Middle East Oil Flows Far From Normal Despite Signs Of Oversupply Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice,Middle Eastern crude exports have recovered to near pre-war levels, raising fears of an oil glut and pushing Brent down roughly 17% in five trading days.Record tanker rates and war insurance premiums remain a major burden, with crude transport costs reaching $30 per barrel despite weakening oil prices.Depleted global […]

Nvidia Preparing To Fire Huang After 2nd Affair Bombshell, Stock Knifes Lower: Report *** Update: NVIDIA PREPARING TO OUST NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG: WSJ Nvidia is reportedly preparing to remove founder and CEO Jensen Huang following revelations of two extramarital affairs, including one involving a suspected Chinese intelligence operative.The board could meet as soon as today to decide Huang’s future, according to people familiar […]

Trump And Texas’ New Democrat Governor Are Headed For War Over The Border The midterms did more than change which party will control Congress for the next year. By electing Gina Hinojosa governor, Texas voters ended a decade-long partnership between Austin and Washington on the border and set the state on a collision course with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement. Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa speaks after […]

Meta’s AI Will Now Guess Your Age On Instagram… Even If You Say You’re An Adult Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,Meta Platforms is expanding its AI-powered age-estimation technology to identify Instagram users suspected of being teenagers, even if they registered with an adult birthdate, and automatically apply stricter safety settings to their accounts.Meta said in a Nov. 9 statement that the expansion will mean […]

David Sacks Sounds Alarm Over Democrats’ Most Terrifying Censorship Plan Yet David Sacks, who stepped down as President Trump’s AI and crypto czar in March, says it’s “100%” that the Democrats who just won Congress will make a major push for AI legislation, and that the end state is “a surveillance and censorship state that’s turbocharged by superintelligence.”Sacks was answering co-host Jason Calacanis on the All-In podcast […]

When A Society Has Reached Its Limits, Reforms No Longer Fix What’s Broken Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,The most difficult part of my framework to grasp is the keystone: our system has reached its limits. The difficulty is that this is impossible to understand if one is embedded in the system’s beliefs of how the world works and wedded to the system’s sclerosis via self-interest.Once self-interest dominates, it […]

Alina Habba Fired From $50M Gig After Trump Outburst Alina Habba, the former Trump lawyer and New Jersey US attorney who now goes by Alina Habba Mildon, has been fired from the general counsel job that guaranteed her more than $50 million over four years, cut loose by a company set up by the daughter of a billionaire banker President Trump pardoned in January. Concord Partners, the Herrera family’s Florida firm, ended her contract […]

Iran Hawk Bessent Now Lives Behind A Military Gate As Threats Reach ‘More Than Advanced Stage’ Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved out of his Washington-area home and onto a US military base because of Iranian threats against him, the New York Times reported Tuesday.Three people told the Times that US officials concluded in recent weeks that Iranian plotting against current and former American officials had reached a more […]

New Car Prices Top $51,000, Monthly Payments At Record. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? The average price of a new vehicle in the US has climbed to a record $51,109, according to a new Cox Automotive report citing Kelley Blue Book data. Combined with new-car loan rates near their highest levels since the mid-2000s, record sticker prices are putting vehicle ownership increasingly out of reach for many working-class folks, even before […]

‘Run Socialists In Every Primary’: Emboldened DSA Turns Its Guns On Fellow Democrats Authored by Jake Altman via City Journal,Last week’s historic midterm results have emboldened not just the Democratic Party but also the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The organization expanded its House caucus from two to eight and added a key ally, Abdul El-Sayed, to the Senate. Adding local wins and ballot initiatives, the group touted […]

Trump Picks Palantir’s Security Chief To Run CISA Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times,The White House said on Monday it nominated Michael LoSapio to lead America’s premier cyber defense agency. If confirmed by the Senate, LoSapio will take over from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) acting director, Nick Andersen.CISA, which leads the national effort to understand, […]

Peltola’s Alaska Lead Now Tops Every ‘Decoy Dan’ Vote… Trump’s Math Just Broke Democrat Mary Peltola’s lead over Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has grown past the vote total of the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot, so even handing the senator every vote cast for the man Republicans call “Decoy Dan” would no longer put him ahead.After the Alaska Division of Elections’ Nov. 10 update, which covers 401 of the state’s 403 precincts, […]

RFK Jr. Says Big Developments Coming In Wake Of Midterms Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Nov. 9 that multiple recent changes are paving the way for major reforms he has been unable to enact in his nearly two years as the nation’s top health official.Kennedy told supporters at an event in Washington that key actions, such as updating the food pyramid and removing mercury […]

Watch: Bizarre Tentacled UFO Filmed Floating Near Major U.S. Military Base; Witnesses Speak A bizarre, jellyfish-shaped object with dangling tentacles has been captured on video hovering in the skies near a major U.S. military installation, leaving witnesses baffled by what they saw, the Daily Mail reports. Sara Jane Osborn / Daily Mail The mysterious sighting occurred June 15 in Anchorage, Alaska, in the direction of Joint Base […]

America’s Beer Slump Summed Up In One Chart Bank of America analysts spot a sobering milestone for America’s beer industry: shipments are on track to fall below 1980 levels this year as stretched household budgets collide with changing drinking habits. The explosion of GLP-1 drug demand, cannabis products, and growing health concerns about booze are adding pressure on demand. BofA consumer staples analysts led by Peter Galbo […]

Trump Wins Major Ruling In Defamation Lawsuit Against BBC Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley,President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC for defamation just received a green light from a federal judge to go forward to trial. Judge Jeffrey Kuntz (S.D. Fla.) ruled in Trump v. BBC that the media outlet must stand trial for splicing together lines from Trump’s January 6th speech to make it seem more violence-inducing […]

Reports Say Trump, Netanyahu Engaged In “Shouting Match From Hell” – Bibi Denies It is being widely reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump held a post midterm election phone call over the weekend related to the possibility of restarting a bombing campaign against Iran.Axios had earlier reported on a prior Thursday phone call, but reports of a follow-up weekend call have been emerging […]

America’s Most Dangerous City Sees Stunning 931% Surge In Millionaire Homeowners Apparently, even the most dangerous big cities can attract millionaires.Memphis, Tennessee, the Southern city infamous for its violent crime problem, has experienced an explosion in wealthy homeowners, according to newly released housing data.Research released by RentCafe showed that the number of Memphis-area homeowner households earning at least $1 […]

Members Of Kennedy Family Sue To Block Construction Of Trump’s Triumphal Arch Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,Nine Kennedy family members sued on Nov. 10 to block President Donald Trump’s planned construction of a triumphal arch in the nation’s capital, saying it would cast shadows over their relatives’ graves at Arlington National Cemetery.Trump’s White House unveiled plans to build a 250-foot arch in Memorial Circle […]

El Salvador Launches Helicopter Air Assault On Haitian Gang Compound El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, launched an all-out helicopter assault on the compound of Haiti’s largest criminal organization.Bukele wrote on X that Salvadoran troops destroyed a compound allegedly used by the leader of the 400 Mawozo gang.”We kept our promise… We destroyed the house of Lanmò San Jou and the 400 Mawozo gang’s headquarters. Most of them […]

Rubio Suggests US Will Starve Iran Until Tehran Agrees To Peace Deal Via The Libertarian Institute Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Tuesday that eventually Iran will have to make a deal with the US as the country becomes increasingly desperate. “Iran would love a deal. The problem is, the conditions they continue to place are absurd. They’re not even serious. But that could change. Eventually, you have to eat,” […]

Ron Paul: Will Republicans Learn Their Lesson From The ‘Disastrous’ Midterms? Authored by Ron Paul via Ron Paul Institute,Politicians break campaign promises with hardly any hesitation and usually they get away with it. Americans have come to put up with broken promises for so long, they hardly even seem to notice. Last week, however, voters noticed. They showed the Republican party just how angry they were over President Trump’s […]

Oil Jumps Amid Fresh Tanker Attack; Iran Insists Nuclear Material Won’t Leave Its Soil Update(10:45ET): Several bits of negative news out of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz have served to push oil prices higher Wednesday morning. Yet another tanker has been struck by a sea mine in the strait, adding to what’s become a daily and weekly tally. The attacks have come so frequently at this point that international maritime monitors are […]

“Lots Of Distressing And Borderline Disturbing Reports” By Michael Every of RabobankAs has been the norm in 2026 to date, there are lots of distressing and borderline disturbing reports this morning and very little sign of progress where it’s needed. For once these surprises don’t all cluster in the messy world of geopolitics – and one is right in the middle of inflation and monetary policy.Yesterday’s US CPI print came in […]

Abu Dhabi Talks Result In ‘Large-Scale’ Prisoner Exchange Between Russia & Ukraine While there are no major or immediate breakthroughs expected from the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi between Russia, Ukraine and the US – already some positive things are emerging.The group on Wednesday announced that the sides have agreed to a large exchange of prisoners of war. Such exchanges have come intermittently throughout the war, which is […]