The club, which denies all wrongdoing, is accused of breaching the Premier League's financial rules between 2009 and 2018. Continue Reading »

Football finance expert Kieran Maguire says the potential sanctions for Manchester City will be 'significant' after the sources told BBC Sport that the club has been found guilty of breaking the majority of the 115 financial rules they were accused of breaching. Continue Reading »

The prime minister told the BBC an early poll would throw the country into a "backward-looking process". Continue Reading »

Such strikes aim to disrupt "people's ability to stay connected, study, work", says Ukraine's president. Continue Reading »

Daniel Thomas is accused of criminal damage after a video appeared to show him slashing at a dinghy. Continue Reading »

President Trump and Chinese leader Xi went heavy on the ceremony and light on deliverables as they danced around Taiwan and Iran during two days in Washington. Continue Reading »

Flight disruptions were minimal for Saturday as of Friday morning. Continue Reading »

Smith on Sept. 11 had posted an allegedly AI-edited photo on Facebook of her family dressed in "Lake America" sweatshirts. Continue Reading »

The decision is the second in less than a month by an appeals court that states have a role in regulating sports-related event contracts. Continue Reading »

Coca-Cola is trying to maintain growth as consumers face higher gas and grocery prices. Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP Onze ans après, les Bleus emmenés par leur nouvelle génération se sont qualifiés vendredi pour une nouvelle finale de l'Euro de volley, après leur victoire 3-1 (25-17, 18-25, 25-18, 25-15) face à Finlande.A Milan, face à ceux qui les avaient fait tomber à la surprise générale en phase de groupes du Mondial-2025 - mais privés dès l'échauffement de leur passeur Fedor Ivanov, blessé - c'est assurément plus qu'une revanche que les Français sont allés chercher.Il s'agit avant tout d'un ticket vers une histoire à écrire, 11 ans après le premier et seul titre tricolore dans un Euro, celui de Laurent Tillie ou Benjamin Toniutti, de Earvin Ngapeth, Trévor Clévenot ou Hubert Henno.Samedi, face à l'immense Pologne, Antoine Brizard, Théo Faure, Clévenot encore, et surtout une ribambelle de talents à l’instar de Mathis Henno ou Simon Magnin tenteront d’aller garnir un peu plus un palmarès brillant également de ses deux titres olympiques de rang (2021, 2024)."Même s'il y a beaucoup de changements, c'est toujours une très bonne équipe, a déclaré le réceptionneur-attaquant polonais Wilfredo Leon. Ils continuent de se battre, c'est pour ça qu'ils ont été en demi-finale".Et il a fallu se battre, contre ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP La Bourse de New York a terminé la séance en hausse vendredi, aidée par le recul des prix du pétrole lié aux espoirs d'une réouverture prochaine du détroit d'Ormuz, le marché devant néanmoins composer avec des rendements obligataires encore élevés.Le Dow Jones s'est octroyé 0,93%, l'indice Nasdaq a progressé de 0,48% et l'indice élargi S&P 500 a gagné 0,51%."Les espoirs d'une issue diplomatique au conflit au Moyen-Orient ont fait baisser les cours du pétrole aujourd'hui", explique à l'AFP Angelo Kourkafas, analyste pour le gestionnaire de patrimoine Edward Jones.Le chef de la diplomatie iranienne, Abbas Araghchi, à New York pour l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU, a déclaré à plusieurs médias étrangers avoir communiqué mardi à l'émissaire américain Steve Witkoff les conditions de l'Iran pour une réouverture du détroit d'Ormuz."Si certaines conditions sont remplies, le détroit sera ouvert sous sept jours et des pourparlers seront engagés", a affirmé M. Araghchi.Cette accalmie du pétrole tend à rassurer les investisseurs sur le front de l'inflation et stabilise les taux obligataires, au lendemain d'une envolée.Le taux d'intérêt de la dette publique des Etats-Unis à 30 ans a atteint jeudi en séance un plus haut depuis 2004, à 5,50%, tandis ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Keyvan NARAGHI © 2026 AFP Zinédine Zidane a réussi ses grands débuts à la tête de l'équipe de France en décrochant un succès en Turquie (1-0), en Ligue des nations, grâce à un but de sa superstar Kylian Mbappé, toutefois sorti sur blessure, vendredi à Izmit.L'icône du sport tricolore ne pouvait pas rêver mieux comme entame, lui qui a patienté si longtemps avant d'endosser le costume du sélectionneur, propriété de Didier Deschamps durant 14 ans. Les Bleus ont largement dominé les débats et ont été finalement récompensés à la 54e minute par la 67e réalisation en 107 capes de leur capitaine.Mais le meilleur buteur de l'histoire de l'équipe de France a dû quitter ses coéquipiers dans la foulée en se tenant le genou gauche. Un coup dur d'entrée pour Zidane, mais finalement le seul d'une soirée quasiment parfaite.Il faudra encore un peu de temps pour que les préceptes du nouveau patron se concrétisent sur le terrain. Mais le boss, nommé le 28 juillet, a passé sans encombres son premier examen et peut tranquillement préparer la suite de son programme dense en ce début d'automne, avec trois matches encore à disputer dans les dix jours qui viennent ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP En quête de rachat après avoir raté, cet été, sa troisième Coupe du monde consécutive, l'Italie a mal débuté sa reconstruction en s'inclinant 2 à 0 face à la Belgique vendredi à Rome en ouverture de la Ligue des nations.Encore marqué par la déroute fin mars contre la Bosnie-Herzégovine qui l'a privé du Mondial-2026, Gianluigi Donnaruma savait la Nazionale attendu: "Nous devons faire en sorte que les tifosi retombent amoureux du maillot azzurro", avait-il prévenu la veille.Si le gardien de Manchester City et capitaine italien n'a (quasiment) rien eu à se reprocher, empêchant même son équipe de prendre l'eau face aux Diables rouges, la plupart de ses coéquipiers ont passé une sale soirée et les 47.000 spectateurs du Stade olympique, déjà échaudés par les échecs répétés de leur sélection, sont repartis dépités, voire le coeur meurtri.De retour à la tête de la Nazionale, trois ans après l'avoir quittée, Roberto Mancini qui a offert à son pays son dernier titre, l'Euro-2021, avait pourtant décidé de marquer les esprits en titularisant des nouveaux et jeunes visages comme Diego Coppola en défense, Sandro Romano dans l'entre-jeu et Nicolo Cambiaghi en attaque.Mais ces "bleus", comme les Azzurri ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP Le capitaine de l'Equipe de France Kylian Mbappé, visiblement touché au genou gauche, est sorti sur blessure juste après avoir ouvert le score contre la Turquie, en Ligue des nations, vendredi soir.A la 54e minute de jeu, servi par Michael Olise, l'attaquant du Real Madrid a fermé son pied droit avant de frapper, parvenant à tromper le gardien turc Ugurcan Cakir. Mais il n'a pas célébré, en commençant par boitiller avant, visage grimaçant, de s'allonger sur la pelouse tout en se tenant l'arrière du genou gauche.Le capitaine des Bleus a un temps tenté de garder sa place sur le terrain, avant de renoncer pour de bon, à la 59e. Remplacé par Désiré Doué, Mbappé s'est immédiatement dirigé vers les vestiaires, toujours en boitant légèrement, après une rapide tape amicale de son sélectionneur, Zinédine Zidane.Après ce premier match de Ligue des nations en Turquie, les Bleus enchaineront trois autres rencontres, en Belgique (28 septembre), au Stade de France face à l'Italie (2 octobre) puis à nouveau à Saint-Denis face aux Diables rouges (5 octobre). Continue Reading »

AI didn’t create the decline of trust, expertise or creativity. It’s made those long-running problems visible to societies around the world. Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

RT looks at the top stories this week, including a hardening of the UK’s war rhetoric and Kiev’s underhanded play for a ceasefire at the UN Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

A Pakistani Muslim cleric honored by the Archbishop of Canterbury has reportedly been accused of protecting an extortion gang Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Italy has approved a school burqa ban and a 30% cap on pupils with limited Italian, as Giorgia Meloni pushes new integration rules Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Moscow is not preparing for war with Europe and claims of a threat are “nonsense,” Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

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President who demanded loyalty no longer getting it... (Top headline, 2nd story, link) Related stories:HALLOWEEN COMES EARLY FOR REPUBLICANS...8% mortgage now inevitable?History shows calamities occur when rates rise this rapidly...Consumer sentiment falls to second-lowest level on record... Continue Reading »

8% mortgage now inevitable? (Top headline, 3rd story, link) Related stories:HALLOWEEN COMES EARLY FOR REPUBLICANS...President who demanded loyalty no longer getting it...History shows calamities occur when rates rise this rapidly...Consumer sentiment falls to second-lowest level on record... Continue Reading »

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Consumer sentiment falls to second-lowest level on record... (Top headline, 5th story, link) Related stories:HALLOWEEN COMES EARLY FOR REPUBLICANS...President who demanded loyalty no longer getting it...8% mortgage now inevitable?History shows calamities occur when rates rise this rapidly... Continue Reading »

Shehbaz Sharif speaks as Islamabad, Riyadh and Ankara army chiefs meet to discuss Mecca pact, closer military ties. Continue Reading »

Manchester City have reportedly been found guilty of almost all 115 financial misconduct charges they were facing. Continue Reading »

A fire erupted aboard the vehicle ferry Blue Carrier 2 north of the Greek island of Mykonos, prompting a major emergency Continue Reading »

Afghan taxi drivers are playing music in their cars despite it being banned by the Taliban. Continue Reading »

Which countries walked out of Netanyahu’s UNGA speech? 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 U.S.-China summit offered a sharp contrast with the action at the faltering United Nations in a gridlocked New York. Continue Reading »

Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV. Continue Reading »

In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk. Continue Reading »

A new report by a Bay Area start-up called Parse adds details to an incident that has shocked the A.I. world and led to calls for closer government regulation. Continue Reading »

Critics of a citizenship database built by the Trump administration have raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges. 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 »

His visits come as the GOP rushes to shore up their own territory amid sky-high costs, an unpopular Iran war and some backlash to mass deportations. Continue Reading »

The president’s most loyal supporters are more inclined than other Trump voters to support a tough immigration posture — but new POLITICO Poll results show there are limits. 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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The event is scheduled for Oct. 2nd in Mobile, but the plans are still subject to change, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Continue Reading »

The battleground state senator and potential 2028er has been one of the party’s most outspoken critics of its outreach to male voters who swung right in 2024. Continue Reading »

The senators said the Russian president may be less incentivized to pursue a ceasefire if he is invited to the Miami summit in November. Continue Reading »

A data center measure easily passed the House last week with more than 200 Democratic votes, but campaign-season politics are making action trickier for the party in the Senate. Continue Reading »

“They say they’re for more affordability,” embattled GOP Sen. Jon Husted said. “This is a chance for everybody to prove it.” Continue Reading »

The upcoming gathering at the White House comes amid calls to regulate the industry. Continue Reading »

The White House’s posture represents a remarkable change for an administration that has often put Trump’s priorities ahead of what would be politically advantageous to Republicans in tight elections. Continue Reading »

Jim Copenhaver was struck twice when a gunman opened fire at President Donald Trump in a shocking act of political violence. 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 »

President Donald Trump has a prime opportunity to help lower costs for Americans in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the top GOP lawmaker overseeing U.S. diplomacy told Fox News Digital. Continue Reading »

Rising diesel prices are proving to be a particular problem for Republicans as surging energy costs sour the economic mood just 45 days out from the midterms. Continue Reading »

Glenn Heller owned a gas station on Boston's Beacon Hill during the 1979 oil crisis. Not only did he openly flout federal price controls — exceeding the set limit by 55 cents a gallon — he boasted about it, describing it as an "experiment in capitalism" and declaring himself "proud to be called a [price] gouger." His prices were among the highest in the country. Continue Reading »

Federal press access battles. Corporate consolidation. Editorial shifts. In the US, the boundaries of press freedom and corporate influence are being redefined. Continue Reading »

Conditions abord USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier deteriorated after it was at sea for 286 straight days. Continue Reading »

Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier set a modern record for its time at sea, according to a letter from the service's acting secretary, which was obtained by CNN. Continue Reading »

Eight sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier or ships accompanying it on its nine-month deployment to the Middle East tried to commit suicide, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao confirmed this week. 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 »

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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 »

Bitcoin's 'Last Resort' Quantum-Safe Solution Just Got 79% Cheaper: StarkWare Authored by Felix Ng via Cointelegraph, The estimated computational cost to prepare a quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction has fallen below $67 after a week of optimization, down from the roughly $320 spent on the first such mainnet transaction in August, according to StarkWare. The results came after participants in the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge found ways to push down the GPU computation needed to build a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction. The reduction could make the experimental defense (which doesn't require changes to the network's consensus rules) against future quantum attacks more practical for Bitcoin holders. However, the latest optimizations have only been demonstrated in benchmark tests. "A construction that costs a few hundred dollars per transaction is a demo. One that costs $67 is closer to something a holder with a large unexposed balance might reach for in an emergency," StarkWare wrote in its Sept. 23 update. The dashboard now shows the estimated cost has dropped to $66. Quantum-Safe Bitcoin an "emergency" solution StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy published the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) design in April, outlining a way to add hash-based protection against quantum attacks without changing ... Continue Reading »

Supreme Court Clears Trump Admin To Use Voter Citizenship Verification Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court on Sept. 25 said the Trump administration can use an updated immigration database to verify the citizenship of voters. A majority of justices agreed to stay pending the outcome of an appeal of a June order from a federal judge that barred the use of a revamped database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan had found that federal officials were violating the privacy rights of American citizens by disclosing the citizenship status and Social Security numbers, among other data, in the restructured database. She vacated the 2025 update, which connected Social Security information to the system. A federal appeals court later upheld the decision. Trump administration officials then asked the Supreme Court to intervene, arguing in a Sept. 8 brief that the order "threatens the integrity of upcoming elections by vacating the federal government's authority to internally use Social Security data when fulfilling its duty to respond to requests by states to verify the citizenship of individuals for voting and other purposes." Six justices sided with the ... Continue Reading »

Iran State Media Denies Technical Talks With US Are Happening Summary Tehran denes reports of 'technical talks' after it proposed 7-day roadmap to end the war and (eventually) restart nuclear talks. Hormuz reopening discussed in exchange for US concessions in NY, including lifting the blockade.  Tehran seeks sanctions relief, declares will hold to conditions, including restored oil exports and access to frozen funds. US-Iran talks reportedly show progress, with Qatar helping bridge differences. Escalation risk remains: Iran threatens a broader response - to 'spread war to Indian Ocean' if attacked again. Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by December 31? Yes 27% · No 74%View full market & trade on Polymarket The Friday Afternoon Denial Via state media Fars: Axios and Al Jazeera's claim about Iran-US talks denied, reports Fars; News regarding another round of talks is false, and claims technical experts from Iran were sent to NY to join the talks, is untrue This was either the result of more premature or false Axios reporting, or else there's a possible in strategy divergence between IRGC vs. presidential delegation in New York. 'Technical Talks' Are we back to headline ping-pong pushing down oil prices? Latest: Iran-US negotiations in New York have ... Continue Reading »

US Cybersecurity Agency Releases Election Security Plan Ahead Of November Midterms Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The nation’s cybersecurity agency released its election infrastructure security plan on Thursday, ahead of the November midterms set for Nov. 3. Voters cast their ballots in the primary for midterm elections at Sanbornton Town Hall in Sanbornton, N.H., on Sept. 8, 2026. CJ Gunther/Getty ImagesThe 13-page document outlines potential threats to voting systems and lists no-cost services that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) offers state and local officials. “In July of this year, Secretary Mullin tasked CISA with developing the Election Infrastructure Security Plan, which had been developed to help partners defend against cyber and physical threats to election infrastructure,” it reads. “Election security is not a partisan issue. Election security is national security.” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had initially said the plan would be published by mid-August. CISA, created in 2018 under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has warned states about foreign threats. The new plan warns of software flaws, voter registration database hacks, insider threats, and physical risks like bomb threats that hit some polling places in 2024. “Many longstanding ... Continue Reading »

Woke Developer Bungie Apologizes To Gamers...But Not Really The mass conservative boycott against woke companies and far-left content has been wildly successful.  While the political left has repeatedly attempted such boycotts and "cancellations" over the years, not one has ever been as effective as the "Chud" revolution against woke media.   It took a few years (along with a slowdown in outside funding from ESG programs and venture capital), but some of the biggest corporations in the world have been forced to acknowledge that ideological content just isn't working.  The much vaunted "modern audience" that progressive stalwarts bragged about failed to materialize.  It was always a myth.  It never existed.  These businesses killed their own bottom line and alienated long-time customers in the name of a bizarre cult religion representing a small portion of the global population.  And even more embarrassing for companies like Bungie, those weirdos don't spend much money on video games anyway.  The Bungie game studio achieved widespread acclaim with early installments of the Halo series, a direct competitor to Call Of Duty.  But, around 2014-2016, something changed.  The company started listening to the Twitter mob (a leftist echo chamber) ... Continue Reading »

Canada's Oil Patch On Track For Biggest M&A Wave In A Decade Authored by Alex Kimani via OilPrice.com, Nearly a decade ago, the Canadian Oil Patch recorded a major asset sale and consolidation wave as oil majors exited the oil sands in favor of higher margins in U.S. shale oil as well as environmental concerns amid the ESG investing craze. To wit, Shell Plc (NYSE:SHEL) sold the majority of its oil sands interests to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (NYSE:CNQ) in 2017 a transaction valued at roughly $11.1 billion CAD ($8.5 billion USD), while Cenovus Energy (NYSE:CVE) acquired most of ConocoPhillips' (NYSE:COP) Canadian assets for C$17.7 billion (approximately US$13.2 billion). And now a similar dynamic is unfolding across Canada's energy sector: Canada's oil patch has recorded over $30 billion in mergers and acquisitions so far in the current year, with Wall Street projecting that this year's final tally will surpass the $53 billion recorded in 2017. However, this year's M&A wave is fundamentally different from its 2017 peer since it's mainly being driven by high oil and asset prices amid the Middle East conflict rather than a desperate attempt to dispose off ... Continue Reading »

"Moving The Goalposts": BofA Downgrades Nike, Slashes Target As Turnaround Story Delayed Nike shares fell 2% in New York premarket trading after BofA retail analyst Lorraine Hutchinson downgraded the world's largest athletic footwear and apparel company, warning that its "turnaround is taking longer" than expected. With shares trading at 2014 levels, the downgrade adds new woes to a recovery story that might not materialize until 2028. In the report published earlier today, titled "Moving the goalposts," Hutchinson downgraded Nike to "Underperform" from "Neutral" and cut her price target to $30 from $47, implying 17% downside from Thursday's close of $35.99. Hutchinson now expects a sales decline through 2027, abandoning her earlier call for a 1H27 recovery and pushing the turnaround into 2028. She cut fiscal 2027 and 2028 earnings estimates by 11% and 12%, respectively. Her 2027 forecast of $1.43 a share sits roughly 14% below Visible Alpha consensus. She added color: Risks are rising, downgrading to Underperform We see downside risk to EPS estimates and valuation as Nike's innovation continues to be overshadowed by a pressured classics business, while category and macro pressures build. We are cutting F27E/F28E EPS by 11%/12%; we ... Continue Reading »

Suspected US Drone Strike Kills Alleged Al-Qaeda Member In Yemen Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, A suspected US drone strike hit a vehicle carrying two alleged al-Qaeda members in Yemen's southeastern Hadramout province on Tuesday, China's Xinhua news agency has reported. A local security source told the news agency that one of the men in the vehicle was killed while the other was wounded. So far, there's been no confirmation of the strike from the US, but the US hasn't officially acknowledged an airstrike against Yemen's al-Qaeda affiliate, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) since 2020, even though it has continued the drone war. Earlier this year, the Yemen Data Project reported that from January 2025 to March 2026, it found 21 reports of US drone strikes in Yemen through an investigation of open-source material, attacks that were separate from the US bombing campaign against Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, that took place last year. The report of a US drone strike in southeast Yemen comes as fighting continues to rage in western Yemen between Ansar Allah and Saudi-backed forces since the war reignited back in July due ... Continue Reading »

Chinese Hacking Groups Used Shared Attack Tool Against US Aerospace Firms, NGOs Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, Chinese cyber-espionage groups used the same sophisticated hacking tool in campaigns targeting U.S. aerospace companies, nongovernmental organizations, mining companies, and commodity traders, according to two cybersecurity firms that separately investigated the activity. A member of a hacking group is using his computer at their office in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty ImagesVolexity, a Virginia-based cybersecurity firm, said on Sept. 21 its discovery of another Chinese hacking group using the same tool added to evidence of coordinated sharing within China's cyber-espionage community. The company said the widespread adoption "suggests a coordinated effort within the Chinese CNE community," referring to computer network exploitation, and assessed that the core tool was likely shared, customized, and used by multiple groups. Proofpoint, a U.S. cybersecurity company, separately documented on Sept. 9 the same capability in campaigns against a small number of U.S. NGOs, mining companies, commodity-trading firms, and multiple U.S. aerospace companies. It found several espionage groups adopting the tool within days of one another, with most of the observed clusters ... Continue Reading »

Zelensky Claims 'Final Decision' Made To Let Ukraine Build Patriots, After Trump Reversed Pledge Back in July President Trump strongly signaled that he was greenlighting the ability of Ukraine to produce its own patriot anti-air defense missiles. Trump declared in the context of a Turkey-hosted NATO summit that Washington would give Ukraine "the right to make Patriots" - after Zelensky had been relentless in his requests, framing it as urgent and for the protection of cities and civilians. But since then there's been denials and ambiguity surrounding the pledge. President Trump had at the time of the summer NATO summit admitted the risks involved, also while trying to press ahead to get the warring sides to the peace table, conceding, "It's an escalation but it’s also an escalation that can help lead to an end [of the war]." On Friday while attending the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, Zelensky told journalists that the White House has made its 'final decision' to okay the Patriot production scheme. Getty ImagesThe Ukrainian leader claimed: "At our last meeting, President Trump emphasized to me that yes, I have made a final decision. Ukraine will receive licenses ... Continue Reading »

Efforts To Curb Data Center Speculation Gain Ground Across The US By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive, “A fraction of proposed data centers will get built. Utilities are wising up.” That was the headline on a May 2025 Utility Dive article that explored the conundrum speculative data center requests pose for U.S. electric utilities. More than a year later, it’s unclear how much has changed. Sections of the Stargate Oracle AI data center undergo construction on Aug. 26, 2026, in Abilene, Texas. Community opposition has emerged as a major barrier to data center development as utilities and their regulators introduce new vetting requirements. Brandon Bell via Getty ImagesCommunity opposition has emerged as a major barrier to data center development, with other challenges including construction labor shortages, long lead times for critical electrical equipment, limited power availability in key markets and uncertainty around consumer demand for artificial intelligence tools. More than $170 billion in AI data center capacity has been “blocked, withdrawn, or stalled” by community opposition since January 2024, the energy advisory company Relae, formerly Carbon Direct, said in June.  A person holds a sign at a city council town hall on data centers on ... Continue Reading »

Appeals Court Backs Department Of War's Anthropic Blacklisting In Blow To Dario The Trump administration scored a legal victory Friday morning after a federal appeals court rejected Anthropic's challenge to its designation as a national-security supply-chain risk. This means the Department of War can blacklist the AI frontier firm from all contracts. In a 2-1 decision today, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found sufficient grounds for the DoW to designate Anthropic's products a supply-chain risk. The court pointed to restrictions embedded in Claude that prevent it from performing certain critical tasks. "The Department had ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the Department's information systems, by the Department or its contractors, presented a statutorily covered national-security risk," the court wrote. It continued, "As Anthropic admits, the company encodes restrictions into Claude that prevent the model from performing tasks that Anthropic wishes to prevent." Anthropic has opposed allowing its AI to be used for autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance. Dario Amodei's Anthropic has warned that such a designation could cause significant "reputational stigma" and cost it hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Or perhaps it ... Continue Reading »

Senate Narrowly Defeats Iran War Powers Resolution Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com The Senate narrowly defeated a War Powers Resolution on Thursday that would have directed President Trump to end the war with Iran, though the vote doesn’t negate the Iran War Powers Resolution that was passed by both the Senate and the House several months ago. The resolution failed Thursday in a 49-50 vote, with four Republicans — Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) — supporting the measure. It marked the first time Tillis, who is not running for re-election, voted to end the war. C-Span screengrabJust one Democrat, Senator Jon Fetterman (D-PA), voted against the bill, something he’s consistently done, and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) wasn’t present for the vote. If Alsobrooks did vote in favor of the resolution, Vice President JD Vance could have cast a tie-breaking vote to kill the bill, as he did with a Venezuela War Powers Resolution earlier this year. The resolution previously passed through the House, where seven Republicans voted in favor, the most support from the GOP that a bill to end the Iran war has ... Continue Reading »

Jefferies, Goldman, Now Stifel: Wall Street Races To Cover Almonty As "Owning The Bottlenecks" Theme Gains Momentum A sense of urgency is building across Wall Street as notable desks push clients toward the critical materials theme we already laid out for readers, as the Trump administration accelerates efforts to rebuild conflict-free supply chains and reduce dependence on China. Resource nationalism and the looming rearmament supercycle are turning secure access to critical materials into both a national security priority and a multiyear investment theme. For miners already producing conflict-free critical materials outside China, the opportunity lies in supplying Western buyers seeking alternatives to Beijing's quasi-monopoly, which is expected to persist through 2030. The US government's deals with junior miners have generated news headlines, but new projects can take years to reach commercial production. As Western supplies tighten, the immediate market advantage belongs to producers capable of delivering material today. Government funding can accelerate development, but it cannot eliminate the time required to permit, build and commission a mine. Wall Street Piles Into Almonty Coverage As Tungsten Producing Miner Ramps Up To Challenge China's Stranglehold At the start of the month, Jefferies initiated coverage on ... Continue Reading »

Netanyahu Brings Ominous Prop To UN Speech, Blasts 'Moral Cowards' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday issued a fiery address to the UN General Assembly in New York, raging against his international critics and batting down genocide allegations. He slammed widespread accusations that the Israeli army conducted a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza as "the biggest lie of the century" while calling his decision to obliterate Hamas and wage war in the strip "one of the easiest decisions I've ever had to make." He added: "if we hadn't done it, we'd all be dead." via ReutersDozens of UN delegates walked out during the speech, and at times jeers and boos were heard, after which Netanyahu berated them from the podium as "moral cowards". At one point he said that "in the last three years," Israeli soldiers have "fought a war on seven fronts." "Do you know of any other country the size of New Jersey that can fight for three years on seven fronts?" he posed.  The big walkout... Netanyahu with a slight grin: "If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now, thank you ... Continue Reading »

"More Signaling, Less Substance": Barclays Pours Cold Water On Trump-Xi Summit President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping for a White House state dinner late Thursday, calling for closer ties while offering limited details on progress in addressing trade and geopolitical disputes. This was Xi's first White House visit in over a decade. On Friday morning, Trump issued a fresh Truth Social post related to the evening with Xi, but fixated on his term "Super Intelligence". Apparently Trump wants this to be his legacy in connection with the early history of AI... Trump last night praised Xi and his wife as "truly outstanding, amazing people" and said the two superpowers should "continue to build a relationship that promotes prosperity and security." Xi called for a relationship defined by "strategic stability" and urged both sides to "act as responsible major countries." Behind the scenes: Behind the scenes at the @WhiteHouse #StateDinner with President @realDonaldTrump, First Lady @MelaniaTrump, President Xi, and Madame Peng—With guests in the beautiful East Room… pic.twitter.com/kDhBrIWajI — Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) September 25, 2026 Earlier on Thursday, the two leaders held bilateral talks in the Oval Office. Trump described the discussions as a ... Continue Reading »

Frenemies: "China May Be Exporting Two Pandas, But It Would Much Rather Export Millions Of Cars" By Molly Schwartz, cros-aset macro strategist at Rabobank  Frenemies The US-China summit officially began after Xi arrived in Washington, DC, late on Wednesday. Topics including trade, the Strait of Hormuz, and the AI (AGI?) races are expected to arise, but little tangible progress is anticipated. After all that, Trump and Xi agreed to... rename AI to SI https://t.co/gLaNhLT18I pic.twitter.com/YZ9s2pvGBA — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 25, 2026 Instead, the goal is to “prevent something very bad from happening.” Frenemies, Xi and Trump, hailed “healthy competition,” rather than competition “in which one wins and one loses.” In a show of friendship (frenemyship?), China is sending two giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, to Zoo Atlanta. According to Politico, “one person close to the White House” said: “Trump likes to be like, ‘oh, we get along great,’ and it’s like, okay, well, at the same time, these guys are a massive threat to us. We’re in an AI race with them. They’re supplying Iranians with intelligence and weapons…He’s missing the message here. No one cares whether you’re friends with the guy ... Continue Reading »

UMich Consumer Confidence Slides In September As Republicans Lose Faith After July's rebound to pre-war levels, a re-escalation in the MidEast (and soaring fuel costs) has sent confidence back towards YTD lows. Today's final September data was expected to show UMich headline sentiment sliding further (and inflation expectations re-accelerating). And while sentiment is lower overall (month to month), it did actually pick up modestly intra-month from preliminary levels. Consumer sentiment ticked down less than four index points in September, reaching the lowest reading in four months and back down notably from January 2026. Views of current and year-ahead expected personal finances also both weakened notably this month, with concerns over high prices continuing to climb. Year-ahead inflation expectations jumped from 4.0% last month to 4.6% this month, the highest reading since June. The current reading substantially exceeds the 3.4% seen in February before the Iran conflict began, along with all 2024 readings. Long-run inflation expectations ticked up to 3.4%, ending three consecutive months at 3.3%. These expectations remain higher than their 2024 range of 2.8% to 3.2%. Democrats are the most fearful of inflation once again... Since the start of the year, consumer sentiment has ... Continue Reading »

New York Audits Utility AI Use, Cites Risk In "Growing Dependency" By Robert Walton of UtilityDive The New York Public Service Commission last week launched an inquiry into public utility use of artificial intelligence, noting that AI systems “create risk for organizations” but are also increasingly used to perform basic tasks. The Sept. 17 order requires electric, gas and water utilities to respond within 60 days with “a written inventory report that describes all use cases of AI systems in their operations.” Consolidated Edison, which serves New York City, said it uses AI for a range of uses, including customer service and system inspections. “As technology evolves, we will continue to evaluate opportunities,” a spokesperson said in an email to Utility Dive. Public utilities are increasingly using AI systems for day-to-day operations, and New York regulators are concerned they are “susceptible to hallucinations, algorithmic biases, transparency issues, data privacy concerns, misconfiguration errors, cybersecurity attacks, and functional brittleness.” “These potential risks may have negative consequences for the safety and reliability of New York’s critical infrastructure,” they said. The PSC’s order directs utilities to file “a complete inventory” of all AI use cases in their operations and ... Continue Reading »

Citizenship Is Not A Product: Rubio Hits Birth-Tourism Fixers After SCOTUS Blocked Broader Ban The United States is no longer pretending that a tourist visa plus a delivery room equals a legitimate path to American citizenship. On September 23, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a new visa-restriction policy under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act aimed at the people who actually run the business: owners and managers of commercial birth-tourism networks, visa "fixers" who coach applicants to lie, foreign medical providers who arrange the trips and allegedly tap Medicaid, and anyone else who knowingly enables the trade. Family members of those targets can be swept in as well. In short, people selling packages to facilitate US entry are on notice (perhaps they should focus on EB-5s like the Kushners).These foreign commercial networks advertise U.S. citizenship as a package - collecting tens of thousands of dollars to coach clients on what to say at the consulate, book housing near hospitals, and deliver a passport-eligible infant. The State Department's position is that this is fraud against the immigration system, not "tourism." With six weeks until midterms, Rubio's announcement follows of President Trump's August 6 Executive ... Continue Reading »