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It Sure Looks Like Trump and His Sons Are About to Dump Their Crypto

Meanwhile, investors in Donald Trump’s meme coin have lost billions of dollars. President Donald Trump and his three sons are poised to receive a …

Houthi rebels’ control of Red Sea oil chokepoint exposes deep divisions in Brics

Houthi rebel forces have seized the Yemeni port of Mokha as well as Mayyun Island overlooking the Bab el-Mandab strait. This gives Iran’s most …

Why stocks are shrugging off rising interest rates

The escalating war with Iran and rising energy costs helped push up borrowing costs across the U.S. economy last week. Stocks largely yawned. Why it …

The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanity

On AI and climate, it’s the same story of mass destruction Will AI lead to the destruction of humanity? Over the past year a number of top AI …

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

On May 24, Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his guests. …

MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption (updated, shared)

Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction. In the summer of 2025, the government of Brazil suddenly found itself in a deep crisis. The Trump administration had unexpectedly imposed 50 percent tariffs on the country’s …

What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?

The AI industry seems to be having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity. The current discussion began after AI researcher Jacob Coxon said that he’s resigned from Anthropic because he’s worried that the leading AI companies are “gambling with …

Missile crisis: The hard truths about America’s military arsenal

On the floor at Lockheed Martin's production facility in Camden, Arkansas, Tim Cahill, head of the company's missile division, showed "Sunday …

Economists Who Weren’t Worried About the Debt Are Now Panicking

Economists Who Weren’t Worried About the Debt Are Now Panicking What really concerns them isn’t just the $40 trillion. By Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic America’s national...

Robert Pape: US Losing its Edge and Iran Takes Charge

Robert Pape's Last Week Today: IRAN TAKES CHARGE Originally published on Sep 12, 2026 In today's edition of Last Week Today, Professor Robert Pape argues that...

Fed’s Warsh faces new pressure to hike rates after inflation heats up

A decision to raise rates next week would come at a politically fraught time — less than two months before a midterm election that will determine control of Congress. Investors now overwhelmingly expect the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates next week after new data Friday showed gas prices …

What the settlement left out: Meta can still collect data from kids

In August 2026, Meta agreed to one of the largest consumer protection settlements in American history. The settlement resolves claims from 47 states …

‘We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans’: if AI labs are so worried about AI doom, why don’t they stop?

Earlier this week, researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, saying the firm and its competitors are “gambling with our lives”. “We really do earnestly …

Trump Loses the Other Strait

The Houthi advance is bad news for the U.S., and even worse news for Saudi Arabia. As recently as last week, the Iran war appeared to be turning slightly in America’s favor. The Houthis—the Yemen-based militia that is Iran’s most formidable remaining ally in the Middle East—were under pressure from …

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with integrated data sources — it pulls research, cites it, and builds decks in minutes

Every day, investment-banking analysts spend hours pulling company and market data, reconciling adjustments in Excel, checking assumptions, moving the analysis into PowerPoint and then working back through the deck to make sure every important figure can be traced to the underlying source. Now, …

Trump’s $5,000 Midterm Ploy Is Even Dumber Than It Sounds

The math is impossible, the inflation risk is real, and the plan would attract an army of scammers. DEAR LORD, DO WE REALLY have to take this …

Trump pledges $5,000 ‘dividend’ to all US adults if the GOP wins the midterms

It was not immediately clear how the plan would be financed. President Donald Trump has pledged to send $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms, a payout that would dwarf the amount distributed during the Covid pandemic and likely explode the …

2026’s El Niño is shaping up to be a doozy – it’s already affecting global shipping, fish behavior and heat

El Niño is here, and forecasters warn that it’s likely to be bigger and stronger in 2026-27 than any El Niño event recorded in at least 150 …

What Russia Is Really Up To in Europe (shared)

Moscow doesn’t want a conventional war, but it is busy fighting a hybrid one. On Russian state television, the Kremlin’s propagandists have for years threatened to bomb European capitals, even while the country’s diplomats insist that no such war is imminent. Lately, the denials have gotten hard to …

The End of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The End of U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve By Peter Zeihan The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created in the 70s as a safeguard against major...

Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone (shared)

Apple needs to learn to take risks again. Nothing quickens the pulse of an Apple fan more than these three words: one more thing. Steve Jobs used the catchphrase to introduce the original iPhone in 2007. In his 15 years running the company, Tim Cook deployed it only a handful of times, including …

Saudi Oil Exports Plunge as Spread of War Shuts Off Shipping Routes (shared)

With few good options for safely shipping oil, Saudi Arabia’s exports have fallen to a 13-year low. Saudi Arabia has made several quick pivots to keep its oil flowing since the start of the U.S. war with Iran. Within weeks of Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz — once Saudi Arabia’s primary export …

New ChatGPT is world’s first human-level AI, says Nvidia boss

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has claimed that the latest version of ChatGPT marks the first instance of artificial general intelligence (AGI), or …

Oil executives are anxious about Venezuela

Big Oil companies have always moonlighted as geopolitical risk assessment firms. That capability faces a big test now. It takes guts to thrive in the …

2026’s El Niño is shaping up to be a doozy – it’s already affecting global shipping, fish behavior and heat

El Niño is here, and forecasters warn that it’s likely to be bigger and stronger in 2026-27 than any El Niño event recorded in at least 150 …

One Failed Heart-Drug Trial Hits Ionis, Novartis and Amgen: What Happened and Why It Matters

One Failed Heart-Drug Trial Hits Ionis, Novartis and Amgen: What Happened and Why It Matters Biotechnology stocks are being punished today after a closely watched...

Revolution Medicines’ Daraxonrasib Wins FDA Approval as Rasonque: What the RAS Breakthrough Means for RVMD Investors

Revolution Medicines’ Daraxonrasib Wins FDA Approval as Rasonque: What the RAS Breakthrough Means for RVMD Investors Updated from an earlier version published before Rasonque received...

A record-shattering El Niño is almost here. Here’s what that means for the world’s weather

The world is bracing for the strongest El Niño in history. The United Nations has made the grim prediction that our planet now sits in the “danger …

OpenAI Claims We’re in the ‘AGI Era’ With Release of GPT-6 Astra

Welcome to the beginning of... something. We are approaching the precipice of the beginning of what could be the start of the first stages of the …

El Niño 2026 is now the strongest in 1,000 years. Here’s what that means for your winter forecast

The projected super El Niño could bring more extreme weather to the U.S. during the hurricane season. El Niño is now the strongest it has been in 1,000 years, according to new research from the University of Michigan, which reconstructed ocean surface temperatures over the last millennium by looking …

The Truth About American Food Safety (updated, shared)

Have sprawling outbreaks become the norm? The phrase When it rains, it pours isn’t one you like to see applied to outbreaks of foodborne illness, yet here we are. The summer started with a diarrhea-causing parasite called Cyclospora cayetanensis, which infested iceberg lettuce. Then came news of Shiga …

FDA approves latest version of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration has approved a newly updated version of their COVID-19 …