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Finance25 sources·Updated Oct 15, 2026·1 min readThe UK economy grew 0.1% in August, slowing from July’s 0.4% growth but beating economists’ forecasts of a contraction; output rose 0.7% over the three months to August. Industrial and manufacturing production increased during the month, while services were flat and construction contracted. The figures offer Chancellor John Healey a modest boost ahead of his October 28 Budget, as higher energy prices, inflation and rising government borrowing costs pressure households, businesses and public finances. Healey faces a difficult choice between measures to ease living-cost pressures and tax rises or spending cuts to meet fiscal…

The British Home Office has announced that contactless facial recognition is replacing passport checks at airport eGates in the United Kingdom, with East Midlands Airport becoming the first facility to introduce the system. The rollout is scheduled to expand to 13 airports by early 2027, officials said. The change is available first to British citizens, with other nationalities to be added in the coming months, according to the department [1]. The government said the contactless process saves about five seconds compared with the previous 20 to 25 seconds required for standard eGate use [2]. The announcement was met with support…

The San Diego Police Department issued a request for information on July 31 describing a program that uses artificial intelligence to assist officers and investigators in writing police reports, according to the document. The request states the initiative aims to enhance efficiency in report writing so officers can respond more quickly to calls for service. The document estimates a contract value between $500,000 and $3 million and says it is not a request for proposals, issued solely for information gathering and planning purposes. The request for information is a preliminary step that allows agencies to survey available technology without committing…

The Greek vs. regular yogurt debate: A nutritional showdown for health-conscious consumers Greek yogurt delivers nearly twice the protein of regular yogurt in a typical serving, making it the superior choice for muscle repair and satiety. Regular yogurt provides significantly more calcium, essential for bone density, and contains higher levels of energizing carbohydrates. The straining process for Greek yogurt removes excess lactose, potentially making it more tolerable for those with lactose intolerance. Both types offer live probiotics that support gut health, digestion and immune function, despite their nutritional differences. Choosing between Greek and regular yogurt depends on individual dietary goals,…

Saffron has a rich history dating back over 3,500 years, originating in ancient Mesopotamia and later spreading to the Mediterranean. It was used in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome for medicinal, culinary and cosmetic purposes. Iran is now the largest producer, contributing over 90 percent of the world’s saffron.  Saffron contains bioactive compounds like crocin, crocetin and safranal, offering antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties. It has been shown to improve mental health (e.g., depression and anxiety), enhance vision, support heart health, potentially prevent cancer and aid digestive health. Saffron is a versatile spice used in dishes like paella, risotto and…

Astronomers have found evidence of a planet orbiting a white dwarf star that appears to have formed after the star’s original life ended, according to a new study. The finding, described by researchers as a suspected second-generation planet, is based on an analysis of archived observations and was announced by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. The research centers on a white dwarf that had been flagged more than a quarter century ago in Hubble data, where an unidentified chemical signature sat dormant until a reexamination identified high amounts of the element niobium,…

An election worker moves mail-in ballots at the L.A. County Ballot Processing Center during California’s state primary election in the City of Industry on June 2, 2026. Patrick T. Fallon/AFPThe U.S. Department of Justice on Oct. 13 sent letters to California election officials demanding a review within 48 hours of registered voters it suspects are noncitizens and asking officials to set aside their mail ballots until their citizenship status can be determined.If the prescribed course of action wasn’t followed by Oct. 15 at noon ET, the letter stated the federal government would seek “emergency relief.”“This should not be controversial, as…

As Arizona faces a loss of nearly one third of its Colorado River water supply, an analysis of data centers across the state estimates water demand could surge by more than 450% if all planned data center projects in the greater Phoenix area are built.MESA, Ariz. (CN) — Arizona’s attorney general threatened to sue an AI data center developer during a Wednesday town hall held to address the concerns of Phoenix valley residents.The MenLo Digital AI hyperscale project in Ahwaktukee, a neighborhood in south Phoenix, is just one of nearly 50 new data centers under construction or in development across…

As Arizona faces a loss of nearly one third of its Colorado River water supply, an analysis of data centers across the state estimates water demand could surge by more than 450% if all planned data center projects in the greater Phoenix area are built.MESA, Ariz. (CN) — Arizona’s attorney general threatened to sue an AI data center developer during a Wednesday town hall held to address the concerns of Phoenix valley residents.The MenLo Digital AI hyperscale project in Ahwaktukee, a neighborhood in south Phoenix, is just one of nearly 50 new data centers under construction or in development across…

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen † . Posted in Uncategorized

By Derek Caldwell, Op-ed contributor Thursday, October 15, 2026iStock/Jacob WackerhausenJealousy is one of the least attractive traits in a significant other. So why, then, are we supposed to worship a God who is glowingly described with this very same trait?“I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing … those who hate me” (Exodus 20:5).The biblical authors, and even God Himself, seem to relish in these descriptions. This seems hypocritical, given that when these traits are discovered in human beings, they are condemned by the very same God. Is this a do as I say, not as I do…

At 80, President Donald Trump is outworking candidates half his age on the midterm trail, logging thousands of air miles across North America in seven days while packing arenas and speaking for hours to shore up Republican candidates.“President Trump’s energy and vitality are truly remarkable for being 80 years old.  Average middle-aged men show signs of fatigue with intensive, professional travel schedules – not indefatigable Trump,” Dr. Peter McCullough, chief scientific officer at the Wellness Company, told Just the News. In just the past seven days, from October 7 through October 14, Trump’s schedule has been relentless. He opened the…

The TV show Arrested Development satirized antiwar protests in the George W. Bush administration when military personnel bused limousine-liberal Lindsay Bluth to a caged “free speech zone” to chant slogans on an empty road far from the base.An Arizona city took a page from the cult sitcom when a Christian resident sought to evangelize at a two-week festival, but it went further by allegedly threatening to arrest him if he didn’t go to its “free expression zone” outside the festival to shout the gospel. David Hoffman sued the city of Tucson and two police officers for violating the First Amendment and the…

As Nov. 3 approaches and early voters beging to make their selections, President Donald Trump is taking the opportunity to highlight economic progress under his leadership. At the end of September, Trump announced that a $15 billion steel complex would be built in Iowa, creating 1,750 permanent jobs and up to 6,000 construction jobs.”Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Mesabi Metallics will be building the largest steel plant in American history in the great state of Iowa.” The White House said the steel plant is estimated to generate $95 billion in U.S. economic output through the first decade the plant…

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s past scandals are returning to haunt the Minnesota Democrat with a vengeance as Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) expands its probe, zeroing in on whether the lawmaker misrepresented her date of birth, possibly calling into question her naturalization as a citizen. The DOJ and other agencies have been ramping up its investigation into the congresswoman in recent days. The DOJ has reportedly issued subpoenas for several of Omar’s relatives, including her sister, Sahra Noor, as part of an effort to gather evidence of possible crimes, according to The New York Times. The subpoenas follow a search of Omar’s Washington, D.C.…

Louisiana hunters may use privately made suppressors, including those made using a 3D printer, if the firearm is legal for the season and the hunter may legally possess the device, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.The department clarified its policy in response to questions from The Center Square after announcing Monday how agents would handle suppressors following changes in federal enforcement. “LDWF’s enforcement guidance applies the same test to every suppressor encountered in the field, however it was made,” department Communications Director Taylor Brazan said in an email. The department does not enforce federal manufacturing requirements, Brazan…

The National Council of Urban Indian Health received $23.6 million in federal funds in four years even as an auditor flagged accounting problems in three of those years, an investigation by The Center Square found.The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit had a material weakness, the most serious category of internal-control deficiencies, in both 2022 and 2023. Its faulty accounting coincided with a doubling of its federal funding during the pandemic. In 2022, the Council received $200,000 in federal funds before it had eligible expenses to justify the payment, according to Sikich, the accounting firm that audited the nonprofit. The auditor found it…

The search Monday of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home by federal agents was focused on the Minnesota Democrat’s immigration history, raising the prospects of legal and denaturalization risks for the Somalian-born lawmaker.  Federal agents with the Homeland Security Investigations division of the Department of Homeland Security were seen outside Omar’s home in the early hours of Monday.  HSI “executed a judicially authorized search warrant secured by the Department of Justice,” an agency spokesperson said in a statement. The spokesperson also confirmed that the raid is “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation.”  Also, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro revealed Tuesday that her…

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Wednesday during arguments over whether video consumers are protected from having data shared between online companies.Justices on the high court heard arguments in Salazar v. Paramount, a case focused on the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act. The legislation prevents a “consumer” of video goods and services from having personally identifiable information released to a third party. Michael Salazar subscribed to Paramount’s online newsletter 247Sports to view videos. According to his lawyers, Paramount shared his Facebook ID and video-watching history to Meta. Justices debated the definition of the term “consumer” in the law Congress adopted.…

The U.S. Department of Energy said that an agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority will expand the energy grid across eight states, adding 2.5 gigawatts of grid capacity.The $581 million grant includes $250 million in federal funding and about $331 million in cost-share funding from the applicant, the Energy Department said in a release, following an announcement made in Knoxville. The project will support 800 jobs, the department said in a statement. The Center Square was unsuccessful in getting more information about the jobs from the Department of Energy. The funding is part of the Resilience Amplified: Multi-Market Grid Interconnection…

By Iver Martin, Op-ed contributor Thursday, October 15, 2026Martin Luther statue in Dresden, Germany. | iStock/robertmandelTo understand the Reformation and its lasting influence, we have to imagine a very different world from our own. For one thing, the choices we enjoy in the 21st century West were nonexistent. Life was controlled by financial constraints, geography, ignorance, and family ties. And then there was the church. The freedom to choose one’s own church was unheard of because before the mid-1500s, the Roman Catholic Church was the dominant religious force. In fact, in many parts of the world, it was essentially illegal…

A Biden-appointed judge blasted Trump officials Monday for clearing hundreds of trees at a D.C. golf course, claiming the move destroyed the government’s credibility.U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes raised her voice in a federal hearing over work at East Potomac Golf Links in southwest Washington, D.C. The National Park Service had begun removing trees as part of administration renovation plans for the 106-year-old public course. Newsweek reported that Reyes accused the government of destroying its credibility with the court after more than 500 trees came down without what she called adequate notice. She extended a temporary restraining order and set…

California now forces major corporations to investigate and disclose any historical slavery ties after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the first-in-the-nation mandate that reparations activists call a key victory.Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2599, the Truth in Disclosure Act, into law on Sept. 30, creating a statewide requirement for large companies doing business in California to dig into their past and report any connections to chattel slavery. Fox News Digital reported the measure applies once the legislature funds it and targets businesses with more than $100 million in annual worldwide gross receipts that existed, or had a predecessor entity operating,…

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook cannot attend the November 5 White House hearing on alleged mortgage false statements that President Trump ordered, her lawyer citing Europe duties and questioning the panel’s fairness.Lawyer Abbe Lowell wrote the White House that Cook will be carrying out official duties at financial and monetary policy meetings in Europe on that date. Breitbart reported Lowell’s letter made clear she is unavailable then. “Consequently, she is unable to attend any hearing on that date,” Lowell stated. “Consequently, she is unable to attend any hearing on that date,” The White House had published a statement Friday saying…

Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in a criminal immigration-paperwork probe, and her campaign quickly turned the raid into a cash appeal weeks before the midterms.Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant at the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington-area residence early Monday as part of an ongoing Justice Department criminal fraud investigation, Fox News reported. The probe centers on immigration paperwork her late father completed when she entered the United States as a child refugee. Authorities have not publicly detailed the full scope, and no charges have been announced. Omar’s campaign did not wait for that accounting. It…

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration’s bid to stop a watchdog group from obtaining Department of Government Efficiency records under public-records law.The justices on Tuesday accepted a Justice Department appeal aimed at keeping Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington from forcing the release of records tied to the Department of Government Efficiency, often called DOGE. At stake is a basic question of presidential power: whether DOGE counts as a federal agency that must answer Freedom of Information Act requests, or whether it is a presidential advisory body outside that statute. The Freedom of Information Act, known…

A Saudi OpenAI engineer was arrested for planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room to capture superintelligence talks, federal officials say.CNBC reported that the Justice Department announced the arrest of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old national of Saudi Arabia and OpenAI employee, in connection with installing a sophisticated covert audio recording device inside an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco office. Alfozan was arrested on Oct. 9. OpenAI terminated him. The FBI framed the case as an effort to protect American advances in superintelligence technology from secret monitoring. Federal officials say Alfozan was not authorized to…

House Speaker Mike Johnson says the midterm polls are wrong and Republicans are being underestimated, pushing back hard against analysts who claim Democrats have already locked up the House.On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” the Louisiana Republican rejected the dominant media narrative that control of the House is already lost. Host Dana Perino put the question to him directly: political analysts say the House is gone and Democrats will take the majority. Johnson said that story does not match what he is seeing on the ground. Johnson told Perino he was in Texas that day for three…

A 26-year-old Minnehaha County deputy died three days after a Sioux Falls home shooting that left a suspect wounded and charged with trying to kill officers.Fox News Digital reported that Minnehaha County Deputy Katherine Frank was critically wounded when gunfire erupted about 30 minutes after deputies arrived at a home in Sioux Falls, S.D., on Friday night. Frank, 26, spent three days in critical condition before she died Monday, surrounded by family and loved ones. The suspect, Brandon John Oetken, 39, of Sioux Falls, was also wounded in the confrontation. Both were treated at the home before being taken to…

FBI agents arrested a Saudi OpenAI engineer for allegedly planting a hidden recorder in an executive conference room, a move Kash Patel ties to protecting U.S. super intelligence secrets.Federal authorities took Abdulrahman Alfozan into custody on October 9 after the artificial-intelligence company found a covert audio device inside one of its San Francisco buildings and called in the bureau. Just The News reported that OpenAI personnel discovered the gear inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room, concealed in toilet paper, with its contents encrypted. Company records put the installation on or…

President Donald Trump urged Alaska voters Tuesday night to back Ballot Measure 2 and repeal ranked choice voting, branding the system a Democrat scam built to cheat.Speaking in Wasilla, Trump stumped for incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and pressed the crowd to kill the state’s ranked-choice system before the next cycle can twist another race. He told voters the setup lets candidates enter strong and finish weaker after opaque reallocation rounds no ordinary Alaskan can track. Trump framed Ballot Measure 2 as the clean fix. A yes vote, he said, means repeal. The Washington Examiner reported his direct appeal to end…

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, October 15, 2026Getty Images New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that fewer younger teenagers are identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual, with the steepest decline occurring among ninth-grade girls, prompting debate over what may be driving the change.According to an analysis of the CDC’s 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data by Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, 17% of ninth-grade girls identified as lesbian or bisexual in 2025, down from 30% in 2021. Over the same period, the share identifying specifically as…

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”–Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling claim about the nature of political power. It claims not merely the authority to protect the innocent from violence, but the authority to inflict violence when no immediate threat exists. It claims that the taking of human life, which it rightly condemns when committed by private individuals, somehow becomes morally permissible when…

The Iran war is straining US weapons stockpiles and raising doubts about Washington’s ability to protect the Persian Gulf. If that weakens the petrodollar and pushes oil producers away from the US financial system, two assets face clear headwinds: the US dollar and US Treasuries. The petrodollar system helped create structural demand for both. If oil exporters sell more energy outside the dollar system, fewer oil dollars need to flow back through Wall Street and into Treasury securities. At the same time, the US government needs to borrow staggering sums to finance its deficits, military commitments, entitlement programs, and interest…

This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group The young do not think about getting old, and this is to the greatest benefit of governments which spend and inflate younger generations out of any future subsidies they might one day come to rely on. For most people in Gen Z, though, there is at least a tacit acknowledgment that they are paying into a system that might not be there for them when they retire. However, their only point of reference is usually the rantings of their socialist college professors or a mob of…

“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan The tool being built today has a name: Pax Silica. The belief behind it is older. It is the faith that experts can manage what markets and democracies cannot. It is called technocracy. The movement emerged after the First World War, when wartime mobilization showed how extensively governments could coordinate production. Engineers and scientists had helped direct the industrial effort. When the war ended, Howard Scott and others saw a possibility: if experts could organize the economy during war, why not during peace? In 1918–1919 they formed…

The war in the Middle East has been essentially put on pause until the midterm elections in the United States are over, but once we get to that point Iran is expecting the fighting to go to an entirely new level. So Iran is using this temporary lull in the action to get fully prepared. Ground forces are being trained, defenses are being strengthened, new missiles are being produced, and rallies are being held to bolster public support for the coming conflict. This time around, the Iranians don’t intend to just be on the defensive. They have openly warned that…

This is a fact-based history lesson. The lesson is about black slaveowners.  Larry Koger’s book, Black Slaveowners, is well documented. Koger provides 34 pages of documentation listing the names of black slave owners and the number of slaves they owned in South Carolina and 38 pages of historical notes.  Most free blacks only owned a few slaves, but some blacks themselves had plantations and had as many as 30 or 40 slaves.  One owned 123 slaves.  Another owned 156 slaves. One owned 68. Another 71. Many owned 10 to 20. In South Carolina alone in 1830 there were 450 black…

In the same way that medieval kings seized any excuse to invade neighboring countries, today’s politicians perennially seek pretexts to further invade citizens’ lives. And there is never a shortage of intellectuals who, like the courtiers long ago, assure their masters that God — or at least social science — blesses their aggression. The power of the intelligentsia Inside the Washington beltway, it is bad taste to recognize how federal policy is often shaped by the love of power. Experts and activists persistently overestimate the likelihood of successful interventions because of their starry-eyed assumptions about the political class.  Because political…

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Human despair is being manufactured and monetized by corrupt health care organizations, in ways that defy belief. Health care companies, working with the neo-Marxists in Western blue states, are using local and state-level policies, and numberless NGOs, to produce ever more drug addiction, alcoholism, mental illness diagnoses, and homelessness. This is the homelessness industry in Oregon. I was in the Pacific Northwest about six months ago, in a bucolic little college town. It was the end of April. We were having a real, old-fashioned Spring. Days were warming; a faint sun was waxing steadier; the tiny leaves on trees, that…

Today I saw a post from a popular Twitter account saying, “As soon as AI is good enough to write blog posts in my voice as good as I would have written them, i intend to use AI to do so. I know what I want to say, and I could say so much more if I didn’t need to manual labor the words out one by one.” “I kinda hate writing,” she said further down in the thread. This sucks. I don’t like what we’re becoming. I don’t like how AI is making us so dumb so quickly that…

A sign outside the State Department in Washington on July 11, 2025. Saule Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesA federal judge on Wednesday ordered Secretary of State Marco Rubio to open registration for the 2027 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program by Nov. 1.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta of the Southern District of California requires the State Department to announce the registration period no later than midnight ET Oct. 29, open a 30-day electronic entry window by midnight Nov. 1, and notify selectees by midnight Dec. 3.The department must accept entries and process applications until the fiscal year 2027 visa allocation…

Albertsons is seeking to collect about $8 billion from Kroger after the collapse of what was poised to become the largest grocery chain merger in U.S. history.The two sides agreed to a $24.6 billion merger in 2022. Albertsons argues that Kroger said it would try to resolve anticompetitive worries with regulators.The deal, meant to fend off increasing grocery competition from Amazon and Walmart, fell through in December 2024 after a federal judge sided with the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust grounds.The two largest grocery chains in the United States plan to present their case to a Delaware Court of Chancery…

Screencap of Twitter/X video. CNN wants to help loony lefty Democrat James Talarico so badly that they gave him a town hall event on Wednesday night. As part of the event, people from the audience were allowed to come to the stage to ask him questions directly. At one point, a Texas voter named Jody asked Talarico about his pro-choice views on abortion. Talarico bent over backwatds to make himself sound reasonable on the issue, suggesting that he could come together with pro-life people. Then he suggested that the Bible is silent on abortion. Jody schooled him on this, reminding…

Eight states filed lawsuits against OpenAI Oct. 14, claiming the company’s ChatGPT app harms children, deceives parents, and violates state consumer fraud laws.The states—Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Idaho, Montana, and Arizona—individually filed lawsuits in their states, alleging the chatbot was giving dangerous medical advice, encouraging people to hurt others, and coaching people to commit suicide while pretending to be a friend.“We will not just accept that any big tech company can make money by hurting Iowa’s kids and use them as lab rats in a race to be the first, or the biggest, or have the most users,” Iowa Attorney…

Ilhan Omar dances before the press. Illustration: Douglas Ross Please follow us on Truth Social, X, Youtube, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab, Instagram Originally published at The Miami Independent. Federal Raid on Ilhan Omar’s D.C. Home Escalates Long-Standing Scrutiny Over Immigration and Family History A pre-dawn raid on the Washington, D.C. residence of Representative Ilhan Omar by federal agents marked a dramatic turning point in years of political and legal controversy surrounding the Minnesota congresswoman. The Department of Justice confirmed that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—the primary investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security—executed a judicially authorized search warrant at…

Candidates for Alaska’s U.S. House seat participate in a live statewide debate at 11 p.m. ET on Oct. 14 as part of the “Debate for the State 2026” series. The candidates will answer questions and discuss their priorities for the office. …

Photo: Shixart1985 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Please follow us on Truth Social, X, Youtube, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab, Instagram Reprinted with permission•Mises Wire•Frank Shostak According to certain experts, there is an urgent need to remove cash from the economy. It is argued that cash provides support to the shadow economy and permits tax evasion. Another justification for its removal is that, in times of economic shocks which push the economy into a recession, the run for cash exacerbates the downturn (i.e., it becomes a factor contributing to economic instability). Moreover, it is held that, in the modern…