Politician Busted After FBI Finds $62,900 Buried In His Backyard A Southern California corruption case unraveled in dramatic fashion after federal agents discovered tens of thousands of dollars hidden underground at the home of a longtime local politician, according to the NY Post. Ricardo Pacheco, a former Baldwin Park councilman, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for taking bribes while in office. Investigators recovered […]

Russia Hoaxers Quiet About Canadian Election Interference Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, As President Trump has repeatedly pointed out, the Canadian government embraces a peculiar notion of national sovereignty: It depends upon the U.S. military for security and expects to sell its domestic products to Americans as if Canada were just another U.S. state. At the same time, it insists on censoring American sources of […]

China-Linked Activist Network Preparing To Activate Against Carney’s Rare-Earths Push Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper (emphasis our own), The Ring of Fire sits about 500 kilometers northeast of Thunder Bay in the muskeg of Ontario’s James Bay Lowlands, on Treaty 9 territory. Prospectors found it in 2007 and named it after a Johnny Cash song. Beneath the peat moss lies the Canadian Shield, deeply seamed with nickel and […]

Iran’s Pezeshkian Gets Red Carpet Treatment Alongside Putin, Xi, Modi & Erdogan At Eurasian Summit Given the Trump administration’s shift from a military campaign against Iran to primarily one that seeks economic ‘strangulation’ and isolation – there’s been a big diplomatic push by the White House to get regional allies on board. But the early case remains that reactions from other Gulf allies have so far been muted, after […]

The Long Shadow Of Judge Indira Talwani Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, Below is my column in The Hill on the latest controversy from the chambers of Judge Indira Talwani. While the court could be upheld in halting the executive order on mail-in balloting in this case, Talwani is one of a number of jurists who have been habitual blockers of executive reforms and policies. Talwani has been criticized in the past as […]

‘Betrayal’: Internal Pentagon Spat Emerges Over Leaked Middle East Deployment Plans A number of US military top generals have taken the rare step of formally registering warnings to Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth over potential plans for a new phase of strikes against a non-compliant Iran.  The warnings reportedly emerged through the Secretary of Defense Orders Book, which enumerates the availability of US military resources and […]

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll Submits Resignation Amid Tensions With Hegseth Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is out. Early Monday evening The Wall Street Journal is the first to break the news, describing that he submitted his resignation to President Trump, following months of tensions with Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth. Some national security sources have already been quoted as saying the development is “unsurprising” – with the WSJ […]

Universities Could Lose Foreign-Student Certification Over Internship Rule Violations, Trump Admin Says Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a memo to universities aimed at restricting certain internship work authorizations for international students. Officials cautioned that schools failing to comply could have their certification to enroll foreign students revoked. A […]

Take-Two Tumbles Most In Months As BofA Calls Grand Theft Auto Reveal “Impressive, But Unlikely To Surprise” Take-Two Interactive shares plunged the most in nearly seven months on Monday as investors weighed a series of “Grand Theft Auto VI” leaks in recent weeks ahead of the Nov. 19 release.  The leaked clips reportedly expose plot details, character scenes, and gameplay mechanics, prompting Rockstar Games (a studio owned by […]

FDA Authorizes Generic Ivermectin Shot To Prevent Screwworm Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Federal regulators have authorized a generic ivermectin injection for the prevention of New World screwworm in cattle. The Food and Drug Administration on Aug. 27 granted emergency use authorization for Bimectin, the injection, for use within 24 hours of birth. The drug can also be used when castration is performed, or […]

Fauci Told Aide To Delete Email About Risky Research Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci said an aide should delete an email about risky research his agency was funding, according to documents released on Aug. 29 by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). “Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file,” Fauci told Dr. Clifford Lane, a senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and […]

SCOTUS Rules Trump Can Build White House Ballroom, Roberts Joins Dissenting Liberals The U.S. Supreme Court just issued an order allowing construction of President Trump’s White House ballroom project to continue while the administration contests a lower court order that would block much of the development. The justices voted 5–4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three ‘liberal’ judges in dissent) to grant the federal […]

The Fallacy Of Stable Prices Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute, Though Herbert Hoover was a pioneer among presidents in getting the government to “do something” about a depression, he was no maverick. He had the support of distinguished court economists who promoted the idea that stable prices were the key to lasting prosperity. Common sense tells us that if we walk into a store and find prices consistently lower […]

Feminist New York Governor Sports Hijab While Pandering To Muslim Voters New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a self described feminist and “social justice Catholic”, has raised eyebrows this week after appearing in a hijab at an Islamic Cultural School in the Bronx to make statements against “Islamophobia”.  The visit is part of a greater Democrat Party effort to strengthen political alliances with world immigrants and Islamic […]

Oh, Canada? Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, “Carney increasingly reminds me of Fauci. He has that exact same air of technocratic infallibility. . . .” – Hans Mahncke on X You go for decades without even thinking of the place. The Great White North. Very polite people, somewhat Scottish, seems like. There’s poutine! Une invention Québécoise – an indigestible mélange of French fries, gravy, and […]

LA County Steals $5M Fire Relief For ICE-Raid Checks Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, In bombshell findings, Los Angeles County sliced a wildfire housing fund in half and steered the cash toward households claiming income loss from ICE raids, detentions, and deportations – without requiring anyone to disclose immigration status. Taxpayers who watched entire neighborhoods burn in January 2025 now watch the same […]

EU Commandos Board 6th Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker After Putin Threatened Reverse Action Another Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker has been boarded by European forces – and this time the provocative action took place in Mediterranean waters. In a Monday post on X, Kaja Kallas announced the action by troops under the EU’s Operation Irini. They boarded the MV Sun tanker for “flag verification,” following suspicions that the vessel was […]

Trump Mulling New ‘Limited’ Strike Package, After Iranian Attack On Jordan Base Summary Trump vows retaliation, mulls more ‘limited’ strikes after Iran’s own ‘retaliatory’ missile attacks on US bases in Jordan. Eight Iranian missiles were intercepted by Jordan amid the first major tit-for-tat military strikes in a month. US forces struck Iranian missile launchers on Larak Island, reportedly killing two people. Iran threatens […]

Rickards: The Dollar’s Not Dying Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, Last week’s financial media was full of apocalyptic headlines: “$40 trillion in national debt!” “U.S. debt in a doom loop!” “The end of the dollar is near!” Gold and bitcoin soared in lockstep with the dollar doom and gloom. If you took the headlines at face value, one would assume the dollar was already toast and U.S. Treasuries were worth no […]

‘You Will Only Have Yourselves To Blame’: Trump Warns Anti-Data-Center Crowd Not To ‘Kill The Golden Goose’ Despite recent polls showing that 70% of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their area (including 60% of Republicans), President Trump on Monday warned that communities that don’t embrace them will “end up being backwards and poor.” “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data […]