Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis seize an island in a key strait, opening a new front in the Iran war
Yemen ’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, two officials said Friday, opening a new front in the Iran war and further threatening Saudi oil exports through one of the world’s key shipping lanes. The Houthis’ biggest territorial gain in years, along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, could boost Iran’s strategy of driving up world oil and gas prices to pressure the United States.

New York marks 25 years after 9/11 in spectacle of hope and grief
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, New Yorkers and people from around the world converged in a spectacle of hope and grief at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

Jeff Currie Warns Odds Of $5 Gas By Midterms Are “Extremely High”
Veteran commodities strategist Jeff Currie has spent the summer warning that scarcity in physical commodity markets is becoming a persistent source of inflationary pressure and giving way to a commodities supercycle. After appearing on CNBC on Thursday, he joined Bloomberg Television on Friday morning to amp up that message, warning that tightening crude products supplies make $5-a-gallon US gasoline highly likely by November.

Migrants Placed In Tiny British Village Will Out Number Locals By 10 To 1
A Home Office document still sitting in the public record has detonated a fresh revolt in the tiny British village of Piddington.

Trump reiterates warning against Democrat ‘dark age’ in final RNC address
President Donald Trump closed out the second and final night of the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas on Thursday by listing his administration’s accomplishments and warning that Democrat policies will plunge the U.S. back into “a dark age.”

Robert Jeffress: James Talarico’s beliefs are ‘evil’ and ‘not Christian’
First Baptist Church Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress has denounced the beliefs of Democratic candidate James Talarico, calling them “blasphemous” and “evil.”

On the 25th Anniversary of 9/11, New York City Is a Completely Different Place
In 2001, New York City was a beautiful place to live: clean, thriving, safe. All forms of crime were dropping, and the murder rate was the lowest since the 1960s. But today things are much different. Violent predators, drug addicts, the Muslim mayor is a Democratic Socialist, new mosques are going up all over the city.

Major Ground Offensive in Middle East Just Caused Dramatic Surge in Price of Oil
A major ground offensive by the Houthis enabled them to take control of Mocha on the Red Sea, Zuqar Island, the rest of the Hanish island chain, & Mayun Island located in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This is being called a “strategic disaster” for the US & Saudi Arabia because it gives the Houthis an iron grip on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Experts predict El Nino’s impact on US weather as new forecast is issued
Concerns about El Niño heightened global food market supply fears, pushing up staple prices including vegetable oils & sugar, according to UN Food & Agriculture. According to US Climate Prediction Center [for what it’s worth], El Niño is strengthening, with over 90% chance of a very strong event during Northern Hemisphere fall & winter 2026-27.

IAEA refers Iran to UNSC for nuclear ‘non-compliance’; think tank sees surging activity at Pickaxe Mt.
The International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors referred Iran to the UN Security Council for breaching its non-proliferation obligations. This decision, made Sept 9, marks the first such resolution in 20 years by the 35-member board. At least 23 countries supported the resolution, while Russia, China, & Niger opposed it.

Trump Says Activity Seen at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, Urges Tehran ‘Not to Get Cute’
“We notice there’s a little activity at Pickaxe. I would advise Iran not to get cute ‌because we will have to hit ‌them very hard,” Trump said in a speech at the midterm Republican convention. Pickaxe Mountain, ⁠located near ⁠Iran’s heavily damaged Natanz uranium enrichment facility, is a fortified site ​with two deeply buried tunnel complexes.

WZO chief predicts most of world’s Jews will live in Israel within 5 years
A majority of the world’s Jews will be living in Israel within five years, World Zionist Organization Chairman Yaakov Hagoel predicted during Ynet Global’s Aliyah Live Summit, describing what he sees as a profound shift in Jewish identity and attachment to Israel since October 7.

Indonesia searches for 8 missing at sea near Anak Krakatau volcano
Indonesian rescuers searched for eight people who went missing at sea while heading to a volcanic island to report on an eruption there. Anak Krakatau initially erupted for about 25 hours over the weekend and has continued to erupt intermittently with explosions ejecting lava, ash and incandescent volcanic material from the crater.

Middle East on brink of World War III, says Iranian lawmaker Kamran Ghazanfari
While Iran has flirted with reconciliation with the US at times, it has also sought to position itself alongside countries that want a new world order. The Ghazanfari comments are interesting because they likely illustrate how some of Iran’s more extremist politicians and IRGC elites view the war – as a regional and global conflict.

Israel’s election takes shape as 38 parties submit slates, in battle between pro- and anti-Netanyahu blocs
Despite heavy speculation that some parties would unite, the flurry of party registrations this week ended with the electoral landscape largely unchanged, and still deadlocked between supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Peace with the Islamic Republic of Iran is a Fantasy
Every Friday, the regime’s supporters chant, “Death to America, Death to Israel.” This is an aggressive regime that will start more wars & that must be removed from power. Peace with Iran is a fantasy. Both Obama & Trump appear to have embraced that fantasy, and future generations, along with the Iranian people, will pay the price for it.

Lawmakers are at a loss for how to regulate AI as insiders warn of impending doom
Members of Congress are confronting a grim reality: They are ill-equipped to rein in advanced artificial intelligence that one expert warns could “kill us all” by the end of the decade.

Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term
Top White House advisers have raised privately with President Trump the prospect that the Iran war could drag on through the remainder of his term, U.S. officials said, a message at odds with Trump’s public assurances of a swift victory.

August 2026 ties record as hottest month ever measured
August 2026 tied July 2023 as the hottest month ever recorded worldwide, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said Thursday. The global average surface air temperature was 1.65 degrees Celsius above estimated preindustrial levels.

US calls for NATO allies to withdraw from Rome Statute, ‘systematically dismantle’ ICC
The United States attempted to recruit its NATO allies for a move aimed at “systematically dismantling” the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Politico reported on Thursday. According to three NATO diplomats, the US administration called on member states of the alliance to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the court’s founding treaty, and end their support for it.

Inside the lion’s den: Israel is quietly regaining respect at the UN, Danny Danon tells ‘Post’
When Danny Danon returned to New York two years ago for his second stint as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, he described the organization as a far more ferocious lion’s den than the one he had left four years earlier.

Watchdog sounds alarm on the left’s massive foreign money pipeline
A government watchdog group is urging lawmakers to crack down on foreign money flowing into U.S. nonprofits that influence American politics and public policy, according to letters exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Americans for Public Trust (APT) is sending letters to all 50 governors and officials on six congressional committees directing them to its newly launched FollowForeignMoney.org database, which has cataloged a running total of more than $5 billion flowing from foreign governments, foreign nationals and foreign charities into U.S.-based nonprofits with records dating back to 2002.

Iran fires electro-optical missile for first time — aiming at US warships: repor
Iran used its new electro-optical missiles for the first time in an attempted attack on US warships on Wednesday, officials claimed, as part of Tehran’s retaliation campaign against American vessels in the region. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard fired a wave of strikes overnight targeting US forces in Jordan and 10 US ships near the Strait of Hormuz. .”.. officials noted that the attack failed along with the one in Jordan, where the Iranian missiles were intercepted.

Cardinal Burke: Today’s sexual immorality resembles Sodom and Gomorrah
Cardinal Raymond Burke compared the sinfulness of the current age to the Biblical times of Sodom and Gomorrah in a recent interview. Speaking with Shawn Ryan on The Shawn Ryan Show, Cardinal Burke warned that there are distinct similarities between the sexual perversion of today and Abraham’s age. “People there began to live in a godless way and especially there was homosexual activity,” the cardinal said. “There was unnatural attraction of even the same sex, and they would even abuse people who would be passing through and offer them hospitality with the intention to abuse them sexually, to have unnatural relations with them.

Ukrainian commander, whose unit destroyed 57,000 Russia’s targets: US telling allies to brace for years of 
war at Ramstein means no “miraculous de-escalation” is coming
The Kremlin understands only force and the West should press harder before winter, he adds.

A New Cold War Is Unfolding in Orbit as China Advances Satellite Surveillance
Chinese scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology have run satellite proximity simulations to extend potentially hostile observation of U.S. space assets in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), seemingly inching both countries closer to a potential war in space.

Ukrainian drones strike gas plants more than 300 miles inside Russia, Kyiv says
Ukrainian military claims to have carried out its deepest strike so far inside Russia since the Russian invasion began in 2022.The country’s special forces say that two large gas processing plants have been hit by drones in Novy Urengoy and Purovsky in the Yamalo-Nenets region in western Siberia, which is important for the Russian gas industry.

Netanyahu says regime change in Iran is very close during visit to Mount Hermon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says regime change in Iran is “very close.” The remarks came as Netanyahu visited Mount Hermon on the Syrian side of the border – ..”The main goal is to overthrow the terrorist regime in Iran. We are very close to that,” Netanyahu said in a video recording..

At least 14 killed in explosion at arms depot in northwest Syria
At least 14 people were killed and another 11 injured in an explosion at an arms depot in northwestern Syria on Wednesday, the country’s health ministry said, according to the state news agency Sana.

UN nuclear agency orders Iran nuclear issue to be brought before Security Council
The board of the UN nuclear agency IAEA is demanding that the issue of Iran’s nuclear program be raised in the UN Security Council. Iran criticizes the decision.

Fetterman delivers video message praising Trump and Sen. Dave McCormick at midterm convention
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., delivered a surprise video message at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, praising President Donald Trump and Republican Sen. Dave McCormick while distancing himself from the Democratic Party’s left wing. “I’m a commonsense Democrat. I’m always going to stand with America,” Fetterman said. “I’m always going to reject the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.”

Satellite images show construction surge at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site
Iran has sharply increased construction this year at Pickaxe Mountain, a deeply buried site near the Natanz nuclear complex that analysts believe could become part of the country’s nuclear program, according to an analysis of satellite imagery reported by CNN. The site, roughly 140 miles south of Tehran, has been under construction for years.

Iran demands release of $24 billion, no interference in nuclear program, as conditions to end war
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has set six conditions for ending the war with the United States as negotiations remain at an impasse and fighting continues, including an end to US military action and threats, an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and the release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

As Tehran turns to preemptive attacks, Iran believes it can win a war of attrition
Defense Ministry Spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik told Defa Press, “Considering the enemy’s depth of threats and type of weapons, defense necessarily cannot be actualized within [Iran’s] territorial borders,” adding, “[Sometimes] it is necessary to employ offensive weapons.” He continued, “This strategy in the past was employed on occasion and succeeded in controlling the crimes of the American and Zionist enemy.” Iran has stated that its objective is to force the United States to abandon the region.

IDF launches new unit dedicated to AI, unmanned systems
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Tuesday that he had finalized the establishment of a new military branch dedicated to unmanned systems and artificial intelligence. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of the 153rd Naval Officers Course at the Haifa Naval Base, Zamir said, “This is a once-in-a-generation transformation, and the IDF intends to be a global leader in it,”

Rubio: Iran will continue to pay price for attacks on US ships
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iran will face further consequences for attacks on US ships as Washington maintains economic pressure on Tehran. Speaking to reporters in Ecuador, Rubio described the US response to Iranian attacks, saying, “They continue to fire on naval ships, and when they fire at our naval ships, they pay a price in tankers. They don’t hit our ships, but they lose five tankers.”

Projectiles hit several areas in southern Iran’s Sirik 
Several areas in Sirik, southern Iran, were hit by projectiles on Wednesday, Iranian state media reported. Further details regarding the strikes, including the extent of the damage or potential casualties, were not immediately available. Sirik was previously among several areas targeted during a wave of US strikes on southern Iran earlier in September.

Israel gives British Consulate in eastern Jerusalem 30 days to close
U.K. officials attached to missions in Kiryat Gat and Ramallah were told to halt their operations immediately, an Israeli source told JNS. … adding that the same order was issued to the British Support Team, which trains Palestinian Authority police forces in the Samaria city of Ramallah.

On Everybody’s List: Jews Face ‘The Greatest Threat Ever’
Let that headline settle in your mind and heart. You don’t even have to be pro-Israel to find it disturbing. And it may be one of the most significant “signs of the times” today. According to Pew Research, eight-out-of-ten Democrats view Israel unfavorably. Consider that as recently as 2015, most all Democrats were pro-Israel. The Jews Are On Everybody’s List

U.S. Racing To Develop Massive New Bunker-Buster Capable Of Destroying Iran’s “Impenetrable” Nuclear Site
The United States is accelerating the development of a powerful new bunker-busting bomb capable of destroying Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities, as Tehran rapidly expands a secretive underground complex south of Tehran. New satellite imagery analyzed by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and published by CNN shows extensive construction at the site beneath Mount Pickaxe,

DRAMATIC SHIFT: Palestinian Support For Armed “Resistance” Plunges As Hamas Trust Collapses
The survey, conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, found that 55.8% of Palestinians now view peaceful negotiations as the best way to achieve their national goals—up from 28% in September 2023. sSupport for armed “resistance” fell from 37.1% to 13.3% over the same period.

In A Society That Is Not Anchored In Truth, Hoaxes Can Spread Like Wildfire
Today, a large percentage of the population no longer believes in “absolute truth,” and social media has made it possible for “fake news” and misinformation to travel all over the globe in moments. There are a lot of very strange things going on in our world today, but we must also have enough discernment to be able to separate truth from fiction.

El-Sayed Shown Fist Bumping Hasan Piker in Photo During Islamic Convention Where Imam Proclaims ‘America is Going Down’ in Extremist Video
The ISNA convention where Muslim communist Abdul El-Sayed spoke was full of 9/11 truthers, Holocaust deniers, and terrorist sympathizers, if not outright terrorists. It’s a slap in the face of Americans just before the 25th anniversary of 9/11. And he knows it.

Cities Drop Flock, Expand Surveillance With Axon
Cities across the US are backing away from Flock Safety after months of controversy over its vast license plate surveillance network. But many are not abandoning the surveillance itself. Instead, local gov’ts are replacing Flock cameras with Axon systems, a dominant police technology supplier known for Tasers, body cameras, & digital-evidence software.

Strait of Hormuz Gridlock: Oil Surges Past $100 As U.S. Tanker Strikes And Iran Missile Retaliation Trigger Global Panic
For decades, foreign policy experts warned about what would happen if the Strait of Hormuz was shut down. Now we’re living that reality. The price of Brent crude just smashed through the $100 barrier after fighting between U.S. and Iran erupted once again last night.

Mamdani Actively Supports CAIR, While NYC Reportedly Funds and Staffs Terror Group with Taxpayer Money
Natalie Winters has exposed how Zohran Mamdani has literally brought CAIR into the mayor’s office and how NYC is funding and staffing the Islamic organization. Hizzoner is forcefully expanding Islam’s reach into every area as fast as possible in an effort to further the American Caliphate.

Despite over 2,000 court cases using fake AI-generated citations, Google pushes its AI legal assistance platform
Google markets its AI-driven legal assistance platform “with centralized governance and control” as a complement to legal teams. Meanwhile, over 2,000 instances of AI-generated fake citations in court decisions globally have been identified between April 2023 and September 2026.

Government’s desperate attempt to control the narrative: in the last five years, over 62,000 people have been arrested in the UK for posting hurtful words online
Over 62,000 people in the UK were arrested for online communications offences over five years ending in 2026. These arrests, which include offences related to social media posts and online messages, resulted in 18,510 charges and 12,292 convictions. Critics describe the situation as an “Orwellian mess” with a “chilling effect” on free speech.

BDS Movement Intensifies Israel Boycotts, Yet Israeli Economy Continues to Thrive
“The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) has gone on for decades. It’s an effort to put the squeeze on Israel and cause real economic pain. It’s gone from a rallying cry on college campuses to governments around the world. And, while political pressure is growing, the Jewish state’s economy tells a different story.”

A Small-Town Doctor Tested Patients After the COVID Shot: Five of Eight Showed Blood Clots Then His Village Burned
“In 2021 a family doctor in a village of 250 people began blood-testing patients after their COVID shots. Five of the first eight results pointed to clotting. He went public, lost his hospital privileges, and eight days after a viral interview, the town itself burned. Five years later, he is in Ottawa telling lawmakers the same story.”

How much anti-Israel sentiment is CCP propaganda?
Sharia supremacists and Democrat socialists don’t hold a candle to their puppeteer CCP, which is biding its time to blow out their flame. “Think this headline is counterintuitive, and that the rise in rhetoric trashing Israel is homegrown? It isn’t really. The Chinese Communist Party has made itself at home on virtually every college campus in the US.