US has removed all B-1 bombers from UK as six men in UK were arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 The removal follows the arrest of five British men and one dual British Iranian national on September 27, suspected of plotting a terrorist attack on the base, which had served as the primary staging hub for US bomber strikes against Iran. British PM Andy Burnham said the government had strong indications of Iranian involvement. RAF Fairford has been the forward operating base for roughly a dozen B-1B Lancers running bombing missions against Iran for roughly seven months. The IRGC had previously warned London directly that it considered Fairford a legitimate military target.

Yemeni government has launched a multi-front counteroffensive against Iran-backed Houthis across at least five provinces. 🇾🇪 🇮🇷 This is a war that froze for years because neither side could afford to break the deadlock.What changed isn't the Yemeni government — it's Iran. The Houthis' main supporter is fighting its own war and that has degraded its missile stockpiles, shattered its currency and forced it to prioritise survival over proxy resupply. Missiles Iran ships through whatever's left of its smuggling corridors is a missile it might need for its own air defences.

President Trump refers to Barack Obama as the most corrupt president in the history of the United States. Comparison Trump is drawing isn't really about scale, it's about the double standard. Nixon's presidency is treated as the textbook case of executive corruption because the system held him accountable. IRS under Lois Lerner systematically delayed and scrutinised tax exempt applications from conservative groups in the run-up to the 2012 election a fact confirmed by the agency's own inspector general.

President Trump says that "The Polls have ALWAYS underestimated MAGA" and cites his 2024 results: all seven swing states, the popular vote, and 86% of counties. 🇺🇸 He's not wrong, and the people who keep getting it wrong keep getting paid to explain why they got it wrong, and then they get it wrong again. In 2016 the entire industry including every major polling firm, every forecasting model, every newspaper front page predicted a Clinton win. In 2024 they said the race was too close to call. Trump swept every single swing state and won the popular vote by two million, something no Republican had done since Bush in 2004.

Houthis problem with Saudi Arabia and why they are attacking Saudi now? 🇸🇦 🇾🇪 The Houthis say they hit an Aramco facility near Riyadh this weekend, in return for dozens of Saudi strikes on Yemen. The roots of this fight run back more than a decade, but the trigger this time came from Iran. Here's why the Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia now.

JUST NOW: President Trump announced the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF) to ensure that "America continues to lead the world in super intelligence." 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The logic here is straightforward: American AI companies are ahead, the single biggest risk to that lead is domestic regulation that doesn't apply to competitors in Beijing, and the way you maintain safety without surrendering speed is to make the companies accountable to structures they helped design rather than to bureaucrats who'll be two generations behind by the time they finish writing the rules. The race to superintelligence has exactly one rule that matters: whoever gets there first writes the terms for everyone else. Right now American companies hold that lead.

President Trump says that "in the past 17 months zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States." 🇺🇸 Every single person caught was detained or removed, not one was handed a court date and turned loose into the country. That's the end of catch-and-release, and it's real. CBP's own monthly reports confirm the streak. Under the Biden administration the monthly average ran into six figures of encounters with tens of thousands released into the interior pending hearings, many of whom never appeared. The gap between those two realities isn't a talking point, it's a policy reversal visible in every border town in America.

BAYER will invest $2.2 billion in a new pharmaceutical manufacturing campus in US. 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 Saying tariffs have nothing to do with this is wrong. Decision to invest in US was made at a time when US is encouraging companies to invest locally rather than manufacture somewhere else and ship to the United States. German company also has good reasons not to acknowledge this publicly, as this would cause a political problem that could encourage other governments to do the same. However, other countries don't have the leverage that US has because of the size of its economy.

Iranian rial continues to crash hard, with 1$ now equal to more tha 2.6 million Iranian rials in the free market. 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Food and drink up 127.5% means a family that spent half its income feeding itself last year now needs more than its entire former income to buy the same groceries. The blockade and sanctions cut the revenue. But the government that had the revenue spent it on weapons and proxies, and when people protested it answered with lethal force. Iranians are being crushed by regime that will spend its last dollars on anything but them.

Thousands of people marched across 50 Spanish cities in massive protest over the housing crisis. 🇪🇸 The main reason illegal migrations causes long term pressure isn't the crossing but what happens aferwards when they have legal status. About half a million people who were living informally are being converted into legal households with the right to rent and compete for a housing stock that is already running short. Spain's National Statistics Institute recorded 2.3 million foreign born residents arriving between 2023 and 2024, taking the foreign born population to about 9.46 million, roughly 20% of the country. Over the same period developers completed 474,000 homes against demand for 1.2 million since 2021. This has left a large housing shortage.

President Trump says Iran war is going to end very soon and probably right after the midterms adding it will end "one way or the other." 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Now look at who the war is actually costing. Iran is at 310% inflation with a currency at two and a half million to the dollar, its uranium enrichment facilities destroyed, its air defenses gone, its supreme leader dead, and its diplomats asking for sanctions relief. Iran has been sending messages aimed at American voters ahead of November, which means Tehran is waiting for the elections and hoping a different Congress means softer terms.

President Trump says if Republicans win the House and Senate, he will give $5,000 to every US citizen. And if Democrats win they're going to raise taxes, and destroy the country. 🇺🇸 Matter of $5,000 payment is being attacked for the wrong reasons. Critics ask why, if he can do it, he isn't doing it now. A $1.2 trillion disbursement requires approval from Congress. President Trump recognizes legal limit rather than claiming he can do something he can't. Compare it with the Medicare checks he announced this week: those went out immediately because the money was already appropriated and sitting unused in an existing fund. One needs approval, the other doesn't, and he has treated them differently.

29 year old Omani co-pilot accused of stabbing the captain of a Dubai–Tel Aviv Flydubai flight has been identified as Hamam al-Hammami. The answer to how a flagged pilot gets back into a cockpit is contained in one word in the timeline: he resigned. That is how it happened and is common in many industries. Oman Air found the problem, decided against dismissal, moved him to a desk job. He than left on his own. This means his employment record shows a voluntary departure with no termination, no cause, no adverse finding attached to his name. He was never charged, so no criminal record was ever created. That means a standard background check in a neighbouring country comes back clean, because there is nothing in any database to find.

President Trump says he will pass death penalty for large scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and anyone who kills a police officer. 🇺🇸 Violent crime in America is concentrated in a small number of neighborhoods, and the people rearrested after pretrial release almost always go back to those same blocks which means the victims of those second offenses are overwhelmingly the neighbors. When officers arrest the same individual four times in a year and watch him released each time, the rational response is to stop bothering and arrest rates fall not because policy changed but because the people enforcing it concluded their work gets undone.

President Trump announced $90 payments for more than 20 million seniors to help with Medicare Part B premiums. 🇺🇸 Congress set aside $2 billion to improve Medicare and then improved nothing with it for years, which is a fairly precise illustration of how Washington handles money once the press release is written. Trump found it and sent it to the people the program actually belongs to. For a retiree on Social Security facing a premium that jumped nearly 10% an increase driven by spending decisions made before this administration, it's a week of groceries or a specialist visit, and it arrives without an application.

US stocks closed higher on October 2, with Nasdaq rising 1.2% and S&P 500 gaining over 0.72%. Nvidia hit an all time high of $237.88. 🇺🇸 The market is the one indicator that's forward looking, and it keeps voting the same way. The S&P is up more than 23% since inauguration, the Nasdaq more than 27%, and on Friday Nvidia closed at the highest valuation any company has ever held. Those are millions of people with real money at risk pricing where the American economy is going and they are not pricing decline. Pressure campaign that kept Hormuz open and the diesel release out of Europe are also crucial factors.

Saudi Arabia is preparing an attack to retake Bab el-Mandeb from the Houthis, according to Reuters. 🇸🇦 🇹🇷 🇵🇰 Pakistan has 30,000-40,000 troops in the kingdom plus advisers with Yemeni forces, Turkey has drones over Yemen, and France is sending systems and troops to protect Yanbu. The reason Riyadh is considering a ground war it spent years trying to escape is that Iran continues to target Saudi ships passing through Hormuz. This made the Red Sea the alternative, and the Houthis who are backed by Iran responded by taking control of it. When you look at what Iran and its backed proxies are doing worldwide, it becomes easier to understand why Trump has been so critical of Iran all along.

President Trump says if the Democrats get in, we will end up in a financial depression...they're grossly incompetent. There's a real argument about continuity on projects with long lead times. Look at what's actually mid-construction: a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa that pours its first steel in 2030, the first new American iron ore mine in fifty years that just opened in Minnesota, eight nuclear reactors ordered with $120 billion of Korean capital, a 6.4 gigawatt gas plant in Texas. All of it depends on investors believing the policy environment that made the math work will still exist in four years.

President Trump says, "prices are way down from what Biden and the Dumocrats left us... and now prices are coming down, RAPIDLY." Look at what was forecast in February, when analysts said a closed Hormuz meant $200 crude and a global recession. It's October, crude is around $100 and headline inflation is 3.4% and falling. That outcome required the US Navy keeping the strait open, 40 million barrels released from American reserves, and sustained pressure on allies to release theirs. Core PCE at 3.0%, under forecast, is the number the Fed actually watches, which means the underlying trend is cooling even with an oil shock still running.