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DUBAI—Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are piling up without an American military response, raising the risks of crossing the strategic waterway and frustrating some Arab allies who worry the U.S. doesn’t have a strategy to wind down the conflict. Iran fired two ballistic missiles toward the strait on Tuesday, triggering air … Read more
House lawmakers visit Vatican to discuss AI — and meet the pope The visit comes as the Catholic Church, including Pope Leo XIV, has increasingly focused on the rapidly developing technology. Pope Leo XIV speaks during an audience in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on 1 June 2026, for a meeting with members … Read more
Comcast Turns Millions Of Routers Into Motion Sensors – The Same WiFi Signals Can ID You With 99.5% Accuracy Dear Comcast customers: The internet gateway in your living room is now a motion sensor. It’s free of charge, and the data can go to law enforcement without further notice. What’s more, researchers have already shown … Read more
The 52-year-old woman who was fatally shot Aug. 16 south of Vero Beach has been identified, said Indian River County sheriff’s officials. Dawn Kriskewic was identified as the woman, said officials via news release on Aug. 18. Officials had been locating and notifying her next of kin before they could release her identity. Sheriff’s deputies … Read more
Consumers are being urged to check their refrigerators and freezers after Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods voluntarily recalled several ready-to-eat meals over possible metal contamination. The affected foods were distributed through major grocery retailers, including Kroger, Publix and Food Lion, as well as other stores. The recall was initiated after small pieces of aluminum were discovered during … Read more
Teachers and researchers warn that heavy AI use for schoolwork is eroding students’ ability to think and write on their own. An MIT study showed lower brain activity, weaker memory of their own essays, and less ownership when students used AI tools. Big Tech is meanwhile racing to calm public backlash against AI with community … Read more
Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has learned. Drawing on a network … Read more
What was supposed to be a routine arrest took an unexpected turn for a U.S. Marshals task force in Missouri when a deck collapsed underneath them. NBC News’ Marquise Francis reports.
Basic reading ability among adults is getting worse, not better. The gap between high-skilled and low-skilled readers is widening and it hits daily life, jobs, and self-sufficiency hard. About 48 million adults read at or below third-grade equivalent according to some analyses. Over half of adults read below a sixth-grade level. Average literacy scores dropped … Read more
She is right, that’s why I don’t buy these stocks- No one knows overnight someone find a solution and this stock will go down 50% — Stock Stalkk (@StockStalkk) August 18, 2026
OH MY GOSH!!!! A man who K*LLED his own landlord was just allowed to walk out of a Virginia mental facility on a “weekend pass”… …and used it to board a ONE-WAY international flight out of the country. He is GONE. And he is not coming back. His name is Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda. Back in 2019, … Read more
China’s net new loans fell by -$50.4 billion in July, the 3rd such decline in more than 2 decades and more than TRIPLE what economists had forecast. Loans extended specifically to the real economy saw an even sharper -$87.5 billion in net repayments, the largest monthly decline in data going back to 2002. Aggregate financing, … Read more
BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇻🇪 The US is confiscating Venezuela’s gold from the UK bank All of Venezuela's gold reserves, totaling 31 tons, which are held at the Bank of England, will be transferred to the United States, per EL Nacional. The value amounts to $4 billion, resulting in the loss… pic.twitter.com/eXY0wwonkJ — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) August 18, 2026 … Read more
Free trial converts and bills even after cancel attempts. Annual monthly plans hit you with half the leftover cost to leave. Fees can reach hundreds of dollars depending on months left. Company only backs down when complaints go public and loud. Policy has already cost Adobe a big government settlement this year. https://www.news18.com/viral/i-never-wanted-this-subscription-man-claims-adobe-charged-him-demanded-99-to-cancel-internet-reacts-ws-l-10281527.html A heartfelt … Read more
Something interesting is happening in the world’s favorite cheap-money trade. Investors are starting to look at the Swiss franc instead of the yen as a funding currency. And the reason is pretty simple. The yen is becoming a headache. Japan has a 1% policy rate. Switzerland is at 0%. Japan is facing rate-hike expectations, currency … Read more
The Treasury Department on Wednesday said it will more than double the size of its government debt repurchases, sending yields sharply lower at a time of substantial market stress. With fixed income markets under pressure and yields surging to levels not seen in nearly 20 years, the announcement targets the sensitive longer-duration part of the … Read more
In this video Jimmy dissects Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that he is reading Jews Against Rome by Barry Strauss and commenting, “Well, we lost that one. I think we have to win the next one” . He and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger interpret this as Netanyahu declaring the United States—which he equates with … Read more
Imagine you own a house worth $1 million. No mortgage. Just $1 million sitting there. Now look at what that money can earn. The 30-year Treasury recently hit 5.337%, the highest level since 2007. At 5.3%, $1 million produces roughly: $53,000 a year. $4,417 a month. Before taxes. And the crazy part is that you … Read more
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team put out the big public list of names and addresses tied to the second-home tax and then skipped the City Council hearing on it. Nearly a million names and addresses went online. Only a small slice will actually pay the surcharge. Homeowners scramble to prove they do not … Read more
Stan Druckenmiller told Scott Bessent exactly what it would take to stop Washington from spending: “the clowns in Washington – unless they get a signal from the bond market, they’re just going to keep spending” this is him explaining the arithmetic nobody runs on corporate America, why he went from 93% invested to flat over … Read more