Ben Gvir Says Israel Should Kidnap Women and Children in Lebanon

Chaos Unleashed: When "Irrational" Makes Perfect Sense Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Once fairness and honesty have been stripped out of a social order, social trust collapses. Once trust collapses, society disintegrates. It's important to understand the dynamics of chaos before the certainties in our lives are swept away. Over the past few months, I've been exploring the dynamics of delusion and breakdown: 1. our reliance on models to make sense of the world and what happens when those models no longer track reality; 2. the difficulties in adapting when our old...

Los Angeles Ranks Last Among 100 US Metros For Affordability And New Home Construction Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Des Moines, Iowa, ranked first and Los Angeles ranked last in Realtor.com's inaugural report grading the 100 largest U.S. metros on housing affordability and homebuilding activity. A sign is posted in front of a home for sale in Los Angeles on July 9, 2026. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The results highlighted how local zoning and permitting can affect housing affordability in different areas. The real estate platform's first Metro Affordability and Homebuilding Report...

Stocks Drift As Chips Extend Gains, Oil Slides On Positive US-Iran Talks Futures are modestly lower coming off the US holiday weekend, after equities finished higher last week with both Dow and Russell clocking new ATHs and SPX finishing in the green for the 11th time in the last 12 weeks.  As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures edged down 0.1% while Nasdaq 100 contracts are higher by 0.1% with chips outperforming as usual while hyperscalers, aka "check payers" down as all Mag 7 are lower with TSLA (-1.4%) and GOOGL...