Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disclosed an investment between $3 million and $12 million in Bloom Energy just weeks before it was announced that the AI firm is joining the S&P 500, sending the stock sky-high.

The San Francisco Democrat’s millionaire husband, Paul Pelosi, owned the accounts that made the Wall Street trades, according to a transaction report she signed on Aug. 21.

On July 24, the household account purchased 10,000 shares of Bloom Energy for an amount between $1 million and $5 million and 100 call options valued between $1 million and $5 million, according to the disclosure. That means the trades were worth at least $2 million, looking at the combined floors.

On July 28, another 5,000 shares were bought for roughly $500,000 to $1 million and 100 more call options valued between $500,000 and $1 million – a combined purchase worth $1 million to $2 million.

The first pair of trades from the Pelosi account came after a sharp downturn in the stock, and the second batch hit the same day Bloom reported extremely upbeat earnings, including annual revenue growth of $165% – which sent the stock soaring over the following days.

Weeks later, on Sept. 4, it was announced that Bloom Energy will officially join the S&P 500 later this month – sending the stock up nearly 40% over the past five days.

The stock closed at $184.89 a share on July 24 and $166.84 on July 28. It was last trading at $282.50 a share Tuesday afternoon.

https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/business/nancy-pelosi-disclosed-at-least-3m-investment-in-bloom-energy-weeks-before-stock-soared/

By Kevin Killough

Published: September 8, 2026 11:16am

Ukraine's prosecutor general resigned his position on Monday, citing pollical reasons.

Ruslan Kravchenko provided few details in a statement on Telegram, but said his resignation "is a political decision" and that he "made it consciously," Reuters reported.

He thanked President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine's parliament, and asked that they accept his resignation.

Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies, the ​NABU and SAPO, said last week they'd uncovered a criminal organization dealing with fraudulent call centers. Allegedly, these were arranged by an official within the Prosecutor General's office.

Kravchenko denied involvement in the alleged scheme.

https://justthenews.com/world/europe/ukraines-prosecutor-general-resigns-saying-only-its-political-decision

Britain’s police arrested at least 62,199 people over five years under laws governing what people say online or over the phone.

That’s a busy period for the written word. And the number of those charged over the same period is 18,510, while 12,292 people were convicted.

The Big Brother Watch report, Britain’s Free Speech Problem: How Growing Restrictions Are Stifling Speech Online and Offline, covers the period between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2025.

The laws are Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, and Section 179 of the Online Safety Act 2023.

What do they concern? Indecent or grossly offensive messages, electronic communications that are grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing, as well as the persistent use of a public network intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety.

That’s as well as sending a message that the sender knows to be false, without reasonable excuse, and with the intention of causing non-trivial physical or psychological harm to a likely

audience.

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-police-arrested-62-199-people-over-online-speech-in-five-years

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what a hell hole UK has become

By Ben Whedon

Published: September 8, 2026 12:06pm

Updated: September 8, 2026 12:18pm

Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III on Tuesday announced that he would retire at the end of the war, the Washington Post reported.

His retirement comes amid pressure from the Trump administration, which has worked to revamp many of the Institute's museums and displays.

Last year, the administration notified the Smithsonian that it would review museum exhibits ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States.

“This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the president’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions,” read a letter sent to Bunch at the time.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/smithsonian-head-announces-retirement-amid-pressure-trump

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The home of Australian pastor Andrew Sedra was reportedly attacked by multiple LGBT activists, who issued threats against the family members, including their newborn son.

The pastor’s X account posted security footage of the attackers, saying they cut off power to the home and tried to gain entry.

“On Thursday night, 4 left-wing activists including 2 hooded individuals came to our home after our address was leaked publicly online,” the post said.

“They threatened to kill us and destroy us, they cut out the electricity from our home and attempted to break in. They knew our whole family by name, including our newborn baby, mentioning him continuously.”

Sedra and his wife, Noleen Sedra, are associated with Echo Church, a Pentecostal church movement.

Both speak against homosexuality, as well as other pressing issues like abortion and the rise of Islam in the West.

Other family members, such as brothers Martin Sedra and John Sedra, and sister-in-law Noleen Sedra, received verbal threats from the activists.

The Sedra brothers come from a Coptic background, and their family faced persecution in their native Egypt.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/lgbt-activists-assault-pastors-home-cut-power-threaten/

The Texas Board of Education gave final approval to changes to the state's high school social studies curriculum, a controversial move that will impact how students are taught about Islam and Christianity.

The amended social studies curriculum, which covers U.S. history, government and world geography, comes after dozens of people gave public testimony, with most expressing their opposition to the finalized version.

The board approved language asserting that "radical Islam" motivated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks rather than taking a more narrow focus on the terrorist groups involved in the attack.

The material also requires students to study early Islam through Prophet Muhammad's "brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes," the "normalization of slavery" and the taking of female captives as "harem slaves."

Several Democratic State Board of Education members pushed back against the wording, but the Republican-majority board still approved that section and the other changes on Friday.

Muslim groups and students, as well as multiple curriculum experts, also spoke out against the new changes.

"I feel attacked, as if my religion doesn’t belong," Habiiba Quresh, a 15-year-old Muslim student, told the board, according to The Texas Tribune. "I shouldn't have to defend my religion in the middle of history class because of one sentence someone on this board wrote."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-education-board-approves-controversial-curriculum-changes-tying-radical-islam-9-11-attacks