September 16th, 2026

• ​Vance says US foreign policy 'cannot be subservient to the State of Israel'
• Vance touts Trump's ability to 'part ways' with Netanyahu
• GOP Thomas Massie pushes surprise impeachment vote of Pete Hegseth - House Democrats were privately dreading a politically charged - but purely symbolic - vote on impeaching President Donald Trump triggered by one of their own members
• Rep. Thomas Massie moves to impeach Pete Hegseth over Iran war, will force House vote on resolution
• US preparing for $2.8 billion arms sale to Israel, including over 40,000 bombs - report
• US military says Iran war led to munitions shortfall, reveals base and aircraft damage - Pentagon inspector general's report includes information about dozens of aircraft lost, and 'strategic inventory shortfalls,' as well as $184 million worth of damage to embassies
• House votes to limit Trump's power to strike Iran for 3rd time, as 7 Republicans defect
• Vance: 'First Phase' of U.S.-Iran Conflict Is Over - 'Much Different Phase' Coming Within Months
• After Trump floats talks, Iran security chief rejects negotiations until 'conditions' met - Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei declares 'stakes around oil and the straits have changed,' vows Tehran will only talk if all its conditions are met
• Iran's drone hunt escalates as Tehran targets US spy tech to expose battlefield secrets
• Skyrocketing fuel prices spark protests around the globe as US-Iran conflict squeezes energy supplies
• Commentary: Iran is trying to break Trump's stranglehold by hitting him where it hurts - Attacks on a key Saudi pipeline make Tehran's plan clear – drive up oil prices before the mid-term elections and force the president's hand
• Iran is now threatening world's largest oil facility and vast pipeline after Houthi attacks escalate
• Houthis move in on world's largest oil facility in 'very concerning' development
• 'Red line': Houthis accused of targeting Mecca for first time in current flare-up
• Apparent Houthi attacks trigger alerts in 6 Saudi cities; Riyadh vows response - Saudi authorities say 13 hurt in Monday attacks, while Iran-backed group claims Riyadh launched 50 airstrikes in response; Strait of Hormuz traffic dwindles amid regional escalation
• Iran-Backed Houthis Attempt Strike on Mecca in Saudi Arabia - Islam's Holiest City - Saudi forces were able to shoot down drone over the holiest city in Islam - A strike on Mecca by the Shiite sect would likely launch a Muslim holy war
• Satellite image reveals major damage that shut crucial Saudi oil pipeline
• Some physical oil cargoes top $130 a barrel, nearing April's record, on Saudi disruptions
• Saudi, Egypt demand open Red Sea as Riyadh vows response to Houthi attacks
• Saudi crown prince seeks Egypt's backing as Houthi attacks rattle Red Sea oil routes
• Egypt's Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince stress need for security of Red Sea navigation
• Israel provided Saudi Arabia with intel. assistance as Houthi attacks on Riyadh's assets continue - Regional diplomats told The Jerusalem Post that Saudi Arabia and Israel are engaged in CENTCOM-mediated talks to provide Riyadh with intelligence in order to counter Houthi terrorists
• UK weighs Saudi military support against Houthis - Riyadh has asked Britain for assistance as London fears Houthi advances can disrupt global shipping
• IDF says Hamas Rafah Brigade chief, other terror commanders killed in Gaza strikes
• UN rights chief urges access to all of Gaza to recover bodies buried under rubble
• Thousands of bodies recovered from rubble of Gaza may be 'tip of the iceberg', UN says - The United Nations human rights agency warned that recent discoveries of bodies in Gaza, predominantly women and children, point to potential violations of international law and could constitute war crimes
• FBI: ISIS supporter in Pennsylvania sought to poison synagogue food - Jonathan Kramer attempted to synthesize poisons to 'wage war' against non-Muslims, posted Hamas propaganda online
• Palestinian shot dead by troops near Ramallah; IDF says he tried to grab soldier's weapon
• Poll: West Bank Palestinians split on whether Israel has right to exist, could be eliminated
• British healthcare system rife with 'malignant' antisemitism, watchdog alleges
• Aimed at settlements, UK sanctions could put entire Israeli economy at risk - Trade ban threatens to unleash a Pandora's box of boycotts around world, with businesses, banks and others staying away from all of Israel rather than trying to untangle penalties
• Norway Weighs Bill to Criminalize Trade With Israeli Settlements as Europe's Boycott Campaign Grows
• Norway considers up to 3 years in prison for trade with Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria
• Netanyahu faces new election risk as 59 seats could open path to rival government - opinion
• Storm over 'NAZA' doc is a massive boost to the Likud campaign - New film battering Israel over alleged Gaza atrocities, bitterly denied by the IDF, has been weaponized by Netanyahu and the right, linking center-left candidates to anti-Israel narratives and stoking conspiracy theories
• Smotrich assailed for AI video of High Court chief, AG being dragged at protest - Video posted as part of Religious Zionism party's election campaign, advocating judicial overhaul more radical than outgoing government's; Herzog denounces 'offensive AI videos'
• China Imposes Strict Travel Restrictions, Threatening to Ban Exit for Those Who 'Endanger National Security'
• North Korea Tests 'New Combat Systems,' Including Advanced Drones, in Strike Drill
• The world is learning to love the bomb again - The past year has transformed the nuclear debate: The last US-Russia arms-control treaty expired, Trump ordered nuclear testing to resume and China is rapidly expanding its capabilities. At the same time, countries that had never publicly contemplated going nuclear are now openly discussing it.
• Russia warns Denmark after near miss in Baltic Sea - Moscow and Copenhagen trade blame for the incident as Denmark says it will not invoke NATO treaty
• NATO jets shoot down drone in Lithuanian airspace as Russia grows 'increasingly reckless,' Rutte says - Two Italian Eurofighter Typhoons scrambled overnight and destroyed the drone, which officials say likely entered from Belarus
• NATO jets shoot down drone over Lithuania and Russian ship fires flares at Danish helicopter
• Zelensky Says Russia Targeted His Plane Twice in Recent Weeks
• Ukraine and Russia Say There Is No Energy Truce, Despite Trump's Claims
• Zelensky celebrates major 'hit' against Moscow after anti-drone weapon test success - Zelensky says Kyiv intercepted 93% of all Russian drones on Tuesday
• Ukrainian Prosecutor General Kravchenko Is Raided by Anti-Corruption Cops, a Safe Filled With Dollars and Euros Is Found in His Office, but He Flees the Country Before Arrest
• Romania's Sovereigntist Revolt: Tens of Thousands of Farmers Storm Bucharest As Country's Globalist Elite Choose Foreign Imports Over Own People
• Nicaraguan Dissident Shot in Costa Rica, Raising Fears of Transnational Repression by the Daniel Ortega Regime
• Ferocious fight among Brazil's supreme court erupts on eve of presidential election - Scandal explodes as country's election campaign peaks, with polls suggesting dead heat between candidates
• UK in talks about joining global defence bank led by Canada
• Dow clinches its worst September start since 2008 as history repeats itself - Tuesday is also the 18th anniversary of Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy filing, a curious coincidence
• FBI Agent Pushed to Investigate Musk Over DOGE Work Request
• 12 Foreign-Born Operators From Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan Charged in $10 Million San Diego 'Ghost Daycare' Scam — Kids Only Showed Up When the Inspector Did
• Trump Claims Assassination Attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, Was 'Democrat Plot,' Says 'New Info' Found
• Todd Blanche Says It's "Not Clear" What Biden FBI Did to Protect Trump Before Assassination Attempt After Trump Reveals Chris Wray Destroyed Files
• Trump Goes Off on Chris Wray, Says Butler Assassination Attempt Files Were Destroyed, Altered or Missing by the Time He Got Into Office
• Attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks used 'Bob Dole' alias before anonymous donor paid for cremation: docs
• House Kills Al Green Resolution to Impeach Trump, 147 Democrats Vote to Keep It Alive
• Dozens of House Democrats vote with Republicans to table Trump impeachment attempt
• Video of 'zombie' Mitch McConnell returning to the Senate causes internet uproar and raises more questions
• Fake News Media Attempts to Restart Trump-Russia Conspiracy with Don Jr.'s Wedding Gift from Boxing Mogul Who Is Russian
• 'Did you find Russian collusion?': Patel, Schiff clash erupts over NYT report on Kash's girlfriend - Schiff warned that a future Congress could examine the FBI firings and demanded records be preserved
• Patel Suggests F.B.I. Agents May Be Sent to the Polls - Federal law prohibits armed federal officers or military personnel from being deployed to polling stations
• Trump lashes out at Supreme Court justices after ballots ruling
• Texas AG announces arrest of seven foreign nationals who allegedly voted illegally in 2024
• DMV breach confirmed as hackers claim 200,000 records stolen
• US, UK and Netherlands issue joint advisory on Iran-linked spyware - Islamic Republic uses so-called 'CHOSEN BRICK' family of hacking software to 'collect intelligence, conduct data leaks, and inflict reputational harm' against targets, FBI warns
• Mexican Authorities Find 1,000 Crypto Mining Rigs In Cartel Raids
• Trump endorses Flock cameras despite bipartisan backlash: 'I like them'
• Trump calls AI fears a 'hoax' as tech exec warns of 'unseen hand' in regulation push
• The problem with slowing down AI: No one wants to cede the frontier - Experts say meaningful safeguards will require rivals to cooperate, even as US-China competition pushes both countries to accelerate development
• Anthropic Still Plans 2026 IPO Despite Dario Amodei's AI Doomer Warning
• BRICS Fail: China Doesn't Trust India Enough to Cooperate on AI
• Trump administration orders Kalshi to scrap AI price tracker over national security concerns
• Congress sounds alarm over 'rogue' AI as lawmakers weigh new guardrails
• Dem Rep. Casar on China Winning AI Race: 'No One Can Win' AI Arms Race, Once You Cross Finish Line, You Die
• Far-Left Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff Calls for International 'AI Treaty'
• Bill Gates Commits $1 Billion to Ensure AI Is a 'Great Equalizer' Between Rich and Poor
• Mollie Hemingway on Democrat AI Fearmongering: 'Top AI Oligarchs Are All Massively Aligned With the Democratic Party'
• Greg Gutfeld Slams the Sudden Democrat Hysteria Over AI: 'An Orchestrated Hoax'
• Commentary: The Dangerous Ideology Behind the AI Warnings - A philosophy called effective altruism has shaped today's AI safety movement. Its proponents claim to be protecting humanity's future. Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar says think twice before believing them.
• Meta's Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely
• Data center debacle as 'computer glitch' causes 5k gallons of diesel fuel to spill into wetlands
• Humans use robots to hold protest against replacing humans with robots
• These Robot Soldiers Are Getting Downright Terrifying - "If the US military had 100,000 robots that they could just demonstrate working, it would, by and large, end a lot of wars before they start."
• Sabotage disrupts Dutch train services ahead of state opening of parliament
• Coordinated Sabotage Hits Dutch Rail Network at 20+ Sites, Sparking Chaos as Questions Mount Over Security
• NBC news helicopter crashes and kills at least 3 in LA neighborhood
• Pentagon reveals secret space weapons are already in orbit - but won't say what they do
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Dunhuang, China
• 5.0 magnitude earthquake hits near Ocos, Guatemala
• Popocateptl volcano in Mexico erupts to 21,000ft
• Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupts to 16,000ft
• Purace volcano in Colombia erupts to 16,000ft
• Reventador volcano in Ecuador erupts to 15,000ft
• Semeru volcano in Indonesia erupts to 15,000ft
• Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts to 14,000ft
• Mt Etna volcano it Italy erupts to 13,000ft
• Sakurajima volcano on Japan erupts to 11,000ft
• This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn't happened in 175 years - But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season
• Toxic red tide detected along Texas coastline
• Trump's No. 2 diplomat freaks out over 'satanic' statue
• Baal out: Top diplomat's worry about pagan god elicits eye rolls - The second-most powerful man at the State Department put the brakes on a U.S. international exhibit featuring a bull statue because he worried it might look like Baal, a pagan god some associate with Satanic child sacrifice
• Demon-obsessed Trump official called out by colleagues: 'Totally weird stuff'
• British man's naked body 'found beside goat's head' amid fears of ritual killing in Sicily
• Washington state high schoolers wear costumes to mock Charlie Kirk assassination on anniversary of his murder
• Pa. youth known to FBI for 'mass casualty threat' arrested on terror charges
• Pa. man pledged loyalty to ISIS, planned terror attack, DOJ claims - Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, of Valencia, has been charged after, the FBI says, he claimed affiliation with ISIS and planned a terror attack
• French Police Witnessed 'Assisting' Illegal Migrants Cross English Channel by Australian Newspaper
• 'Lifelong Democrat' admits she is 'ashamed' of party after son killed in illegal immigrant crash - Carter's son and his new wife were killed in a crash involving an illegal immigrant truck driver licensed by California
• Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
• Trump says NO to Lindsay Clancy pardon - "I hope they can work it out. That's something they have to work out. There is no win there."
• And, There It Is - Lindsey Clancy Holdout Juror Says He Feels Like He's Being Targeted Because "He Is a Black Republican" - And the Juror Panel Was Democrats
• Racist Left Will Have a Meltdown: Lone Holdout in Lindsay Clancy Trial Reportedly a Haitian Immigrant, and a Christian, Who Came to America as a Child
• Black Catholic Haitian male holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy case in 'hiding' with family after being hounded by her supporters: report
• Blogger who doxed Lone Holdout calls for Jack Posobiec to be arrested for raising $200K for the juror
• Rep. Nancy Mace Calls for Public Execution of Admitted Child Killer Lindsay Clancy - "Her Children Are Dead. She Should Be Dead Too."
• Utah cheer mom drugged 11-year-old daughter before fatally shooting her in the head, turning gun on herself: coroner
• Devout Catholic Parents in Massachusetts Say State Took Custody of Their Teen Daughter After they Refused to Affirm Her as a Boy
• Settlement prompts change at CA school district: allows opting out of LGBTQ+ related material
• Wyoming sorority tells federal judge that allowing a biological male violates their rights
• Georgia's "Historic" Youngest Mayor Ousted After Just 10 Months Following Alleged Taxpayer-Funded Spending Spree and Sexually Suggestive Messages With 18-Year-Old Student
• New World Screwworm Found in Horse near Texas Border with Mexico
• 'Breakbone fever' is surging worldwide as mosquitoes expand into new territories - In parts of the U.S. where the disease is still uncommon, it is easily mistaken for the flu or COVID-19, and that delay can be dangerous
• Pennsylvania teen dies from measles complications, health officials report
• Fourth Florida resident dies after contracting flesh-eating bacteria linked to oysters