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Par AFP © 2026 AFP Les cours du pétrole ont clôturé en hausse jeudi, les investisseurs se montrant sceptiques quant à la perspective d'un accord prochain entre les Etats-Unis et l'Iran.Le prix du baril de Brent de la mer du Nord, pour livraison en novembre, a progressé de 3,41% à 106,60 dollars.Son équivalent américain, le baril de West Texas Intermediate, pour livraison le même mois, a gagné 2,66% à 94,61 dollars."Le sommet de l'ONU de cette semaine n'a donné lieu à aucune avancée notable entre les Etats-Unis et l'Iran", résument les analystes de Briefing.com."Dans les faits, les deux parties restent très éloignées l'une de l'autre sur des questions fondamentales", commente auprès de l'AFP Andy Lipow, analyste de Lipow Oil Associates.Les déclarations belliqueuses des deux camps ne contribuent pas non plus à apaiser les craintes du marché.Un conseiller du guide suprême iranien Mojtaba Khamenei a mis en garde jeudi contre une extension de la guerre "jusqu'à l'océan Indien" en cas de nouvelle attaque des Etats-Unis contre l'Iran.Mercredi à la tribune de l'ONU, le président iranien, Massoud Pezeshkian avait déjà affirmé en réponse à la menace de Donald Trump d'"annihiler" l'Iran, que "la résistance du peuple iranien ne (ferait) que ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP Au moins quatre personnes ont été inculpées mardi et mercredi pour "crime contre l'humanité" ou "complicité" de ce crime, une première pour des faits commis lors des troubles politiques au Sénégal entre 2021 et 2024, a appris l'AFP jeudi auprès de leurs avocats.Le Sénégal a été secoué entre 2021 et 2024 par de violentes manifestations durement réprimées qui ont fait des dizaines de morts sous l'ex-président Macky Sall (2012-2024), alors engagé dans un bras de fer contre son opposant Ousmane Sonko, dont l'ex-bras droit Bassirou Diomaye Faye est devenu président. La question de rendre justice aux victimes est une promesse de longue date du camp actuellement au pouvoir, en dépit d'une loi d'amnistie couvrant ces violences adoptée dans les dernières semaines de la présidence Sall, afin d'apaiser les tensions politiques.Les quatre personnes inculpées sont accusées par Pape Abdoulaye Touré de faits de séquestration, d'enlèvement illégal, de torture et de violences qu'il affirme avoir subis en juin 2023.Les chefs d'inculpation de "crime contre l'humanité" ou de "complicité" de ce crime retenus par les juges d'instruction permettent de contourner la loi d'amnistie qui couvre les violences politiques de cette période.Ameth Tidiane Cissé, chef de la ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Isabel MALSANG © 2026 AFP Les futures lignes de métro automatiques 16 et 17 actuellement en construction au nord et à l'est de Paris seront mises en service au plus tôt en 2028 et 2029, au lieu de 2027 et 2028, a indiqué jeudi la Société du Grand Paris (SGP) chargée des travaux.Ce report de calendrier intervient après un autre retard annoncé en juin pour l'ouverture de la ligne 15-sud, suivi d'une "étude approfondie" avec les industriels chargés des automatismes et du système centralisé qui va piloter l'ensemble de ce futur réseau francilien titanesque.Le Grand Paris Express totalise 200 kilomètres de lignes nouvelles, soit un doublement du réseau historique existant. Il comprend 69 nouvelles gares sur quatre nouvelles lignes de métro (15, 16, 17 et 18) reliées par le même cerveau informatique.Après le percement des tunnels -chantier lancé depuis plusieurs années- la mise en cohérence technique de l'ensemble des automatismes de l'infrastructure s'avère être une tâche beaucoup plus complexe qu'envisagée pour ce "chantier du siècle" en Ile-de-France.Le conseil de surveillance de la SGP a d'ailleurs auditionné jeudi Alexandre Quémeneur, président de Siemens Mobility France, qui représente l'ensemble des industriels impliqués dans le déploiement du système des ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Myriam LEMETAYER © 2026 AFP Le coût des crédits immobiliers américains à 30 ans a dépassé jeudi la barre symbolique de 7%, à quelques semaines d'élections abordées avec fébrilité par la majorité républicaine. Ces prêts, les plus populaires aux États-Unis, sont désormais assortis en moyenne d'un taux d'intérêt de 7,03%, a rapporté l'agence de refinancement Freddie Mac. Un tel niveau n'avait plus été vu depuis mi-janvier 2025, soit quelques jours avant le début du second mandat de Donald Trump.Pendant sa campagne victorieuse, l'ex-promoteur immobilier avait promis d'améliorer le pouvoir d'achat et de faire plonger les coûts d'emprunt, notamment pour permettre à un maximum d'Américains d'accéder au rêve de la maison individuelle.Il risque de perdre le contrôle du Congrès après les élections législatives de mi-mandat (ou "midterms") début novembre, sur fond de colère populaire autour du coût de la vie.Les taux d'intérêt des crédits à 30 ans étaient passés sous le seuil de 6% le 26 février 2026, juste avant le déclenchement par le président américain d'une guerre contre l'Iran qui a entraîné une flambée des prix de l'énergie et un rebond de l'inflation.Quand la hausse des prix s'accélère, les prêteurs réclament une meilleure rémunération pour éviter ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP "Une nouvelle boucherie": avec la reprise des combats dans le nord de l'Ethiopie, c'est ce que craint Gebretsadik Abraha, 35 ans, habitant de Mekele, la capitale du Tigré, quatre ans après la fin d'une guerre meurtrière qui avait ravagé cet Etat régional et mis sa population à genoux.Autre angoisse: le retour des terribles pénuries ayant accompagné le précédent conflit et précipité le Tigré, assiégé, au bord de la famine. Une "peur profonde" qui pousse depuis mardi les habitants vers les échoppes, où les prix grimpent déjà, confient les intéressés.Un accord de paix signé à Pretoria, en Afrique du Sud, avait fait taire les armes en 2022, après deux ans de guerre et plus de 600.000 morts - un des conflits les plus meurtriers au monde ces dernières années.Mais après plusieurs mois de nouvelles tensions, les combats ont repris mardi entre l'armée fédérale et les troupes du Front de libération du peuple du Tigré (TPLF), formation politique qui dirige le Tigré de fait, mais illicitement selon le gouvernement fédéral du Premier ministre Abiy Ahmed. Désormais, ... Continue Reading »

Trump and Xi have discussed AI cooperation during talks in Washington amid continued US-China competition over technology and trade Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

German opposition lawmakers have warned that sweeping new powers for intelligence agencies threaten fundamental rights Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

The EU has published reports by major social media platforms detailing their compliance with its censorship rules Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

RT’s America Now examines United24’s reported $10,000-per-video offers to US veterans to push pro-Kiev messages to Americans Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Bishop Fulton Sheen, the most famous Catholic evangelist of the 20th Century, will be beatified in Missouri on Thursday Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Стороны отметили качественно новый уровень, на который вышли отношения между странами за последний год, сообщили в белорусском МИД Continue Reading »

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Готовые документы будут выдаваться 3 октября в консульском отделе посольства России в Берлине, сообщили в дипучреждении Continue Reading »

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Israel’s election panel has voted to disqualify the two main Palestinian-led lists from next month’s election. Continue Reading »

Tigrayan forces say they are in a 'full-blown war' with the army. Continue Reading »

Macklemore says 'being apolitical during a genocide doesn’t work', promises to donate proceeds to Palestinian causes. Continue Reading »

Dozens of delegates walked out of the assembly hall as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his UN speech. Continue Reading »

Mahmoud Abbas says saving two-state solution begins with preserving Palestinian land, protecting those who live on it. Continue Reading »

PMO says leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Panama, Ethiopia, Colombia, Greece, Slovenia and Papua New Guinea are on Netanyahu’s schedule; Trump is not, with the office citing a packed timetable and Sukkot Continue Reading »

Record cocaine production is feeding a route from South America through West Africa to Spain, where high-speed ‘narco boats,’ drones and radar help smugglers move loads worth hundreds of millions of dollars into Europe Continue Reading »

Neriya Leiter remains in life-threatening condition after complex brain surgery; his mother says the family is ‘still in shock’ nearly three years after his brother Moshe was killed in Gaza Continue Reading »

Muhammad Abu Alwan was targeted in a vehicle in Khan Younis; military says he funded Hamas operations for a decade and recently worked to rebuild the terror group’s capabilities in violation of the ceasefire  Continue Reading »

Ten-month inquiry finds Golani troops lacked training, equipment and prepared defenses for a large-scale assault; commanders were killed early and air support was often ineffective, while soldiers fought for hours until rescue forces arrived Continue Reading »

The Trump administration, like its predecessors, has struggled to deal with China’s excess industrial capacity. Continue Reading »

The Israeli prime minister accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, of antisemitism. Mr. Mamdani said Mr. Netanyahu was repeating “baseless lies.” Continue Reading »

The Palestinian leader renewed his call for a two-state solution on Thursday, as he accused Israel of prosecuting “a genocidal war” against Palestinians. Continue Reading »

Real America’s Voice and LindellTV have teamed up to provide a feed of daily presidential events. Continue Reading »

Judge Timothy J. Kelly had worked as counsel for Senator Charles E. Grassley, who called him a “very talented attorney” in 2017. 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 »

A new poll shows congressional Democrats with a growing lead among young men, who list cost-of-living issues as their top concern. Continue Reading »

He told Senate Republicans Wednesday that the campaign arm will focus money on other targets including Maine, Ohio, Michigan, Alaska, Texas and New Hampshire. Continue Reading »

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It’s a sign that White House officials are trying to stem frustrations from battleground and farm-state Republicans ahead of the November election. Continue Reading »

The memo comes at a key time for Rep. Mike Collins. Continue Reading »

Asked if the Senate will stay in town, Majority Leader John Thune said it's "looking that way." Continue Reading »

Bipartisan legislation to speed energy projects won't get a vote before November's elections. Continue Reading »

Despite bipartisan backing of a college athletics bill, Black Democratic lawmakers are warning their own party that supporting the measure risks exploiting Black athletes. Continue Reading »

A behind-the-scenes battle is playing out over several powerful House Republicans who don’t want to be forced out of their plum posts. Continue Reading »

Democrats only need one more Republican vote to approve a war powers resolution before Election Day. Continue Reading »

Families of Americans held hostage or killed by Iran are hiring top lobbyists to make sure their voices are part of negotiations between Washington and Tehran. Continue Reading »

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier restoring access. Continue Reading »

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the return of press credentials President Donald Trump had revoked. Continue Reading »

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said he would rule soon. Continue Reading »

Xi Jinping’s growing diplomatic muscle may leave President Donald Trump with a less flexible negotiating position when the leaders meet Thursday. Continue Reading »

The Trump administration has cancelled enrollment in the Affordable Care Act healthcare program for about 750,000 people due to ineligibility suspicions, according to Vice President JD Vance. The individuals are allegedly connected to over $2.2 billion in fraudulent Obamacare payments, or about 2% of the AffordableCare Act's annual $112 billion budget. The announcement is part of an effort to ensure that elderly Americans and children who rely on Obamacare services receive the services they need. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Obamacare is structured in a way that prevents law enforcement from assessing fraud damages. CMS will hold a six-month moratorium on Obamacare broker enrollments and require all existing agents and brokers to re-identify proof of eligibility through a federal database. Continue Reading »

Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion. Continue Reading »

And what it means for your access to information. Continue Reading »

The White House on Monday launched Trump TV, a 24/7 stream on YouTube, days after President Trump banned reporters from CNN, Politico and MS NOW over their coverage of him and his administration. Continue Reading »

Donald Trump's previous television career centred on his role on The Apprentice, but the US president's latest media venture is a rather lower-budget affair: the launch of Trump TV in the wake of his ban on several outlets from covering the White House. Continue Reading »

As of September 22, 2026, the official White House mobile app reached No. 1 in the News category on the App Store and climbed into the Top 20 among all apps. The app previously hit No. 1 in News and, at launch, soared as high as No. 4 across the entire App Store. More and more Americans are gravitating to the app because they want the news straight from the source, not filtered through networks that have spent years distorting the record of President Donald J. Trump. Continue Reading »

Shareholders of The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the paper's parent company on Wednesday morning, arguing the paper has failed to meet its obligation: to tell readers the truth and correct itself in a timely fashion when it doesn't. The suit, filed by the State Board of Administration of Florida (SBA) and the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) in New York County Supreme Court, asks a judge to force the Times board of directors to hand over internal records the company has refused to produce for four months, the majority of which pertain to the paper's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Continue Reading »

Florida's attorney general on Wednesday filed a shareholder lawsuit against The New York Times Company, claiming that the board of directors' lack of oversight of the paper's editorial practices is hurting state pension holders who have stock in the company. The attorney general, James Uthmeier, said at a news conference in Doral, Fla., that the outlet's credibility had been hurt in particular by what he saw as an anti-Israel bias in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Continue Reading »

Florida's state-run public pension fund and a conservative think tank sued the New York ‌Times (NYT.N), opens new tab on Wednesday, seeking materials to determine whether the company's board is letting the newspaper promote biased editorial coverage against Israel. According to a petition filed in a New York state court in Manhattan, a series of factual errors in Times reporting on various subjects supports a reasonable inference that the board has allowed journalistic ​standards to be "weaponized within the company to serve the personal agendas of unchecked editors." Continue Reading »

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday a new visa restriction policy that targets migrants who engage in or profit illegally from the birth tourism industry. The secretary claimed foreign commercial birth tourism networks have exploited the American immigration system to sell U.S. citizenship for profit by coaching people seeking American citizenship on how to lie on their visa applications. Continue Reading »

Farm state Republicans are increasingly pressing the Trump administration and Congress to take action to bring down diesel prices, underscoring how rising costs have become a political liability for the GOP heading into the November midterms. Rep. Ashley Hinson, the Iowa GOP Senate candidate, on Tuesday demanded action, calling for the House to return to session "immediately" to pause diesel exports, suspend the gas tax and create a diesel relief program for farmers and truckers. Continue Reading »

By his own account, Democrats' Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is hosting Kamala Harris on the campaign trail to build a coalition that includes the former vice president and Bernie Sanders and "bring folks together". Reading between the lines, Harris is in Michigan to help El-Sayed shore up support with black voters and establishment Democrats. Bringing in Harris is a gamble for El-Sayed. Her favourability dipped underwater in the early days of the Biden administration and never recovered. According to RealClearPolitics polling, Harris has a favourability rating of only around 42% among registered voters. But it's also true she has a much higher favourability among black voters. Back in 2024, it hovered at nearly 80% — much higher than Biden. Continue Reading »

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned Moscow at the United Nations on Wednesday that ​Ukraine would strike back and make the coming winter deeply painful for Russia, if the two sides cannot agree a truce ‌on energy attacks before the cold sets in. Ukraine and its allies are racing to secure limited agreements on energy infrastructure and Black Sea shipping before winter, fearing renewed Russian strikes on power and heating facilities, while Moscow continues to show little interest in wider negotiations to end the war. Continue Reading »

A district judge tossed an election interference lawsuit by President Trump against the Des Moines Register, parent company USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and pollster Ann Selzer, rejecting claims that its inaccurate pre-election poll amounted to consumer fraud. Why it matters: The dismissal is an early court test of Trump's broader push to use litigation against media organizations over coverage he disputes. Continue Reading »

Some prominent references to President Trump were scrubbed from Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds' campaign website in recent weeks — but the Republican said Wednesday he isn't backing away from the president's agenda. During an onstage interview at the Sunshine Economy Summit, Donalds said his campaign has "been working on website changes for, like, two months now." He said the changes are meant to reinforce the campaign's key policy themes ahead of the general election, including affordability. Continue Reading »

The New York Times writer credits her own adult success with attending wealthier schools outside her neighborhood. So why does she blame New York City's education problems on choice? Continue Reading »

Nikole Hannah-Jones' controversial essay asks if you can fight for a better world while accepting the one you have Continue Reading »

Superstar New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones confessed to the world this week how she sacrificed her daughter Najya to her own political project. Continue Reading »

Just when staffers at CNN thought the news giant's path to the future was becoming more clear, new fog has set in. Continue Reading »

Paramount Skydance (PSKY.O), opens new tab is promising the largest volume of movies ​in Hollywood after its Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD.O), opens new tab purchase as it also aims for up to $6 billion in cost savings. Wall Street is asking how that will ‌add up. Continue Reading »

DOJ Alleges UC Medical School Discriminates In Race-Based Admissions Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the University of California-San Francisco's (UCSF's) medical school has determined that the institution discriminates on a racial basis during its admission process. Signage on the exterior of a building at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesThe investigation looked at whether admission policies of the UCSF School of Medicine complied with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the university was deemed to have "illegally discriminated on the basis of race in its medical school admissions processes for the incoming classes of 2023, 2024, and 2025 and in its operation of diversity pipeline programs," the DOJ said in a Sept. 22 letter sent to the university chancellor. "UCSF Med openly admits that its goal is to increase enrollment from specific racial groups it designates as underrepresented minorities in medicine (URM), which excludes all white students and most Asian students," the DOJ said. Title VI prohibits programs and activities receiving federal funding assistance from discriminating on the basis of race, color, ... Continue Reading »

Iran Willing To Strike Deal With US Before Midterm Elections: Pezeshkian Summary US-Iran talks uncertain: as Iran has stuck by its conditions while engaging Kushner-Witkoff in NY at UN. Iran threatens escalation beyond Persian Gulf: Tehran warned the conflict could spread to the Indian Ocean if attacked again. Yemen front intensifies: Saudi Arabia said it intercepted six Houthi ballistic missiles. Oil markets react: Renewed tensions pushed Brent crude to $106/barrel, undermining hopes for a quick deal. US announces end of Iranian blockade by October 15, 2026? Yes 23% · No 80%View full market & trade on Polymarket *  *  * Tehran Willing to Strike Deal Before Midterm Elections President Trump has on multiple occasions indicated his belief that Iran will hold off making a deal to end the war until after the US midterm elections in November. In somewhat surprising statements which contradict this, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has just told American media that Tehran is willing to strike an agreement before the midterms. Per the Thursday afternoon NBC report: “We don’t want it to get to the midterm elections,” Pezeshkian said Thursday in a brief meeting with NBC News and other news organizations on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “We ... Continue Reading »

Wall Street's Nuclear Bull Case Requires Reactors To Actually Get Built Wall Street is largely on board with the nuclear bull case. But investor patience is thinning with an industry that is enjoying both political support and demand from deep-pocketed customers, yet still struggles to this day to get any projects actually started. We noted a similar sentiment with Barclay’s nuclear outlook, as investors increasingly want evidence of real delivery. New research from Jefferies and Bank of America echo similar verbiage (Professional subscribers can read the full notes here at our marketdesk.ai portal). Jefferies' Laurence Alexander projects global nuclear capacity reaching 1,903 GW by 2100, (almost 5x from 2025 baseline). Their forecast also has solar capacity expanding roughly 22x, geothermal 18x, and wind 12x. Jefferies frames the rising electricity consumption as leaving room for generation expansion growth across all four low-carbon sources, instead of one just taking over. Most of the concerns come down to project financing. Massive upfront costs and years without revenue make nuclear particularly sensitive to financing costs. Government support is a way of bridging the gap, but standardized construction and repeat orders will be what really drives down execution risk.  BofA's ... Continue Reading »

Columbia Professor Wins Award For Book On 'White Paint' Being Racist Authored by Micaiah Bilger via The College Fix, Among the many woke winners of this year's prestigious National Book Awards is a black Columbia University professor whose screed attacks "white paint" as racist. Professor Wendy Walters' new book, "A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint," claims that white paint is not the "neutral" architectural design element that it initially appears to be. Instead, she "interrogates all that we have taken for granted about the substance that colors, or fails to color, the structures and objects that surround us - and what the collective impulse toward white paint can tell us about culture, politics, and individual desire," the publisher's description states, in part. The idea for the book originated with the Ivy League professor's "genuine and visceral dislike of white paint - a feeling that is at times overwhelming," she explained in a 2021 video for Creative Capital Foundation on YouTube. But Walters pushed back on the idea that her emotional response is "possibly irrational." "As I tried to understand why my response to white paint was so strong, I discovered numerous examples of ... Continue Reading »

Bessent Plays Hardball With "Bloomberg Bros": Yields Spike As Treasury Accepts Just 68% Of Maximum Buyback Offers Two weeks ago, treasury yields spiked to a 3 year high (still well below 5%), after the first expanded Treasury buyuback operation which had a maximum capacity of $6 billion, resulted in just $5.187 billion in actual buyback offers accepted by the Treasury. That was a problem because as BofA's rates guru, Mark Cabana, wrote just ahead of the first buyback (his note is available to pro subs), over the last several operations the 10y-20y buybacks had received $18.7 billion of offers on average, or about 9 times oversubscribed (at the old maximum par amount permissable of $2 billion), and Treasury has always bought the maximum.  “A purchase below the max would be unprecedented for the 10y-20y bucket," he wrote. In the end, the repurchase was some 14% below the max, and that spooked markets because it indicated that dealers were hoping Scott "the  house" Bessent was desperate enough he would accept even lowball bids. In the end, he didn't even though a handful of lowball offers were indeed accepted. So fast forward to today when moments ago the ... Continue Reading »

Greenland Mining Company Plans To Double Size Of Rare-Earth Mine As US Signs Agreement Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Days after President Donald Trump announced a security agreement with Greenland and Denmark, Greenland Mines applied on Sept. 21 to double the size of its rare earth mine to supply magnet metals needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines, and defense systems on the island. The North Carolina-based company's Sarfartoq rare earth district in southwest Greenland would expand from 74 square miles to about 175 square miles if approved. "This application is about building Sarfartoq at district scale," said Bo Moller Stensgaard, president of Greenland Mines in a statement. Greenland Mines is developing a rare earth neodymium and praseodymium project that could reduce the Western Hemisphere's dependence on China for the magnet rare earth minerals. China-based processors control at least 75 percent of the global market for all rare earth elements. The Greenland Mines project is expected to produce about one-third of the world's neodymium-praseodymium oxide refined outside of China, serving as a key source of the rare earth ingredients needed for energy, transportation, and defense technologies. China's export restrictions on rare earths have ... Continue Reading »

'Palestinian Rachel Dolezal': Philadelphia Activist Admits She Lied About Being Palestinian And Black A Philadelphia activist spent years building a public persona around identities she apparently didn’t have, proving once again that even people obsessed with policing everyone else’s identity occasionally forget to check their own paperwork. Hannah Gann, a teacher and prominent local anti-Israel activist, admitted this week that she is a white woman who had falsely portrayed herself as having Palestinian, Tunisian and Black heritage, according to the NY Post. The confession came after fellow activists grew suspicious and confronted her. Gann acknowledged on Instagram - still public and looking like a treasure trove of social justice campaigns and advice on how to handle Covid - that she had been lying for years and described herself as a woman of considerable wealth and privilege.  That was quite a departure from the identity she had cultivated publicly. Gann had been presented as Palestinian American at activist events, talked about supposed relatives in Palestine and became active in Philadelphia’s pro-Palestinian movement. The Post writes that former acquaintances remembered someone different. A University of Pennsylvania classmate told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Gann had previously been known ... Continue Reading »

This. Is. Madness... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The View co-host Sunny Hostin cited the Lindsay Clancy mistrial Tuesday to relate a celebratory story about how in 1991 she was a lone jury hold out who flipped for a cannibal killer who boiled a woman and literally served her as soup. While the panel chewed over the Clancy debacle, Hostin announced she had effectively blocked a guilty verdict for Daniel Rakowitz - the East Village drifter known as the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park. Hostin bragged that she walked the rest of that 1991 jury into an insanity acquittal, and called it justice. THIS IS INSANITY! Sunny Hostin brags she was the holdout juror who kept the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park out of prison. He murdered a woman. Chopped her up. Boiled her body parts. Served them as soup to the "unhoused." And she still calls that justice. This is the left's... pic.twitter.com/wdswuc2GZQ — Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) September 23, 2026 This is the same moral compass we've been documenting for weeks around Clancy: the killer becomes a cause, and anyone who wants a conviction becomes the villain. Hostin decided the real problem was the juror who would ... Continue Reading »

Ugly 7Y Auction Tails As Foreign Demand Slides Despite Record High Yield After yesterday's dismal 5Y aucton which pushed yields to multi-decade highs, moments ago the Treasury completed its last coupon auction of the week, selling $44 billion in 7Y paper. It was another ugly auction, if not quite as ugly as yesterday's shitshow. The sale stopped at a high yield of 5.085%, up from 4.512% a month ago and the highest yield on record for 7 Year paper! It was tailed the When Issued 5.078% by 0.7bps, the highest tail since March. The internals were also poor as foreign demand slumped from 60.8% to 57.2%, the lowest since Nov '25. And with Directs jumping to 30.3%, one of the highest on record, Dealers were left holding 12.5%, in line with the recent average. Overall, this was a subpar auction yet it wasn't nearly as bad as yesterday's 5Y which as we noted at the time, was an absolute nuke. The lack of demand did nothing to help the secondary market and 10Y yields promptly pushed back near session highs, last trading at 5.15% and the highest going back almost 2 decades.   ... Continue Reading »

Russia Hammers Kiev In Rare Daytime Attacks; Kremlin 'Appreciates' US G20 Invite At a moment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is still in New York City Thursday, attending meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, his capital of Kiev has been rocked by fresh Russian strikes, which killed at least two people and wounded over 40 more. The attacks began in the daytime on Wednesday, and appear to have persisted into Thursday. A missile alert first went out to city residents Wednesday, after which AFP journalists observed hearing over 20 blasts. "Explosions in Kyiv. The capital is under ballistic missile attack. Remain in shelters!" Mayor Vitaly Klitschko wrote on Telegram. Getty ImagesAnd Zelensky himself wrote: "Once again, the main targets of (the Russian) attack were Kyiv and civilian infrastructure – residential buildings, a maternity hospital, energy facilities and logistics. Two people are already known to have been killed." On Wednesday in addressing the UN assembly, Zelensky warned Western partners that they must not let up the sanctions and isolation pressure on Putin, in order to starve Russia's military machine. Zelensky on Thursday reiterated further on X that "Russia will not end this ... Continue Reading »

Satellite Images Reveal Rapid Expansion At Seven Chinese Nuclear Sites Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, China is rapidly expanding infrastructure tied to its nuclear weapons program, with satellite images revealing major construction at seven sites as Beijing faces growing scrutiny over its expanding arsenal. An investigation published Wednesday identified activity at Pingtong, Zitong, Lop Nur, Jiuquan, Mianyang, Jinta and Guangyuan. The satellite imagery documents substantial construction, although the images alone cannot establish precisely what work is occurring inside the facilities. At one location, villages and farms reportedly were cleared for a fusion research center where powerful lasers can help scientists study how materials behave under conditions associated with nuclear detonations. The expansion comes amid a dispute between Washington and Beijing over nuclear testing. U.S. officials have accused China of conducting a secret nuclear test at Lop Nur in 2020 and concealing its activities. China denies the allegation. Available seismic data have not conclusively established that a nuclear explosion occurred. U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Thomas DiNanno has accused China of using techniques designed to make nuclear testing more difficult to detect. Beijing, meanwhile, maintains a no-first-use ... Continue Reading »

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Just Torched Doomsday AI Bros, Says STFU About Existential Risk Or Shut It Down The CEOs behind frontier AI keep talking like bystanders - warning seemingly daily about 'existential risk, runaway superintelligence, and competitive pressure' that's totally out of their control, so they need big brother to help slow them down.  Jensen Huang isn't buying it. In an interview on The Ezra Klein Show this week, the Nvidia CEO took what the labs call an existential threat and turned it back into a question of product liability and whether executives are doing their jobs. According to Huang, if a lab can't contain what it's building, it shouldn't be asking for regulation. It should be shut down. "If they say the alternative, which is: There is no way to contain our experiments... when we test our A.I. models, it will get out, and it will damage the world - then I think the answer is that we have to shut the labs down," he said - framing this as a responsible engineering call. "If you're going to build a self-driving car - let's say it's a robo-taxi, and there's a really difficult condition. ... Continue Reading »

White House Restores Access For Banned Media Outlets After Judge's Ruling Update (1230ET): Following US District Judge Timothy J. Kelly's earlier decision, the Trump administration said in a legal filing that it has restored access for now to three media outlets the president had banned from White House grounds last week. Reporters from CNN and MS NOW started returning to the White House grounds after a federal court had ordered a suspension of the ban. The networks made announcements during their broadcasts on Thursday. *  *  * As Melanie Sun reported earlier for The Epoch Times, a federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to temporarily restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico while they challenge the revocation of their press passes in court. Federal Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a temporary restraining order against the White House ban, reinstating hard pass access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in the early hours of Sept. 24. Trump announced on Sept. 18 that he was banning the three news outlets from White House premises over their "constant 'reporting' fake news." The White House revoked their access the ... Continue Reading »

FERC Rejects ComEd's Cancellation Of $20 Billion Data Center Contract By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday rejected Commonwealth Edison’s “notice of cancellation” of a transmission security agreement, or TSA, for a 1.8-GW, $20-billion data center PowerHouse Hillwood Holding is developing in Joliet, Illinois. In part, the contract dispute centers on the TSA’s credit support requirements. PowerHouse Hillwood contends it met the agreement’s initial credit requirements via a $1 posting, according to FERC’s decision. The dispute is pending in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, according to the decision. In declining to take jurisdiction over the dispute, FERC said the courts can work it out just as well as the federal agency. “Though we decline to assert primary jurisdiction over the interpretation of ambiguous contract terms involving credit support, our commitment to fair cost allocation, ratepayer protection, and regulatory clarity remains unwavering,” FERC Chairman Laura Swett and Commissioner Lindsay See said in a joint concurrence. FERC’s decision highlights the “criticality” of the potential reforms that the agency proposed in large load interconnection show cause orders it issued in June to regional transmission organizations and independent system ... Continue Reading »

NatGas Spikes As Major West Virginia Pipeline Declares Force Majeure TC Energy's Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline system issued a notice requiring an "immediate pressure reduction" on Mountaineer XPress Line 100 between the Mt. Olive Compressor Station in Jackson County and the Saunders Creek Regulator Station in Cabell County, West Virginia, warning that an "expected mechanical issue" would reduce scheduled volumes. Columbia Gas Transmission moves Appalachian NatGas to markets across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast, with connections carrying supplies deep south to export terminals on the Gulf of America. The affected Mountaineer XPress (MXP) pipeline in West Virginia feeds two main outlets: Regional markets: Columbia's TCO trading pool, serving Midwest, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic customers. Southern markets: The Leach interconnection in Kentucky, where gas enters Columbia Gulf Transmission for transportation toward the Southeast and Louisiana's Gulf Coast. NatGas research firm Criterion Research provided clients earlier today with an update on the outage: TCO declared force majeure this morning following an unexpected mechanical issue on its Mountaineer XPress (MXP) system between the Mt. Olive Compressor Station and Saunders Creek Regulator Station in West Virginia, with the pipeline set to cut the MXPSEG MA42 constraint to zero beginning ... Continue Reading »

Anthropic CEO (Again) Warns Poorly Managed AI Could Be 'Risk To Humanity' Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that artificial intelligence could "be a risk to humanity as a whole" during a briefing before the United Nations Security Council on Sept. 23. Amodei was among the top AI executives who spoke at the meeting - organized by France during the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders - which also included statements by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clément Delangue. Amodei urged the 15-member council to advance U.N. agreements that ban the use of AI to form biological weapons, and encouraged the council to build evaluation and verification systems allowing nations to hold each other accountable, establish global standards to test AI models for loss of control risks and misuse risks, and add a notification system for AI incidents that are significant to global security. "We will slow down as much as necessary in order to make sure that every successive AI technology that we release is actually safe," Amodei said during his video remarks. "But regardless of what we ... Continue Reading »

Goldman Puts Almonty At "Center" Of Western Tungsten Race Three weeks after Jefferies chemicals and materials analyst Laurence Alexander initiated coverage of Almonty Industries with a "Buy" rating and a 12-month price target of $26.25, framing it as a play on the "Western Tungsten Re-Shoring Trade," Goldman Sachs launched coverage early Thursday, describing the miner as "at the center of the Western tungsten investment narrative." Goldman metals and steel analyst Nick Cash notes that Chinese policy restrictions have fueled supply concerns and an eightfold increase in tungsten prices since the start of 2025: ALM sits at the center of the Western tungsten investment narrative as policy actions taken by China have resulted in global supply concerns, causing the price of tungsten to increase 8x since the beginning of 2025. ALM owns one of the most important tungsten development asset outside China, the Sangdong mine in South Korea However, we believe the stock is increasingly reflecting a continuation of today's exceptional tungsten market as well as an aggressive production profile for Sangdong. Almonty's Sangdong mine in South Korea is key to conflict-free tungsten supply for the West as Beijing has ramped up restrictions that collide with the ... Continue Reading »

Are Bonds About To Crash The Stock Market? Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There. I’ve said it. I’ve gone from pussyfooting around and saying the AI bubble could pop in 6 to 10 months…which I still believe…to the very definitive statement that if the bond market keeps acting like this, the equity markets will get slaughtered. And I mean, wrath of God type shit. This isn’t even a particularly sophisticated thesis. After all, if I’m delivering it, it can’t be. It’s just math. Treasuries sold off hard on Wednesday, sending the 10-year yield up roughly 14 basis points to about 5.11%, after touching 5.14% intraday, its highest level since 2007. The 30-year climbed to roughly 5.4%, while the 2-year jumped to about 4.9%. This is the latest leg of a bond selloff that has been building for months, with the 10-year alone up roughly 35 basis points in September and long-term borrowing costs now pushing into territory we haven't consistently dealt with since before the Global Financial Crisis. Inflation fears, pornographic government borrowing needs, spiking oil prices and expectations for additional Fed hikes are all feeding the move. In other words, the bond market keeps trying to tell everybody something, and equity investors keep ... Continue Reading »

McDonald's Sinks To Four-Year Low As Deutsche Bank Sours On Turnaround Hopes McDonald's shares tumbled as much as 5.9% on Wednesday, the sharpest intraday decline since the early-2020 Covid selloff, before closing down 4.8% at their lowest level since 2022.  The Big Mac quick-service restaurant chain's investor day heightened Wall Street concerns that softening US sales, coupled with plans for massive investments across restaurant locations, could pressure cash flow and shareholder returns, weighing on the stock for the foreseeable future. McDonald's held its investor day at its Chicago headquarters on Wednesday. CFO Ian Borden said the burger chain expects its US business to be "slightly negative" in the third quarter, leaving Wall Street analysts at the event fretting over the cost of a multibillion-dollar, multiyear overhaul against a darkening demand outlook that shows no signs of a promising near-term turnaround.  McDonald's unveiled an $8.5 billion support package for franchisees over a decade as its NEXT overhaul will be costly. Management is forecasting higher productivity and corporate operating margins in the low-to-mid-50% range by 2030. Shares have tumbled into a bear market this year, down 22% and nearing a four-year low.  The chain missed second-quarter US ... Continue Reading »

What T. Boone Pickens Would Ask About AI CapEx Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack, I keep waiting for someone in the AI discussion to talk like an owner. What we get instead is a week of model releases, token counts, and model-lab valuations that look like oil majors, while the harder questions about turbines, interconnect queues, and who answers for the spend sit offstage. That imbalance would have driven T. Boone Pickens up a wall. Boone passed away in Dallas on September 11, 2019. He was 91. He grew up in Holdenville, Oklahoma, worked as a geologist at Phillips Petroleum, quit, and built Mesa Petroleum from a shoestring into a company that could force Gulf Oil into Chevron's arms. Later he ran an energy hedge fund out of Dallas and spent a decade trying to shove the country onto wind and natural gas before the transmission system could carry either. Two things always set him off. Soft managements that treated shareholders as a nuisance. And a national energy policy that treated imported oil as something America just had to live with. If he were still in the room this week, he ... Continue Reading »