Israel Claims Three Hezbollah Killed in Attack as Lebanon Destruction Continues

US Services Surveys Signal Surging Prices, Mixed Growth Following the dramatically better than expected rise in US Manufacturing PMI surveys, analysts expected stability in the Services side of the economy in May. They were somewhat correct but the message was mixed with one survey improving while the other deteriorated... S&P Global US Services PMI dropped from 51.0 (April) to 50.9 (flash May) to 50.7 (final May) - dropping back towards March lows. ISM US Services PMI rose from 53.6 to 54.5 (better than 53.8 exp) Source: Bloomberg Under the hood, both surveys signaled rising prices...

Gen Z Has No Idea What 9/11 Is Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Twenty-five years after Islamist hijackers murdered 2,977 people on American soil, a young man in Lower Manhattan looked at 2,977 memorial drones drawing the towers in the night sky and asked why anyone would build a "fake" building. He called the Tribute in Light the "Batman signal." This is what happens when media and universities treat the Islamist nature of the attack as a political embarrassment instead of a fact. ?? Young American outraged by a 9/11 memorial...

Australia, US To Speed Up Defense Cooperation, Permanent US Submarine Force On Track Authored by Monica O'Shea via The Epoch Times, Australian leaders have pledged to speed up defence cooperation during high level talks. Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles met U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon and Vice President JD Vance on Sept. 2. A Pentagon readout of the Hegseth meeting said "both leaders agreed to accelerate force posture initiatives at Australian bases, bolster cooperation in combined logistics, and build greater interoperability through joint exercises. "They also discussed progress on...