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China Maps South China Sea Floor At Twice The Resolution Of Global Models China says it has dramatically improved its ability to chart the ocean floor, producing detailed seabed maps that outperform widely used global models in both resolution and accuracy, according to the…
Cuba Says US Waging A 'War Without Bombs' Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuba’s top diplomat in the US, has told Bloomberg that the Trump administration is unwilling to continue talks with the island nation and described the ramped-up US oil…
Austin Woman Arrested After Police Find Hundreds Of Suspected Stolen Bank Cards, Keys And Mail A routine arrest in North Austin developed into a much broader investigation after police said they discovered a large collection of mail, payment cards, checks and postal keys…
Chinese Refiners Pay Record Premiums For Russian ESPO Crude Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Chinese refiners are paying a hefty premium for Russia's ESPO crude to replace Iranian crude that independent refiners were importing before the U.S. installed its naval blockade…
Bibi Makes Crystal Clear That Toppling Iran Is Israel's 'Central Mission, Within Reach' The Trump White House is reportedly looking to try and keep things 'quiet' related to the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz leading into the November midterms, after an intense flare-up in…
China-Linked Hackers Hid In Cisco Routers, Stole Administrator Credentials: Report Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, A China-linked cyberespionage group compromised Cisco routers and hid its activity from the network administrators who managed them, cybersecurity…
Democrats Cry Foul As DHS Launches Voter Fraud Probe In 9 States The Department of Homeland Security opened a coordinated voter fraud investigation across nine states this week, and Democratic election officials are not taking the news well... CNN reported that internal federal…
Asian LNG Prices Surge To Highest Since 2022 As Iran War Escalates Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Spot LNG prices for Asian buyers went up to almost $26 per million British thermal units yesterday for a 5% weekly gain following the resumption of strikes between the…
Mamdani Has A Nearly 200 Person "Influencer Network" Sometimes Paid Using Taxpayer Money A new investigation is putting Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s social media operation under scrutiny after revealing that City Hall has cultivated a network of nearly 200 online creators to help…
1,000 Days Of Milei Authored by Michael Talbot via BondVigilantes.com, One thousand days is a long time in politics... When I wrote about Javier Milei’s first 100 days in office, Argentina was embarking on yet another attempt to break free from a cycle that had become painfully…
Biden Judge Blocks Trump's Latest Birthright Citizenship Order Two months after the Supreme Court gutted President Trump's first-day order ending automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens and temporary visitors, a Maryland federal judge has now blocked the narrower…
DOJ Adds Walmart, Costco, Amazon To Beef Price Probe Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Justice Department has added eight major grocery chains to its beef affordability investigation. Ground beef for sale at a supermarket. Nata.dobrovolskaya/Shutterstock The…
Putin Floats 'Chance' At Peace, While Ukraine Cites 'New Dynamic' To Get To Table Russian President Putin is this week attending the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, where he has issued key statements and at times fielded questions from the press. Among the most important…
OpenAI President Declares The "AGI Era" Has Officially Begun OpenAI President Greg Brockman said Thursday that he believes the company has reached artificial general intelligence, and that its latest model, GPT-6 Astra, marks the beginning of the so-called "AGI era," according…
Leon Black Sues Congress To Avoid Epstein Testimony Between 2012 and 2017 - after Jeffrey Epstein got out of prison - billionaire Leon Black paid him roughly $170 million. Black has not provided a credible explanation as to why he paid Epstein amounts vastly exceeding those paid…
FBI Investigating Report Of Millions Of Driver's Licenses Sold On Dark Web Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The FBI said Wednesday it is investigating a site on the dark web after reports it was selling more than 150 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses.…
Dave Smith: "Israel Is On The Ballot And Israel Is About To Deliver Us Socialism" Last night’s debate on the Iran war brought together Alan Dershowitz and libertarian Dave Smith for a wide-ranging clash over Iran, Israel, and … you guessed it: Antisemitism! Dershowitz defended…
The Elephant In The Canadian Room Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, At first glance, the current American-Canadian trade "war" is absurd. We are neighbors with a long history of close friendship, speak the same language (for the most part), and spring from…
Is Uber Weaponizing Labor Unions To Slow Robotaxi Rivals Ride-hailing giant Uber is reportedly aligning with drivers' unions in several cities to slow robotaxi deployments and promote regulations requiring "hybrid networks" that combine autonomous vehicles with human drivers,…
Is Geothermal Energy The Next Hidden AI Power Trade Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Before I get into today’s idea, let me remind readers that I believe there is a very real chance that the AI boom could be coming to an end later this year and into early next year. I detailed…
All Bubbles End In Deflation Authored by Bill Bonner via DailyReckoning.com, We begin this week’s perambulations with a stroll into the future. So far…the Bubble in the US is broader than any in history. It has been inflating everything it touched for the last 30 years. All…
'Crisis Preparedness': Dutch Move Billions In Gold Out Of US As Goldman Warns Of 'Geographic Concentration Risk' The Netherlands' central bank transferred nearly 90 metric tons of gold bars from the United States and Canada to Britain amid growing concerns of "increasing…
'Non-Market': The One Word That Blew Up The G20 Communiqué On Tuesday we reported that China had derailed the G20's joint communiqué in Asheville, with a senior US official telling the FT the impasse "came down to a few words." It turns out one word did most of the damage.…
Baltic Dry Index Nears Breakout As "Perfect Storm" In Global Shipping Emerges The daily benchmark measuring the cost of shipping raw materials across major global maritime routes is breaking out to a nearly three-year high this week, as Bloomberg reports that typhoons are…
NYC Bans AI For Public Elementary, Middle Schools For 2026-2027 Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has placed a one-year moratorium on classroom use of generative artificial intelligence tools for pre-K-8 grades, and all public high…
Trump Rages Against 'Treasonous Scum' In Media For Iran War Coverage President Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to rage against US media coverage of the Iran war (not for the first time), following Treasury Scott Bessent giving similar scathing remarks earlier this week.…
Cloudflare Reports Issues Amid OpenAI, Claude, And Grok Glitch Summary: Cloudflare's status page is reporting two active issues Downdetector Reports Outages Across OpenAI, Claude, Grok Cloudflare Problems There are concerns that the outages and service disruptions reported by…
Putin Outraged At Norway's Seizure Of Russian Expedition Vessel In Arctic Waters: 'State Terror' The Kremlin is outraged, with President Putin on Thursday blasting Norway for "state terrorism" in the immediate wake of the Scandinavian country's seizure of the Russian…
Rogue AI Agents More Sophisticated Than First Realized Authored by Epoch Times Staff via The Epoch Times, The artificial intelligence (AI) "agents" involved in OpenAI's breach of Hugging Face knew they were breaking the evaluation test's rules, according to two investigations…
War Premium Evaporates: Wheat Plunges As Putin Signals Black Sea Peace The most-active Chicago wheat contract has plunged nearly 7% since peaking late Wednesday morning, extending losses overnight after Bloomberg reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signaled the…
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