The Treasury Department published a determination in the Federal Register on October 13 that puts Iran's automotive and rail sectors under Executive Order 13902, the January 10, 2020 order on Iran. The determination was issued and took effect on October 1, 2026, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control posted it on its website that day, before the Federal Register publication.

After President Trump made it a point to declare banking rights as guaranteed and fair for Americans, the government actually went to work.

Now, a federal agency has revealed that major U.S. banks were guilty of limiting or denying access to financial services to citizens based on their beliefs or business activities, and the evidence is shocking.

Webmaster Addition: Isn't that what Trump is doing with all these sanctions against other countries?

Justin Trudeau froze Canadian truckers' bank accounts for donating to a protest.

Now an Ohio congressman is moving to make sure that weapon can never be built into American law.

His plan wouldn't just ban the digital dollar – it would make building one a federal crime from day one.

World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva used an annual meetings panel in Bangkok to press governments to treat artificial intelligence as both a jobs engine and a disruption risk. They focused on “small AI,” meaning simple, local tools that help workers and small firms, not just big lab models. Speakers said countries that link AI to real problems, like farming, health, and small business tasks, can grow work and wages if they move fast.

By Eve Sampson, miliitarytimes.com

The U.S. Army bolstered its Space Operations Branch by 600 soldiers, the service recently announced, officially creating the branch’s first permanent enlisted cadre.

Judge Andrew J. Napolitano, antiwar.com

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778)

A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has made a startling claim about the nature of political power. It claims not merely the authority to protect the innocent from violence, but the authority to inflict violence when no immediate threat exists.

By Jason Ditz, antiwar.com

Anticipating another round of war with Hezbollah despite the fact that the current Israeli invasion of Lebanon hasn’t even ended, Defense Minister Israel Katz laid out a litany of threats against Lebanon that would happen if Hezbollah “joins Iran” in any attack on Israel.