Upcoming Trump–Xi Summit Is Really An AI Summit Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, When President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet at the White House on Sept. 24, the public agenda will be much larger than artificial intelligence (AI). Trade, semiconductors, rare earths, Taiwan, and other disputes will all be on the table. But AI is different. Trade agreements can be renegotiated. Tariffs can be […]

Minnesota’s Anti-ICE Relief Fund Shut Down Due To Rampant Fraud Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses “harmed” by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement […]

US Bans Palestinian Authority President From Attending UN, But Admits Iranians Via Middle East Eye The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign ministry on Thursday condemned the US decision to bar Palestinian officials from attending the UN General Assembly for a second year in a row. The US has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, repeating a move that drew […]

China’s Stealth Fighters Take Shape As Great Powers Risk Sliding From Economic War Into Shooting War Against a backdrop of resource nationalism, Beijing surrounding Taiwan with a record number of ships and raising blockade risks, an ongoing trade war, and President Trump challenging BRICS, the US military is disrupting China’s access to cheap crude oil from countries such as Venezuela and Iran. This is merely the US response after […]

Israel Seeks ‘Compensation’ From Washington Over Saudi F-35 Sale Via The Cradle, Israel is expected to seek “compensation” from the US in the form of weapons systems that Washington has so far declined to sell to Tel Aviv, in response to US plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a $25 billion deal, Walla reported on 18 September. (Photo credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jerreht Harris) A source familiar with […]

Newsom Whips Out Wiener’s Dystopian “AI Kill Switch” Bill He Vetoed In 2024 Gavin Newsom spent Friday morning getting in on the scramble to control AI. Executive Order N-9-26 “advances the creation of an AI kill switch” and tells California to hustle on third-party oversight of frontier labs. All he had to do was dust off Scott Wiener’s kill switch bill he vetoed two years ago after the industry pushed back. SB 1047, Wiener’s […]

Trump Signs Memo To Remove Canadian Goods From US Federal Procurement Authored by Jason G. Antonio via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum directing the removal of Canadian-origin goods from the federal civil procurement system, following through on a commitment he made earlier this month. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2026. Saul Loeb / […]

Flock Camera Ping Jails Innocent Woman For 13 Days Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A 23-year-old Palm Coast Florida woman spent 13 days in a Volusia County jail cell facing life in prison after Florida Highway Patrol troopers treated a Flock Safety camera hit like a confession. Lindsey Brooke Isaacs did not cause the crash. Her black Dodge Durango had no collision damage. A 911 caller had already described a maroon […]

Late Friday Trump Bombshell: US Makes Deal For ‘Permanent Control’ Over Greenland’s Security President Trump late in the day Friday issued a lengthy, and absolutely bombshell and historic (if true) Greenland-related post on Truth Social, after a long relative silence on what was early on a core priority of his administration. He has announced that United States has entered into a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland to […]

Senate Democrat Blocks Immediate Passage Of House-Passed Data Center Utility Rate Bill Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, A Senate Democrat on Sept. 17 blocked Republicans from moving to immediate passage on the Ratepayer Protection Act, a House-passed law that would encourage states to require data centers to pay for their own energy costs. The U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The bill […]

WW3 Near-Miss? AI Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Components Aboard Chinese Vessel Bound For Iran Could runaway artificial intelligence (AI) spark a future WW3? We don’t need movies like Terminator 2 and its SkyNet to help us imagine this, it’s 2026 and there is already a terrifying real-world precedent that could have kicked off a shooting war with nuclear-armed China. A human analyst within the US intelligence community utilized […]

Minnesota Authorities Arrest ICE Agent On State Assault Warrant In January Shooting Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent wanted on state charges of assault and false reporting was arrested Wednesday in downtown Minneapolis eight months after the shooting of a Venezuelan man during an immigration enforcement operation. Protesters gather at the Bishop Whipple Federal […]

Huge Parallel Pro-Iran Demonstrations Take Over Sanaa & Tehran  Parallel protests were held in Tehran and Sanaa on Friday – both involving Shia populations expressing defiance at the US-Saudi-Israel axis, at a moment the region is on fire and Iran and its proxies seek to assert dominance and control over global energy transit chokepoints. All the while American bases and forces are largely in retreat, as even Pentagon internal […]

Trump Signs Sweeping Russia Sanctions Bill Into Law, Shrugging Off Kremlin Update(1837ET): That was fast, and on what’s ended up being a busy late Friday afternoon at the White House – President Trump has signed the Russia sanctions bill into law, according to the White House. “The new law, the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, lets the president impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest purchasers […]

No Benefits: Why Most Americans Hate The Idea Of AI Data Centers Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In recent months I’ve been asked by numerous readers to give my take on the AI data center issue and the debate it has ignited across the US. In response, I’ve jumped into a steep learning curve, but it seems to parallel information I’ve covered in previous articles on AI. From what I can tell, both political parties […]

Shocker: AI-Exposed College Majors Linked To Weaker Employment And Pay, Study Finds Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The rise of artificial intelligence coincides with a sharp deterioration in initial earnings and employment for graduates of the college majors most exposed to the technology, according to a new study. A job seeker meets with a recruiter during a job fair at the Carson Event Center in Carson, Calif., on June […]

Holdout Clancy Juror Lawyers Up, Goes Into Hiding Attorney Edward Paltzik said Thursday that he is representing Michael Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, who would not agree that Clancy was not criminally responsible for strangling her three children in January 2023. According to Paltzik, Desronvil has relocated to an undisclosed location in northern New England after his refusal to join the […]

Trump Bans CNN, MSNBC And Politico From White House Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Sept. 18 said he has banned three news outlets from the White House. Trump said on Truth Social that he was, effective immediately, banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House “as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” The president added: “Media Outlets shouldn’t be […]

The Pathocracy Of Women In The Democratic Party Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, “The female mind – especially in matters of political significance – struggles with understanding authority and rule enforcement.” – JD Haltigan on X You know the midterm election is a struggle session testing whether our country wants to be sane or insane. Of course, this raises the question: what’s so great about being […]

Midwest Braces For Diesel Crisis After Exxon’s Joliet Refinery Suffers Disruption A major refinery in the US Midwest went offline this week after a power outage, adding to global refining disruptions as US diesel prices reach record highs. One of the largest diesel refineries in the Midwest is offline pic.twitter.com/JSwuHrNfBw — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 18, 2026 Exxon Mobil shut its 275,000-barrel-a-day Joliet refinery […]

US Drops Venezuela From List Of Countries Failing To Combat Drug-Trafficking Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times, The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries that it says have failed to demonstrably combat drug trafficking, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday. In a statement, Trump said he may also consider removing Colombia – with whom Venezuela shares a long, open border – as well as […]

“Viva México!”: DSA Shoo-In For NYC House Seat Goes ‘Mexico First,’ Hails “Comrades In Morena” A radical Democratic Socialists of America candidate who is poised to waltz into a deep-blue New York House seat used Mexican Independence Day to all but declare that she is Mexico First. Claire Valdez, a card-carrying DSA member and New York State Assemblywoman who secured the Democrat nomination for the state’s 7th Congressional […]

4 Charged With Fraud Involving Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars For Homelessness Aid Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, Federal prosecutors in California on Sept. 16 announced charges against four people who are accused of diverting millions of taxpayer dollars meant for homeless housing and services to fund lavish lifestyles, including a new nightclub and bingo hall. The defendants accused in the separate schemes include […]

America Is Using The Wrong Artificial Intelligence Scoreboard Authored by Paul Meeks via RealClearMarkets, Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, America has kept score in the artificial intelligence race by asking which lab has the best model. Unfortunately, that scoreboard is dangerously incomplete. Frontier capability matters, but temporary benchmark leads do not by themselves create durable technological dominance by any […]

China Rare Earth Giant Eyes Takeover Of MP Materials’ Seventh-Largest Shareholder As Resource War Intensifies One way to view the Reuters report saying that state-owned China Rare Earth Group is in takeover talks with Shenghe Resources is that the deal could further cement Beijing’s control over critical materials, especially rare earths. But what’s most intriguing is that Shenghe holds a minority stake in US rare earth producer MP […]