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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he was forced to leave his Georgetown home and relocate to a military base after receiving death threats linked to Iran. In a CNBC interview, he said he would not be intimidated by the Iranian leadership, using some choice language to make his point. Bessent also accused The Wall Street … Read more

EU leaders held their first dedicated AI discussion in Dublin, with Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton joining the meeting. One figure stood out: only 20% of European digital services run on European infrastructure. Mensch says €260 billion a year is going to foreign providers instead of companies and infrastructure Europe controls. … Read more

Wholesale prices rose 6.5% over the past year, the biggest annual increase since November 2022. October’s monthly increase slowed to 0.3%, but the pressure is spreading. Food prices jumped 1.3%, core goods rose 0.5%, and transportation and warehousing costs climbed 2%. Diesel is still up 115% from a year ago. Markets are now weighing another … Read more

While Western bond yields are surging, China's are plunging. China can now borrow at ~50-60% lower interest rates than Western countries. Chinese bonds now trade like Western bonds used to… as safe-haven assets. Western bonds are starting to trade like risk assets. pic.twitter.com/AX1jfT6oWh — Lukas Ekwueme (@ekwufinance) November 13, 2026 The Fed’s Goolsbee seems panicked … Read more

construction potentially starting in January. The price tag is estimated at $35–40 million. He’s looking to Costa Rica, which recently opened its own mega-prison modeled on El Salvador’s CECOT. And it’s not just the prison walls. Honduras has also adopted tougher rules for inmates, including tighter isolation of suspected gang members and restrictions on outdoor … Read more

El Salvador deploys ARMED ROBOT DOGS in a Haiti stadium driving out GANG members from every HIDING SPOT pic.twitter.com/UcuRDMwAhZ — RT (@RT_com) November 13, 2026 El Salvador’s military has brought rifle-equipped four-legged robots into its security operation in Port-au-Prince. The machines appeared in footage released by President Nayib Bukele after Haitian and Salvadoran forces retook … Read more

Want proof that the UN is a nest of vipers? 144 nations just voted to put Iran on the committee that shapes global priorities on women. Iran. Where they KILL WOMEN FOR SHOWING THEIR HAIR!!! US out of the UN now!UN out of the US now! w.https://t.co/NJvJK5XZMB — Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach) November 13, 2026 Iran … Read more

At some level, I think they don’t entirely believe their own propaganda. They understand that statewide population percentages don’t tell the whole story. What matters is where people are concentrated geographically. You can have a state that’s overwhelmingly blue on paper but still has millions of people who think very differently. I suspect that reality … Read more

EVERYONE SHARE!!!!! The public need to know about this. The public needs to be aware of the planned International Youth Strike taking place across towns and cities throughout the UK on Friday 20 November. The organisers’ published information identifies numerous gathering… pic.twitter.com/GjAyMUdhOx — The English Crusader (@andrewc44104127) November 10, 2026 Students and youth organisations in … Read more

The FAA grounded flights across the country Friday after communications failed at air traffic control centers. More than 4,000 planes were already in the air. On the same day, the National Weather Service reported its own nationwide internet and communications problems. Officials say there is no evidence the outages were connected. Then there’s the money. … Read more

Trump is planning to meet Putin and Xi in Shenzhen next week, and Ukraine is worried about being left out of the room. Zelenskyy doesn’t want three powerful countries deciding what happens to Ukrainian territory without Ukraine at the table. European leaders are making the same point: no deal should redraw Ukraine’s borders or decide … Read more

The ground stop may be over, but getting the system back to normal is another problem. Aircraft and crews are scattered across the country, passengers are waiting to be rebooked, and airlines may not have the right planes in the right cities for Saturday’s departures. Travel experts warn the disruption could continue into Sunday or … Read more

Three incidents in about 48 hours. Jensen Huang’s reported departure from Nvidia. Microsoft’s outage affecting Outlook, Teams and other services, with Downdetector recording roughly 130,000 Outlook complaints. Then the FAA’s nationwide ground stop after communications failed across air traffic control centers. DHS says there’s no evidence of an attack. Now people are connecting the dots … Read more

By Friday evening, more than 2,000 flights were canceled and over 10,000 delayed. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no indication of an attack. He called it a telecommunications outage and said, “This isn’t another 9/11.” But the government still hasn’t explained what failed. The fallout isn’t staying at US airports. Some European departures … Read more