How The NYT Hid Big Pharma PR Titan Jack Leslie In Plain Sight Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote one of the most hilarious, misleading pieces I’ve seen in recent months, castigating the NIH for a new vaccine injury clinic based on a leaked statement by Jack Leslie, a senior advisor to the PR firm Weber Shandwick which represents most major vaccine […]

Pezeshkian Now Says Sanctions Must Be Peeled Off Before US Dialogue Returns Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian appeared to add yet another stipulation to Tehran’s growing list of demands that must be met if it is to get back to the negotiating table with the US. Pezeshkian stated that some Washington-led sanctions must be peeled back before direct dialogue can resume again. He voiced that the constantly ratcheting economic […]

Oz Says HHS Is Deferring $1.2 Billion More From California Medicaid Funding Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz announced in the Oval Office on Tuesday that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is deferring an additional $1.2 billion in Medicaid funding from California over concerns of widespread fraud in its state healthcare programs. The federal […]

Donald Trump Jr. Privately Breaks With His Father On Foreign Policy: Report Donald Trump Jr. has privately opposed his father’s war with Iran from the very beginning, even personally confronting President Donald Trump with his objections, according to The Atlantic. Donald Trump Jr. and former President Trump. Photo: Douglas P. DeFelice via Getty ImagesThe president’s eldest son has repeatedly voiced his opposition to the nearly […]

Hochul Weighs Ending $500 Million Medicaid Adult Day Care Program After Fraud Raids Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state Department of Health to consider ending the state’s Medicaid social adult day care benefit. The directive came on the same day that state and federal investigators carried out a crackdown on providers suspected of fraud, and on the same day that Hochul […]

What Could Democrats Do If They Win The Midterms? Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, Even as Republican campaign spending intensifies and the president holds rallies across the country for candidates, many forecasts still look grim for the party in power. Observers from across the political spectrum predict that Democrats will retake the House, and maybe even the Senate. What’s on the agenda if Democrats win […]

Watch: Trump Indicates He Doesn’t Yet View JD Vance As His Successor This was awkward and unexpected, but on Tuesday in front of reporters’ cameras, President Trump refused to commit to endorsing Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028. He shrugged off a direct question about it, saying instead that Republicans first need to get through the midterms. Vance, standing behind the president in the Oval, seemed deeply […]

Elon Musk Reveals Shocking Details About Migrant Austin Shooter Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Elon Musk has confirmed that Ndiaga Diagne, the 53-year-old Senegal-born naturalized citizen who opened fire outside a downtown Austin bar in March and killed three people, was a former Tesla employee at the company’s Gigafactory Texas. Diagne was fired after he violently assaulted a female coworker who accidentally […]

Situational Unawareness: Banks Ran Out Of Room To Lever Up The AI Trade, So They Made More When a bank runs out of room to lend to hedge funds piling into the most crowded trade on the planet, there are two options: stop lending, or find more room. Barclays found more room… According to a Bloomberg exclusive published Tuesday, Barclays (BARC) executives wanted extra capacity to lend more aggressively to hedge fund clients as […]

US Has Revoked More Than 300,000 Visas In Trump’s Second Term Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, More than 300,000 foreign nationals have had their U.S. visas revoked since President Donald Trump entered office for a second term, due to criminal activity, fraud, or threats to national security. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Oct. 20 that the pace of visa revocations by the Trump administration – as it […]

Bloomberg Drops $80 Million On Democrats’ Midterm Push: $24 Million To Everytown, $16 Million To House Majority PAC Michael Bloomberg has sent about $80 million to Democratic causes in September and October, with at least $50 million aimed at House races and roughly $10 million more on the way, according to figures his team gave The New York Times. The filings that would confirm the gifts are not yet public: they are due this week, […]

META Erases Most Afterhours Gains After CFO Warns “Significant Investment” Will Raise Serving Costs Update: We concluded our prompt earnings wrap (below), by saying that the question now is whether Zuck will scare investors on the call by noting that capex may raise much more.” Well, CFO Susan Li did not help the case saying that “Muse’s compute intensity means that expanding its user base will require significant investment, […]

Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To End Hormone Treatments For Transgender Federal Inmates Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court on Oct. 21 declined to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce a policy that would have curtailed transgender treatments in federal prisons. The decision took the form of an unsigned order in Trump v. Kingdom. The court did not explain its ruling. Justices […]

“F**k You And Your Sh**ty Values”: Adam Corolla Unloads On SF Mayor Adam Carolla went after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie in response to a CNN interview last week – telling the mayor: “F**K YOU AND YOUR F**KING SH*TTY VALUES!” Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) speaks to San Francisco Police Chief William Scott while walking through the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, on Jan. 8, 2025. | Godofredo A. Vásquez/APLurie told CNN’s […]

45% Of College Students Justify Violence To Stop ‘Hate Speech’: Survey Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, A new survey finds that nearly half of undergraduate students support censorship, shout-downs, and physical violence to suppress what they consider “hate speech” or offensive ideas. Fox News reports that the 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey, released this month by the Buckley Institute, shows that […]

Tesla Gains On EPS Beat, Crushes FCF Estimates… By Spending $3 Billion Less Than Expected Ahead of today’s print, the Street had braced for Tesla (TSLA) to burn about $5 billion in the quarter. Instead it generated $1.5 billion. Tesla reported Q3 results after the close and, at least at first glance, it was a clean beat: adjusted EPS of 48 cents topped the 44 cent Bloomberg consensus, revenue of $28.05 billion came in bang in […]

“Pure Evil”: Musk Goes Nuclear On Talarico As George W.’s Brother Does 180 In Texas, everything is bigger. That includes the money, the insults and the family feuds. Two weeks before Election Day, with early voting already under way, the most expensive Senate race in US history got its two most viral moments on the same day. Shortly before 2pm ET, the world’s richest man, who has bankrolled much of the GOP effort to save Ken […]

Houthi Attack On Aramco Facility Kills Two; US Prepares More Diplomatic Evacuations In Riyadh Update(1540ET): A corrective from Reuters saying that the earlier alert for some diplomatic staff and their families to depart from the Gulf region actually only pertains to Saudi Arabia, amid the Houthi assault: Earlier, Reuters reported said the US State Department is preparing to issue an ordered departure of some personnel and family […]

BMO Looks Past Winnebago’s Soft RV Outlook, Points To Market Share Gains Winnebago shares jumped in the early cash session as Wall Street analysts shrugged off the weaker-than-expected earnings forecast and instead focused on market share gains across the RV market, as well as the company’s cost-cutting strategy and improving motorhome operations. “Even as market pressure across our segments persisted, we began to see encouraging […]

“Polished But Rough”: First Major Review Casts Doubt On Foldable iPhone Duo’s Mass Adoption Tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, who has more than 21 million subscribers, offered a mixed first take on Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo ahead of its Friday release, describing the device as “very polished around the edges, but kind of rough in the middle.” Brownlee’s review of Apple’s first foldable iPhone may present a hurdle to adoption. At […]

Another Poor, Tailing 20Y Auction: Is This One Of The Last Ones The week’s lone coupon auction took place at 1pm and amid speculation of fireworks at the next Treasury Refunding Announcement in two weeks, when Citi is confident Bessent could announce the end of 20Y auction, it could very well be one of the last sales of 20Y paper for the US. The auction, as most recent 20Y sales, was mediocre: it stopped at a high yield of 5.469%, […]

Oil Slides As Russia Willing To Resume Trilateral Talks With Ukraine, After ‘Productive’ Witkoff Visit The Kremlin has on Wednesday communicated to Trump envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia is “in principle, ready to resume” trilateral negotiations involving the US and Ukraine, toward finding a permanent settlement to the war. Oil prices slipped lower on the report… Witkoff briefed President Putin at Constantine Palace in St. […]

Pollster Cited By NY Times, Other Outlets Admits It’s Fake Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A purported company whose polls were listed by a slew of outlets, including The New York Times, has said that all but one of its surveys were not real. Wedgewood Polling said in a statement on Oct. 20 that it was developed by people who previously worked in the poll sector and wondered how easy it would be for a fabricated […]

Are Bonds Pricing In A Fed Policy Mistake? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Imagine someone looking into their crystal ball and telling you at the beginning of October that the coming September CPI data would be higher than expected, and producer prices (PPI) would rise 1.3% for the month, well above the 0.5% forecast. On top of the bad inflation news, they also said more inflation pressure was brewing, […]

China ‘Already Preparing’ Trilateral Summit With US & Russia, Likely For November: Kremlin There’s lots of talk of big trilateral meetings in the middle of this week, as some major parallel diplomacy is currently happening in St. Petersburg. President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with US special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff has wrapped up, but already China is also in the house. Significantly, Chinese Premier Li Qiang is […]