PM Andy Burnham on Sunday announced changes to the next early release scheme - scheduled to start in October - which mean PC Harper's killers will stay in jail. Continue Reading »

Iran says the attack on Larak Island, the first known US strikes since late July, killed two people and injured two others. Continue Reading »

Kemi Badenoch is expected to carry out a wider reshuffle of her front bench team following high-profile departures. Continue Reading »

Children's commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has backed called for more support for parents and carers. Continue Reading »

Peter Marinker is taking on one of Samuel Beckett's most famous plays alone on a London stage. Continue Reading »

The last major U.S. strikes on Iran were carried out in late July. Continue Reading »

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish stance reinforced expectations of a relatively tighter stance at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in September. Continue Reading »

Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to make his first visit to India before traveling to the U.S. for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. Continue Reading »

Mike Moore beat Big Tobacco. Will the same playbook work against Meta and social media? Continue Reading »

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Par AFP Par Arunabh Saikia et Paavan Mathema à Katmandou © 2026 AFP Le Népal enterre lundi des victimes de la crue dévastatrice survenue à la frontière avec la Chine, sans même attendre leur identification ni la fin des opérations de secours, tâches titanesques en raison de l'ampleur du désastre.Plus de 3.000 personnes, dont de nombreux étrangers, restent portées disparues de part et d'autre de la frontière, dans cette région de l'Himalaya, isolée et prisée des alpinistes et pèlerins. La catastrophe a déjà causé près de 800 morts et des dégâts considérables.Les secouristes s'affairent sans relâche, dans des conditions périlleuses et malgré les risques causés par une nouvelle montée des eaux, espérant en particulier sauver une centaine d'ouvriers bloqués dans un tunnel. Mais cinq jours après, l'espoir de retrouver des rescapés dans la mer de boue et de débris qui a ravagé des villages entiers s'amoindrit.Familles et proches des disparus se pressent dans les hôpitaux et morgues pour tenter de retrouver leurs êtres chers, notamment à Bharatpur, dans le sud du Népal, où des images de cadavres défilent sur un écran.La puissance des flots a conduit quelque 250 cadavres jusque dans son district, celui de Chitwan, plus d'une centaine ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP La guérilla colombienne de l'EMC a revendiqué dimanche la capture d'un Colombien de la Légion étrangère française, la principale dissidence des ex-FARC précisant qu'il est "en parfaite santé".José Olger Melo Charry, caporal en permission, a été pris en otage le 6 août alors qu'il circulait sur une route du département de Nariño, dans le sud-ouest du pays, avait révélé l'armée colombienne jeudi.Des unités de l'Etat-major central "ont intercepté et fait prisonnier le caporal JOSÉ OLGER MELO CHARRY, membre actif de l'Armée française et appartenant à la Légion étrangère, qui se trouvait en territoire colombien", a indiqué cette guérilla dans un communiqué."Sa capture a été effectuée après avoir confirmé sa condition de militaire étranger se déplaçant en zone rurale de la municipalité de Cumbitara, un lieu où se déroulent des opérations militaires contre nos unités", a-t-elle ajouté, en français. Fichier vidéo "Nous informons les autorités françaises, sa famille ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Kirsty NEEDHAM © 2026 AFP Les dirigeants des îles du Pacifique se réunissent lundi aux îles Palaos pour un sommet où les tensions entre Taïwan et la Chine risquent d'occulter les priorités régionales comme le changement climatique.Les îles Palaos, hôtes cette année du Forum des îles du Pacifique composé de 18 membres, font partie des trois derniers Etats de la région à reconnaître Taipei au grand dam de Pékin.La Chine, Taïwan et les Etats-Unis figurent parmi les partenaires invités au forum, mais pas à la réunion des dirigeants. Pékin, qui revendique la souveraineté de Taïwan, a protesté contre l'invitation de l'île.L'année dernière, l'opposition de la Chine et des îles Salomon, alors organisatrices, avait abouti à l'exclusion de Taïwan et de toutes les parties extérieures à la région. La Chine a riposté à l'arrivée dimanche sur place du ministre taïwanais des Affaires étrangères, Lin Chia-lung, en déclarant que les îles Palaos était un lieu "dangereux" pour les voyageurs, a rapporté le président de l'archipel, Surangel Whipps.Les touristes chinois représentent la majorité des visiteurs aux Palaos, selon les données ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP La Chinoise Yin Ruoning a su garder son sang-froid pour mettre fin à deux ans de disette et remporter dimanche la sixième victoire de sa carrière sur le circuit LPGA, avec deux coups d'avance, lors du FM Championship.La joueuse de 23 ans a terminé à -14 grâce notamment à un birdie décisif au 18e trou, un par 5, scellant ainsi sa première victoire sur le circuit depuis 2024."J'étais très émue lorsque je me suis retrouvée sur le green du 18e trou, j'ai eu le sentiment que tous ces efforts avaient porté leurs fruits", a déclaré Yin Ruoning après sa victoire au TPC Boston, à Norton, dans l'est des Etats-Unis. "Je suis vraiment heureuse de la façon dont j'ai tenu bon aujourd'hui."La Française de 21 ans Nastasia Nadaud a pris de son côté la 38e place du tournoi.Classement final du tournoi LPGA FM Championship:1. Ruoning Yin (CHN) -14 (71-65-68-70)2. Hyo Joo Kim (KOR) -12 (68-67-70-71)3. Allisen Corpuz (USA) -11 (68-67-74-68)4. Rose Zhang (USA) -10 (72-68-70-68). Sei Young Kim (KOR) -10 (64-74-67-73)(...)38. Nastasia Nadaud (FRA) -1 (72-68-77-70) Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP Les Etats-Unis ont mené dimanche des frappes sur l'île iranienne de Larak, les premières depuis un mois, déclenchant une riposte de Téhéran contre des cibles américaines en Jordanie.Ces bombardements menacent de remettre en cause plusieurs semaines d'accalmie dans la guerre au Moyen-Orient, qui vient de passer le cap des six mois, alors que Donald Trump a affirmé privilégier la pression économique contre Téhéran."Les forces américaines ont frappé deux lanceurs iraniens sur l'île de Larak", située dans le stratégique détroit d'Ormuz, a déclaré le porte-parole du Commandement militaire américain pour le Moyen-Orient (Centcom), Tim Hawkins, dans un communiqué transmis à l'AFP.Ces frappes sont survenues après que des "forces des Gardiens de la Révolution islamique ont été observées en train de se préparer à lancer des roquettes chargées de mines marines dans le détroit d'Ormuz", a-t-il indiqué.L'attaque a fait deux morts et deux blessés, selon l'agence iranienne de presse Tasnim. Après avoir averti des "représailles", les Gardiens de la Révolution iraniens ont affirmé avoir attaqué des installations de l'armée américaine sur deux bases aériennes en Jordanie."Tout ... Continue Reading »

President Donald Trump has demanded that Canadian companies operating in the American market relocate to the US to avoid tariffs Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

A powerful flash flood tore through the Grand Canyon, forcing dozens of hikers to be airlifted, and leaving trails and bridges badly damaged Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

NATO seeks to build up its military presence in the Arctic, turning the region into a “hotbed” of tensions, Sergey Lavrov has warned Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Two civilians have been killed and 16 people injured in a Ukrainian missile strike on the Russian city of Belgorod Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

The US has struck Iran’s Larak Island, killing and wounding soldiers and civilians, the IRGC has said, vowing to “punish the aggressor” Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

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В контролируемых украинскими властями районах Херсонской области объявлена воздушная тревога Continue Reading »

Trump calls for 'punishment' of NBC reporter... (Top headline, 1st story, link) Related stories:Demands FCC intervention to stop his low polls... Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron Continue Reading »

Demands FCC intervention to stop his low polls... (Top headline, 2nd story, link) Related stories:Trump calls for 'punishment' of NBC reporter... Continue Reading »

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US strikes Iran for first time in a month, Tehran retaliates... Developing... (First column, 1st story, link) Related stories:OIL UP...Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending war operations...UPDATE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles... Drudge Report Feed needs your support!   Become a Patron Continue Reading »

OIL UP... (First column, 2nd story, link) Related stories:US strikes Iran for first time in a month, Tehran retaliates... Developing...Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending war operations...UPDATE: Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles... Continue Reading »

Hundreds gathered for a Zohran Mamdani lookalike contest in New York, with nine contestants vying for votes. Continue Reading »

Footage shows Israeli military vehicles and personnel deployed across Nablus city in the occupied West Bank. Continue Reading »

The US has launched its first strikes on Iran in a month, hitting sites on Larak Island. Iran hit back targeting bases h Continue Reading »

Failed uprising in Niamey exposed tensions in Niger’s military, and the role of the Africa Corps in suppressing unrest. Continue Reading »

Near 50C temperatures are driving record electricity demand, disrupting water supplies and straining health services. Continue Reading »

Threats to offshore gas fields, Red Sea shipping and Mediterranean trade have reportedly pushed Israel to expand its fleet and invest in unmanned surface vessels after years of treating the navy as a secondary force Continue Reading »

Investigators used decades-old intelligence, covert operations and the hunt for a specific Israeli tank to trace the missing IDF soldier, building on breakthroughs that led to the recovery of Zachary Baumel and Zvi Feldman Continue Reading »

Move reportedly being discussed in retaliation for European criticism of Israeli settlement policy; Dutch and Spanish representatives have already been removed from the US-led postwar coordination center Continue Reading »

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Nepal-Tibet border floods kill 160, with 403 missing, including 341 foreigners and one Israeli; a survivor says the waters swept away his wife; satellite data points to a glacier collapse after rapid snowmelt, possibly linked to climate change Continue Reading »

The country’s longest war came to an end exactly five years ago. Today it offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran. Continue Reading »

Only a fraction of the over 2,500 missing are turning up among the dead, underscoring a bleak reality: The death toll is likely to keep rising for days to come. Continue Reading »

A massive landslide and glacial collapse may have caused catastrophic flooding even without heavy rainfall. More than 3,000 people remained missing. Continue Reading »

Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties. Continue Reading »

The closure of a crucial Rhode Island bridge for safety reasons in 2023, and the traffic nightmare that followed, have dogged Gov. Dan McKee in the Democratic primary. Continue Reading »

The Chinese upstart says it has trained high-performing AI models cheaply, without using the most advanced chips. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek, SoFi and more in the latest Market Talks covering Technology, Media and Telecom. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek is called “amazing and impressive” despite working with less-advanced chips. Continue Reading »

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies” author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Continue Reading »

Apps can add flexibility and freshness to your routine. Just try not to get injured. Continue Reading »

Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave after a deadlock over hostage releases was broken. Continue Reading »

Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in. Continue Reading »

Some of the women were held alone for extended periods and spent eight months in tunnels, an Israeli medical official said. Continue Reading »

The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea. Continue Reading »

Residents of Goma reported gunfire and shelling after rebels overran Congolese troops. U.N. officials estimated that more than one million displaced people were now inside the city. Continue Reading »

The messy Senate race in Michigan has laid bare Republicans’ floundering support from the Arab American community, which boosted Donald Trump in 2024. Continue Reading »

The surging Democratic left is taking its ideology onto America’s preeminent conservative network, and at times showing some growing pains. Continue Reading »

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker. Continue Reading »

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Democrats have used their endorsements of candidates in tough primaries as a way to wield influence over the party. Continue Reading »

In a new internal memo, Tony Fabrizio said recent public polling showing Republican Mike Rogers down in the Michigan Senate race has over-sampling errors. Continue Reading »

Lawmakers say the Trump administration is promising to use the one-month punt to work on new regulations. Continue Reading »

Republicans have been eager for the group to start spending its massive war chest ahead of the general election. Continue Reading »

Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell is introducing a bill to nullify Trump’s executive order renaming Lake Ontario. Continue Reading »

District Council 37 raised an objection to endorsing the former New York City comptroller in his deep blue House district. Continue Reading »

The president took issue with Welker’s description of the “mixed results” of candidates who have received his endorsement this election cycle. Continue Reading »

Northern District of California Judge Noël Wise, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, sided with the Stanford Daily in its suit against Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Continue Reading »

The president said the plan would help replenish U.S. oil reserves and drive down gas prices. Continue Reading »

Trump is deploying Cabinet members across the country to sell his record ahead of the midterms. In some cases, they’re ending up on the back foot. Continue Reading »

The name change is Trump's latest attack on Canada as the two countries engage in a rapidly spiraling trade war. Continue Reading »

Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. Why it matters: The U.S. and China are racing to build the world's most advanced AI systems — and it appears Chinese propaganda has infiltrated American circles with the hope of slowing the U.S. down. Driving the news: The X Safety team probed suspected Chinese accounts involved in influence operations and identified 200,000 accounts, including 200 accounts "posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the team said in a tweet. Continue Reading »

Elon Musk's social media company, X, identified hundreds of suspected Chinese accounts amplifying arguments against artificial intelligence data centers, X Global Government Affairs announced on Thursday. The operation included around 200,000 inauthentic accounts, with 200 focused on swaying AI infrastructure debates with warnings of rising energy rates and images of corporations destroying communities. Continue Reading »

The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has uncovered a massive suspected Chinese bot farm conducting "influence operations" online in the United States, including pushing an anti-artificial intelligence and anti-data center narrative. This comes as a national debate rages over the costs and benefits of continuing to develop artificial intelligence at breakneck speed and the massive data centers required to power it. The debate also has immense political implications, dividing parties internally as many members of the GOP break with President Donald Trump on AI and data centers. Continue Reading »

Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua and other nations to eight countries across Africa, expanding its "third country" deportation campaign, according to internal U.S. government documents obtained by CBS News. Continue Reading »

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, recognized by many as the most prominent figure in the Democrats' socialist movement, has renewed her Democratic Socialists of America affiliation after it ran out seven years ago. As a first-time congressional candidate, the New Yorker applied for an annual membership to join DSA in 2018, but it expired the next year. Continue Reading »

A month after tens of thousands of migrants entered the city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa, there have been outbreaks of violence as tensions mount between locals and foreign arrivals. The Spanish government has been accused by opposition parties of struggling to manage the crisis effectively. Continue Reading »

A Dutch fitness influencer who recently converted to Islam stabbed three people outside Amsterdam Centraal on Saturday evening, livestreaming the attack to his thousands of TikTok followers. Continue Reading »

ICE agents arrested Milo Yiannopoulos at New Orleans airport on Thursday. DHS officials say that he will be deported to Britain for overstaying the visa, and marked the occasion by posting his mugshot online. The deportation marks a remarkable fall from grace for a man who, at his early 2017 peak, held Mercer family patronage, a Simon & Schuster book contract, a Breitbart pulpit and a CPAC speaking slot. His career arc is like a compressed version of the online Right's own evolution, and his removal from the country is the logical endpoint of the process. Continue Reading »

Google Maps on Saturday changed the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" for U.S. users, while keeping the name intact for Canadian Google users and carrying both names for international users, following President Trump's executive order to rename the Great Lake. The tech giant cited its name change to the U.S. Geographic Names Information System's (GNIS) formal renaming. Continue Reading »

North Carolina health officials are urging people who touched baby goats at a mobile petting zoo to contact their local health department after several goats tested positive for rabies. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) said the infected goats were from Farm Adventures, a mobile petting zoo based in Harmony, North Carolina, that attended off-site events across multiple counties. Continue Reading »

President Donald Trump announced a major oil agreement with Venezuela Friday, saying the U.S. has secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of the country's proven oil reserves. "The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!" Trump wrote on Truth Social. Continue Reading »

President Donald Trump on Friday announced an unprecedented U.S. push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela's vast oil reserves, betting that American companies can revive ​the OPEC nation's battered energy industry while delivering a new source of crude to help bring down U.S. fuel prices. Trump provided few details about the agreement, saying only ‌that the U.S. had secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's proven oil reserves through a partnership with private business. Continue Reading »

President Trump said Friday the U.S. has struck a deal with Venezuela to take control of oil fields with 65 billion barrels of reserves. Why it matters: The unprecedented deal vastly increases U.S. energy security and dominance in the Western Hemisphere. Continue Reading »

Roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have quietly tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, X said Thursday night. Why it matters: The U.S. and China are racing to build the world's most advanced AI systems — and it appears Chinese propaganda has infiltrated American circles with the hope of slowing the U.S. down. Continue Reading »

As water, concrete and debris stormed through the darkness, almost sweeping him off his feet, Ram Chandra tightly gripped onto one of the rungs studded into the roof of the tunnel he was working in on the banks of Nepal's Trishuli river. His quick reaction likely saved his life. Continue Reading »

Controversial former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and will remain in federal custody pending his removal from the United States, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Digital. ICE sources told Fox News that Yiannopoulos is currently detained in Alexandria, Louisiana, a major hub used by the agency for deportation operations. Authorities arrested Yiannopoulos, a United Kingdom national, on Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, according to DHS... Continue Reading »

Far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on Friday, according to agency records reviewed by Newsweek, renewing attention on his yearslong ties to both President Donald Trump's MAGA movement and rapper Kanye West's political and business ventures. The British-born activist was detained in Louisiana while in New Orleans ahead of a scheduled concert by West, according to CBS News... Continue Reading »

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right provocateur who called for ICE to set up checkpoints in order to carry out "on the spot" deportations for anyone in the country illegally, has been detained by the immigration enforcement agency, online records show. Yiannopoulos, a native of the United Kingdom, rose to prominence as a right-wing commentator in the years leading up to the first Trump administration. He wrote for Breitbart News, giving voice to neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups, and became known for his controversial university campus tours, where he railed against everything from feminism and Islam to the Black Lives Matter movement and transgender issues... Continue Reading »

Violent gang members in Port-au-Prince have massacred at least 47 people — many of whom were Christians — and burned down a sanctuary of an evangelical church. At least five of those who were killed were children, according to the UN. The armed men also kidnapped over 50 others in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Haiti's capital. A gang leader has threatened to kill the hostages if authorities harm any gang members... Continue Reading »

"The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations: We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy," the post on the X Global Government Affairs account noted. "These posts contained claims that AI data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense," the post continued... Continue Reading »

The Telephone, Political Entrepreneurship, And Theodore M. Vail Authored by Joshua Mawhorter via Mises Institute, Originally, this article was intended to be an exploration as to how-after a period of initial patent monopoly and an all-too-brief episode of freer market competition-cronyism reestablished a telephone monopoly that would last for decades. While such an article is worthwhile and hopefully forthcoming, I was struck by the influence of one man's leadership strategy as president of AT&T/the Bell System and how open he was about limiting competition in his industry, inviting regulation, and seeking a "middle ground" between a pure state-owned monopoly and true free market competition. That man was Theodore M. Vail. This article largely presents Vail in his own words and seeks to demonstrate how transparent he was about inviting state intervention to move his industry toward monopoly. By way of brief introduction, Vail joined the Bell enterprise in 1878 as general manager, helping build the young telephone industry. After leaving in 1887, he returned in 1907 as president of AT&T, where he pursued his vision of "One Policy, One System, Universal Service" and moved the Bell System toward consolidation and government regulation. ... Continue Reading »

Rise And Fall Of "Climate Crisis" Info War As Dems Urge Politicians To Avoid Global Warming Talk The "climate crisis" headlines forced down the throats of the American people only began to emerge when socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and unhinged leftist Sen. Ed Markey introduced the Green New Deal in early 2019. That was the moment when global-warming headlines spiked and the NGO complex ramped up activist networks through protests and an informational war in the press, tricking the public into supporting climate bills intended to solve a made-up crisis. Fake News By March 2019, those climate-crisis headlines had intensified as Democrats desperately tried but failed to pass the Green New Deal. More Fake News Then, in 2022, those same headlines spiked again as Sen. Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unexpectedly announced the Inflation Reduction Act, reviving much of the climate agenda. It was all a lie.  By August 2022, the IRA had passed and President Biden had signed it into law, flooding the Democratic Party's pet projects with $369 billion. But those headlines subsequently peaked in late 2022. Democrats moved on after securing their massive funding package, and climate was no longer ... Continue Reading »

US Forces Sink Vessel Providing At-Sea Refueling For Cartel: SOUTHCOM Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, U.S. forces, on Aug. 28, sank a vessel in the eastern Pacific that the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said was serving as an at-sea refueling point for drug-trafficking boats. A vessel suspected of providing at-sea refueling for drug traffickers burns after being targeted by U.S. forces on Aug. 28, 2026. U.S. Southern Command SOUTHCOM, which oversees military operations in and around Central and South America, said U.S. forces worked in coordination with the government of Ecuador to track down the vessel. "Intelligence confirmed the vessel, previously identified and targeted under Department of the Treasury sanctions, was operating in support of the Los Choneros violent narco-terrorist organization," SOUTHCOM said in a press statement. Los Choneros is one of more than a dozen Latin American transnational criminal enterprises that the U.S. government has designated as a foreign terrorist organization since the start of President Donald Trump's second term. According to SOUTHCOM, U.S. Marines and sailors launched from the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio to board and search the vessel, and did so without incident. "Individuals removed from the ... Continue Reading »

These Are The World's Safest (And Least Safe) Cities Doha ranks as the safest major city in the world in 2026, while Caracas sits at the opposite end of the ranking. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, compares the world’s safest and least safe major cities using Numbeo’s 2026 Safety Index. Scores are based on five years of user submissions covering perceptions of crime, personal safety, property crime, and violent crime. They do not measure official crime rates or exposure to geopolitical conflict. The Cities With the Highest Perceived Safety Here are the 10 highest-scoring major cities with populations of two million or more. Rank Most Safe Cities Country Overall Score (0-100) 1 🇶🇦 Doha Qatar 84.6 2 🇦🇪 Dubai UAE 83.8 3 🇹🇼 Taipei Taiwan 83.4 4 🇭🇰 Hong Kong SAR China 78.2 5 🇸🇬 Singapore Singapore 77.7 6 🇯🇵 Tokyo Japan 75.9 7 🇨🇳 Shenzhen China 75.5 8 🇸🇦 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 75.4 9 🇸🇦 Jeddah Saudi Arabia 75.1 10 🇰🇷 Seoul South Korea 74.6 Four of the top 10 cities are in the Middle East, including two in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh and Jeddah. Gallup’s latest Global Safety Report reinforces the pattern. Singapore had the world’s highest share of adults who said they felt safe walking alone at night, at 98%, followed by Saudi Arabia at 93% and the UAE at 90%. Asia dominates the rest of the top 10. Outside the Middle East, every city represented is in ... Continue Reading »

Central Asia Resists US Pressure To Choose Sides In AI Race Authored by Eurasianet via OilPrice, Kazakhstan is continuing to expand AI cooperation with China even after joining the US-led Pax Silica initiative. Uzbekistan says it wants access to both cutting-edge American technology and lower-cost Chinese AI models rather than choosing between them. Their positions illustrate the difficulty Washington faces in persuading Central Asian governments to take sides in the intensifying US-China technology rivalry. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are tossing figurative darts at a US trial balloon connected to the intensifying race between the United States and China for leadership in AI development. Reuters reported on August 14 that the US State Department had drafted a note stating that any nation interested in widening access to advanced American know-how and technology in the AI sector under a program known as Pax Silica must refrain from participating in a rival Chinese initiative known as the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO). Kazakhstan is a member of both Pax Silica and WAICO, while Uzbekistan is a signatory to the Chinese initiative while expressing keen interest in expanding cooperation with the United States in AI development. More broadly, the ... Continue Reading »

Russia Hits Kiev Ammo Dump Next To Homes; Ukraine Admits 90% Of Retail Food Logistics Wrecked A Russian drone struck a Ukrainian Defense Forces ammunition storage site in the village of Myla Friday evening, just west of Kiev. The resulting fire and hours of secondary detonations killed at least 37 people, injured dozens more, damaged around 50 residential buildings and a care home for the elderly and disabled, and forced the evacuation of hundreds. Among the dead was the local community head who had gone to help. Here are some close-up shots from yesterday's explosion at an ammunition depot in the village of Myla, in the Kyiv region. The local population is understandably unhappy. pic.twitter.com/TWJudPFh6j — Z.O.V Military (@WarHunter2222) August 29, 2026 Smoke rising after a Russian air attack on Kyiv on August 29, 2026. Serhii Okunev/AFP/Getty Images In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was "terrible negligence." The first impact, he said, hit a depot storing shells, mines, other munitions, and drones that "definitely shouldn't have been there" - while prosecutors in Kiev opened a criminal investigation into the legality of storing explosives next to ... Continue Reading »

Federal Court Rules Sexual AI Images Of Children Are Legal To Possess Perhaps sometimes it's best for judges to ignore technical loopholes and rigid legal precedent for the sake of doing the right thing?  Maybe, in extreme cases where absolute evil is involved, our system could dismiss the "rights of artists" and enforce restrictions based on the potential long term damage to society as a whole?  Yes, the constitutional conundrums are plenty, but can't we also simply use common sense? Because if we can't, these kinds of artistic "expressions" are going to inspire independent vigilantism and it will be the fault of the courts when this inevitably happens.  A federal appeals court says a Supreme Court precedent set in 2002 forces it to protect the in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material.  The court warned that rapidly advancing technology has complicated legal lines drawn nearly 25 years ago.  The Seventh Circuit said it was bound by the Supreme Court decision that rejected restrictions on sexually explicit depictions of fictional children when no actual child was involved in their creation. But two judges warned that modern AI can now generate images virtually ... Continue Reading »

What Do "Capitalism" And "Socialism" Really Mean? Authored by Vincent Cook via Mises Institute, The old debate between socialism and capitalism is back. It wasn't that long ago when socialist economics had been repudiated even by former Soviet insiders, businesses like Wendy's and Miller ran clever television advertisements poking fun at the once-mighty but by then grossly dysfunctional Soviet Union, and the remaining leftist political parties in Western countries pivoted to focusing on promoting welfare statism while admitting that government controls over the means of production is a losing proposition. Back in the day, even people lacking the keen theoretical insights of a Ludwig von Mises could plainly see that actual attempts to realize socialism, however well-intentioned they were originally, only delivered totalitarian tyranny and mass impoverishment. Since then, schools haven't been so keen on teaching younger generations that a system based on individual liberty constrained only by peacefully-acquired private ownership rights is what delivers the goods and what enables competent adults to function as morally- and intellectually-autonomous individuals. Neither do they teach that politically-generated handouts, subsidies, privileges, and immunities, nor governmental fiat money creation or unrealistic governmental promises of future ... Continue Reading »

Pentagon Grabs 35% Equity Stake In Venezuelan Oil As Trump Vows To "Fill Up" The SPR Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Saturday evening unveiled further details of the grand US oil deal that was announced by President Trump on Friday, detailing that her country will receive about $19 per barrel of oil produced under the long-term energy deal. Rodriguez, who was Maduro's #2 as VP before the former president's overthrow by invading US forces less than a year ago, hailed the "historic" agreement as an avenue for boosting crude output while bringing economic benefits. "The agreement is based on a very simple premise," she said. "Each party contributes what it does best. Venezuela contributes oil, its industry and the experience of its workers accumulated over more than 100 years. The United States contributes the capital and technology needed to recover and develop those assets." Trump on Sunday: a "Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States." Rodríguez additionally said that in return, "Venezuela receives production, jobs, investment in infrastructure, increased revenue for the government and productive linkages for domestic industry." On top of this she assessed the deal would eventually grant ... Continue Reading »

Opportunity Lost? Gained? Squandered? Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Another week with so many competing narratives driving markets. The information flow was coming so fast and furious that it is difficult to believe that Economic D-Day kicked off the week (it already seems longer than that). Today, we will take a quick romp through how things seem to be playing out. Opportunities Lost? As anyone reading recent T-Reports knows, I was hopeful Warsh would take the stage on Friday and try to “shake things up.” Try to drive home some new (and in my view, much needed) paradigms. We got to discuss this ahead of Warsh’s speech on Friday morning on Bloomberg TV. Warsh does deserve some credit for using the word “hike” three times at the start of his speech (but all in reference to the activity involving walking outdoors, rather than anything to do with rates). Not sure it was wise, as it likely set the algos off on the 2-year note, but I do applaud the effort to mislead the algos and speed readers. In the end, bonds bear flattened. Stocks fell a little bit, but the bear flattening was the ... Continue Reading »

State Department Revokes Visa Of Iraqi National On FBI Terror Watchlist Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The State Department has revoked the visa of an Iraqi national who was placed on the FBI's Terror Watchlist, ending her ability to enter the United States years after she received a high-profile award from the Biden administration. The U.S. Department of State in Washington on March 28, 2025.Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Taif Sami Mohammed Al Shakarchi is no longer present in the United States, according to a statement released Friday by Assistant Secretary Dylan Johnson. The revocation followed her placement on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Terror Watchlist. No further details on the underlying intelligence were provided in the department's announcement. "Under President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, suspected terrorists will never be allowed to remain in the United States," the statement read. Al Shakarchi was given the International Woman of Courage Award in 2022 by then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken and then-First Lady Jill Biden. The department said she had been recognized for her purported role in fighting corruption and her advocacy for "gender equity." The award recognized "women from around the globe ... Continue Reading »

The Mother Of All Mean Reversions: Commodities Have Never Been This Cheap Versus Stocks Across Wall Street, from Barclays and UBS to HSBC, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, a common view is taking shape: physical scarcity is emerging across multiple commodity classes, driving prices sharply higher and signaling a broader hard-asset squeeze. Last week, UBS strategist Sagar Khandelwal issued a similar call heard across Wall Street, telling clients to “position for a commodity upcycle.” On Saturday, Christopher LaFemina, who heads Jefferies’ global metals and mining research and is one of Wall Street’s veteran commodity experts, told clients that commodities remain historically cheap relative to US stocks. LaFemina compared the S&P GSCI with the S&P 500, showing the ratio hovering near its lowest level in more than five decades. Similar troughs emerged during the Nifty Fifty and dot-com bubbles before commodities sharply outperformed stocks. Previous upcycles in the ratio coincided with the 1970s oil embargo and inflation shock, the Gulf War, and the 2008 oil-price surge. Today’s depressed reading comes as retail and institutional investors remain bullish up to their eyeballs on hyperscalers and memory stocks while remaining highly concentrated in a handful of other ... Continue Reading »

Pentagon Strikes Iranian Island Target, In First US Military Action In Weeks Update(1615ET): Things have been quiet for many days and weeks on the military front when it comes to the Iran war, but on Sunday there are some emerging reports of new but limited US strikes. According to the latest late Sunday from Axios: Senior American official: Earlier today, American forces attacked two Iranian launchers on Larzac Island. Revolutionary Guard forces were observed preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines toward the Strait of Hormuz. So despite the White House signaling a move away from military action and toward the economic warfare front, it's also clear that more sporadic tit-for-tat blows could follow. But Trump has lately made clear that military options are still on the table, and strikes will be utilized as needed. CENTCOM says that they attacked two Iranian missile launchers on Larak island. This is the first time that they have struck an Iranian target in weeks. — barry with the NED (@bonzerbarry) August 30, 2026 *  *  * Propaganda has always been a problem when it comes to the fog of war.  The internet and social media add a new ... Continue Reading »

AI's China Syndrome: Who Will Control The World's Newest Energy? Authored by J.T. Young via Substack, Ceding leadership in AI to China's Chinese Communist Party (CCP), what could go wrong? Just about everything. Yet that is precisely what some here in the U.S.-and all in Beijing-want to occur. America is currently being swept by misguided attempts to curtail AI's development and the development of the data centers on which AI's development will depend. Some of these stem from legitimate concerns (though often inaccurate) about what AI can and will do. Some stem from concerns about what data center development will mean for their communities. [The answer is jobs, investment, and growth-something that West Virginia's governor Pat Morrisey and statehouse leaders presciently see as they pitch their state for just such responsible development.] However, some of this opposition also stems from foreign influence from those who would love nothing more than to see America not be the leader in a technology that has the potential to define this century's development and beyond. The history of mankind's development could be shorthanded into a history of mankind's harnessing of energy. This history began with humanity's use of ... Continue Reading »

'No End In Sight': Democrats Make Trump Foreign Policy A Central Issue After 6-Months Of Iran War Via Middle East Eye US Democrats on Friday slammed the Trump administration for dragging out the war on Iran to its six month anniversary, warning Republicans would pay the price in the upcoming midterm elections. The joint US-Israeli attack on Iran, beginning on February 28, was initially meant to last a few weeks, by President Donald Trump's own estimates. Half a year later, the war has seen the US lose at least 18 of its troops and cost $100bn in military spending, most of which was approved by the Republican-controlled Congress late last month after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth requested additional funds north of $60bn. AFP/Getty Images The war has cost each American taxpayer around $600 to $1,000 in extra energy costs because of Iran's response in blocking the Strait of Hormuz, according to a Brown University study and estimates from Moody's Analytics.  Estimates for the number of Iranian dead vary between 3,400, according to the UN’s OCHA agency, and 6,000, according to the Israeli military. "Trump and his chief dealmaker [Vice President JD] Vance have failed to reach an agreement ... Continue Reading »

"Profound Game-Changer": Musk Launching New Turbine Blade Factory To Solve Shortage Threatening AI Boom SpaceX is making an aggressive push into the power generation market, with The Information reporting that Elon Musk is preparing to address one of the most critical bottlenecks threatening America's data-center buildout: the shortage of advanced gas turbine components, particularly the blades and vanes needed to power massive data center campuses. SpaceX is laying the groundwork for a new factory in Bastrop, Texas, that would manufacture high-temperature blades and vanes for industrial gas turbines. The move could allow Musk to circumvent the severe turbine blade shortage that has pushed availability toward 2030. On X, Musk responded to the report, saying, "The limiting factor for nat gas turbine production is casting the blades & vanes. By doing in-house casting at SpaceX, we can accelerate nat gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months, which is a profound game-changer." SpaceX and Tesla are each building 100GW/year of solar production capacity as fast as possible, but natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years. The limiting factor for nat gas turbine production is casting the blades & vanes. ... Continue Reading »

Iceland Voters Reject Reopening Talks To Join European Union Iceland voters on Saturday rejected a proposal to reopen negotiations to join the European Union, after the island nation of some 400,000 people chose to maintain independence after shelving its membership bid more than a decade ago. Supporters of the 'No' campaign wave Icelandic flags during a rally against reopening Iceland's European Union accession negotiations in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Aug. 27, 2026, two days ahead of a national referendum. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images Heading into the vote, the "yes" camp was ahead by just 2.6 points - however opponents defeated the measure by a margin of 52.8% to 47.2%, according to RUV.  A "yes" vote would have sent the government back to Brussels -  while any deal would have required a second referendum and ratification by all 27 member states. Now, the issue is shelved and moot. Before the 'no' vote, Social Democrat Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir described the vote as "an opportunity." Opponents suggested this was nothing more than deception - with the government trying to convince people "that we are not really applying, that we are merely looking into what membership would entail," Gudlaugur Thor ... Continue Reading »

Druckenmiller Warning: The Bond Market Already Priced It Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Recently, Stanley Druckenmiller wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. The “Druckenmiller warning” hit on August 24, and within a day, the financial press turned it into a soap opera. Some of the headlines were “Mentor scolds protégé,” and “Billionaire slams the Treasury Secretary.” Then, the revelation that he wrote it with the help of AI somehow became its own headline. However, while the media was busy making headlines, the argument was lost. Stanley Druckenmiller did not forecast a debt crisis, nor pitch a trade. What he said was something difficult to fit in a headline, and it was something the bond market has already said for him. What Actually Happened On August 19 On August 19th, the Treasury said it would double the size of its long-dated buyback operations to at least $4 billion. That operation will run from September 9 through November 4 (it hasn’t started yet) and is aimed at the long end of the curve. The timing of the announcement was the tell, and the heart of the Druckenmiller warning, as the move came right after yields hit their highest level in about 19 years. ... Continue Reading »

CIA Director Pushed Trump-Putin-Zelensky Summit During Moscow Visit: Report Yet another take has been issued, and more alleged details, on CIA Director John Ratcliffe's Tuesday trip to Moscow, which took place amid great secrecy and still even days later has only been subject of immense speculation. Axios is reporting over the weekend that the CIA chief proposed a trilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky - when he met with top Kremlin intelligence officials but was not granted a direct meeting with Putin himself. NBC/Getty Images: CIA Director John Ratcliffe, left, held talks in Moscow with Russia's foreign intelligence chief, Sergey Naryshkin, this week. "Of course, President Putin is immediately briefed on everything," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, calling the meeting "a positive phenomenon" while not giving additional details. The war has quite obviously ramped up this summer, with tit-for-tat strikes expanding beyond just military and energy targets, to include food and retailing companies, and increasingly even civilian neighborhoods. According to some details via Axios: Ratcliffe's visit was partly aimed at determining whether Russia's heads of intelligence services could help convince Putin to move toward resuming U.S.-mediated negotiations with Ukraine, the sources ... Continue Reading »

Fly British Flags In UK And Face Jail... But Pakistan And Palestine Flags Get A Pass Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain's largest local authority has spent a year treating the Union Flag and the St George's Cross as a public-order problem. On Saturday the picture sharpened again: the legal squeeze now circulating around Birmingham's flag war is being described as a ban aimed at England and the United Kingdom, while other national colours keep their place in the city's official life. Birmingham City Council has gone to the High Court to stop "unauthorised attachments" on the highway. Breach of an injunction of this kind can mean unlimited fines and up to two years in prison. The people named in the papers are the campaigners who put British flags on lampposts. But the council still finds time to raise other nations' flags outside the town hall and light the city library in foreign colours. To top it all off, they have reportedly confirmed that anyone raising foreign flags will be exempt from the new ban. ?NEWS: Birmingham City Council have confirmed that the Flag Ban will only apply to the flags ... Continue Reading »