Iran Threatens To Reclose Strait, As US Military 'Ready' to Restart Blockade: 'Trump Will Certainly Lose'

Trump Admin Targets States' Medicaid Fraud Units Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, Vice President JD Vance said during a recent press conference that he was intensifying attempts to counter Medicaid fraud by investigating state-level units responsible for oversight. States such as California and Hawaii seemed to lag behind others in combatting fraud, said Vance, whom the president picked in March to lead an anti-fraud task force. “Now, we have red states and blue states that go after fraud aggressively, but we also unfortunately have some states, mostly blue states, unfortunately,...

Unitree Unveils Real-Life Transformer Robot. Only Costs $650,000 Chinese robotics firm Unitree, known for its robot dogs and humanoids, has unveiled a production-ready "manned mecha": a large robotic machine piloted by a human. Unitree wrote on X that the manned mecha costs $650,000 and weighs as much as a car. The bipedal mecha is piloted by a human operator who sits in its belly.  The machine looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. And it tranforms into a giant robo-dog.  Chinese media outlet Global Times reported that Unitree Robotics CEO Wang...

Europe's Electrification Dream Is Hitting A Wall Authored by Gisele Widdershoven via OilPrice.com, Europe’s electrification strategy is ambitious but constrained by lagging grid infrastructure, creating bottlenecks that are already delaying industry and investment. Massive funding needs—running into trillions—combined with regulatory complexity and slow buildouts are exposing a gap between policy ambition and physical reality. Without better coordination, prioritization, and financing, Europe risks higher costs, weaker competitiveness, and a stalled energy transition. The message given by Ursula von der Leyen to electrify the European economy is strategically coherent, politically appealing, and, on the surface, even...