The Two Lineages Of Liberty Authored by Philippe Lemieux via Mises Institute, Liberty’s history is often presented as a direct consequence of the Enlightenment: inherited authority was subjected to reason, persecution gave way to toleration, monarchy to constitutional government, and privilege to individual rights. In this account, classical liberalism leads naturally to Austrian economics and modern libertarianism. That sequence […]

Man Accused Of Trying To Set Portland Record Store On Fire After They Wouldn’t Buy His Records A dispute over a record sale escalated into threats and an alleged attempt to set a Portland record shop on fire, according to prosecutors. Adrian Orange, 40, is accused of confronting the owner of Vinyl Resting Place in St. Johns on Aug. 27 after the store declined to purchase records he brought in, according to KATU ABC. Court documents […]

Qatar And UAE Turn To Rare LNG Ship Transfers As Hormuz Crisis Drags On By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Three LNG carriers loaded from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf have transferred their cargoes onto other vessels outside the Strait of Hormuz in the past month, a move that’s highly unusual for LNG cargoes but one that could raise the crippled LNG shipments from the region. LNG traffic at the […]

Xi In Rare Egypt Visit Blasts ‘External Interference’ In Mideast, As Iran War Drags On Chinese President Xi Jinping in a rare trip to the Cairo told his Egyptian counterpart on Wednesday that “external interference” in the Middle East should be opposed, Chinese state media reported. Talks in the Egyptian capital between Xi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi were a first in a decade. Interestingly, Xi at one point pledged […]

ICE Arrests More Than 120 Illegal Immigrants At Memphis Nightclub Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Federal immigration officers arrested 121 illegal immigrants on Aug. 30 at a Memphis nightclub during a targeted multiagency enforcement action, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. New Orleans field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) led Operation Corral Light at the El Corralon […]

MIT Student Claims To Make One Of The World’s Deadliest Chemicals, Sparking HAZMAT Response A potentially dangerous laboratory incident at MIT triggered a hazmat response last week after a graduate student told medical personnel he believed he had created dimethylmercury, a highly toxic mercury compound, according to the NY Post. The student, who has not been publicly identified, went to a local emergency room and reported the […]

Trump’s New Foundry School Aims To Train America’s Manufacturing Workers Of The Future Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration will launch Foundry School on Thursday, a national training program meant to prepare entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders for a rebuilding of U.S. manufacturing. Vice President JD Vance is set to headline the event, according to a State Department […]

Take-Two Slides Into Correction As Grand Theft Auto Leak Investigation Intensifies Take-Two Interactive, whose Rockstar Games studio is developing Grand Theft Auto VI, was hit by a series of leaks last month ahead of the fall release. Bank of America analysts described the leaked footage as “impressive, but unlikely to surprise,” while TTWO shares have tumbled into a correction since the leaks surfaced online. The leaked clips […]

OpenAI Hits Back At Apple In Trade Secrets Lawsuit Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, OpenAI has pushed back against Apple’s accusations that it stole the iPhone maker’s hardware secrets, blaming the dispute on Apple’s own handling of departing employees. In a court filing on Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge to deny Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction, which would bar the ChatGPT maker and two former Apple […]

Russia Accused Of Helping Iran Develop Carrier-Killing Supersonic Cruise Missiles Yet another major allegation against Russia has emerged this week in the pages of the London-based Financial Times, which says that Moscow has been helping Iran develop supersonic cruise missiles, in a clandestine program that has been ongoing throughout the war with the US and Israel. Early in the conflict, it was widely reported that advanced and […]

Dallas Police To Shut Down Hundreds Of Flock Cameras Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The police department in Dallas has announced it will shut down hundreds of Flock cameras due to a funding pause, making it another U.S. city to remove the controversial camera system. Two Flock Safety cameras in a neighborhood in Jessup, Md., on Aug. 26, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The department said in a social media […]

Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlocked Again; Insane Karen Arrested For ‘Aggravated Intimidation’ Of Jurors The jury in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial is once again deadlocked over whether the former mother of three should be given a pass due to hysteria and hormones.  The indecision followed five days of deliberations and two notes from jurors saying they could not agree. On Wednesday, Judge William Sullivan gave the panel a […]

US Mint Starts Selling $1 Trump Coins Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Mint has started selling a $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump’s image to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. A new $1 coin features President Donald Trump’s image. Treasury Department/AP Graphic The U.S. Mint stated in an X post on Sept. 2 that the Trump coins would be available for purchase […]

Brazil’s Socialist President Sees Lead Evaporating, New Poll Shows Brazilian socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s lead over right-wing Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro continues to narrow, according to new polling data released early Wednesday. The latest polling extends the trend we highlighted last week, showing that the narrowing margin between the two candidates has transformed October’s presidential election a coin toss. […]

Another ActBlue Official Pleads Fifth In House Probe of Alleged Foreign Donations Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, Another senior figure at Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue invoked the Fifth Amendment during congressional testimony Tuesday as House Republicans investigate allegations of fraudulent and foreign political donations. Kimberly Peeler-Allen, a member of ActBlue’s board of directors, invoked her […]

Apple Maps Changes Name Of Lake Ontario To Lake America Update (1700ET): President Trump has voiced his approval of this change as “complete, ratified, and binding”… As Kimberly Hayek detailed earlier for The Epoch Times, Apple has changed the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” on the web version of its Apple Maps service, following an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump that renamed the body of water located […]

Pennsylvania Data Center Project Offers Residents $10,000 “Benefits Package” For Community Rebuilding With half of all proposed data centers unlikely to materialize amid mounting local resistance, potentially amplified in some cases by foreign influence operations, and intensifying power-grid constraints, developers are adopting more creative strategies to secure community support. In Pennsylvania, one proposed data center campus […]

The Texas Trotsky? Talarico Declares Capitalism An “Oppressive System” That Must Be “Dismantled” Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, Senate Democrat nominee James Talarico appears ready to bring a touch of Trotsky to Texas. In a video from a climate forum, Talarico is shown declaring capitalism an “oppressive system” linked with white supremacy and that it must be “dismantled” to achieve a better world. It is […]

Trump Proclaims War Won’t Last ‘Too Long’ After Yesterday ‘Love-Tap’ On US Bases By Iran Summary Trump warns of more strikes, but failed to mention tonight: Says US can hit Iran “at any time” but expects the war to end soon. Iran retaliation: Missile and drone strikes hit U.S.-linked sites across Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain. Civilian toll rises: Iran reports a wedding was targeted. Hormuz escalates: Two tankers […]

Rival Ukrainian Agencies In Lengthy Street Shootout, Officers Wounded A bizarre mini civil war of sorts has erupted among rival Ukrainian security agencies, complete with a wild street shootout and police standoff which has threatened to create more political scandal for President Zelensky – whose office has issued a statement – in an unprecedented saga which seems straight from the plot of a Lioness episode. Details of the fresh […]

Market Valuation: Expensive CAPE Or Cheap PEG? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The S&P 500’s Shiller CAPE ratio just hit 41. Since 1881, the market valuation has been more expensive under CAPE only once. That was during the final months of the dot-com bubble. At the same time the CAPE is ringing warning bells, the PEG ratio, which measures price relative to expected earnings growth, is at its lowest […]

Thousands Of Dropbox Accounts Breached In ‘Verification’ Hack Hackers were able to gain access to approximately 5,000 Dropbox accounts last month after exploiting a flaw in Lenovo’s email verification process to register fraudulent Lenovo IDs.  Clouds are seen in front of the Dropbox logo in this illustration taken February 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration According to a notification sent to the affected users, “an issue […]

US Diesel At Pump Nears April War High As Global Refining Crisis Deepens A diesel-price shock may be approaching Western economies. That’s because the industrial fuel sits at the epicenter of freight, agriculture, construction, and heavy industry; soaring prices ripple quickly through supply chains, raising transportation and construction costs, reigniting food inflation, weakening consumer sentiment, and intensifying margin […]

Hunter Biden, Who Slept With Late Brother’s Widow, ‘Comes Out As 48.6% Gay’ Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Former first son Hunter Biden is now claiming that he is “48.6 percent gay,” despite his long record of sexual activities with women, including allegations that he hired prostitutes and had a sexual relationship with the widow of his late brother, Beau Biden. Appearing on The Luke Beasley Show on Aug. 16, Hunter […]

The West’s Answer To Break China’s Tungsten Stranglehold Before Historic Rearmament Cycle Ramps New reports emerged late Tuesday during the US cash session that the US military had struck targets inside Iran. If confirmed, the operation would mark a rare instance of US strikes occurring during regular market hours. Market(ing) tactics aside, the now six-month military campaign against Iran has also exposed a critical operational […]