Iran Takes its Chances with War

DOJ Uses Never-Before-Used Terror Court to Deport Afghan Woman Over Election Day ISIS Plot The Justice Department has used a national-security court that sat unused for three decades to deport an Afghan woman from the United States who supported an ISIS-inspired plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day in 2024. AG Todd Blanche On Friday, officials announced that Nazira Haji Zada, 47, a permanent resident from Fort Worth, Texas, was kicked out from the country after admitting that she is an "alien terrorist." Zada's removal is the first completed case...

Factory Orders Rebound Strongly in July Despite Manufacturing PMIs sliding, US Factory orders were expected to rebound from a two-month decline in July (the latest data reported today) and rebound they did, rising 0.9% MoM (more than the expected 0.7% increase) with June's 0.3% decline revised up to a 0.2% decline... That is the best monthly rise since April, lifting orders up 9.9% YoY - the second best annual gain since Oct 2022! Core Factory orders rose 0.6% MoM (significantly better than the expected 0.4% rise)... That is the 8th rise in Core...

All 10 ActBlue Witnesses Take The Fifth As GOP Says Probe Is "Far From Over" All ten ActBlue employees and board members deposed by House investigators have invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions about the Democratic Party's dominant fundraising platform. Five of the ten are board members, all deposed in the past five weeks, and the three committees running the probe say they are not done. Their third report, released last week, alleged ActBlue accepted a substantial volume of foreign and fraudulent donations with minimal scrutiny. ActBlue CEO Regina...