Los Angeles voters approved Measure ULA in 2022. The law adds a real estate transfer tax on sales above about $5.3 million to fund housing and homelessness programs. The city’s housing department says most revenue flows to an affordable housing program, plus preservation and prevention efforts. Supporters say the measure raised more than $1 billion, which they hail as a major win for tenant aid and future construction. Those dollars, however, must still turn into homes people can live in.

Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Zehut party, has allied with Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism party for the upcoming elections

By Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin, the leader of Israel’s Zehut party, who has a clear path to a seat in the Knesset in the upcoming election, has said in a new interview that it would be “moral” to kill babies in Gaza.

Posted by Tyler Durden: Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com,

The Iran war could claim a casualty far more consequential than a missile battery, an air base, or an oil tanker: the petrodollar system.

For more than 50 years, US protection of the Gulf monarchies has helped support global demand for dollars and US government debt. That bargain may now be coming under strain.

by Tyler Durden

France is tearing itself apart as far-left riots, a dire fiscal situation and years of unfettered mass migration collide, while President Emmanuel Macron loses his grip and his approval rating craters, raising the prospect of a victory for right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Robert Williams via Gatestone Institute,

"This could be the first election in Sweden where the Muslim immigration that we have had is decisive in a parliamentary election," predicted the leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, days before Sweden's election on September 13.

Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A new analysis of the federal National Health Interview Survey finds children who received a COVID-19 shot had higher odds of autism, ADHD, anxiety, asthma and special-education use than children who did not.

By Tyler Durden

For most of 2026, the bear case on the US power producers could be summed up in one sentence: nobody is signing data center PPAs in PJM. Last week Amazon did. This morning Google did, too, and this one is five times bigger.