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Good morning! It’s Saturday. Here are today’s top stories. |
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As official warnings and cyber hacks grow, prepping is going mainstream. But many Americans are not ready for natural disasters, let alone manmade ones.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted the nationwide ground stop issued for all flights in the United States for “extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”
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Tech giant Cisco is facing a continued legal challenge in California state court over allegations that it has aided human rights abuses in China.
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A historic meeting is set for next week between U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.
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People shop at a grocery store in New York City on March 12, 2025. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) |
Viral social media posts and text messages urging Americans to stockpile 90 days of food and supplies are gaining traction. One text message, reviewed by The Epoch Times, spread as these warnings usually do: from one friend to the next.
It described a cyber specialist who came home from a conference shaken enough to warn people close to him to keep 90 days of provisions for every member of their household. According to the message, the concern was Iran, its cyber capabilities, and what might follow the Nov. 3 midterm elections. It named no verifiable sources. “I’m not trying to incite panic, nor create a run on toilet paper,” the message read. “I’m not a ’sky is falling‘ person, but I’ll be ready.” For Americans who have spent years quietly filling pantries, warnings like that are nothing new. However, they say this latest alarm seemed to echo something the federal government actually said. “Now it’s normalized because the government said something,” Joe Farmer told The Epoch Times. Farmer is a Colorado homesteader who has lived off the grid for five years and sells supplies, including military-style ready-to-eat meals, to the preparedness community.
A closer look at the Pentagon plan, and at warnings from other countries, shows a more measured picture than the one racing across social media. But are most Americans ready, and could they last even 72 hours if stores emptied?
“No, no,” homesteader Richard Terry said. Too many people, he said, spend on things they do not need instead of building reserves.
His advice is simpler than the headlines suggest. Whether the emergency is a job loss, a tornado, a fire, or a flood, “the preparedness for it is 85 percent the same,” he said. (More) |
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces a new set of sanctions against Iran at the Treasury Department in Washington on Aug. 24, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) |
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blamed Secretary Howard Lutnick’s Department of Commerce for failing to restrict exports of Nvidia chips to Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company linked to an alleged Chinese spy.
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Democrat Eileen Laubacher has unseated three-term Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in a tightly contested race for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.
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The Department of Justice has told federal agencies to prioritize English over other languages.
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Search crews responded to the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Nov. 13 after a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker struck the American Heritage river cruise paddleboat with 195 passengers and crew members on board. President Donald Trump announced in a post on Truth Social that nobody was killed, but 32 people were hospitalized.
- Microsoft said Friday morning that it has been “seeing encouraging recovery progress” in restoring its widely used 365 services, including its Outlook email product and workplace software, amid a global outage.
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Chinese paramilitary police march on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, in a file photo. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images) |
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China is operating more than 40 surveillance outposts in the United States as part of a global network used to police and control the Chinese diaspora, according to a rights organization.
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A Chinese university with deep ties to the People’s Liberation Army has placed at least two orders for Nvidia H200 chips in recent months, despite being subjected to U.S. export controls.
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The United States has returned more than $12 billion collected from the sale of Venezuela’s oil and other natural resources since the U.S. Treasury began receiving the revenue following Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s capture in January.
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U.S. and international authorities arrested hundreds of people and seized drugs, guns, cash, and cryptocurrency in Operation TorNado, a crackdown on dark web sales of fentanyl and other drugs.
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