US, EU Release Details Of Trade Deal The US and European Union finally laid out the details of their recently announced trade deal which reduces tariffs on European automobiles while opening the door to new potential discounts for steel and aluminum. The joint statement issued this morning represents an advancement of the preliminary deal announced a month ago, and includes specific benchmarks for the EU to secure its promised […]

Robbed, Punched, And Pistol-Whipped – A White House Reporter’s Account Of Crime In DC Authored by Iris Tao via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary The latest move by the White House to crack down on crime in Washington prompted me to reflect on a harrowing moment from my own life – the morning I was robbed at gunpoint just steps from my apartment. White House reporter Iris Tao at the White House in Washington on March 26, […]

Initial Claims Unexpectedly Jump As Continuing Claims Surge To Four-Year Highs On Deep Tri-State Misery One week after initial claims printed at the same level (224k) where they were at in Nov 2021 (with non-seasonally adjusted claims hovering near record lows), moments ago the BLS reported that claims jumped in the last week, rising by 11k to 235K, the highest since June 20. Curiously the jump in seasonally adjusted claims took […]

“Too Expensive And Risky”: Bed Bath & Beyond Explains Why It Won’t Operate Stores In “Overregulated” California Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, The chairman of the resurrected home goods chain Bed Bath & Beyond announced on Aug. 20 that the company would not open or operate retail stores in California, calling it overregulated, expensive, and risky. “This decision isn’t about politics—it’s […]

Futures Slide For Fifth Day As Jackson Hole Jitters Rise US equity futures dropped, extending the recent selloff into its fifth day, as traders stayed guarded ahead of the Federal Reserve’s gathering at Jackson Hole. As of 8:00am, S&P 500 futures fell 0.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures were flat after a two-day selloff that erased 2% off the index. In premarket trading, Nvidia rose 0.8% while most Magnificent Seven peers posted […]

Walmart Lifts Outlook, But Profit Miss Drags Shares Lower Ahead of the Jackson Hole central bank summit in Wyoming, beginning later today through Saturday, investors are parsing Walmart’s earnings.  The world’s largest retailer delivered stronger-than-expected revenue last quarter and raised its full-year outlook. This is a reassuring sign that consumers remain resilient despite inflation, tariffs, and elevated interest rates. […]

Coty Tanks As Fragile Turnaround Delayed On Perfume Sales Slump  Coty shares crashed in premarket trading after the beauty giant warned of a deeper sales slump this quarter and posted a steeper-than-expected loss for the fourth quarter. The beauty company, which develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes cosmetics, fragrances, and skincare products, warned that like-for-like sales, which measure revenue from existing […]

Amid Mortgage Fraud Allegations, Fed Governor Cook Says Won’t Be “Bullied” To Step Down Update (1730ET): It took all day but Fed Governor Lisa Cook finally offered a response to allegations that she committed mortgage fraud (in order to get better rates, ironically!). Of course, she played the victim card immediately and offered up future ‘facts’… “I have no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of […]

Interviews To Replace Fed Chair To Start After Labor Day, Bessent Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Potential candidate interviews for the post of the new Federal Reserve chairman will be happening soon, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an Aug. 19 interview with CNBC. “In terms of the interview process, we’ve announced 11 very strong candidates,“ Bessent said, without providing any more […]

Visualizing Federal Layoffs Under Trump Does cutting government headcount make it work more effectively? From firing inspectors-general, to mass layoffs in the Department of Education, the federal workforce is being scaled back. So far, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of 12 of these terminations, while scores of workers are leaving voluntarily. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows Trump’s federal […]

Alcohol Consumption In The U.S. Falls To Record Low A new Gallup poll shows only 54 percent of U.S. adults now drink alcohol — the lowest level in the survey’s 90-year history. Those who do drink also report consuming less, according to the NY Times. Drinking had remained at or above 60 percent for decades but dropped to 58 percent in 2024 before hitting this year’s record low. Gallup also found, for the first time, that most […]

The Germans Are Invading Poland (This Time With Real Estate Investment Capital) Via Remix News, Polish media outlets and some citizens are lamenting German real estate investors who are swooping into the Polish city of Wrocław and buying up 1,486 apartments, after an agreement was signed on Aug. 16 of this year. However, Wrocław is only one city, and across the country, these same German investors are buying up 5,300 parents in […]

Switzerland Says It Won’t Arrest Putin If He Enters For Peace Summit Switzerland would offer diplomatic immunity to Russian President Vladimir Putin if he were to travel there for potential peace negotiations with Ukraine, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis announced Tuesday. “We have always expressed our willingness, but of course it depends on the major powers’ willingness to engage,” Cassis stated, after Monday’s White House […]

Watch: Man Arrested In UK For Saying “We Love Bacon” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A British man has been arrested for saying “we love bacon” while protesting the building of a proposed giant mosque. The Telegraph reports that the protest occurred at the site of planned super mosque in the Lake District, which is populated by an almost 100% white population. The report further notes that the 23-year-old man, […]

While MSM Screamed “Climate Crisis”, Arctic Ice Loss Actually Slowed  What the globalist corporate media once smeared as “conspiracy theory” and branded “misinformation” has turned out to be true: the climate crisis was merely an imaginary problem and an informational war on the minds of the taxpayer. Why all the propaganda? Give Democrats cover for a massive heist of the U.S. Treasury, laundering taxpayer dollars through […]

Tusk Ridiculously Blamed Putin For A Bandera Flag Scandal In Poland’s Largest Stadium Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Many military-aged Ukrainian men in Poland are anti-Polish extremists who pose a latent security threat… Poles were furious after the flag of Stepan Bandera’s “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” was recently flown in a Warsaw stadium, the country’s largest, during a Belarusian rapper’s concert. After […]

Sen. Klobuchar Denies Saying Sydney Sweeney Has ‘Perfect Titties’ Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has taken to the NY Times to slam “deepfakes” – after a video emerged in which she appears to declare that Sydney Sweeney has ‘perfect titties.’ (also, definitely don’t go on X and search for “perfect titties”)…  “The A.I. deepfake featured me using the phrase ‘perfect t-tties’ and lamenting that Democrats were “too fat to […]

We Need To Rethink AI Before It Destroys What It Means To Be Human Authored by Jeff Dornik via American Greatness, America was built on the foundational belief that every man is created in the image of God with purpose, responsibility, and the liberty to chart his own course. We were not made to be managed. We were not made to be obsolete. But that is exactly the future Big Tech is building under the banner of Artificial […]

From Fiat Everything To Real Everything Authored by Josh Stylman via Substack, Why Old-World Values Are the Ultimate Modern Rebellion The infrastructure is now visible to those willing to see it. The systematic replacement of natural systems with artificial ones has reached into every domain—money, food, health, education, information. What began as isolated changes has revealed itself as a coordinated operation: the complete […]

“First True Taste Of Fall”: Might Need A Jacket Next Week Hurricane Erin dominates today’s weather headlines, bringing rough surf and tropical conditions from the Outer Banks to the Mid-Atlantic. Looking ahead, fall may arrive earlier -or at least the first taste – than expected as August winds down and kids head back to school. “Abnormally strong trough expected to move through the Great Lakes as we go into next week… first time […]

Meta Freezes Hiring In AI Division Weeks after reports that Meta was offering $100 million signing bonuses to poach OpenAI talent, it turns out the social media giant’s chatbot ambitions aren’t panning out so well – as the company has frozen hiring in its artificial intelligence division, according to the Wall Street Journal.  The freeze, which began last week, is part of a broader restructuring within the AI group – and […]

Israel Calls Up 60,000 Reservists Ahead Of Gaza City Takeover Israeli media is reporting that around 60,000 Israeli reservists are set to receive call-up orders on Wednesday as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) gear up for a major assault on Gaza City. A report in Times of Israel notes that reservists will have up to two weeks before going to their duty stations, but not all will be directly involved in the Gaza City offensive, as […]

​​​​​​​Rogue Leftist Group Creates Target List Of Trump-Linked Billionaires For Its Foot Soldiers   ​​​​​​​ Submitted by Forward Observer,  The Department of Class Solidarity, an emerging left-wing activist group, launched a project to “audit” and track over 1,000 billionaires across the U.S. Their stated goal is not financial transparency, but political warfare: to document billionaire ties to […]

Court Upholds Nearly $1 Million Fine Against Restaurant That Ignored Pandemic Indoor Dining Ban A Washington state restaurant that ignored a 2020 state COVID-19 pandemic order must pay a fine of $936,000 – $18,000 per day, for each day it remained in operation while the state’s emergency order banning indoor dining was in place, an appeals court has ruled. Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to reporters in Seattle on March […]

Woman Arrested, Charged After Threatening To Kill Trump Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A woman who threatened to kill President Donald Trump has been arrested and charged, federal prosecutors announced on Aug. 18. U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times “I literally told FBI in five states today that I am willing to sacrificially kill this […]