NHTSA Begins Work On New Car Door-Handle Rules After Bloomberg’s Tesla Report Auto-safety regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will begin considering new federal requirements for vehicle door handles and emergency-release systems following a series of deadly incidents in which occupants became trapped after electrically operated doors lost power. NHTSA said an inaccessible or difficult-to-locate […]

US Lays Groundwork For Approving Offshore Nuclear Power Projects Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, The U.S. federal government has outlined a preliminary framework to oversee the approval of offshore nuclear power projects, advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda to safely unleash domestic energy production and reestablish the United States as the global leader in nuclear energy. Birds fly along the Pacific Ocean near […]

Watch: Ukraine, Iran Tensions Run High In Rare Rubio-Lavrov Meeting A US delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio is holding three day closed-door talks with Russia on the sidelines of an annual gathering by foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Manila. The high point came in a rare direct Rubio-Lavrav meeting, where the US top diplomat said Russia should have the incentive to end a […]

Gov. Hochul Responds To Criticism, Explains Rationale For AI Data Center Moratorium Authored by Oliver Mantyk via The Epoch Times, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul had an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on July 21 responding to the publication’s criticisms of her decision to halt data centers of a certain size from being built in her state. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in New York City on March 19, 2026. Michael M. […]

Sen. Cruz Says GM Pushed The China Car Ban Provision That Would Also Knock Out Mercedes-Benz The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the bill unanimously. Its chairman voted yes and then accused a Detroit automaker of writing part of it to remove a German competitor. People look at a BYD Seagull car by Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD Auto at the Bangkok International Motor Show in Nonthaburi on March 27, 2024. Lillian […]

Trump “Close” To Ordering “Massive Attack Greater Than Anything Before” On Iran Summary Trump escalates warnings of “massive attack”: Trump threatened to hold Iran responsible for future Houthi attacks and said he is “close” to ordering a massive new strike (Axios interview). Houthis escalate: The Houthis threatened Saudi Aramco after attacking two Saudi oil tankers and expanding their blockade of Saudi shipping. […]

Saudis On Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand: ‘Tweets Don’t Overturn Signed Deals’ Update(1258ET): Saudi unnamed officials are pushing back, as expected… After President Trump earlier this morning in a Truth Social post asserted that the already signed US-Saudi nuclear deal would actually be conditioned on Riyadh joining the Abraham Accords, journalist Laura Rozen quotes an unnamed Saudi source who says Trump’s demand is too […]

Energy Department Issues Emergency Order As Hot Weather Conditions Threaten Blackouts The Department of Energy (DOE) issued an emergency order authorizing Southwest Power Pool Inc. to use certain energy resources to reduce the risk of potential blackouts, according to a July 21 statement from the department. Electrical transmission poles and lines in Commerce, Calif., on Aug. 7, 2025. Mike Blake/Reuters The order, issued on July 20 […]

Boasberg’s Law: Chief District Court Judge Under Renewed Scrutiny Over Pattern Of Unilateral Actions Authored by Jonathan Turley, Chief Judge James Boasberg is frustrated … and he is not alone. Recently, the D.C. federal judge reportedly “groused” that the D.C. appellate court had ordered him to reconsider a case about whether the D.C. government engaged in biased enforcement against political graffiti. Conversely, the […]

SpaceX Meltdown Vaporizes $1 Trillion In Market Cap As Stock, Bonds Crater SpaceX’s Tuesday rebound was short-lived, with shares sliding to a new low of $110.85 late Thursday morning and extending their brutal post-IPO selloff. At a current market capitalization of roughly $1.479 trillion, SpaceX has erased about $1.16 trillion, or 44%, since its valuation peaked at $2.639 trillion on June 23. Shares are also trading well below […]

This American Drone-Motor Company Is Positioned For “Massive Procurement Tailwind” Looking at the state of modern warfare, H.C. Wainwright analyst Amit Dayal initiated Unusual Machines with a “Buy” rating, telling clients the drone-part maker is emerging as a key player in “anchoring the US drone industry’s sovereign supply chain.” Dayal called UMAC a “pure-play, American-made, NDAA-compliant drone-component manufacturer” that is […]

“Closing Time” On The AI Bubble Is Sooner Than Most Think; Ed Dowd Warns Iran War Brings Global Recession Closer Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Wall Street money manager and financial analyst Ed Dowd of PhinanceTechnologies.com warned at the end of May we could see “$250 a barrel oil and 11% inflation as a worst-case scenario in 2026.”  That didn’t happen… yet.  Dowd explains, “We had two scenarios when we […]

Software Vendor Fires Back At NJ Governor Over Noncitizen Voting Scandal New Jersey’s noncitizen voter registration scandal has taken an uncomfortable turn for Gov. Mikie Sherrill, and the vendor she blamed for it is no longer taking the fall quietly. IDEMIA, the French multinational that has worked with New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle Commission for more than 40 years, is refusing to play the role assigned to it. What the company is […]

Jim Jordan Refers Jack Smith To DOJ For Possible Prosecution Authored by Bryan S. Jung via PJ Media, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has formally referred former Special Counsel Jack Smith to the Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecution, alleging that Smith made false statements under oath to Congress about the scope of his investigation into President Donald Trump. According […]

White House Accuses Moonshot AI Of Distilling Anthropic Tech For K3 Authored by Felix Ng via CoinTelegraph.com, A White House official accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic’s Fable AI model to develop Kimi K3, which launched last week. In a post on X on Wednesday, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios alleged the Chinese AI firm developed an internal platform to distill US models […]

Crop Prices Hit 3-Year High As Heat & War Stoke Supply Fears; Options Whale Places $20M Corn Bet The Bloomberg Agriculture Spot Index (BCOMAGSP) climbed to a three-year high Wednesday as widening conflict across critical energy and grain trade corridors, from the Black Sea to the Strait of Hormuz and the southern Red Sea, collided with scorching heat waves across Europe and the US and mounting El Niño risks in critical agri […]

AIpocalypse No! Initial Jobless Claims Collapse To Lowest Since 1969 Amid ongoing exclamations of an AIpocalypse in the jobs market, the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time crashed to just 187k last week (well below expectations)… That is the lowest since 1969… Additionally, continuous jobless claims tumbled back below 1.8mm (1.796mm) Americans… Zero signs of labor market stress in any […]

ECB Keeps Rates Unchanged (As Expected), Warns ‘Full Energy Inflationary Shock Yet To Come’ The European Central Bank  kept its key deposit rate unchanged at 2.25 percent and said it was “closely monitoring” the inflationary impact of fresh conflict in the Middle East. The ECB reiterated it won’t pre-commit but act one meeting at a time based on information as it arrives. “Uncertainty remains high and the full inflationary […]

Elon Vows AI-Made ‘Odyssey’ After Blasting Nolan’s Take On Homer Via American Greatness, Elon Musk says he’ll beat Hollywood at its own game, pledging that his artificial intelligence venture will produce a full-length film of Homer’s “The Odyssey” by year’s end, one he insists will stay faithful to the ancient text in a way Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation has not. Musk, believed to be the first […]

Futures Slide After Google Earnings, Oil & Bond Yields Jump On Houthi Escalation US equity futures are lower as WTI breaches $90/bbl and Brent approaches $100/bbl (Houthi escalation in the Red Sea as two Saudi tankers were struck), pushing bond yields higher with longer-dated yields seen making new highs, globally. But, Alphabet’s underwhelming results – while dragging down Mag7 names – are boosting Semis / AI (CapEx spend) […]

Nestle Shares Plunge Most Since Dot-Com Bust As Weak Volume Shatters High Hopes Of Turnaround Nestlé shares in Switzerland tumbled the most in 24 years after North American sales volumes unexpectedly contracted, undercutting investor confidence in CEO Philipp Navratil’s turnaround efforts. Organic sales rose a better-than-expected 3.7% in the second quarter, but real internal growth in North America fell 0.6%, while an infant […]

RBC Commodities Chief Warns “War Entering Dangerous Phase” As Chokepoint Chaos Risks Oil Above 2008 Peak Brent crude futures rose nearly 5% to the mid-$98-a-barrel range after tanker attacks near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait threatened another critical maritime chokepoint as the Strait of Hormuz remained partially disrupted. Tankers are again turning away from the southern Red Sea, reversing a recovery in traffic following the 2023 […]

To The Woke Woodshed: Burnham Is Funding UK Populism By Liquidating The Progressive Project Andy Burnham has been UK Prime Minister for three days, and he has already settled into a routine: announce something cheap for households in the morning, pay for it by killing a progressive unicorn.  The tally so far: Monday, within hours of kissing rings at the Palace, Burnham signaled he would fast-track oil and gas development in the […]

Trump Suggests He May Restart Bombing Yemen Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, President Trump on Tuesday suggested he could restart a bombing campaign in Yemen in response to the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, enforcing a blockade on the Red Sea. Trump’s comments came after Ansar Allah announced a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, which came a week after the Saudis bombed Yemen’s Sanaa airport to prevent the […]

Wildberries – Russia’s Amazon – Has Seen Four Major Hubs Attacked In Quick Succession Wildberries, which is widely referenced as ‘Russia’s Amazon’, has seen four of its top ten distribution hubs attacked by Ukrainian long-range drones in only a matter of days, potentially putting their business operations in doubt. Stunning footage is widely circulating Wednesday of some of the latest attacks, which came overnight. A large fire […]