UAE’s Next $25 Billion Bet On India Includes Energy Sector Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The United Arab Emirates has expressed intent to invest another $25 billion in India, including in the energy sector, Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said at a high-level meeting in Mumbai. The UAE has already invested about $25 billion in India and has signaled its intent to invest another $25 billion […]

Duke Lacrosse Hoax 2.0? Cornell DA Reopens Rape Case – Accuser Described Sex As ‘Voluntary, Conscious, And Consensual’ The Cornell fraternity rape case produced a national outrage campaign two years ago, after a student claimed she was raped at a fraternity house. Her allegations surfaced two weeks ago after the woman, known as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, sued seven men, the university, her sorority and the fraternity.  People walk […]

Another Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, A federal judge has struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, blocking the state from collecting $75 billion from fossil fuel companies to pay for projects addressing concerns the state attributed to climate change. The Justice Department on Sept. 28 hailed the ruling as a “significant step in … […]

Texas Governor Declares Disaster Over Soaring Diesel Prices Texas ranchers and truckers could start seeing some relief at the fuel pump starting this week after Gov. Greg Abbott proclaimed a statewide disaster on Sept. 28 to ease diesel shortages. “Texas agriculture and freight run on diesel,” Abbott said in a statement. “Record prices put both industries at risk and raise costs for every Texas family.” Record-high diesel […]

Trump Shoots Down Federal AI Regulations, Floats Watchdog ‘Committee’ And Self-Policing Update (1650ET): So after today’s big White House meeting with tech leaders, President Trump announced that they had signed a “morally binding” (lol) document governing the development of artificial intelligence.  Following the luncheon, Trump told reporters that he’s “seeing tremendous self-policing,” and that the administration is looking […]

The Industrialization Of Fraud: How Global Scam Farms Are Evolving To Target Your Wealth Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Financial fraud has morphed into a massive, highly organized global industry powered by transnational scam farms. These industrial-scale operations are largely concentrated in Southeast Asia but are rapidly expanding their reach to target your wealth. AI is helping scam farms […]

Oil Slides As Qatar Touts ‘Talks’ Again; Iran Struck Large Crude Tanker Overnight Iran is said to have struck a Very Large Crude Carrier in the Strait of Hormuz late on Monday, signaling what will likely be the resumption of strikes on foreign vessels seeking to navigate the Strait of Hormuz, after last week’s diplomatic talks at the UN failed to produce a breakthrough. Still, for the time being more oil is being shipped through the […]

Trump Launches America.Gov Website Simplifying Access To Government Services Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 29 directing all federal agencies to integrate services with a new website designed to make it easier for users to find information and interact with the government. He described the tool as “one of the most revolutionary product launches of all […]

Senate Passes ‘Protect College Sports Act’ The Senate on Sept. 28 passed a bill that seeks to bring stability to the rapidly changing landscape of collegiate sports, sending it to the House of Representatives. The Protect College Sports Act of 2026 passed on a 77-22 vote. The bill aims to address growing concerns surrounding athlete compensation, transfer rules, conference realignment, and long-term athlete protections. Since the […]

Supreme Court Lets Trump’s Third-Country Deportations Resume, Takes Case Update (1516ET): The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume third-country deportations and agreed to hear the underlying dispute this winter. In a brief emergency-docket order in DHS v. D.V.D., the justices stayed U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s Feb. 25 judgment, which had blocked the Department of Homeland Security from […]

Why Businesses Haven’t Left California – Yet Authored by Tom Wilson via the Mises Institute, California has a strange relationship with business. Its lawmakers seem determined to make doing business more expensive, yet companies continue to operate there. Taxes rise, regulations accumulate, and new compliance requirements are added, but California remains home to some of the most successful companies in the world. That raises a […]

Elon Musk Makes A Move On The Banks Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times, When Elon Musk took over Twitter, fired four out of five employees, and rebranded it X (just because he thought it sounded cool), the talking heads predicted doom for the company. The opposite happened. It is now one of the most popular sources of news in the world, and a major delivery system for what social media is supposed to be. He always […]

Trump Mulls Big Russia Sanctions Relief For Prisoners, Risking Wrath Of Allies & Hawks Diplomacy is obviously stalemated and almost non-existent when it comes to the Iran conflict and Hormuz Strait crisis, and so the White House needs some level of a ‘win’. It seems President Trump continues to look for this in the years-long Ukraine crisis, as he’s said to now be mulling a major deal which would see the Kremlin free some […]

Education Department Scraps Biden-Era Title IX Gender Identity Protections Via American Greatness, The Education Department announced Monday that it has formally rescinded the Biden administration’s interpretation of Title IX that extended sex-discrimination protections to students based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Schools will instead return to Title IX regulations adopted during President Donald Trump’s first […]

Group To Sue New York Over Union-Backed “Hit-Job” Law Authored by Susan Crabtree via RealClearPolitics, A national worker-rights group plans to go to federal court Monday to block a New York law it says was written to silence outreach to public employees about their right to leave their unions. The group argues the new law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech because it allows state government officials to shut down […]

Tesla Patents “Electric Fan Car” Weeks Before Roadster Reveal The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Tesla an “Electric Fan Car” patent less than three weeks before the Tesla Roadster 2.0 reveal. The USPTO filing illustrates four electric ducted fans positioned side by side in the rear diffuser and states that the system is designed to “increase downforce and reduce drag.” “The achievable speed around corners, […]

5 Takeaways From The New US-China Tariff-Relief Product Lists Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, The United States and China have released product lists covering about $30 billion in imports in each direction that could receive lower tariffs under an agreement reached after Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington. The lists cover 77 categories of Chinese goods entering the United States and 1,619 categories of […]

IEA’s Birol Says “Ready To Act” If Energy Shock Worsens As US Offers 40 Million-Barrel SPR Lifeline Summary:  US DoE Offers 40 Million Barrels From SPR  IEA Head Says SPR On Standby If Energy Crisis Deepens  EU Eyes Methane Rule Retreat As Energy Crisis Deepens; IEA Floats Another Emergency Oil Dump IEA Head “Ready To Act”; US DoE Offers 40 Million Barrels From SPR Brent crude futures moved lower to $103.90 a barrel, […]

Trump Asks Supreme Court To Restore Restrictions On Transgender Inmate Treatments Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the Bureau of Prisons to enforce restrictions on medical interventions and social accommodations for transgender federal inmates while a legal challenge continues. The Justice Department’s emergency request follows a lower court […]

Jefferies Beats On Record Stock Trading, But Asset Management Revenue Plunges 50% On First Brands, Radiant “Cockroaches” Jefferies is once again the first major Wall Street firm to report its quarter, and once again the story is of two very different banks under one roof: a trading and banking franchise running near record highs, and an asset-management arm that keeps finding new ways to lose money on receivables that may or may not […]

Democrats Split On Whether To Impeach Trump Again If They Win The House Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sept. 28 that Democrats would put lowering costs first if they win the House in November. But he did not rule out impeaching President Donald Trump, as members of his party are split publicly on whether to try for that a third time. Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk […]

Oklo Loses PJM Queue Fight As FERC Points To Flawed Application Data centers have become the favorite explanation for the price-of-power squeeze. But, years of inadequate transmission planning and clogged interconnection queues have left the system struggling to accommodate new generation, too. As we previously highlighted with Three Mile Island’s restart, even a load that used to be connected to the grid can be told to wait […]

Russia’s Drones Zero In On Ukraine’s Data Centers, Mobile Providers The Russian defense ministry on Tuesday indicated that it attacked and struck two military cargo vessels in the Black Sea as well as two data centers in the Ukrainian capital overnight. The vessels, which were sailing foreign flags, were struck off Odessa, President Zelensky also confirmed in a Tuesday statement. DSNS UkraineThe Kyiv region along with ten other […]

Newly Released Fauci Files Reveal Dangerous NIAID-Funded Aerosolized Ebola Research Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released documents from Dr. Fauci’s diary and emails Monday detailing his dangerous NIAID-funded research during the Obama Administration, including a 2015 experiment that exposed vaccinated monkeys to aerosolized Ebola. The risky research was conducted at the United States […]

FICO Crashes Most Since 2004 As Pulte’s Mortgage Score Shakeup Threatens Its Moat Fair Isaac, the company that produces FICO scores, saw its shares crash the most in 22 years early Tuesday in cash trading after Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte announced on X that a mortgage-pricing change that Wall Street analysts say could accelerate adoption of rival VantageScore and undermine FICO’s moat.  “We are Simplifying […]