Federal Judge Orders DHS Not To Obey Order From Another Judge Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on July 8 said the Trump administration must not comply with an order from another federal judge and must continue to have key functions of an immigration database disabled. The Department of Homeland Security building in Washington on March 25, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Judge Sparkle […]

Three Reasons Gas Prices Are Likely To Remain Elevated The US national average for regular 87-octane gasoline remained uncomfortably above the politically sensitive $4-per-gallon threshold for roughly two and a half months. That stretch pressured lower-income consumers, forcing many to trade down or cut discretionary spending while weighing on broader consumer sentiment. The key question now is whether pump prices have further room […]

World’s First Commercial Nuclear-Powered Satellite Set For Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket Authored by Mrigakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, Miami-based City Labs is all set to launch the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite into orbit. NanoTritium battery Citi Labs Solar panels have some challenges. When a satellite slips into the shadow of the Earth, hits a permanently dark lunar crater, or drifts into deep […]

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Illinois Ban On ‘Assault Weapons’ Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on July 9 upheld Illinois’s ban on the sale and possession of “assault weapons” and large capacity magazines, overturning a lower court ruling that had blocked enforcement of the law. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act into law in January 2023 after a […]

SK Hynix ADRs Open At $170, Tapping Wall Street Liquidity To Fuel Korea’s AI Memory Boom Summary: SK Hynix’s ADR Open at $170 SK Hynix Chairman Tells Bloomberg “Demand Will Be Exponentially Growing In Future”  SK Hynix’s ADRs Set to Open $175  SK Hynix’s ADRs Set to Open at $181, 22% Premium Above $149 Offering Price  SK Hynix ADRs Priced At 3% Premium As Wall Street Readies Wave Of Leveraged ETFs SK Hynix’s ADR Open at […]

Watch: New Video Shows McConnell Wheeled Out On Stretcher After June Cardiac Emergency At D.C. Home New video shows emergency responders loading Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) onto a stretcher and into an ambulance outside his Capitol Hill residence on the morning of June 14, the same day the longtime Senate Republican leader was hospitalized. The neighbor-recorded footage, first published Friday by CNN, depicts emergency vehicles – […]

RFK Jr. Plans To Create A List Of Injuries Caused By COVID-19 Vaccines Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health officials are proposing a plan to clarify which COVID-19 vaccine side effects would be eligible for government financial compensation, according to a new notice. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Minneapolis on May 21, 2026. David Berding/Getty Images The Department of Health and Human Services […]

Mitsubishi Motors Joins Physical AI Race With Humanoid Robot Production Deal Mitsubishi Motors shares surged as much as 17% in Tokyo on Friday after the automaker unveiled a deal with the University of Tokyo startup Highlanders to mass-produce humanoid robots, signaling a push beyond its core automotive business and reinforcing a broader trend we have highlighted that could sweep across the global auto industry. Highlanders signed […]

UAE Oil Output Hits All-Time High, Doubling Pre-Crisis Levels Confirming reports from earlier this week, the latest estimates from the International Energy Agency signaled that the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which unexpectedly quit OPEC earlier this year in a shock move that threatened the cohesion of OPEC, produced 4.1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil in June, its highest output ever. The UAE’s crude oil production […]

IEA Warns Escalation In US-Iran Hostilities Could Upend Oil Surplus Forecast Despite the tentative recovery of oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz and the first build-up in global stocks since the war began, this week’s re-escalation of the U.S.-Iran hostilities could flip the outlook for an oil market surplus for next year, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.  Oil prices have plunged since the United States and […]

No Takers, Nor Tankers By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank Daily crossings through the Strait of Hormuz increased substantially after the US and Iran announced a “peace” agreement in mid-June. However, those numbers have started to dwindle as the ceasefire—peacefire, shmeasefire—appears increasingly shaky. According to Bloomberg, the Joint Maritime Information Center said that traffic through the […]

Guns Fall Silent As Trump Says US-Iran Talks On Again, But Insists ‘In No Uncertain Terms, Ceasefire Is OVER’ The guns have actually been silent in the Middle East overnight, after two days of deadly strikes between the United States and Iran, amid a general return to premarket open headlines of ‘peace imminent again’ as mediators desperately work to get diplomacy back on track. The White House position is that the ceasefire is over […]

Trump Refuses To Sign Landmark Housing Bill In Protest Over Stalled Elections Legislation President Donald Trump declared Friday morning that he won’t sign the sweeping bipartisan housing bill awaiting action on his desk in protest of the Senate’s failure to pass his signature elections legislation. Unless the president issues an outright veto by midnight, however, the housing package will become law Saturday without his signature. […]

Polymarket Seeks Approval To Bring Margin Trading To U.S. Customers Authored by Olivier Acuna via CoinDesk, Prediction market Polymarket applied for a license to offer U.S. users margin trading, enabling them to place bets with less upfront capital, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Polymarket takes another step in its return to the U.S. (Kanchanara/Unsplash) Polymarket’s U.S. affiliate, Coming Home GBA LLC, filed for a futures […]

Ryanair Passenger Partially Sucked Out Of Plane After Window Shatters A 61-year-old Serbian man was almost sucked out of a Ryanair flight after a piece of the plane’s engine broke off and struck a window on the Boeing 737-800, causing it to shatter.  The man’s wife and other passengers pinned the man to his seat for five minutes as his “head and shoulders” were hanging outside the plane, which had left Greece’s Macedonia airport […]

“GPIF To The Rescue?” Yen Jumps After Japan Urges Pension Funds To Invest More At Home After a relentless collapse in the yen to a 40 year lows, the trajectory was finally dented overnight when Japan’s finance minister called for the nation’s massive pension funds to increase investments in domestic assets, boosting the yen from near four-decade lows and spurring a rally in bonds. “One priority is to encourage households, as […]

JPMorgan Says The Real Threat To Bitcoin Isn’t Strategy (MSTR), It’s Private Blockchains Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, Strategy’s recent bitcoin sales and its formal monetization program have rattled investors, but JPMorgan analysts see a bigger danger to bitcoin: blockchain adoption that routes around public networks and the tokens that ride on them. In a report led by managing director Nikolaos […]

Trump Took Old Air Force One To Leave Turkey As Security Measure: White House Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s departure from the NATO summit in Turkey aboard the old Air Force One was a “distraction and misdirection” intended to address threats against him. The decision to have Trump travel aboard the old Air Force One aircraft came after Trump said […]

Futures Flat As Traders Brace For Weekend Iran Escalation US equity futures are flat on the final trading session of the week, with Tech lagging, as traders hold off on big bets ahead of the weekend, with the fragile truce in the Middle East keeping geopolitical risk front of mind. Overnight, the US said Iran talks will continue, a positive step amid the recent escalation near the Strait of Hormuz (then again the market never […]

France Pushes Syria Strategic Energy Corridor Vision Despite Bombing During Macron Visit Via The Cradle French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Thursday said that Paris is developing “alternative routes” following a return to war between the US and Iran, singling out Syria as a primary gateway to Persian Gulf oil. “Among all the efforts we have made since the start of this crisis, there is the idea of preparing alternative […]