Market first – because it was remarkable.As in remarkably bad.Whether we will do a public post here on Urban will depend on whether we get “glowing reports” about the coming weekend. Because that’s when the world could really take a “smoke break.”To keep things in perspective? It feels less like triumph than vertigo. We were not predicting “stocks might go down someday.” We identified compression, explained how flags and pennants store energy, and waited to see which side failed. At Wednesday’s close, the market answered: down.The Dow lost 1,129 points, or 2.14%; the S&P 500 fell 1.50%; and the Nasdaq dropped…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a $5 million lawsuit against the city of Jacksonville, alleging the local government maintained an illegal registry of firearms brought into city buildings between July 2023 and early 2025. The suit challenges the city’s previous decision to avoid criminal penalties despite a State…

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has announced the speakers for the inaugural Firearms Advocacy Conference, scheduled for Saturday, May 30 at Castle of Knights, 1599 Memorial Dr., Chicopee, Mass. The New England FAC is being sponsored by the United States Concealed…

Israel has stepped up its “brutal bombardment” of southern Lebanon. Despite a United States-brokered ceasefire, Lebanese officials have reported that nearly ninety people have been killed in strikes since Friday. Thirty-nine people were killed on Saturday alone, after Israel struck 22 towns and villages in southern Lebanon. This is not…

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has claimed that the world may experience more cases of Hantavirus.  “We might see more cases” of the deadly Andes strain of hantavirus emerge in the coming days, after an eleventh case was recorded, he said. “At the moment, there is no…

United States President Donald Trump, along with other lawmakers, has suggested that the ruling class suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes in order to lower the cost of fuel at the pump. Americans have been struggling with the high cost of fuel, which has skyrocketed during the war with Iran.…