s Thin Gas Buffer As Winter Looms UBS energy analyst Nayoung Kim warned about a growing vulnerability in Europe’s natural gas market on Thursday: with less than a month before seasonal withdrawals begin, storage levels remain well below historical norms for this time of year, leaving the continent with a smaller buffer against winter demand and supply disruptions. Kim wrote […]

Far Left UK Green Party Wants The Words ‘Mother’ And ‘Father’ Erased Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Green Party is going to war against language, having decided the words “mother” and “father” are no longer fit for its members. Ahead of its conference in Brighton this weekend, Zack Polanski’s party has circulated an ‘Inclusive Terminology Guidance’ telling activists to drop “mothers and fathers” for “parents […]

Putin: Ready To Use ‘All Weapons’ Including Nuclear, If Kaliningrad Attacked Now it’s no longer just high-ranking Kremlin officials saying it, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has now directly weighed in amid the ongoing nuclear threat tit-for-tat involving European officials. Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow on Thursday, he warned the Western allies to cease their escalation in Ukraine, stressing he’s willing […]

Failing Canada And Britain Blame Trump, Putin, And ‘White Supremacy’ Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Commie Canada and the dis-United Kingdom should be renamed the “Dumb and Dumber” of the British Commonwealth. King Charles III’s North American prime minister, Mark Carney, ran to The New York Times last week to talk about his military combat preparations against the United States in the event that President Trump […]

“Are You An FPV Pilot”: Pentagon Calls On Drone Operators For Next “Gauntlet” Showdown The Department of War has put out a request for service members with “FPV experience” to participate in testing events called “Gauntlets” and fly Category 1 drones in field training exercises to accelerate drone development and prepare the US for the next conflict, where drones, robotics, and automated kill chains dominate the modern […]

The Tyranny Of One Man’s Opinion Authored by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano via LewRockwell.com, Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office – one of whom was St. Thomas More – and even the king’s second wife, Queen Anne. When Cromwell’s son Gregory, who became […]

NASA Wants To Resurrect The SR-71 Blackbird Earlier this month, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman fueled speculation about the agency’s high-speed flight research plans by unveiling a mysterious aircraft silhouette on a slide titled “Rebuilding our X-plane portfolio.” Asked whether the image on the slide depicted the famed SR-71 Blackbird, Isaacman denied it was a Blackbird but signaled renewed ambitions for high-altitude, […]

Mystery Gunmen Slaughter Seven People On Bus In Syria’s Homs Via Middle East Eye Gunmen in Syria killed seven people and wounded four others after opening fire on a civilian bus in western Homs province on Wednesday evening. The bus was carrying company employees returning home from work when it came under fire as it crossed the Masyaf Bridge in the western Homs countryside, according to the Homs Health Directorate. Downtown […]

DOJ Won’t Defend Suppressor Registry In Court After Congress Killed The $200 Tax The Justice Department has now made it official: it will not defend part of the 92-year-old National Firearms Act in court, confirming what we reported in August. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told Congress that “the Department of Justice has determined not to file an appeal” in Silencer Shop Foundation v. ATF, the case in which a federal judge […]

When Regulation Changes Who Becomes Rich Authored by Shahid Islam via RealClearMarkets, Economic debates about inequality usually begin with a familiar question: Who has how much income? It is an important question. But perhaps it is not the only one we should be asking. A society can change who becomes rich without substantially changing how unequal the society is. Regulation can weaken one economic elite while creating […]

US Squeezes China’s Jet Parts Supply As Rare Earth Showdown Escalates If you want an indication that resource nationalism and Beijing’s weaponization of critical material exports to gain leverage over the US in high-stakes trade negotiations are accelerating, a new report Thursday afternoon says the Trump administration is planning to slow shipments of commercial jet parts to China. Reuters cites several people familiar with the […]

FBI Made Over 8,900 Arrests, Located 1,410 Child Victims Under Operation Summer Heat 2.0 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Federal Bureau of Investigation has located 1,410 children and arrested 8,927 individuals in around three and a half months under Operation Summer Heat 2.0. FBI Director Kash Patel speaks at the Nassau County Police Academy David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden […]

Hochul Yanks Cornell Case From Local DA, Hands It To Letitia James – Who Already Picked A Side The Cornell fraternity case that was coming apart at the seams this week has a new prosecutor. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Thursday night appointing state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the alleged Cornell sexual assault case, effectively removing Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van […]