The MI6 and CIA chiefs, who made their first public appearance together, warn of challenges such as the war in Ukraine, Islamic State, Israel-Gaza conflict and the rise of China. Continue Reading »

The government’s message has focused on its challenging inheritance - but responsibility and blame will ultimately shift. Continue Reading »

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who had joint nationality, was reportedly shot dead by Israeli forces during a protest. Continue Reading »

The troubled spacecraft returns empty to New Mexico from the International Space Station. Continue Reading »

Both buildings have had fires recently, but residents on opposite ends of the economic spectrum tell of very different experiences. Continue Reading »

Continue Reading »

Continue Reading »

• Fox-Dominion trial delay 'is not unusual,' judge says • Fox News' defamation battle isn't stopping Trump's election lies Continue Reading »

The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. Continue Reading »

A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, a lawyer for the company said. Continue Reading »

The U.S. electric truck market includes the Tesla Cybertruck, Ford F-150 Lightning, Rivian R1T and GM's GMC Hummer EV, GMC Sierra Denali and Chevy Silverado. Continue Reading »

Small modular reactors could help expand nuclear power in the U.S., but commercializing them has proven challenging. Continue Reading »

After undocking, Starliner is expected to take about six hours to return to Earth in a landing zone at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Continue Reading »

Engine repair shops have swelled to a $58 billion business, according to Alton Aviation Consultancy, and are cash cow for engine makers like GE Aerospace. Continue Reading »

Ancora joined a chorus of activist investors who are pushing Forward Air for a strategic review. Continue Reading »

L'été 2024 a été le plus chaud jamais mesuré sur la planète, où les records de température s'enchaînent sans faiblir depuis plus d'un an, avec son… Continue Reading »

Le pape François, 87 ans, est arrivé vendredi soir à Port Moresby, capitale de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, pour une visite de trois jours, deuxième… Continue Reading »

Le président chinois Xi Jinping a promis jeudi plus de 50 milliards de dollars sur trois ans aux pays africains, dont une cinquantaine de dirigeants… Continue Reading »

A deux mois de conclure dans les urnes son duel avec Donald Trump, Kamala Harris laboure jeudi le terrain en Pennsylvanie, un des Etats américains… Continue Reading »

L'ancien PDG de Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn a balayé mercredi les accusations pesant contre lui dans le procès pour fraude massive du "dieselgate… Continue Reading »

The Russian Defense Ministry has shared fresh drone footage showcasing the destruction of a US-made Ukrainian M777 howitzer Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence Kirill Budanov has described messaging app Telegram as a real threat to his nation’s security Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Republican former US Vice President Dick Cheney slammed Donald Trump as the biggest threat the country has ever faced Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

US authorities say they have not detected attempts by foreign actors to directly interfere in the upcoming presidential election Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

The Argentinian Foreign Ministry will ask the International Criminal Court to order the arrest of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Continue Reading »

Сваливать проблемы на журналистов недостойно должности федерального канцлера, ведь он в конечном итоге несет ответственность за свою политику, считает председатель Мика Бойстер Continue Reading »

Мишель Барнье подчеркнул, что сфера здравоохранения станет приоритетной для нового кабмина Continue Reading »

Федеральный омбудсмен пояснила, что голосование проходит без нарушений Continue Reading »

Кир Стармер отметил, что Лондон добивается улучшения дипломатических и торговых связей со своими европейскими соседями после Brexit Continue Reading »

Kamala's Combative Style Will Get Its Biggest Test Against The Don... (Top headline, 1st story, link) Related stories:Hillary Has Advice: 'He Can Be Rattled'...Falling Pump Prices Blunt Inflation Attacks on Harris...Pennsylvania Becomes Main Battleground of Race... Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron Continue Reading »

Hillary Has Advice: 'He Can Be Rattled'... (Top headline, 2nd story, link) Related stories:Kamala's Combative Style Will Get Its Biggest Test Against The Don...Falling Pump Prices Blunt Inflation Attacks on Harris...Pennsylvania Becomes Main Battleground of Race... Continue Reading »

Falling Pump Prices Blunt Inflation Attacks on Harris... (Top headline, 3rd story, link) Related stories:Kamala's Combative Style Will Get Its Biggest Test Against The Don...Hillary Has Advice: 'He Can Be Rattled'...Pennsylvania Becomes Main Battleground of Race... Continue Reading »

Pennsylvania Becomes Main Battleground of Race... (Top headline, 4th story, link) Related stories:Kamala's Combative Style Will Get Its Biggest Test Against The Don...Hillary Has Advice: 'He Can Be Rattled'...Falling Pump Prices Blunt Inflation Attacks on Harris... Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron Continue Reading »

TRUMP TEAM FEARS HE'LL BLOW DEBATE (Main headline, 1st story, link) Continue Reading »

Gildardo Lopez Astudillo's arrest comes weeks before the 10th anniversary of the students' disappearance. Continue Reading »

Kosovo's Interior Ministry blamed the closures on 'masked extremists' blocking traffic into Serbia. Continue Reading »

State government orders all schools in the state to remain shut citing security concerns after latest spurt of violence. Continue Reading »

The other half of Israel’s war: settlers and the army brutalise Palestinians in the West Bank. Continue Reading »

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper during a protest, witnesses and officials said. Continue Reading »

The MI6 and CIA chiefs, who made their first public appearance together, warn of challenges such as the war in Ukraine, Islamic State, Israel-Gaza conflict and the rise of China. Continue Reading »

The government’s message has focused on its challenging inheritance - but responsibility and blame will ultimately shift. Continue Reading »

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who had joint nationality, was reportedly shot dead by Israeli forces during a protest. Continue Reading »

The troubled spacecraft returns empty to New Mexico from the International Space Station. Continue Reading »

Both buildings have had fires recently, but residents on opposite ends of the economic spectrum tell of very different experiences. Continue Reading »

Kamala Harris is camped out at a Pittsburgh hotel. Donald Trump is being peppered informally by aides. Both sides share the same belief about why the debate is so crucial. Continue Reading »

The 2016 Democratic nominee fell short to Donald Trump, but she had strong debate moments against him. In an interview, she offered some thoughts for Kamala Harris. Continue Reading »

Kamala Harris’s razor-sharp debate skills have powered her political ascent. Her success next week will turn on how well she adapts to an unpredictable rival. Continue Reading »

Officers are limited in their response to a possible threat of violence, but they are being trained to identify and monitor worrisome behavior earlier. Continue Reading »

Court and law enforcement records lay out the turbulence in the teenager’s family in recent years. Continue Reading »

Reuters was first to report that a meeting of top OPEC+ ministers kept oil output policy unchanged including a plan […] The post OPEC+ sticks to oil policy, repeats could pause Oct hike appeared first on Reuters News Agency. Continue Reading »

Reuters exclusively reported that Lineage, the world’s largest operator of cold-storage warehouses, raised $4.45 billion in its U.S. initial public […] The post Logistics giant Lineage raises $4.45 bln in biggest IPO in 2024 appeared first on Reuters News Agency. Continue Reading »

Reuters exclusively reported that the United States and Vietnam are discussing the sale of Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules military transport planes […] The post US, Vietnam discuss supplying Hanoi with C-130 military transport planes appeared first on Reuters News Agency. Continue Reading »

Reuters exclusively reported that Europe’s top asset manager Amundi and other LVMH investors want the $370 billion luxury behemoth to […] The post Some investors demand change at LVMH after probe into Dior contractors  appeared first on Reuters News Agency. Continue Reading »

Reuters exclusively reported that PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is considering slashing up to half its financial services auditing staff in China as […] The post PwC weighs halving of China financial services audit staff  appeared first on Reuters News Agency. Continue Reading »

After working to ban phones in the classroom, parents are now seeking a return to pencil and paper. Continue Reading »

Promoters in the booming steroid business tout a boost in the gym and the bedroom, but few talk about the possible side effects. Continue Reading »

The fresh capital is expected to help the data-center and AI cloud-computing company grow. Continue Reading »

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s new firm, aimed at building “safe” artificial intelligence models, has raised $1 billion from investors. Continue Reading »

Companies are unknowingly hiring North Koreans for hundreds of low-level jobs, giving isolated Pyongyang access to cash and intellectual property. Continue Reading »

NASA and the aerospace company plan to analyze performance of the vehicle that returned without its crew after troubled months in space. Continue Reading »

In unusually blunt terms, CIA Director William Burns urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to accept a soon-to-be proposed cease-fire agreement and end the conflict. Continue Reading »

Deep under a forest floor are clusters of copper and nickel ore that proponents hope will be a foundation of America’s clean-energy future. Continue Reading »

Former president’s campaign says he has vowed to rein in agencies. Continue Reading »

The market pulled out a win for the month despite a rough patch. Also: A flashback to the 10th anniversary of the blockbuster Alibaba IPO. Continue Reading »

The IRS said Friday that it has recovered $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-income Americans who had either failed to file their returns or who hadn't fully paid what they owed.  The announcement, made jointly with the U.S. Treasury Department, is aimed at highlighting the agency's ramped-up enforcement efforts against tax cheats, which have been funded under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.  That IRS funding has proved controversial, with some Republican lawmakers ... Continue Reading »

The Treasury Department announced Friday that it had recovered $1.3 billion of unpaid taxes from high-income Americans. The recovered money comes as part of the effort to ensure wealthy individuals pay the taxes they owe under the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, according to the department’s release. Continue Reading »

Potential gang activity was caught on surveillance camera in a Colorado apartment building after what one former resident calls "no accountability" kept law enforcement from assisting. The video shows many men armed with handguns, and one with a scoped rifle, bursting through the door of the apartment complex for unknown reasons. The group appears to be Tren de Aragua, or TdA, a transnational gang based out of Venezuela. The gang, with reportedly 5,000 members, has a motto of... Continue Reading »

Police in California and Colorado have rebutted two viral stories about immigrants that were spread by right-wing social media accounts in a sign of desperation in the final weeks before the November election. Several conservative social-media influencers, including X owner Elon Musk, shared a false story last week alleging that “illegal aliens” tried to “hijack” some California school buses on Aug. 27 and 28, in a part of San Diego just 3 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The bogus story... Continue Reading »

Letters obtained by The Denver Gazette from the law firm representing CBZ Management — whose apartment complex in Aurora was shut down over what the city described as safety issues last month — show officials were fully aware weeks ago of accusations that a Venezuelan gang had “forcibly taken control” of the property. In an Aug. 28 letter to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the law firm wrote that CBZ Management had been informed that “Aurora Multi-Family Projects have been forcibly... Continue Reading »

All five of the co-hosts of Fox News’ midday program Outnumbered got in on the action Friday of taking shots at one of the Biden-Harris administration’s signature legislative accomplishments: the Inflation Reduction Act. In their criticisms of the law they seemed completely unaware of the dramatic reduction of inflation that has occurred over the past two years, and they dishonestly characterized the bill as a sort of Trojan horse for major climate legislation. On the September 6 edition of Fox... Continue Reading »

BRASILIA, Sept. 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's has guaranteed 32 immigrants of various nationalities who are at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos Airport the right not to be forcibly repatriated, according to court rulings seen by Reuters. The preliminary rulings answer to habeas corpus requests filed by the Federal Public Defender's Office asking for the immigrants not to be repatriated and given the legal right to request refuge in Brazil. According to the case documents, the group includes migrants from Nepal,... Continue Reading »

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) had a moment of sanity on Friday when he vetoed an outrageous bill that would have provided loans of up to $150,000 to illegal immigrants who were first time homeowners. As Sarah covered last week, the bill known as AB 1840 passed the state legislature and made it to Newsom's desk. Although Newsom had until September 30 to sign the bill, he returned it without his signature weeks before the deadline, on September 6. "This bill seeks to prohibit the disqualification of... Continue Reading »

Alleged Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray's father said his son had been called "gay" by classmates in 2023 interview transcripts recently released by police.Colin Gray, 54, has been charged in connection with Wednesday's school shooting, which claimed the lives of two students and two adults in Georgia. Colt Gray, 14, is being tried as an adult in the shooting, which killed four and injured nine others.GEORGIA SCHOOL SHOOTING: NEW AUDIO OF ALLEGED SHOOTER, FATHER ENCOUNTER WITH POLICE... Continue Reading »

In the weeks before his bank collapsed last year, exacerbating the largest banking crisis in a generation, First Republic’s chief executive, James Herbert, was busy selling millions of dollars’ worth of his shares in the company. The sales, which netted the executive and his family nearly $7 million over the six months that preceded First Republic’s demise, were waved through by Mr. Herbert’s personal bankers at Morgan Stanley without their passing any judgment on whether he was trading on... Continue Reading »

The judges noted that it is Kennedy’s ‘clear legal right’ for his name to be removed from the ballot. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference in Phoenix on Aug. 23, 2024. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he is suspending his presidential campaign at a news conference in Phoenix on Aug. 23, 2024. Darryl Webb/AP Photo A Michigan appeals court has sided with former... Continue Reading »

A new report suggests Boeing is back to leaning on business practices that helped cause the 737 Max door plug blowout which threw its year into disarray. The Seattle Times reports that the planemaker is ramping up so-called out-of-order “traveled work” manufacturing on its 777 jets in order to stockpile planes ahead of a possible machinist strike. The newspaper reports that Boeing is moving incomplete planes along in the production process earlier than it usually would in order to avoid... Continue Reading »

The refrain has been splashed across T-shirts and bumper stickers and beer koozies. It has thundered through arenas in Milwaukee and Indianapolis and Chicago and Glendale and Savannah. Crowds wait for Kamala Harris to say it like they might anticipate joining Taylor Swift on the bridge of “Cruel Summer.” “We are not going back!” they roar. “We are not going back!” Here’s the thing, though: The line wasn’t designed to be a catchphrase. President Joe Biden had notified Harris on a Sunday morning... Continue Reading »

When Gary West taught elementary school social studies two decades ago in a suburb of San Antonio, he wasn’t afraid to take his lessons beyond the bounds of the textbook. West wasn’t told to steer clear of potentially controversial topics, so he shaped lessons that he thought would pique students’ interest. Teaching history, he led discussions about how the founding fathers’ backgrounds—white, wealthy, landowning—might have influenced the way they wrote laws. To teach about the government, he... Continue Reading »

Several social media posts are promoting the claim that the current leader of Afghanistan was released from prison in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump.  “Let this sink in,” the posts state. “The new ruler of Afghanistan was in prison until Trump let him out in 2018.” The posts include photos of Trump and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s political leader who also serves as deputy prime minister in Afghanistan.  These claims are mostly true, but... Continue Reading »

It’s media stupid season. I know it’s hard to tell when it seems like every day is the same, but the last eight weeks of a close campaign are, I assure you, the dumbest. This week alone we’ve seen PolitiFact’s chief correspondent “fact-check” former President Donald Trump for saying Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had Trump still been in office. Now, this is a campaign-trail claim for sure, though there’s some merit to it. Russia invaded countries on every... Continue Reading »

The printed version of Project 2025 wobbled the lectern as Democratic 8th Congressional District candidate Kristin Lyerly put it down. Sixty-nine percent of Wisconsinites and most of the Democratic attendees at the Brown County Democratic Party's town hall Tuesday evening are more than familiar with Project 2025, the conservative playbook created by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, which says the primary aim of Project 2025 is to "be ready for the next... Continue Reading »

It’s a fact of life politicians don’t always agree what is written about them in the media. And they really don’t like it when a statement misrepresents what the politician intended to say. That is the case when a spokesman for JD Vance, the candidate for vice president on the Republican ticket, took The Associated Press to task for a headline regarding the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia, per Fox News. Continue Reading »

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance referring to school shootings as "a fact of life" has ignited a firestorm of criticism and Republican claims that he was misquoted. Two students and two teachers were killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday morning after a 14-year-old shooter opened fire and went on a rampage before surrendering to school resource officers, authorities said. The mass shooting quickly put gun violence back... Continue Reading »

U.S. job growth picked up in August but missed economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate was little changed. The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday reported that employers added 142,000 jobs in August, compared to the 160,000 gain that was projected by LSEG economists. The unemployment rate also dipped slightly to 4.2%, in line with expectations, after it had unexpectedly risen to 4.3% in July, which was the highest level for the jobless rate since October 2021... Continue Reading »

Russia Takes New Village Near Hub Of Pokrovsk; Drone Debris Hits Outside Ukraine's Parliament On Saturday Russia's defense ministry (MoD) has announced the capture of another village in Eastern Ukraine as its forces close in on the key logistics hub of Pokrovsk.  Moscow forces "have liberated the village of Kalynove" in the Donetsk region, which is about 16 miles southeast of Ukraine-held Pokrovsk. Via AFP Pokrovsk is the crossroads city of some 60,000 people seen as vital to Kiev's defense efforts. The fears in the West are that if it falls, the whole of Donetsk will be easily taken by Russia, and so will all of the Donbass region. Ukraine authorities have already ordered an evacuation of all children and young people from the city amid the months-long Russian advance. Moscow has recently said it captured a string of villages in the area, and all of these maneuvers are seen as aiding in capturing the ultimate prize of Pokrovsk. President Putin reiterated Thursday in a talk that capturing and solidifying all of the Donbass under Russian rule remains the "primary objective" of the 'special military operation'. But there are conflicting reports over just how fast the Russian ... Continue Reading »

US Intel Undercuts DOJ's "Foreign Interference" Claim Used To Smear Conservative Pundits Authored by Luis Cornelio via HeadlineUSA.com, The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced Friday that it has not “observed” any foreign interference in the 2024 election, seemingly undermining cynical remarks by Attorney General Merrick Garland.  The ODNI’s Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) stated in a 2-page report that the intelligence community “has not observed any foreign actor seeking to interfere in the conduct of the 2024 elections.” Natalie Winters, a co-host of the Steve Bannon WarRoom podcast, first reported these findings. While the report stipulated that Russia “poses the most active foreign influence threat” to the election, it found no evidence of meddling. The FMIC’s assertions come just days after Garland issued dire warnings about so-called foreign influence targeting the election.  On Wednesday, Garland announced actions targeting what he described as Russian-ordered schemes aimed at swaying the upcoming election.  The leftist attorney general unveiled an indictment against two RT (Russia Today) employees accused of funneling $10 million to “fund and direct” an American company to promote pro-Russia content.  The company was revealed to be Tenet Media, owned by influencer Lauren Cheng and her husband, Liam Donovan.  The DOJ claimed the media company used ... Continue Reading »

In Pivotal Senate Race, Republican Takes Significant Lead Over Incumbent Democrat Democrats hoping to maintain control of the United States Senate in 2025 have been jolted by a new poll that shows Montana's incumbent Democratic senator trailing his Republican challenger by 8 points with under two months to go until Election Day. The AARP poll found 49% of Montana voters back Republican Tim Sheehy and 41% support incumbent Jon Tester, while the Libertarian candidate takes 4% and the Green Party, 1%. Sheehy appears to be the beneficiary of Donald Trump's popularity in the state: The former president has a commanding 56% to 41% lead. He won the state by 16 points in 2020 and 21 in 2016.  The Democrats are defending 23 Senate seats in 2024, compared to just 11 for the Republicans. The GOP needs to flip only two seats to wrest control of the upper chamber back from the Democrats.  A former Navy SEAL, 37-year-old Sheehy is the founder and CEO of aerial firefighting company Bridger Aerospace.  Sheehy's support is strongest among voters over age 49 years, who favored him by 16 points. That block is also the most likely to vote, with a ... Continue Reading »

Social Security Facing $63 Trillion In Unfunded Liabilities Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Social Security is facing $63 trillion in long-term unfunded liabilities, according to the 2024 Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI) trustees report. A person wearing a mask stands outside a Social Security Administration building in Burbank, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2020. VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images The report looked at two things: how much money will be missing indefinitely and how much will be missing in the next 75 years. The report determined that there will be a permanent $62.8 trillion deficit and about a $23 trillion shortage for the next 75 years. Officials explained that these numbers show how much less money they will have after the money saved up in trust funds runs out. “The annual shortfalls after trust fund reserve depletion rise slowly and reflect increases in life expectancy,” the report reads. “The summarized shortfalls over the infinite horizon, as percentages of taxable payroll and GDP, are larger than the shortfalls for the 75-year period.” OASDI trustees noted that the shortfall could be eliminated if the combined payroll tax rate was raised to “about 17.0 percent” or ... Continue Reading »

US-Iraq Deal: Near Quarter-Century Long Pentagon Occupation To Finally End On Friday the governments of Iraq and the United States reached a landmark agreement for the final exit of all US-coalition troops from the territory of Iraq. Several sources confirmed to Reuters that hundreds of still remaining American and Western allied troops will pull out of the country by September 2025, with the remainder to exit by the close of 2026. AFP It will bring to an end an almost quarter-century occupation which began with the 2003 'shock and awe' bombing of Baghdad and full-scale invasion under the Bush-Cheney administration. The US overthrew Saddam Hussein and the country suffered many years of chaos, an anti-US insurgency, and the rise of terror groups like AQI and ISIS. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians died, and by some estimates one million perished. Several thousands of US and coalition troops died. Further, the government that replace Saddam has been, ironically enough, allied with Tehran and dominated by Shia politicians and their interests. A senior US official told Reuters Friday, "We have an agreement, its now just a question of when to announce it." In recent years, the Pentagon ... Continue Reading »

US Wants To Deploy New Missiles To Japan Banned By INF Treaty Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US wants to deploy a previously banned missile system to Japan for military drills, Nikkei Asia has reported. The Typhon missile launcher is a ground-based system that can fire nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of more than 1,000 miles. Ground-based missiles with a range between 310 and 3,400 miles were banned by the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2019. The Typhon also fires SM-6 missiles, which can hit targets up to 290 miles away. The US deployed a Typhon system to the Philippines for military drills, a move that China viewed as a major provocation. The missile system was sent to the Philippines for several months. It was first deployed for the drills that started in April, and Manila said it would be pulled out in September, meaning it could still be there. The Philippines said China expressed "very dramatic" alarm over the deployment of the Typhon system. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said the deployment "put the entire region under the fire of the United States (and) brought huge risks ... Continue Reading »

"Due To Popular Demand": Tesla Announces Full Self-Driving Coming To China, Europe In Early 2025 Tesla shares outperformed this week after Tesla AI, an affiliate of Tesla, wrote on X that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) advanced driver assistance software will be rolled out across China and Europe in the first quarter of 2025.  Tesla AI said pending FSD rollouts in China and Europe are "due to popular demand," adding that regulatory approval will first be needed to push the over-the-air update in both regions. The update would enable drivers to activate the advanced driver assistance software. In July, CEO Elon Musk said FSD regulatory approval for both regions was likely achievable by the end of the year. He said on Thursday that FSD could be launched in right-hand drive markets sometime in the first half of next year. Hopefully, RHD markets in late Q1, early Q2, pending regulatory approval — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 5, 2024 In April, Beijing gave Tesla the 'green light' to roll out FSD and partner with Chinese tech giant Baidu for mapping and navigation software. Tesla has satisfied multiple data security and privacy requirements to operate in the world's largest EV market. The approval in April came just days after Musk unexpectedly ... Continue Reading »

Poland's Official Story About An Alleged Airspace Violation Doesn't Add Up Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The authorities’ story doesn’t add up since they still maintain that at least three radiolocation stations recorded a violation, but they also claim at the same time that no such violation ever occurred. Major General Maciej Klisz announced that Poland’s ten-day search for physical evidence of last month’s recorded airspace violation came up empty-handed. According to him, “As a result of this process and the undertaken analysis, I can say that with high likelihood the air space of the Republic of Poland was not breached on August 26…(but the) data has not changed, what changed is our assessment of the situation.” For comparison’s sake, here’s what he said on that same day late last month: “We are probably dealing with the entry of an object on Polish territory. The object was confirmed by at least three radiolocation stations. It is clear from its characteristics that the object is not a missile, it is not a hypersonic, ballistic or guided missile.” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski then started talking tough about Poland possibly shooting down Russian missiles over Ukraine, the subject of which ... Continue Reading »

Kamala Karnage As Market Goes Haywire One month after the Aug 5 Kamala Karry Trade Krash, we got part 2... ... and boy was it an epic flush: everything - like literally everything - and certainly anything with a high beta or even a trace of momentum, imploded with a sheer violence that made Aug 5 look like amateur hour. And unlike Aug 5, the puke was only at the beginning with stocks spiking from the first moment of trading, this time it was the other way around, with stocks pushing higher to start the day before falling apart, and ending a catastrophic week in the worst way possible: on a downtick. It all started with the August payrolls: as described earlier, the number wasn't terrible: at 142K, it missed the estimate of 165K but rebounded sharply from last month's (downward revised) 89K... ... and the unemployment rate actually dropped... ... as the number of employed workers jumped by the most since March (even if the composition was terrible, consisting entirely of part-time, illegal workers). Yet, while on the surface the jobs number was strong enough to eliminate the odds of a 50bps rate ... Continue Reading »

Children Of Big Brother: What It Means To Go Back-To-School In The American Police State Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning.” - Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved. Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask questions later. In your neighborhoods, you’ve got to worry about the Nanny State and its network of busybodies turning parents in for allowing their children to walk to school alone, walk to the park alone, play at the beach alone, or even play in their own yard alone. The tentacles of the police state even intrude on the sanctity of one’s home, with the government believing it knows better than you—the parent—what is best for your child. This criminalization of parenthood has run the gamut in recent years from parents being arrested for attempting to walk ... Continue Reading »

US Goes Ballistic Over New Iranian Missile Transfers To Russian Forces As another reminder of how these already dangerous and volatile wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe are inter-connected, United States officials are slamming the Iranian government in the wake of fresh reports saying Tehran has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report Friday that "Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia, according to U.S. and European officials, a move that gives Moscow another potent military tool in its war against Ukraine and follows stern Western warnings not to provide those arms to Moscow." The Pentagon and US intelligence has for months been warning about such a possibility, and has been threatening Iran over the potential move, but a US official has now "confirmed" to the WSJ that the missiles "have finally been delivered." The Biden White House has said "a severe response" to Tehran awaits. Iranian ballistic missile systems, file image NATO countries led by the US have been warning of swift and severe consequences, but the reality is at this point there's not too much left to sanction in either the Islamic Republic ... Continue Reading »

MSM Tells Only Part Of The Story, Highlights 'Record Number Of Deaths' From 'Climate Change' Authored by Jack Hellner via American Thinker, The Hill recently ran an article by Zack Budryk, which highlighted the “record number of Americans killed by heat” last year; here’s what he had to say: Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. At least 2,325 people died from the heat last year, according to the study, which included deaths with heat as both an underlying and contributing factor. If you didn’t already figure it out, this piece was on “climate change,” and its purpose, like most pieces on climate change, is to get people to capitulate to the radical green agenda. Why don’t journalists ever report on the number of people killed each year by extreme cold, which is much higher than heat deaths? The answer is that facts don’t matter when the media and other Democrats are trying to force people to surrender to their agenda. This reminds me how the media, CDC, Anthony Fauci, and ... Continue Reading »

ICE Headlines Are Wake-Up Call: Nation Sleepwalking Into Migrant Crisis Storm The radical progressive Biden-Harris-Mayorkas trio are destroying American sovereignty and endangering the lives of law-abiding citizens as armed Venezuelan prison gangs with AR-style rifles and pistols run amok in the northern Denver suburb of Aurora and other sanctuary cities run by far-left Democrats. We learned this week that migrant gangs were beginning to target critical energy infrastructure in West Texas.  Since January 2021, the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas trio destroyed whatever border security the Trump administration built and facilitated the greatest migrant invasion this nation has ever seen, flooding cities and counties with millions of unvetted migrants, some of which have been confirmed as criminals and terrorists. The breadth and depth of the continuing damage are only beginning to be realized as once-peaceful neighborhoods across the US, from New York City to Chicago to Denver to some West Coast cities, are plagued with migrant crime. Some municipalities are being overrun by illegal aliens as local resources are drained.  Just chaos.  NEW: ICE confirms to @FoxNews that all four of the known & suspected Tren de Aragua gang members arrested by police in Aurora, CO in connection to a shooting/attempted murder in July are Venezuelan illegal aliens who were ... Continue Reading »

Low Cortisol May Fuel Long COVID: Animal Study Authored by Mary West via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), An animal study published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity found that a COVID-19 infection may leave behind certain proteins, which can trigger the process that causes cortisol levels to drop. This results in increased inflammation and immune overreaction to stress. Josep Suria/Shutterstock The effect on cortisol may underlie many changes associated with long COVID, which has many neurological and neuropsychological symptoms, such as brain fog, anxiety, sleep disturbances, fatigue, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. “Our study suggests that low cortisol could be playing a key role in driving many of these physiological changes that people are experiencing with long COVID,” lead author Matthew Frank, a senior research associate with the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said in a press release. The discovery brings science one step closer to understanding long COVID, which affects 10 to 35 percent of people after contracting an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to the researchers. Lingering Proteins Link to Low Cortisol Researchers in the study noted several earlier experiments that led to their ... Continue Reading »

Ford F-750 Plunges Through Historic Wooden Bridge In Maine We found a bridge in Maine that wasn't "built Ford tough".  When an overweight F-750 drove over it, ignoring signs warning about the weight limit, the bridge - one of 9 covered bridges left in the state - gave out and the vehicle plunged into the water below, according to a report from The Drive.  The report says that Babb’s Bridge in Gorham, Maine, the state's oldest remaining covered bridge dating back to 1840, has a strict weight limit of three tons. Despite this, the driver of a Ford F-750, which weighs over 9,000 pounds empty and can reach a GVWR of 26,000 to 37,000 pounds with cargo, attempted to cross it. To make matters worse, the truck was hauling crushed gravel, according to the Gorham Police Department. Even an older F-Series truck without any cargo would exceed the bridge's weight capacity. While there are no weight limit signs directly on the bridge, clear signs on Hurricane Road, before the bridge, indicate a 10-foot height, single-lane width, and a three-ton maximum weight limit. These signs are large and easy to see, making it hard to believe the ... Continue Reading »

Debate: Questions Kamala Harris Must Be Asked Authored by Steve Cortes via RealClearPolitics, After six weeks of completely hiding from the media, Kamala Harris finally appeared, with the safety valve of her running mate, in a pre-recorded, brief, and totally friendly interview with Dana Bash of CNN. Bash did not press on the most urgent issues, nor did she follow up when Harris either obfuscated or simply refused to answer. As such, Harris still escapes the scrutiny of any real interview, even though she has applied for the most difficult and important job in the world. Moreover, if anything, the burden of proof should be far higher for Harris given that she was elevated to nominee status by the backroom machinations of powerbrokers, rather than citizens voting. In fact, Harris has never earned a single caucus or primary vote for president, neither in 2020, nor in 2024. Given that she came out of the Democratic Party apparatus that dominates California, in point of fact Harris has not faced serious scrutiny in her entire political career, ever. She wants to claim all the advantages of incumbency without any of the attendant blame for her record ... Continue Reading »

Woke Apocalypse: Sony Humiliated After $200 Million Diversity Video Game Disaster Get woke, go broke is not just a mantra, it's a rule, and the epic woke failures keep piling up in 2024 as the majority of consumers continue to reject DEI in movies, streaming, marketing and gaming.   Video games in particular have been aggressively targeted by NGOs and far-left governments for the dissemination of progressive propaganda, ostensibly because they are by far the most popular media for the younger demographic.  From childhood to early adulthood the average western consumer will spend more time on video games than all other entertainment combined, making gaming a ripe venue for ideological grooming. As we noted in recent articles on queer activist games like Dustborn, there is a vested interest by some very powerful people to dictate messaging in the video game sphere.  The US government and the EU have been actively influencing gaming through ESG-like subsidies; offering developers millions of dollars if they plant woke content into their projects. It's hard to say if Sony's latest gaming disaster, Concord, was partially paid for with ESG cash, but the content sure feels like it ... Continue Reading »

The Silent Crisis: Understanding Mitochondrial Dysfunction And Its Impact On Our Health Authored by JP Errico via RealClearHealth, Last Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. withdrew (kind of) from the 2024 presidential race.  He didn’t have to, and in the case of 40 out of 50 states, he actually didn’t.  But, he also didn’t have to endorse Donald J. Trump, and yet he did.  As I waited for his press conference, I wondered: What could drive a lion of Democratic party royalty to side with Trump?  The answer turned out to be a trio of existential crises.  As RFK Jr. explained, he and Trump are aligned on three critical issues, and they are of such existential importance that he was willing to set aside their differences to work together. Beyond being a refreshing break from the mind-numbing drumbeat of Trump’s opposition, RFK Jr.’s remarks were a stark reminder of why two-thirds of Americans believe the country is moving down the wrong track. He first took aim at the military-industrial complex’s perpetual provoking of foreign wars and followed up with the alarming assault on free speech.  These were, however, just the warmup acts ... Continue Reading »

"Big Cold Front Coming This Weekend"  A cold front is set to sweep across the eastern half of the US, a reminder that planet Earth is not on fire as some leftist corporate media outlets repeat like a broken record for years, if not decades. Even if there is some warming, these media outlets fire up the propaganda cannons squarely at fossil fuels without, as of recently, even mentioning the 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, the largest underwater explosion ever recorded by modern scientific instruments, blasting an enormous amount of water and volcanic gases into the atmosphere that has been linked to the warming.  "Big cold front coming this weekend. Sunday AM departure from normals here showing some areas 10+ degrees cooler. Some upper 50's might reach the upper Gulf. Pumpkin Spice better be in stock and ready to go. Almost time to dig out the Halloween gear," Mike's Weather Page wrote on X.  For the Lower 48, the 30-year, 10-year, and 5-year temperature averages peaked in mid-July and trended lower into September.  Looking ahead, the 208th edition of the Farmers' Almanac, titled "Wet Winter Whirlwind" and published last month, warned that "The Northeast ... Continue Reading »

"This Is A Trend": Amid Public, Shareholder Backlash, Some Major Corporations Drop DEI Policies Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As Ford took steps last week to distance itself from the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) movement that has swept the corporate world in recent years, it became just one of a number of companies that are rethinking their commitments to race-based ideology. Bill Ford, Jr., Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company, speaks at the reveal of the new all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., on May 19, 2021. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images In an Aug. 28 memo to employees, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he is “mindful that our employees and customers hold a wide range of beliefs,” and that the company is taking “a fresh look” at its DEI program. Ford’s reversal on DEI follows that of other major corporations, including Tractor Supply, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Polaris, Indian Motorcycle, Lowe’s, and most recently Molson Coors, which have reportedly revised their DEI policies, either due to public pressure or legal challenges. In addition, 25 companies have been formally notified by shareholders since 2021 that ... Continue Reading »