Former World Chess Champion Kasparov Says US Warned Him About Kremlin Kill Plot Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov has said the security services from both the United States and Lithuania have warned him that his life was in danger, after a Russian plot was discovered which allegedly targeted Kremlin critics living abroad. Last month the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said […]

West Virginia Wants Nuclear’s Benefits, Somebody Else Can Handle The Waste When West Virginia first announced that they had joined the race to host Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses (NLICs), the central bargain was already clear: nuclear investment comes with responsibility for used fuel.  We’ve covered this concept a couple times now, highlighting states like Texas and New Mexico that back nuclear investment while fighting […]

Pentagon Raises Combat Pay For First Time Since 2002 As Iran War Persists Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Pentagon has raised combat pay for US troops for the first time since 2002, Task & Purpose has reported, as the Iran war continues and another round of escalation between the US and Iran appears to be coming. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced the pay increase last week. “Our troops in harm’s way […]

Canada Has The Nuclear Technology. Why Buy The Dependency? Saskatchewan’s recent announcement envisages two large reactors supplying more than 2,000 MW in the northwest, potentially starting in 2042, plus at least 600 MW from small modular reactors near Estevan. The ambition makes sense. The willingness to acquire more foreign dependencies… does not. The list of potential vendors for large reactors is short: Westinghouse and […]

Gunmen Attack Christian Town In Syria, Wounding Woman & Smashing Shops Via The Cradle Gunmen on motorcycles attacked the Christian town of Suqaylabiyah in the Hama countryside in Syria on Saturday, smashing shops and opening fire on residents, the Syrian Justice Archive (SJA) reported. Armed men coming from the nearby Sunni town of Qalaat al-Madiq attacked Christian-owned shops and opened fire on residents with Kalashnikov […]

DOJ Sues University Of Delaware: Illegal Aliens Get In-State Tuition, Out-Of-State Americans Pay 2.7x More The Justice Department has sued the University of Delaware, alleging the school “grants in-state tuition for illegal aliens while denying reduced tuition to U.S. citizens.” The math comes straight from UD’s own 2026-27 cost-of-attendance page. Undergraduate tuition for Delaware residents is $15,740. For non-residents it is […]

Backlash Rolls In After Rutgers Womxns Rugby Name Change Welcomes Men Who Identify As Female Authored by Jennifer Kabbany via The College Fix, A female recreational rugby team at Rutgers University is facing backlash for changing its name to “Rutgers Womxn’s Rugby” to signify inclusion and the intent to allow biological males who identity as female to play on the team. The criticism was swift and severe, prompting the […]

Guinness Pulls Plug On Baltimore Brewery As Costs Soar In Democrat-Run State Amid Consumer Beer Retreat The first Guinness brewery to open in the US in more than 60 years, located in the Baltimore metro area, will shutter operations next month as shifting consumer demand and the challenges of operating in the Democrat-run state have made the operation increasingly difficult to sustain. Diageo, the British alcoholic-beverages […]

America’s Wile E. Coyote Moment Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, When it comes to contextualizing the tech, bond, gold and policy headlines of Q4 2026, it’s easier to foresee their pathway ahead by first looking backwards. Once understood, we mathematically realize that our problems are not in the future, they are right now. The 1970s Ah, the 1970s. It was an era of bellbottom jeans, checkered suits, wide ties, […]

Houthis Unleash Large Missile, Drone Barrage On Saudi Arabia, Target Riyadh Airport & Aramco Facility Summary Saudi-backed forces launch major counteroffensive with roughly 100 Saudi fighter jets supporting attacks along the Red Sea coast. Mocha’s status remains disputed: Government forces claim to have retaken the strategic port, while Houthis deny the loss. Houthis announce major missile & drone attack on […]

Supreme Court To Decide Legality Of Trump Administration’s ICE Detention Policy Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a major immigration case challenging the Trump administration’s expanded mandatory detention policy, setting up a consequential ruling on federal immigration enforcement. The case centers on the administration’s interpretation of a 1996 immigration law […]

Turkish Cargo Ship Sunk By Drone Strike Off Romania, Two Sailors Killed There’s no doubt that the tit-for-tat war on Black Sea shipping is getting nastier. For several months now, both Russian and Ukrainian forces have traded drone and missile attacks on ports and ships, disrupting vital Black Sea trade. For Ukraine this national transit lifeline is even more important amid its war time economy. A major incident has unfolded Monday […]

IRS Employees Caught Snooping Through Tax Records Of Public Figures, Watchdog Finds Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, An internal investigation has uncovered widespread failures at the Internal Revenue Service after dozens of employees were flagged for suspiciously accessing confidential taxpayer records, including those belonging to government officials, business leaders and entertainers. A report released […]

Surprise Republican Senator Admits He’s Considering Running For President In 2028 Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) revealed over the weekend that he is considering a run for the White House in 2028, saying he could jump into the Republican presidential primary if he looks at the field and sees too many “goobers” with a chance of winning. Kennedy, the sharp-tongued Louisiana Republican known for his colorful one-liners and viral Senate […]

Our Country…? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via kunstler.com, Pornish Hen “[NY Attorney General Letitia] James has always followed the policy of the Queen of Hearts in ‘Alice in Wonderland’: Sentence first, verdict afterward.” You can be certain that nobody involved in the Cornell U fraternity gang-bang circus is going to come out looking good, not the frat boys, not the girl, not the county DA, not New York AG Letitia […]

SpaceX “Looks Unusually Cheap” On The Forward: Morgan Stanley SpaceX shares rose more than 5% in mid-morning trading in New York, breaking above the trading range that had contained the stock since mid-August. Shares climbed past the $160 level to $167. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote that SpaceX shares at these levels offer an inexpensive way to gain exposure to the space and artificial intelligence economy when adjusted […]

Watch: UK Police Clear Streets Of Entire Town So Migrant Boat Can Offload Residents of Gosport, the Royal Navy harbor town across the water from Portsmouth, spent Sunday under police orders that let officers direct people to leave town, as a migrant boat from France made its way toward their coastline. The migrants were brought into Gosport onboard an RNLI boat (AOL)Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary imposed a Section 34 […]

Trump Plans To Ease Off-Road Diesel Restrictions Ahead Of Midterms Bloomberg reported late Monday afternoon that the Trump administration is preparing to loosen restrictions on tax-exempt dyed diesel, seeking to ease costs for the industrial fuel that powers the economy amid a global refining crisis. The report cites people familiar with the matter, and the new policy could be announced as soon as today. The plan would allow […]

Over 250,000 Visas Revoked During Trump’s Second Term Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The State Department said on Oct. 1 that it has revoked more than 250,000 visas since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott announced in a post on X that the administration has been working to identify and revoke visas held by noncitizens who were found to “commit […]

Pentagon Backs Ambitious Plan To Beam Solar Power From Space By Haley Zaremba of OilPrice.com Space-based solar power just got another powerful vote of confidence. The United States Department of Defense just inked a contract with solar energy company Overview Energy to “design, build, and test a homing beacon that will enable its space-based solar energy system to accurately beam power from orbit to receiving solar arrays on […]

Fuel Price Shock Pushes Gas Cars Under 50% Of Global New-Auto Sales For First Time By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The share of gasoline cars in global vehicle sales fell below 50% for the first time ever as the Hormuz shock and the resulting record-high fuel prices accelerated the previously sluggish shift toward EVs outside China. A few years ago, China blew past the threshold of 50% of all car sales being hybrids and EVs, […]

Massive Fires Along Saudi Oil Export Pipeline, Regional Outlet Says Update(1015ET): The news outlet of pro-Iranian factions in Iraq, Sabereen News, has cited new satellite imagery to report “massive fires in the Saudi oil export pipeline.” The outlet posted the following image on its official Telegram channel. Newsquawk, which picked up the Sabereen report, has noted that it remains unclear whether this is a new incident or is […]

Key Events This Week: FOMC Minutes, Umich, And FOMC Speakers Galore Given the high stress and high alert in bond markets, which has pushed global 10Y yields to the highest level since 2022 and with Europe finding itself on the verge of another sovereign debt crisis… … the main focus in the week ahead will be on central banks, with the minutes from the September FOMC meeting on Wednesday and the ECB’s account of its latest […]

Education Department Calls For Transparency And Tolerance… Teacher Unions Cry Foul Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, The decline of higher education into an ideological echo chamber has been widely discussed on this and other sites. Polls show record lows in the public trust in our universities and colleges as revenues decline and closures increase. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon responded to this meltdown […]

Cambridge University Declares Free Speech Should Be ‘Restricted’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Gonville and Caius College, one of Cambridge’s oldest foundations, is compelling its undergraduates to attend mandatory “inclusivity training” from the start of term. The 90-minute sessions are being delivered by Stop Hate UK, a ‘charity’ activist organisation whose own materials tell students their free speech rights […]