The Commodity Futures Trading Commission isn't sitting idle — the agency has sent its crypto rulemaking to the White House for review.
The Block•Sarah Wynn18 Sept
President Trump's nominee to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer. Three months after tapping him for the job, his name is being withdrawn.
NPR•Sergio Martínez-Beltrán18 Sept
UN probe finds US unlawfully struck an Iranian school and sports centre, killing children; White House rejects findings.
Al Jazeera18 Sept
Trump has boasted about his new helipad constructed right in the backyard of the White House during the event
The ex-Oklahoma state trooper’s nomination had stalled in the Senate as ICE faced growing scrutiny over its operations.
Al Jazeera18 Sept
The White House removed Larsson's Midnight Sun from one of its reels after the artist called the clip "dehumanising".
BBC18 Sept
President Trump will host Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, along with over 100 outdoorsmen, for a White House Rose Garden dinner Thursday evening, a source familiar with the event told The Hill’s broadcasting partner, NewsNation. Trump will reportedly speak during the event and sign two executive orders reversing former President Biden-era restrictions on U.S. land. One…
The Hill•The Hill Staff17 Sept
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells anti-vaccine activists from an organization he once chaired that they have a friend in the White House
White House withdraws the ICE director nomination
ABC News17 Sept
Swedish pop star Zara Larsson ripped the White House on Thursday after it used her song “Midnight Sun” in a video on social media showing immigration arrests and deportations. The video, posted to the White House’s TikTok account, shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detaining and handcuffing people as Larsson’s song plays in the…
The Hill•Finya Swai17 Sept
Nobody should defend the status quo. Routine screening exists for only a handful of cancers.
Critics had criticized administration for nominating Schroyer, who has no formal experience working in ICE The White House has withdrawn the nomination of Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement, less than three months after announcing his role. Critics had initially criticized administration officials for nominating Schroyer, who has no formal experience working in ICE, to lead Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Ariana Baio17 Sept
AI companies already have internal safety systems. What they need is independent standard-setting and auditing—not a White House-controlled regulator.
Zara Larsson blasted the White House for using her song “Midnight Sun” in a TikTok post depicting ICE agents handcuffing and deporting people, captioned “Never ending deportations.” Larsson replied with a video on her personal TikTok, holding an “L” up to her forehead and saying, “I’m just sad. My heart is heavy seeing that, because […]
Variety•Tanya Fedak17 Sept
NASDAQ:USAR · 12H · long only. (Context: USA Rare Earth — Round Top TX mine-to-magnet · Serra Verde Brazil · NdFeB magnets — policy / magnet / dilution beta on the 12H ALMA Averaging template.) ═ █ RESEARCH HUB Category: US stocks sentiment 58.8 (Greed) — built from 440 locked notes (193 constructive / 115 risk-off / 92 mixed). Drivers: AES / AVB constructive vs ACX / XLE risk-off. Sector: US · Industrials 68.0 (Greed) — built from 4 locked notes (2 constructive / 0 risk-off / 1 mixed). Thin Industrials panel; name path sits on the issuer tape below. Asset: negative (Hub window). USA Rare Earth ~−4% with MP Materials ~−5% on thaw-hope headlines — both names on the same tape. Tape: - 2026-09-04 · mixed · TMRC + Serra Verde closed; tape still flat after the combination print. Calendar: - 2026-09-17 · FOMC meeting · macro/unlinked · policy - 2026-09-24 · Trump–Xi White House meeting · macro/category · geopolitics - 2026-10-01 · CEO transition Humpton → Moraitis · direct · governance Hub verdict: Category Greed 58.8 and Industrials Greed 68 sit behind a negative name window : thaw-hope headlines cut USAR ~−4% with MP ~−5%, and the 04 Sep TMRC + Serra Verde close left tape flat. Hub frames a post-deal digestion long on the Averaging clock — repair grind under leftover deal shelves, with 17 Sep FOMC and the 01 Oct CEO handoff still on the dated calendar. ═ █ MARKET EDGE Long Edge 59.7 · Short Edge −54.7 ( 16 Sep snap ~ 15.34 · fill ~ 15.68 ). Built from: 1H–3D below-EMA time stretch · 1D–1W ALMA OVERHEAT-S · PA fractal lows · SMC/TL odds at the fill — hard discount lean after the re-arm. Positive factors - EMA — 1H Below · Cur S:40 vs Avg S:14.4 · Dev +2.6% — execution-ladder below-session overheated vs a normal mean-reversion template https://www.tradingview.com/x/agvBpyqJ/ - EMA — 4H Below · Cur S:25 vs Avg S:13.8 · Dev +12.3% — 4H deeply time-stretched below the mean into the arm https://www.tradingview.com/x/mLUxFAy0/ - EMA — 1D Below · Cur S:13 vs Avg S:8.7 · Dev +13.2% — daily still on the short side of the mean, stretched vs its own average run https://www.tradingview.com/x/gRG2AKL0/ - EMA — 3D Below · Cur S:20 vs Avg S:5.4 · Dev +22.4% — slow clock deeply time-stretched Below (mean-reversion fuel) https://www.tradingview.com/x/WjckfkwL/ - ALMA — 1H LONG · L:1 vs LAvg:3.0 — young above-session at/near the band after the 12H fill https://www.tradingview.com/x/hy3RGyYu/ - ALMA — 1D SHORT OVERHEAT-S · S:13 vs SAvg:3.7 — daily band still short and overheated vs its own average run https://www.tradingview.com/x/VbbRHx4n/ - ALMA — 3D SHORT OVERHEAT-S · S:4 vs SAvg:3.4 — slow band stretched below https://www.tradingview.com/x/RXc4lTug/ - ALMA — 1W SHORT OVERHEAT-S · S:4 vs SAvg:2.7 — weekly band stretched below; Averaging template matches this counter-trend inventory https://www.tradingview.com/x/lew6sgt1/ - SMC — 1D FVG Enter Bull ~ 15.71 ( 14 Sep ) · bounce up B 55.7% · break down Br44.3% (n=61) — mild demand-hold skew over the fill cluster https://www.tradingview.com/x/bzEiIV5G/ - TL — Support Break ( 10 Sep ) · bounce up B 57% · break down Br43% (n=49) — post-break bounce-up fuel on the mean-reversion clock https://www.tradingview.com/x/z0PWsTGh/ - Score skew long ~59.7 vs short ~−54.7 — board hard-discount lean Negative factors - EMA — 1W Below · Cur S:4 vs Avg S:8.6 · Dev +19.7% — weekly below-session still young on the slowest TF; selloff can extend https://www.tradingview.com/x/pGA6CWFI/ - ALMA — 4H SHORT · S:4 vs SAvg:4.1 — 4H below-band session still at typical length (young vs stretch) https://www.tradingview.com/x/oAXjY92f/ - SMC — 4H FVG Enter Bull ~ 15.26 ( 16 Sep 13:30 ) · bounce up B 50% · break down Br50% (n=112) — even hold vs flush at the fill print https://www.tradingview.com/x/rT4p7EOs/ - SMC — 4H FVG Raid Bear ~ 15.26 ( 16 Sep 13:30 ) · reject down B 55.7% · break up Br44.3% (n=122) — nearby supply raid still leans reject-down https://www.tradingview.com/x/FlLcFoC3/ - TL — Resistance Break ( 15 Sep ) · reject down B 63% · break up Br37% (n=46) — fresh resistance-break ceiling; reject-down skew leads https://www.tradingview.com/x/gFXkGW8c/ - PA — Fractal Low Formed and Fractal Low Broken — local low already taken through - EMA — 3D fake-S 43% — slow-clock stretch can reverse as a one-bar fake as often as it holds https://www.tradingview.com/x/we1P9yGI/ - Small-cap rare-earth beta can gap through the −10% zone (~ 14.11 ) before the ~15×12H sample hold completes - First lot only (1 of 4 on each twin template) — thin day-1 cushion on a re-arm after the 15 Sep stop ═ █ DESK Hub is Greed on US stocks / Industrials while the name window is negative (thaw-hope fade with MP, tape still flat after Serra Verde, 15 Sep stop). Edge is a hard discount lean (Long 59.7 vs Short −54.7) from 1H–3D below-EMA overheat plus 1D–1W ALMA OVERHEAT-S — with the 12H fill ~$15.68 already washing toward ~$15.34 on the same session. Fork: Hub risk-off on the issuer vs Edge discount on the bar. Alignment for the template: twin Averaging re-arm into post-stop digestion on the bar close. Sister 8H template on the same bar is desk twin — one Idea on 12H. Bar-close refill on 12H (and twin 8H) at 16 Sep 13:30 UTC ~ $15.68 after the 04 Sep cycle booked the −10% exit on 15 Sep ~ $15.54 — process re-entry first, thaw-hope headline second. Takeaway: the 12H ALMA strategy and 75% WR / 3.8 avg RR support a twin first-lot re-arm ~$15.68 into a hard-discount Edge, with 1H–3D below-EMA overheat, 1D–1W ALMA OVERHEAT-S, daily bull FVG bounce-up skew at ~15.71, and 10 Sep support-break bounce-up fuel — while weekly Below stays young, 4H ALMA sits at typical short-session length, 15 Sep resistance-break still rejects down 63%, 4H bear-FVG raid holds a 56% reject-down skew at ~15.26, 3D fake-S 43%, and a name-level thaw-hope fade keep the path a repair grind; nominal risk stays on the −10% hard stop / Pine exit path. Base case: follow 12H (and sister 8H) ALMA Averaging · hold/add on qualifying bars while the mid-$15 wash digests · mean-revert toward leftover mid-Aug deal shelves if materials tape holds above the stop zone. Bear case: weekly young Below extends · 15 Sep resistance-break reject-down path wins · thaw-hope / FOMC / CEO-transition tape reprices · template posts −10% toward ~$14.11 from the working average · wait for the next bar-close arm. ═ https://www.tradingview.com/x/v31YscCO/ █ STRATEGY ALMA Averaging Strategy: ALMA 3 / σ2, SD band 2, min diff 1/1, 25% per bar, up to 4 adds, hard stop −10% from the working average. Lots (1 of 4 on the 12H Idea clock; twin 8H same fill): - Lot 1 — 16 Sep 13:30 UTC ~ 15.68 Working average ~ 15.68 . Hard stop −10% from that average ~ 14.11 . Adds 2–4 stay 25% per bar if lower closes qualify. Strategy Tester (USAR 12H): Win rate 75% · profit factor 2.4 · max drawdown 4.6% Avg winning trade +33.8% · avg losing trade −8.8% Typical hold ~15×12H bars on winners — US small-cap mean-reversion grid on the rare-earth template · 97-trade sample Exits when the Above-ALMA run clears its historical average (min diff) or the −10% hard stop from the working average. Chart: NASDAQ:USAR 12H — ALMA Averaging Strategy. Educational idea. Live position — past backtest ≠ future results. NFA.
Confidence is growing among some influential Democrats about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) prospects in the 2028 presidential race. The New York Democrat has quickly become one of the party’s most prominent voices, tapping into a surge of populist energy on the left while growing her following as Democrats search for a leader nearly two years after…
The Hill•Amie Parnes17 Sept
The meeting with New York-based Sid Rosenberg comes as Vance tries to court skeptical Jewish Republicans ahead of a likely 2028 run.
White House adviser Peter Navarro on Wednesday blasted the Federal Reserve’s move to raise interest rates in several years, calling it “a bad decision.” The central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), led by Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, voted unanimously to increase the central bank’s benchmark interest rate to a range of 3.75 percent to 4 percent. Warsh…
The Hill•Ryan Mancini17 Sept
Apple executive chairman Tim Cook is expected to attend a White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping, reports Bloomberg . Cook stepped down as Apple CEO and transitioned to executive chairman on September 1, with John Ternus taking over. Part of Cook's new role includes engaging with policymakers around the world. U.S. President Donald Trump invited Cook, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, among others. The dinner will be held next week during Xi's visit to Washington. Cook has attended multiple state dinners with Xi. Earlier this year, Xi held a state dinner for Trump in Beijing where Cook was present, and in 2015, Cook was seated next to Xi at a state dinner then-President Barack Obama hosted. Tag: Tim Cook This article, " Tim Cook to Attend White House State Dinner for Xi Jinping " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said that she is “cancer free” on Wednesday after announcing earlier this year she had been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. Wiles wrote in a post on X that her pathology results came back clear after a medical appointment at the Mayo Clinic earlier this week. “Thank you…
The Hill•Julia Manchester16 Sept