China Firmly Rejects US Demand To Back Its 'Most Crushing Economic Operation' Against Iran

Anthropic Says Russian, Chinese Threat Actors Used Its AI Model Claude For Malicious Activity Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Anthropic said on Sept. 10 that it had disrupted malicious campaigns involving the use of its artificial intelligence model Claude, including operations allegedly linked to threat actors in China and Russia. The company said the threat actors include suspected state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial spyware vendors, state propaganda institutions, and politically motivated individuals. According to its report, most of the cyber operations detected between December 2025 and August 2026 were...

US Strikes Iran In Retaliation To Hormuz Ship Attack Update (5:00pm ET): As was expected, the US retaliated against Iran one day after Tehran struck a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a tit-for-tat exchange similar to one observed a week ago, and one which threatened to break the two countries’ fragile ceasefire although we doubt there will be further escalation. US Central Command said that American aircraft on Friday hit Iranian missile and drone storage sites as well as coastal radar installations, reportedly on Sirik Island located near the Strait...

Le Pen And AfD Join Forces: Heavy Headwinds For Von Der Leyen's EU Mega-Budget Submitted by Thomas Kolbe A breather in the European bond market. After yields on ten-year French government bonds brushed against the 5-percent mark in late trading on Friday, the situation calmed again at the start of the week. Two politically significant developments, one from Germany and the other from France, apparently acted like circuit breakers as they are known in the markets. On Monday, an AfD strategy paper was circulating. In this pamphlet, the party’s European policy experts had...