No More Mandatory ESG Fees For Dairy Farmers, USDA Rules Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ended environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives in a dairy program that is funded by dairy farmers. The update applies to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Program, also known as the Dairy Checkoff Program. The program funds research, promotion, and […]

Texas Daycare Faces Lawsuit For Running “Toddler Fight Club” Forget about Somali daycare fraud for a moment – have you heard about toddler fight club?  A daycare in Fort Worth, TX is facing investigations and litigation after evidence showed staff abusing young children and forcing them to fight each other.  One mother, Heather Harris, knew something was wrong when she picked up her 4-year-old son at the Arka Montessori Academy […]

Health Agency Looking At Electromagnetic Fields, Wireless Radiation: RFK Jr. Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is examining electromagnetic fields, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Sept. 17. The department issued a request for researchers and others to provide input on the impact of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure, including radiation from […]

Iran Submits Conditions For Ending War With US Via Qatar, Awaits Trump Response Iran has announced Saturday that its Supreme National Security Council has submitted Tehran’s conditions for ending the war with the United States via Qatar, and that it awaits the Trump White House’s response. “We are in contact with the Qatari intermediary who conveyed our conditions to Washington to end the war, and we are awaiting a response from […]

The ‘Modern-Day Lynching’ Hoax… And The Elephant In The Room Authored by Larry Elder via The Epoch Times, Nearly 60 Democratic members of Congress signed a letter to sound an alarm: Black Americans are being found hanging, including some from trees, in a wave of possible “modern-day lynchings.” Their letter to the Justice Department and FBI stated, “The series of deaths raise significant suspicion of foul play given the role […]

Houthi Ballistic Missiles Hit Fuel Tanks Near Riyadh Airport In War First In a historic first of the Yemen conflict, Houthi ballistic missiles rained down on the Saudi capital of Riyadh overnight, triggering rare air raid alerts and a general state of panic among the citizenry. The international airport may have been targeted, given huge black smoke plumes were seen rising above city’s King Khalid international airport. There […]

Trump Drops ‘Fake News’ Receipts As CNN, MSNBC, Politico Journos Have White House Badges Revoked Update (1200ET): Following through on his promise, journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were denied access to the White House grounds on Sept. 19 after President Donald Trump announced a ban targeting the outlets the day before. Akayla Gardner, a White House correspondent for MS NOW, said that her press pass was revoked at the […]

Gold At $155,000 An Ounce Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance The fellas over at Zero Hedge put up a Tweet last week that floated a wild monetary thought experiment: they said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could theoretically “buy back” our roughly $40 trillion in U.S. government debt using cash from the Treasury General Account. There would just be one small detail standing in the way…the government would first have to […]

Cuba Hit With National Power Grid Collapse As Oil Sources Dry Up Cuba’s power grid collapsed once again this week, this time at a national level, leaving millions of people across the island without electricity.  This is the sixth time since the US cut off fuel sources to the island since January that the national grid has collapsed and it’s the most utility shutdown events in the country’s recent history.   Even when Cuba’s […]

They’re Telling Us A Major War Is Coming… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The British government is dusting off a classified Cold War manual, telling households to stockpile tins and bottled water at home, while state media is putting out articles debating whether the country is mentally prepared for war. The classified Government War Book is being rewritten for the first time since 2004. The old document set out […]

14-Country Maritime Defense Alliance Moves Closer To Deploying To Red Sea, Gulf Of Aden With Saudi shipping traffic in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait under unprecedented peril, the recently-launched Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition is moving closer to deploying ships to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced on Friday.  Formed on July 30 at the initiative of Saudi Arabia, […]

Los Angeles Ranks Last Among 100 US Metros For Affordability And New Home Construction Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Des Moines, Iowa, ranked first and Los Angeles ranked last in Realtor.com’s inaugural report grading the 100 largest U.S. metros on housing affordability and homebuilding activity. A sign is posted in front of a home for sale in Los Angeles on July 9, 2026. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The results […]

Trump-Xi Summit Cheat Sheet: New Deals, Extended Trade Truce, But No Breakthrough? The White House released an itinerary for next week’s Trump-Xi meeting, including plans for Trump to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews. Ahead of the summit, Bank of America analysts outlined modest expectations, telling clients they see “little scope for a major trade breakthrough.” Bloomberg reports that Trump will welcome Xi […]

The Marriage Deficit Is An Economic Catastrophe Authored by Stephen Moore via The Epoch Times, The Beatles told us: “All you need is love.” They were right, but along with love must come marriage. But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men. A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement. – In 2025, nearly […]

Syria Rejects Desperate Saudi Plea To Deploy Militants To Yemen Provocative rumors have been flying all week that Saudi Arabia has recruited Syrian militants to fight the Houthis in Yemen, at a moment the Iran-aligned rebel groups is said to be rapidly gobbling up more territory, especially along the Red Sea coast. The claim has been especially strong in Lebanese media, after prominent Al-Akhbar reported this week that hundreds of […]

As A Former Head Of MI6, It’s Clear That Britain’s Climate Policy Is Leaving Us Dangerously Exposed To Our Enemies Authored by Richard Dearlove via The Daily Sceptic, This is the transcript of a lecture given in London last night to the Global Warming Policy Foundation by Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, titled ‘Energy Security: Blowing in the Wind’. The full lecture is available to watch on YouTube. A summer of […]

Russia Seizes Assets Of Swiss Food Giant Nestle Russian authorities seized the remaining businesses and assets of Swiss food giant Nestle and three French groups, the latest move against Western firms in response to sanctions against Moscow.  A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin issued late Thursday transferred the Russian operations of Nestle, French retailer Auchan and the former Leroy Merlin DIY chain, now known as […]

74% Of Sex-Crime Suspects In Spain’s Basque Country Are Foreigners Via Remix News, Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the […]

Upcoming Trump–Xi Summit Is Really An AI Summit Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, When President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet at the White House on Sept. 24, the public agenda will be much larger than artificial intelligence (AI). Trade, semiconductors, rare earths, Taiwan, and other disputes will all be on the table. But AI is different. Trade agreements can be renegotiated. Tariffs can be […]

Minnesota’s Anti-ICE Relief Fund Shut Down Due To Rampant Fraud Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses “harmed” by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement […]

US Bans Palestinian Authority President From Attending UN, But Admits Iranians Via Middle East Eye The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign ministry on Thursday condemned the US decision to bar Palestinian officials from attending the UN General Assembly for a second year in a row. The US has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, repeating a move that drew […]

China’s Stealth Fighters Take Shape As Great Powers Risk Sliding From Economic War Into Shooting War Against a backdrop of resource nationalism, Beijing surrounding Taiwan with a record number of ships and raising blockade risks, an ongoing trade war, and President Trump challenging BRICS, the US military is disrupting China’s access to cheap crude oil from countries such as Venezuela and Iran. This is merely the US response after […]

Israel Seeks ‘Compensation’ From Washington Over Saudi F-35 Sale Via The Cradle, Israel is expected to seek “compensation” from the US in the form of weapons systems that Washington has so far declined to sell to Tel Aviv, in response to US plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a $25 billion deal, Walla reported on 18 September. (Photo credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jerreht Harris) A source familiar with […]

Newsom Whips Out Wiener’s Dystopian “AI Kill Switch” Bill He Vetoed In 2024 Gavin Newsom spent Friday morning getting in on the scramble to control AI. Executive Order N-9-26 “advances the creation of an AI kill switch” and tells California to hustle on third-party oversight of frontier labs. All he had to do was dust off Scott Wiener’s kill switch bill he vetoed two years ago after the industry pushed back. SB 1047, Wiener’s […]

Trump Signs Memo To Remove Canadian Goods From US Federal Procurement Authored by Jason G. Antonio via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum directing the removal of Canadian-origin goods from the federal civil procurement system, following through on a commitment he made earlier this month. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2026. Saul Loeb / […]