Why, Oh Why Do They Do This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Viral footage circulating online shows a British man methodically working his way along the streets of his own city with a wheeled bin and litter picker, clearing the rubbish left by others. He is not being paid and not making a political point. He is simply trying to prevent the area from descending into a tip. Remarkably, as he works, foreign shopkeepers and residents repeatedly emerge from their pre...

Russia Answers Drone Attacks With War On Ukrainian Ports, Maritime Shipping The Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) has an 'answer' to Ukraine's recent long-range drone attacks, which have wreaked havoc on oil production and most recently online retailers and manufacturing. Ukraine has also been attacking Russian ships elsewhere in the Black Sea as well as Sea of Azov. The MoD has announced a fresh wave of strikes targeting multiple Ukrainian port installations and Black Sea shipping...

Los Angeles Is Painting Its Streets To Fight Heat Waves Researchers found that coating more than 700,000 square feet of asphalt in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a solar-reflective material helped reduce urban heat, though the benefits came with limitations, according to the Times of India. The project, conducted in Pacoima in the San Fernando Valley and published in Environmental Research Communications, covered roads, parking lots, playgrounds, and basketball courts with a re...

ICE Dismantles SIM Farms In Nationwide Operation Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE's) Homeland Security Investigations carried out a nationwide operation between June 22 and July 10 that dismantled "SIM farms" run by transnational criminal organizations. File photograph of a cell phone sim card at a press conference in Paris, France, on Feb. 25, 2015. Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images SIM (subscriber identity ...

Federal Court Rules For Woman Fired For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Kaiser Permanente wrongly fired an employee who declined to receive a COVID-19 vaccine because she gave proper notice to the company of her religious objection to COVID-19 vaccination, a federal appeals court has ruled. A COVID-19 vaccination in Illinois on Sept. 9, 2022. Scott Olson/Getty Images Mimi Weiss, who worked for Kaiser Permanente's The Permanente Medic...

Detroit Gets Drafted: Ford And GM Head Back To The Battlefield One of the defining themes of the Trump administration's second term has been rebuilding America's industrial base—not just by bringing manufacturing back to U.S. soil, but by restoring domestic capacity in industries considered critical to national security. Defense production sits squarely at the center of that effort, with Washington increasingly looking to private industry to expand military manufacturing. The la...

RFK Jr. Says HHS Found Fauci Diaries Across 11 Different Servers Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Health officials located the diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci across nearly a dozen different servers, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on July 27. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times "It took us about eight months to dig these out of 11 separate servers, where they h...

New Biden Tapes Reveal Hur's "Well-Meaning Elderly Man" Had An $8 Million Motive To Keep Classified Docs Joe Biden kept classified material after leaving the vice presidency, knew what it was, and read it aloud to a civilian with no security clearance who was helping him write a book he was paid $8 million for. He said as much on tape, repeatedly, in 2016 and 2017. The Justice Department had those recordings and kept them from the public for two years - the same two years it wa...

DOE’s Prometheus Bets $60 Million That AI Can Help Nuclear Get Out Of Its Own Way The Department of Energy is putting $60 million behind an effort to use AI to accelerate nearly every stage of nuclear deployment, from reactor design and licensing to manufacturing, construction, fuel fabrication, and operations. The three-year initiative, named Project Prometheus, is the first major Phase II project selected under DOE’s Genesis Mission. Led by Idaho National Laboratory, it brings...

DOJ Sues Colorado For Offering In-State Tuition Aid To Illegal Immigrants Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado on Thursday over state regulations that provide in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants from Nicaragua, Ecuador and other nationalities at a door on the border wall waiting to be picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 4, 2023. Paul Ratje/Reuters T...

PG&E Says It Has 12.7 GW In Data Center Pipeline As It Courts Smaller Loads By Emma Penrod of UtilityDive, Pacific Gas and Electric now counts 12.7 GW in its data center pipeline, of which 490 MW of projects have executed interconnection agreements and another 3.9 GW are in final engineering, company officials said Thursday during a second-quarter earnings call. The company’s data center pipeline has fluctuated over the past year, from 7.3 GW at the end of 2025 to 5.4 GW in ...

Nearly 400 Drones Target Moscow Overnight, With Zelensky In Washington Seeking To Sway Trump Ukraine's long-range drone attacks on Russian territory have long become a nightly thing (as have Russian drones and missiles on Ukraine territory), but it has become clear that these attack waves have grown in volume and effectiveness. On Tuesday Russian officials are newly acknowledging another massive attack wave on the Moscow region, describing that nearly 400 drones were inbound on ...

J&J's Proposed $5.5 Billion Talc Settlement May "Lift Remaining Overhang" On Shares, Says Guggenheim Johnson & Johnson announced late Monday that it had reached an agreement to commit $5.5 billion to resolve most lawsuits alleging its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The settlement could end 15 years of litigation and "lift the remaining overhang" on J&J shares, according to one institutional trading desk. The "comprehensive resolution," as described by J&J, requires partici...

War Pause Holds As Trump Vows To Destroy Pickaxe Mountain If No Deal, Oman Pushes Hormuz Management Plan US-Iran attacks have remained paused, and oil prices have extended their declines, as President Trump has claimed Tehran and Washington are now having "very friendly talks" while at the same time suggesting negotiations might not be prolonged. "We are in very deep talks with Iran. If they don't work out, we will go back to very strong military action," Trump told Axios, as we...

Korea Barbeque'd: Kospi Crashes As Chip Stocks Tank, AI Token Index Spirals Lower South Korean stocks plunged on Tuesday as concerns over circular AI financing and China's expanding DUV lithography capabilities (read here) were top of mind among investors. Adding to the pressure, chipmakers may not have found a floor just yet because Silicon Data's LLM Token Expenditure Index continues to slide, suggesting that companies are shifting toward cheaper models, particularly open-sour...

Tether's XAUt Gold Token Receives Shariah Certification To Expand Islamic Finance Access Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether’s gold-backed token XAUt has received Shariah certification from Amanah Advisors, a move that could expand access to the token among Islamic financial institutions and investors seeking Shariah-compliant exposure to physical gold. The certification found XAUt’s structure complies with key Islamic finance principles, including full back...

Netanyahu Ahead Of Trump Meeting: Iran War Will End Only With Regime Collapse Or Nuclear Halt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed from Israel on Monday afternoon for the United States, where he will be hosted in the Oval Office on Tuesday. "This is my eighth meeting with him since he was elected President, more than any other international leader," Netanyahu told reporters ahead of the Trump meeting. He acknowledged that Iran will be top of the agenda, and asserted: "I a...

Erdogan's Ottoman Gambit: Turkey Prepares For New Regional Order Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, Turkey is simultaneously dumping US Treasuries, deepening Russia’s energy embrace, rolling out a tax regime to poach capital fleeing the Gulf… and squaring off against an Israeli political class that now speaks openly of Turkey as an enemy. It’s strategic. Turkey sold nearly all of its US Treasury holdings in March — cutting them from $16 billion to just $1.8 bi...

How Total Surveillance Conquered The Last Sanctuary Of Human Privacy Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, The following investigation contains verified facts, classified document references, and eyewitness testimony that some readers may find deeply disturbing. We have cross-referenced all statistical claims with official government disclosures, Freedom of Information Act releases, and whistleblower documentation. However, certain programs referenced operate under classificat...

Feds Charge Atlanta Man Who Gave Border Agents 'Self-Destruct' Password For Phone A federal judge in Atlanta is weighing whether to throw out the evidence in what appears to be the first US prosecution of a traveler over a phone's built-in "duress password" - a privacy feature that erases a device when the wrong code is entered. Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident and US citizen, was charged under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a), which makes it a crime to destroy or damage property to pr...

Which Countries Are Best (& Worst) For Women? Where is the best place in the world to be a woman? As Visual Capitalist's Srijaa Chatterjee highlights in the following graphic, according to the latest Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index, the answer remains Northern Europe, where Nordic countries occupy all five of the top positions. Published by the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the 2025/26 WPS Index ranks 181 countries using 13 indicators spanning wom...

How Does A Political Party Leader Survive This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Far left UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has caused uproar by sharing an Instagram post featuring a man in a T-shirt depicting a guillotine next to the words "We're only making plans for Nigel." The clear target was Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. This lands just two weeks after Reform's Ann Widdecombe was beaten to death with a hammer in her own home. Reform has reported Polanski...

Chinese University Reviewing Gene Editing Research As Family Discloses Daughter's Death Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times, A top-tier Chinese university said on July 26 that it is investigating gene editing research by one of its researchers following reports that scientists treated a 6-year-old girl as part of their research, who died during the unprecedented human trial. Molecular model of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), in an undated file image. (Kateryna Kon/Sh...

Watch: US Navy's New Suicide Drone Boats Help Sink Decommissioned Amphibious Assault Ship The US military has effectively taken a page from Ukraine's drone-boat playbook, using a swarm attack against high-value Iranian maritime assets earlier this month. Separately, a Texas shipyard is preparing to mass-produce these unmanned vessels by the thousands. The latest evidence that the Navy is rapidly adopting one-way attack vessels emerged during RIMPAC 2026 near Hawaii. In a live-fi...

GenderSpeak: Weaponizing Gender Against Sex Authored by Wendy McElroy via Brownstone Institute, When and why did the word "gender" displace the word "sex?" "Gender" refers to a person's socially constructed identity of being male, female, or some other category, while "sex" refers to physical characteristics of male or female, such as chromosomes. Gender is a matter of a person's self-perception; sex is a circumstance of birth. When did sex get pushed to the curb by gender? ...

The State Of American Elections: For The Left, 'The Worse, The Better' Authored by Bradley Thayer via American Greatness, Americans long knew that their elections were in embarrassingly poor shape, but President Donald Trump’s address this month revealed just how extensive the problems had become. The Trump administration’s investigation revealed foreign interference and deep-state, treasonous subterfuge. The documents he declassified demonstrated five major problems. Fir...

NYC Councilwoman Sounds Alarm: Mamdani's Property Database Puts Wealthy Homeowners In Crosshairs Of "Luigi-Worshipping Leftist Thugs" NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration has been staffed with far-left activists who seek nothing less than the destruction of capitalism and America in its current form. They govern like socialist thugs and are only in the early stages of mounting a war against NYC's wealthy.  This is particularly worrisome for the Ken Griffins of the world bec...

The Socialist Monster Awakens Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Who Caused Unaffordability? Fear about “affordability” supposedly fueled the new, strident socialism. Yet annual inflation during Biden’s four years averaged almost 5 percent. It peaked at over 9 percent, while prices for some key staples rose by 30 percent over his tenure—all to silence from the Left. (By contrast, annual inflation during Trump’s first term averaged 1.9 percent. In his second ...

Bombshell Report Exposes Lefty NGOs Funding A Children's Charity Tied To Terror Network After years of pro-Hamas protests and riots, including efforts by radical-left revolutionaries to blockade highways, bridges, and other economic chokepoints, as well as unrest across Ivy League campuses, investigators are finally examining the financial infrastructure behind the Marxist movement that increasingly appears less about Palestine and more about toppling the US empire. At the ce...

Nvidia's Taipei Office Raided As Taiwan's AI Chip-Smuggling Dragnet Results In Arrests Taiwanese prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee and searched the chipmaker's Taipei office, the first time the island's criminal investigation into the diversion of restricted AI hardware to China has reached inside the company whose processors sit at the center of it. The Keelung District Prosecutors Office said Tuesday it had detained a man surnamed Chang on suspicion of falsifyin...

The Fair Share Myth And Other Socialist Fables Authored by Jonathan Turley, New York City socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is back in his element. After admitting that he cannot fulfill his campaign pledge to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mamdani returned to his class warfare narrative. This week, he taunted the city’s highest-earning taxpayers with a letter informing them of another special tax awaiting them in the Big Apple. As wealthy citizens flee the city,...

Massie Joins Democrats In Bid To Sue White House Over Iran War Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is joining a group of Democrats who are attempting to sue the White House over its refusal to follow a War Powers Resolution that was passed by Congress and directed President Trump to end the war with Iran, Fox News Digital reported Monday. The War Powers Resolution was passed by both the House and Senate in June, marking the first time Congress appr...

Max'd Out Again: FAA Proposes Inspections For Hundreds Of Boeing 737 Planes Over Seat Installations Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is proposing an inspection of hundreds of seats installed in Boeing 737 Max aircraft due to safety concerns. The FAA proposed adopting a new airworthiness directive for three 737 Max models—737-8, 737-9, and 737-8200, the agency said in a notice published in the Federal Register on Jul...

This Is The Chart That Jensen Huang Does Not Want You To See In October 2025, while the world and his pet rabbit was buying anything-AI with both hands and feet, we were the first to warn that "AI Is Now A Debt Bubble Too, Quietly Surpassing All Banks To Become The Largest Sector In The Market"... ...as the world began to wake up to the negative free cash flow implications of the unprecedented CapEx spend required to achieve AI-Utopia... and therefore the need to fund that via d...

"Good Things Could Happen" By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset strategist at Rabobank President Trump spoke with reporters yesterday aboard Air Force One, saying that the US is “meeting with Iran” and that “good things could happen”—with the “could” doing some heavy lifting. What the “good things” are, or when they “could happen,” is still TBD. The other alternative is that “if they don’t work out, [the US] will go back to very strong military action.” That, of course, is dependent o...

Powerful Quake Rocks Southern Japan A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, injuring dozens, sparking fires, and damaging buildings. The Japan Meteorological Agency has since called off a tsunami alert for the coasts of the Ariake Sea and the Yatsushiro Sea. The quake struck Kyushu Island, in Kumamoto Prefecture, shortly before 4:30 p.m. local time. NHK footage showed severe damage to the Kyushu Expressway, smoke rising from homes, and ...

Russia Says Fuel Crisis Is Easing As Refineries Restart By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com The fuel crisis in Russia has started to ease in recent days as some refineries have restarted operations, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Sunday. “The situation is gradually stabilizing, a number of oil refineries became operational again. The balance is better now, and the situation at fuel filling stations has considerably improved, including when it comes to supp...

Kazakhstan Restarts CPC Oil Exports After Week-Long Black Sea Shutdown Kazakhstan has resumed crude exports through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) on Monday after the operator reopened its Black Sea marine terminal and resumed accepting crude from producers following a week-long suspension triggered by drone attacks, Kazakhstan’s Astana Times reported.  Two tankers were loading crude from the Chevron-led Tengizchevroil project at the Novorossiysk terminal, while producers...

Awkward: Trump Hails 'Tremendous' Ally Turkey, Knocks Israel Before Hosting Netanyahu Less than 24 hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with the US President at the White House Tuesday, and Trump not-so-subtly put the Israeli leader in his place while fielding questions from reporters aboard Air Force One. Trump was asked about Netanyahu's very public and long-stated opposition to Washington selling F-35s to Turkey. Trump responded by firmly...

Utility Profits In The Crosshairs Amid Affordability Concerns By Herman Trabish of UtilityDive,Last month, protesters angry over high electricity costs disrupted a Las Vegas conference of executives for the nation’s biggest investor-owned utilities — a vivid example of growing public outrage that has forced the industry to again defend their legally guaranteed profit margins.  As affordability concerns increase political pressure, several states have taken steps to lower util...

'Free Stuff' In Norway Still Costs Half Of Average Pay Authored by Joakim Book via TheDailyEconomy.org, Every few years, Americans rediscover Scandinavia.  Someone visits Norway or Denmark, returns dazzled and envious of parental leave and universal childcare, and asks why America refuses to copy what obviously works. On the day dedicated to celebrating America, Nicholas Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, wrote for The New York Times that America is so great that, in ...

The War's Back Is Broken Authored by Alastair Crooke Trump ordered the US military not to carry out new strikes on Iran Friday night, despite approving earlier a "Gates of Hell massive attack" on Iran. The US has now requested a new temporary ceasefire with Iran and is seeking a return to the collapsed and suspended MoU, with discussions to include Yemen, and with Trump seeking to make AnsarAllah a party to the negotiations. Clearly Trump is angry, and fears that that the war is...

DSA Platform Includes Abolishing Prisons, Supreme Court, And Presidency The Democratic Socialists of America wants you to know exactly what it wants, and Megan Romer, the group's national co-chair, laid it out on national television without once reaching for a hedge word over the most radical ideas on the party platform. The platform itself reads like a fever dream a committee wrote line by line. A 32-hour workweek with no reduction in pay and benefits, a federal jobs guaran...

OpenAI's Rogue Agent Hit A Second Company, Executive Reveals - And The Blast Radius Just Got Bigger The rogue OpenAI agent behind this month's unprecedented AI-driven cyber intrusion claimed a second corporate victim, an executive at New York-based Modal Labs has revealed - a detail absent from the original account and one that widens the known blast radius of the episode. According to the Modal executive and sources cited by Reuters, the same autonomous agent that broke int...

'Pray For Kospi': SK Hynix Earnings Miss, Sending Stock Reeling Things are not going to be fun in South Korea tonight... Good news first... SK Hynix's net income surged a bigger-than-expected 1,242% (though admittedly on one-time investment gains) with the ginat chipmaker bragging that it won multiyear contracts with around 10 customers. Ok, now the bad news... SK Hynix’s quarterly profit rose a smaller-than expected 557%. The key supplier of Nvidia reported operating profit of...

Republican Mayor Celebrates African Refugees As The "New Pioneers" A Republican mayor in Utah is catching heat for turning the state's traditional Pioneer Day into a celebration of African refugees, dubbing them the modern-day equivalents of the Mormon settlers who founded the Beehive State. Provo Mayor Marsha Judkins posted an Instagram message this week praising African migrants who have resettled in Utah's fourth-largest city. Judkins said that Utahns mark Pioneer Day to ...

Comey Attorneys Seek Dismissal Of Indictment Over '86 47' Instagram Post Via American Greatness, Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal court to toss out the indictment accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump’s life, arguing his Instagram post of seashells spelling “86 47” was nothing more than protected political speech. Comey was indicted in April over the post, published in May 2025 and later deleted, which prosecutors say amounted to...

Tate Brothers To Remain In Jail In Miami As They Fight Extradition To UK Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in Florida said Monday that social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in a Miami jail for at least two more weeks as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking. On July 27, U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis set a detention hearing for Aug. 13 to determine whether t...

FERC Will Impose Reforms If PJM Fails To Adopt Changes By September, Chairman Warns By Ethan Howland of UtilityDive The PJM Interconnection has until the end of September to agree to governance and stakeholder reforms or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will impose them, the agency’s chairman, Laura Swett, said Thursday. “PJM is facing a grave legitimacy crisis,” Swett said at a technical conference FERC held on the grid operator’s governance issues. “Some transmission o...

FIRY Wins $719 Million Game Of Solitaire, Torching Shorts Along The Way Markets rarely hand you a clean morality play. On Monday night, a federal judge entered one, clocking in no less than 78 pages, in the public docket. And for anyone who has played one of America's chart-topping “skill gaming” apps - a group that certainly includes many readers of this site - this may be for you. A federal trial has now established that at Papaya Gaming, the private Tel Aviv-based publisher o...

Secret Service Probes Iran-Linked Video Calling for Melania Trump's Assassination Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A video calling for the assassination of First Lady Melania Trump has been published by a media outlet linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), with the U.S. Secret Service saying it is aware of the material and investigating anything perceived as a threat. Tasnim, an IRGC-affiliated news outlet, released the video on its Telegram cha...

Conference Board Survey Signals Ugly Job Market, Weakest 'Present Situation' In Over 5 Years The Conference Board's measure of Americans' Consumer Confidence fell more than expected in July, from an upwardly revised 92.2 to 90.8 (well below the 92.4 expectation)... The Present Situation index fell to 114.9 (below 117.5 exp) -  its weakest since Feb 2021 while Expectations were unchanged at 74.7 (very slightly better than the 74.4 exp). “Consumer confidence moderated slightly ...

US Home Prices Unexpectedly Jumped In May; Chicago Leading, Vegas Lagging Having declined for three straight months, US home prices in America's 20 largest cities was expected to rise very marginally (+0.1% MoM) in May (according to the latest data from S&P Cotality Case-Shiller). Instead, home prices accelerated 0.3% MoM (better than expected), lifting the annual appreciation to +1.63% YoY - the fastest annual price gain since July 2025... “Monthly price appreciation continu...

Incompatible With Western Society...? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The comment section under Al Jazeera's Facebook coverage of the Berlin Pride attack has laid bare a reality Western elites still refuse to face. Hundreds of users with Arab and Muslim names flooded the post with open celebration of the Islamist vehicle-ramming that killed one woman and injured 29 others. Laughing emojis made up roughly a third of the reactions. Comments praising the attacker wi...

Futures Slide As Tech Rout Continues, Kospi Halted As It Crashes 10% Futures extend Monday's losses as the Tech tape continues to unravel; global Semis were hit yesterday and again overnight (despite the best attempts of Goldman and JPM to force retail to buy the falling knives) with Asian stocks and especially Korea (-10%) bearing the brunt with fears of Chinese competition accelerating the sell-off and then spilling back over into the US. As of 7:00am ET, S&P futures are down ...

New British Defense Secretary Says Europe "Shaken Out Of Complacency" By Trump Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, Newly appointed British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said on July 26 that Europe will one day thank U.S. President Donald Trump for “shaking us out of our complacency” on defense spending. Speaking to British broadcaster Sky News, Streeting said that he genuinely believes “when this period of history is written, Europe will thank President Trump for ...

Guess Who? First Foreign Leader Visits Burnham, UK's New Prime Minister Guess who?... None other than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has touched down in the UK for his meeting with new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. "Volodymyr, you are the first head of state or government I have congratulated since taking office as Prime Minister. And that is no coincidence. It is intended to send a very clear message: We stand 100% with Ukraine," said Burnham. The PM only took offi...

The 'Southern Front' Of The Ukrainian Conflict Is Heating Up Authored by Andrew Korybko, The most recent phase of the Ukrainian Conflict has been characterized by the “war of attrition” that the US has been waging against Russia through Ukraine after Trump decided to “escalate to de-escalate”. This has thus far taken the form of drone strikes against energy infrastructure, online retailers, and maritime shipping in the Black, Azov, and now even the Caspian Seas. It’s this las...

Houthi Threats Force Saudi Crude Tanker Onto Suez Route To Asia By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The Houthi threats to shipping in the Red Sea and its chokepoint, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, have forced at least one oil tanker carrying Saudi crude to Asia to choose the much longer route through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean, and around Africa. The supertanker Olympic Luck, partially laden with Saudi crude at Yanbu on the Red Sea, transited the Suez Canal into the Medit...

Inside America's Left: Mapping The Five Factions Battling For Power Many transformations are unfolding within America's political left, and its shifting factions can be difficult to track. The Democratic establishment is fighting to preserve its grip on power as progressives and reformist socialists gain ground in local elections, with some openly promoting the dismantling of capitalism and adopting increasingly hostile rhetoric toward America. Fox News has begun publishing e...