Economy & Finance

Virtual Power Plants Helped Save The Grid During Heat Dome By Brian Martucci of UtilityDive As the eastern half of the United States baked under record heat late last month and electricity demand reached multi-year peaks, it looked like the grid might succumb.  Grid operators and public officials scrambled to avoid a disaster, ordering generators to defer maintenance […]

Russia Will Target Any ‘Coalition Of The Willing’ Forces In Ukraine Via The Libertarian Institute The Russian Foreign Ministry said any troops from third countries deployed to Ukraine will become targets. European nations have discussed plans to send their soldiers to Ukraine if a ceasefire with Russia is reached.  Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explained that

Mossad Chief Pushes For US Assistance In Removing Gazans To Outside Countries According to a new report by Axios, Mossad director David Barnea visited Washington this week to seek US support for Israel’s efforts to persuade regional countries to accept large numbers of Palestinians which Israel plans to forcibly remove from Gaza. Citing two sources

Nearly Two Dozen Injured After Car Plows Into Crowd Outside Los Angeles Nightclub Chaos erupted outside an East Hollywood nightclub early Saturday morning after a vehicle plowed into a crowd, leaving at least 20 people injured.  The Los Angeles City Fire Department stated, “Initial reports of an unknown vehicle into a crowd, 20+ patients. Estimated 4-5 in at

Meta Won’t Sign EU’s Code Of Practice For Generative AI, Says Executive Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, said on Friday that the U.S. tech giant will not sign the EU’s new voluntary code of practice for general-purpose AI, citing legal uncertainties and measures

Total Cargo Theft Surges 13%, Metals Theft Surges 96%, In Q2 2025 Cargo theft is rising sharply across North America, with criminals increasingly targeting high-value commodities and employing complex fraud tactics, according to new data from CargoNet, a product of Verisk Analytics.  In the second quarter of 2025, CargoNet recorded 884 supply chain theft incidents

Man With Metal Neck Chain Critically Injured After Being Sucked Into MRI On Long Island If you’ve ever thought all those “NO METAL” signs around MRI machines—on doors, walls, and even in the waiting room—seemed a little over the top, here’s your proof they’re not. Today in Darwinism…a 61-year-old man was critically injured Wednesday after

UK To Lower Voting Age To 16, But Could Plans To Garner ‘Socialist Fodder’ End Up Backfiring? Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Britain’s left-wing Labour government has announced plans to lower the voting age in time for the next U.K. general election, allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in what it described as

Artificial Intelligence Breeds Mindless Inhumanity Authored by Bruce Abramson via RealClearWire, I began studying AI in the mid-1980s. Unusually for a computer scientist of that era, my interest was entirely in information, not in machines. I became obsessed with understanding what it meant to live during the transition from the late Industrial Age to the early