Watch: Arizona Governor-Aligned Canvassers Caught Willing To Allow Noncitizens To Vote Submitted by Muckraker,  Canvassers registering voters for groups backing Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’s re-election told undercover Muckraker journalists posing as a non-citizen and as a felon on probation that they could go ahead and register to vote, hidden-camera footage shows. With the midterm elections weeks away, Muckraker visited voter […]

Ex-FBI “Shadow Government” Official Among Two Charged With Lying To Congress Over Hunter Biden Laptop Two former senior FBI officials who ran the bureau’s now-defunct Foreign Influence Task Force during the 2020 election were charged Friday with lying to Congress about their roles in the FBI’s Hunter Biden investigations. Nikki Cole Floris, 46, and Bradley Benavides, 56, each face one count of lying to Congress in a criminal […]

Melania Trump ‘Brokers’ Oleshky Ceasefire – But The White House And Russia Give Different Start Dates The White House said Friday that First Lady Melania Trump brokered a localized ceasefire in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine’s Kherson region, to let aid in and civilians out. The White House says it starts October 29, but Gen. Valery Gerasimov said Russian forces would stop firing October 27. (Credit: Matt McClain/Getty […]

Rare Earth Stocks Hit 52-Week Low As William Blair Says China Supply Optimism Is “Incorrect” Our “Great Rare Earth Disconnect” note earlier this week highlighted the widening gap between elevated rare earth prices and tumbling junior miners and producers. William Blair rare-earths analyst Neal Dingmann has also weighed in on the forces driving the selloff. “Revived rate-hike fears, hot CPI, and other macro concerns along with […]

Measles Surge In Pennsylvania Prompts New Warning Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, As the measles outbreak in Pennsylvania grows larger, state officials have issued a warning regarding the impact of measles during pregnancy. “Measles in pregnancy can lead to serious adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is safe and highly effective,” the Pennsylvania Department of Health […]

Elon Musk Faces “Mother Of All Subpoenas” As Trillionaire Braces For All-Out “War” With Democrats Elon Musk is bracing for an all-out political “war” as Democrats prepare sweeping congressional investigations into his businesses and government activities, according to The Washington Post. Photo: Alex Brandon The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has warned that he will retaliate against those targeting him if Democrats regain congressional […]

Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court To Allow Border Wall Construction In Texas Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has petitioned the Supreme Court to allow border wall construction to resume in the Big Bend area of Texas. In an emergency application filed with the high court on Oct. 21, lawyers for the federal government asked the justices to lift a lower court order halting construction of President […]

Hegseth Barred Trans Troops – Yet Navy And Marine Boards Are Voting To Keep Them Military boards set up to push transgender troops out of the service are instead voting to keep many of them, the New York Times reported Friday, in a quiet break with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ban. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gives a State of the Force address at Marine Corps Base Quantico (Alex Wong/Pool Photo via AP)Nine of the 12 […]

Gen X And Boomer Progressives Are Conditioned To Support Open Borders Authored by Andrew Devine via The Daily Sceptic, Left-leaning Boomers (born 1946-1964) and Gen Xers (born 1965-1980) view any criticism of 21st century mass immigration through a particular cultural and psychological lens that is outdated and a barrier to having a constructive debate about extremist mass immigration policies in the here and now. Left-liberal […]

Supreme Court Allows New Hampshire To Bar Student IDs At Polls For Midterms Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court sided with New Hampshire Republicans, allowing officials to stop accepting student ID cards as valid proof of identity for voting. The high court cited the Purcell principle, which guards against changes to election rules close to Election Day. The court’s decision took the form of an […]

Major Oil Spill From Attacked Tanker Forces Closure Of UAE Beaches Amid the record pace in Iranian attacks on crude tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, many have been wondering: where does all that oil end up when it comes to severely damaged or sunken tankers? On Friday the UAE has confirmed a deeply alarming event: some of its beaches are being shuttered as a major spill is washing up after a tanker was struck by a projectile off […]

Harvard Medical School Holds Panel Raising Whether Weight Loss Drugs Are An Imperialistic, Militaristic Plot Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Harvard University is facing another controversy after its medical school held an event on “the Pathology of Unruly Bodies.” The most surprising part is that it was not a reference to the Harvard faculty itself. Rather, a panel composed of non-medical experts was railing […]

A Withdrawn Immigration Application, Corrected Tax Returns, And ‘Military Officer’ Father: Ilhan Omar Evidence Piles Up Update (1521ET): The New York Post has published additional reporting (assembled from previous reporting – see below) on the disputed allegations surrounding Omar’s marriage to Ahmed Elmi, highlighting a British marriage certificate alongside previously reported financial records and witness claims. Omar denies […]

Update: Trump Sues To Block Alaska Senate Result If Republican Loses Update (12100ET): And there we have it…  The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses the election while another candidate with the same name is on the ballot.  President Trump greets Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) at a campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska on Oct. 13, 2026 […]

France Braces For Moody’s Downgrade As OAT-Bund Spread Hits EU Crisis Level Highs France faces a potential credit rating downgrade later today as social unrest, a deteriorating welfare state, a deficit crisis, political paralysis, and years of uncontrolled mass migration collide, forcing the government to repair its finances or risk sparking the next Eurozone crisis.  UniCredit fixed-income strategist Francesco Maria Di Bella […]

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says Tennessee Machine Kept Defaulting To Blackburn; State Claims “Not A Vote Flipping Situation” Stella Parton, Dolly Parton’s younger sister, says a voting machine at the Hermitage Library in Davidson County kept selecting Republican gubernatorial nominee Marsha Blackburn, a candidate she says she would never vote for, forcing her to correct her ballot three times. Mediaite flagged her post. Tennessee’s […]

New York City Votes To Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages, Ending 170-Year Tradition Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The New York City Council voted on Thursday to pass Romanch’s Law, phasing out horse-drawn carriages in Central Park by June 1, 2028. Forty Council members voted yes. Twenty-nine had signed onto the bill sponsored by Council Member Christopher Marte. Speaker Julie Menin is the first sitting speaker to […]

Ukraine Officials Complain Starshield Restrictions Still Not Lifted, Despite Trump Assertions Ukraine says its military forces continue to experience disruptions to critical battlefield communications, a day after President Trump declared that these restrictions had been removed. “President Trump called Elon Musk on Wednesday and asked him to lift restrictions on a military-grade version of Starlink in Ukraine that the SpaceX […]

“We Should Not Have Done It”: Thiel Breaks With Trump Over Iran War, Warns America May Not “Have The Hard Power” One day after we reported that Donald Trump Jr. has privately broken with his father over the Iran war, Peter Thiel, the PayPal and Palantir (PLTR) co-founder who was the first big tech investor to back Trump in 2016 and the biggest funder of super PACs behind JD Vance’s 2022 Senate run, has also drawn a line in the sand […]

Tech Layoffs Surge As Corporate America’s AI Blitz Raises Fears The Worst Is Yet To Come Bloomberg story counts featuring terms such as “job cuts,” “layoffs,” and “firings” jumped Thursday to their highest level since early May. The surge in AI-related layoff announcements shows corporate America is ramping up efforts to reduce its workforce and replace humans with chatbots and other AI-related technologies to drive efficiency. […]

Main St.-Wall St. Divide Reaches Record High As UMich Inflation Angst Re-Accelerates Preliminary October UMich Sentiment held steady this month, registering a tiny 0.1pt decline below September (Current Condiutions dipped but Expectations ticked up)… Increases in sentiment among Republicans and Democrats were balanced by declines among independents. While year-ahead business conditions improved about 14%, they stand 16% less […]

Republicans Face Losing Senate Seat They’ve Held For 107 Years, And It All Comes Down To One Thing Republicans are confronting an increasingly concerning political situation in Kansas, where a Senate seat the party has held for more than a century has become unexpectedly competitive. Republican Sen. Roger Marshall and Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton debated in Kansas City, discussing the Iran war, fuel prices, and campaign attack […]

US Manufacturing Sector Survey Hits 53-Month High, But “Cost Pressures Remain Key Concern” After surging in September (and prompting some exciting moves in Treasuries – and STIRs), preliminary October PMIs from S&P Global were expected to drop modestly (for both Manufacturing and Services). Instead it was more mixed with Manufacturing better than expected (56.0 vs 55.9 prior vs 55.5 exp) but Services down a little (57.9 vs 58.8 […]

New Trump Peace Plan Outline For Ukraine Emerges Ukrainian media is widely reporting that a key aspect of the US peace proposal heading into agreed-to trilateral talks, likely to come sometime in November, is that Ukraine would permanently abandon its bid to join the NATO alliance and in exchange it would be offered European Union membership. Additionally, a demilitarized zone in the Donbass is envisioned, along with a resumption […]

SK Hynix Scraps Solidigm IPO, Single-Handedly Drags Kospi Out Of A 4% Hole And Easing AI Rout Last night we were fairly confident how the Korean session would go. Three hours until Korea is halted seconds after the open — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 22, 2026 Well, we were half right. The Kospi did crater at the open, sliding as much as 4.1% and more than halfway to triggering a market halt as Asia digested the overnight […]