US Launches New Iran Strikes Overnight: ‘Heavy Costs’ For Attacks On Commercial Shipping Summary:  US strikes on Iran announced, as ‘heavy costs’ for earlier targeting of multiple commercial vessels Oil rises as Treasury revokes June 21 Iran oil waiver Hormuz Threat Level Raised To “Severe”  Three maritime incidents reported on Hormuz in last 24 hours  Another unidentified vessel hit by a Drone IRGC forces hit a Saudi […]

China Test-Launches Nuclear-Capable Ballistic Missile In Pacific, Alarming Neighbors Via The Cradle The Chinese navy on Monday test-launched a strategic missile from a nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean in the framework of its annual military exercises. “At 12.01pm on July 6, a strategic nuclear submarine of China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy successfully launched a… strategic missile carrying a training simulation […]

Anthropic Removes “Scary” Secret Claude Tracker After Developer Stumbles Across It Anthropic has removed hidden detection code from its Claude Code tool after a developer reverse-engineered the binary and exposed how the company was subtly monitoring users in China. The code, which Anthropic described as an experiment launched in March, used a form of prompt steganography to signal information about a user’s environment back to […]

Activists Push California To Recognize ‘Black English’ In Preschool Classrooms Via American Greatness, Progressive California education activists are urging the state to recognize “black English” in preschool classrooms, claiming the approach would strengthen literacy development and affirm the language spoken by many black children. Black Californians United for Early Care & Education (BlackECE), a nonprofit advocacy […]

The NYT Sat On The Rape Allegations Against Platner Last Month Graham Platner’s Senate campaign is imploding after Politico published a detailed account on Monday from Jenny Racicot, a 41-year-old Democrat from Maine, who accuses the progressive darling of rape. Donors are heading for the exits, Democrats are withdrawing endorsements, and calling for Platner to drop out. But there’s another scandal hiding in plain sight, and it […]

Federal Appeals Court Rules Sex Offenders Have Constitutional Right To Live With Their Children Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court ruled July 6 that convicted sex offenders retain a fundamental constitutional right to live with their own children. The new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit arises out of an Alabama case but could help reshape strict sex offender residency […]

The View’s Sunny Hostin Says American Flags Make Her Feel ‘Unsafe’ Authored by Eric Utter via AmericanThinker.com, The View’s preternaturally ignorant and repulsive Sunny Hostin recently stated: There are times when I walk into a community and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there’s a section of this country that has coopted the American flag and they equate being an American or […]

Beijing Weighs Restricting Foreign Access To China’s Top AI Models Up until now, the politicization of AI models generally ran in one direction with US “frontier” LLM providers such as Anthropic and ChatGPT complaining consistently that Chinese open-sourced models were “distilling” (i.e. reverse-engineering) their products. And whether true or not, China has certainly been able to catch up dramatically to the US, with China’s latest […]

Key Dems Pull Out After Platner Campaign Rocked By Sexual Assault Allegations Update: That didn’t take long… key democrats including Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Rep. Ro Khanna have pulled their endorsements of Platner following the allegations, according to Fox News’ Bill Melugin.  BREAKING: Sen. Gallego (D-AZ) withdraws his Platner endorsement shortly after Rep. Khanna (D-CA) does the same. The dam is breaking. […]

“I-Beams Bending Like Cigarettes”: Former Pfizer HQ Tower In Midtown At Risk Of Collapse Dramatic video from inside the former Pfizer headquarters tower in Midtown Manhattan shows large I-beams buckling, and officials are warning of a possible collapse. The 33-story high-rise at 235 East 42nd Street is undergoing a major office-to-residential conversion, one of the largest projects of its kind in the New York City metro area. […]

Stellar 3Y Auction Stops Through Even As Yields Hit 1 Month High With yields blowing out today as they followed the sharp increase in oil prices after Iran struck no less than 3 ships crossing the Hormuz Strait (with a Trump response sure to follow), we doubt there was much focus on today’s 3Y auction. Which is unfortunate because despite the selloff in the secondary market, the auction itself was quite solid.  The sale of $58BN […]

‘Apex Of Civilizational Ambition’: Wall Street Bulls Pile In On SpaceX, Raymond James Street-High $800 Target A flurry of Wall Street analysts is turning incredibly bullish on SpaceX, with 12-month price targets ranging from Raymond James’ $800 to Arete Research’s $401 and Morgan Stanley’s $300. The average price target across 34 analysts tracked by Bloomberg now sits at around $236, implying massive upside from current levels of […]

1 Year Inflation Expectations Jump To 3 Year High In Latest NY Fed Consumer Survey Inflation as measured by the CPI may have peaked, but Americans’ expectations for inflation over the near and medium term rose notably in June according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey released Tuesday, with strong increases anticipated for medical care costs and rent, Consumers now see inflation at 3.7% over the next year, up from […]

Meet The New Democratic Party: Socialists Say The Quiet Part Out Loud, Want To “Destroy America From Within” The Democratic Socialists of America are quickly gaining power within the Democratic Party, winning a string of high-profile House primary races in recent weeks. After wins in New York and Colorado, DSA organizers are shifting resources toward Michigan and Wisconsin, where Abdul El-Sayed is running in a highly contested […]

Tonight: How Aalo Atomics Just “Made History” Tonight on the ZH homepage, Erik Townsend of Macro Voices will host a special livestream with the founders (CEO and CTO) of nuclear energy company Aalo Atomics: Matt Loszak and Yasir Arafat. This will be part of an ongoing series diving into the emerging nuclear energy technologies, to feature heads of the cutting edge startups and some technical and philisophical debates about where […]

Hours After Biggest Drone Blitz On Moscow In Two Years, Zelensky Turns Up Heat At NATO Ukraine’s President Zelensky is in Ankara for the annual NATO summit, trying to bring the pressure on the alliance to step up more defense backing amid the grinding war with Russia, which has increasingly turned into a ‘battle of the skies’.  Over 430 Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow and the surrounding region overnight, soon after which […]

Welcome To Realpolitik, Which Will Be Co-Hosting Every World Cup From Now On By Michael Every of Rabobank It’s easy to talk of the ‘collapse of the rules-based order’, but for most people it’s too abstract to impact on their day-to-day lives. Then the US president –who claims he didn’t know what a red card was– calls up the head of FIFA to ask if the US World Cup team’s leading scorer Balogun can have one suspended to play the […]

Farage Resigns As MP To Force ‘People Vs. The Establishment’ By-Election Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s Reform UK party, said Tuesday he is resigning as the member of Parliament for Clacton to trigger a by-election in the Essex constituency, which he intends to contest as the party’s candidate. Farage, who won the seat in the 2024 general election, cast the upcoming vote as a direct challenge to political and media elites. […]

DeepSeek Developing In-House AI Chip In Bid To Cut Nvidia Reliance DeepSeek is developing its own artificial intelligence chip, a move that could reduce its reliance on both US-based Nvidia and China-based Huawei. Leading model developers are increasingly seeking to control more of their compute stacks, particularly for inference, as AI models move from training labs into the mass market. DeepSeek is the latest company to pursue […]

Ukrainian Drone Swarm Attack Hits Eight Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tankers Beyond Ukraine’s increasing kamikaze drone attacks on key Russian energy infrastructure, which appear to be fueling a domestic fuel crisis, Kyiv has now widened the pressure campaign of drone swarm attacks on Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers. Reuters cites a statement from Ukraine’s drone forces that said a swarm of loitering munitions struck eight Russian […]

Alleged Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber Not Covered By Trump’s Blanket Pardon: Judge Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington prior to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, is not covered by President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon for individuals convicted of crimes over their participation in the Capitol breach, a federal judge ruled on Monday. Suspect Brian Cole Jr. had requested that all his […]

Monaco Bombing Attack Suspect Shot Dead In Ukraine, Intelligence Officer In Custody The saga of the Monaco package bomb attack carried out last week against an exiled Ukrainian oligarch just got even wilder and more mysterious, as the prime suspect has been found shot dead near Kiev. The Guardian reports that “Ukrainian prosecutors said on Tuesday the woman had been found with a gunshot wound to the head and that two men had been […]

French Bond Yields Rise After Le Pen Cleared To Run In 2027 Presidential Election Marine Le Pen can enter the race to become France’s next president after judges confirmed her embezzlement conviction on appeal but handed her a reprieve on an election ban. Presiding Judge Michèle Agi confirmed Le Pen’s conviction, saying that she and several others at the National Rally party misused European Union funds earmarked to pay for […]

Futures Fall, Chipmakers Tumble After Samsung Rout; Oil Climbs Stocks fell as freash volatility hit chipmakers after blowout earnings from Samsung Electronics were still not good enough (the company missed some buyside estimates) and left investors wanting even more, and sent its stock tumbling as much as 11%, forcing another 20 minute halt of the Kospi. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were down 0.2% and Nasdaq futures fall 1%, […]

Double-Tap Bombing Rips Through Damascus Near French President Macron’s Hotel Major explosions ripped through an area in of the Syrian capital near the hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron had been staying, during an official visit of the French leader to Nusrah Front (Syrian AQ) founder and now self-appointed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Macron is said to be safe, after talks with Sharaa at the presidential palace, […]