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While Jacobs' original makeup line was discontinued in 2021, he launched a new iteration this summer.

While Jacobs' original makeup line was discontinued in 2021, he launched a new iteration this summer.

A Fort Lauderdale-bound Delta flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Atlanta Thursday morning after reports of a smoky smell inside the plane, airline officials said. Flight 1334 had just taken off from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta at around 7 a.m. when “a smoky odor was reported onboard,” according to Delta. The...

He was chosen by the Giants in the 1966 NFL draft but chose to sign with expansion Miami one year before the AFL-NFL merger.

The gossip blogger was rushed to the hospital on Aug. 4 after sharing a heartbreaking video showing acts of self-harm from inside his Miami home.

The gossip blogger was rushed to the hospital on Aug. 4 after sharing a heartbreaking video showing acts of self-harm from inside his Miami home.

Ricky Pearsall appears to be in good spirits after having season-ending knee surgery for a torn PCL on Thursday morning. Pearsall shared a photo of himself on Instagram, lying in a hospital bed after having knee surgery. In the photo, Pearsall is seen flexing his arm, while being joined by his family in the hospital....

The former "RHOBH" star, who split from husband Edwin Arroyave in 2024, made headlines last year for her romance with producer Ricci Rea.

The former "RHOBH" star, who split from husband Edwin Arroyave in 2024, made headlines last year for her romance with producer Ricci Rea.

"Next Gen NYC" star Shai Fruchter exclusively spoke to Page Six's "Virtual Reali-Tea" about the current nature of his co-stars' relationship.

"Next Gen NYC" star Shai Fruchter exclusively spoke to Page Six's "Virtual Reali-Tea" about the current nature of his co-stars' relationship.

No injuries were reported.

Gamer Recruitment Campaign Sparks Record Air Traffic Controller Hiring: FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration reached historic hiring levels for air traffic controllers through its campaign to target gamers.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in an Aug. 9 post on X that the campaign “supercharged the entire hiring process to get the BEST & BRIGHTEST in faster.”

As a result, the TSA hit 94 percent of its hiring goal this year, which is the fastest the agency has reached that goal.

Those figures translate into 2,000 new controllers hired, which, as Savannah Hulsey Pointer details below for The Epoch Times, is the most ever hired in a single year. According to Duffy, those candidates made it to training faster than any class before them.

“We’re building the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history,” he said.

The Department of Transportation ad campaign included the slogan “It’s not a Game. It’s a Career.”

The department stated that it targeted gamers for their “unique and transferable skillset, including high cognitive functions, spatial awareness, multitasking, and strategy and problem solving.”

The FAA announced its plan to target gamers for recruitment in April, saying it could help solve the industry’s decades-long shortage of controllers.

“To reach the next generation of air traffic controllers, we need to adapt. This campaign’s innovative communication style and focus on gaming taps into a growing demographic of young adults who have many of the hard skills it takes to be a successful controller,” Duffy said at the time.

The hiring window opened on April 17, and the agency called it an opportunity to apply for “one of the most dynamic jobs in the world.”

The FAA has suffered a shortage of controllers since the 1980s. The issue was exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic when thousands of industry professionals retired.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, working as an air traffic controller “can be stressful because maximum concentration is required at all times.”

Another cause of strain is the fact that controllers are responsible for the safety of aircraft and passengers, and they often rotate through night and weekend shifts.

However, the typical entry-level education for a controller is an associate’s degree, with no related field work experience. The median pay for the position was more than $144,000 per year.

Staffing shortages have increased pressure on controllers, and the FAA has acknowledged that the lack of air traffic controllers has contributed to mandatory overtime and fatigue concerns.

CareerCast has repeatedly put air traffic controlling as one of the nation’s most stressful occupations, citing the responsibility for public safety, constant deadlines, and need for sustained concentration as contributing factors.

The recruitment news comes just days after the TSA welcomed David Cummins as its new administrator. The agency announced the confirmation on Aug. 7, saying, “TSA is building for the future—innovation, cutting-edge technology, and a checkpoint experience making travel smoother and more secure than ever before.”

Cummins said of his new role: “We do not have to choose between a secure checkpoint, an efficient checkpoint, or an elevated experience. In fact, our mission demands that we achieve all three at once.

“TSA will deliver on its role to secure the Golden Age of Travel.”

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/13/2026 - 13:40

Details surrounding the accident have not been disclosed; however, in another post, her family slammed people who labelled Bayir’s accident as an “act of irresponsibility."

A black-hole star is born.

Karlie Kloss' relationship with Willow Bay is what initially ignited the friendship between Iger and Kushner, according to a new report.

Tailing 30Y Auction Prices At Highest Yield In 25 Years

After yesterday's ugly 10Y auction, moments ago we got the last of the week's refunding auctions, when the Treasury sold $25BN in 30Y paper (the same paper that has seen yield shoot up in the past week, ever since Warsh's most recent FOMC meeting in which he left the long-end hang out to dry), and just like the 10Y auction before it, this one was also rather deplorable.

Pricing at a high yield of 5.216%, the auction tailed the When Issued 5.212% by 0.4bps...

... but more importantly, it priced at the highest yield since 2001 some 25 years ago.

The bid to cover was 2.392, down from 2.444 in July and below the recent average of 2.429. 

The internals were more palatable: Indirects slumped from 77.7% in July - one of the highest on record - to 66.9%, which was just below the six-auction average of 67.0%.

And with Directs loading up, and taking down 21.6% of the auction, which also was just below the recent average of 22.5%, Dealers were left with 11.5%, 150bps higher than July, and a bit over the average of 10.6%. 

Overall, this was a weak auction if hardly catastrophic, and while demand was there, the more ominous question is where do yields go from here, and how much higher can the yield on the long-end keep rising before something finally breaks.

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/13/2026 - 13:35

Supreme Court Sets November Arguments In Religious Liberty, Prison Medical Care, And Agency Power Cases

Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,

The Supreme Court on Aug. 11 scheduled oral arguments for November in three high-stakes cases involving a religious liberty challenge to Colorado's preschool funding rules, a lawsuit over inadequate prison medical care, and a separation of powers dispute involving Labor Department penalties.

The Supreme Court in Washington on July 13, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The court said in a new scheduling notice that on Nov. 3 it will hear St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, which is about whether Colorado may decline to fund Catholic preschools.

The case could help to redefine how states reconcile anti-discrimination laws with religious freedom.

Colorado's universal preschool program pays for 15 hours of free preschool per week at public or private providers. To participate, preschools must offer "equal opportunity" to sign up regardless of religious affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, income level, or disability.

The state permits exemptions for other groups such as low-income or disabled children but has blocked Archdiocese of Denver preschools because they require families to support Catholic teachings on sex and gender.

The Supreme Court will look at the case in the light of two of its precedents, Employment Division v. Smith (1990), and Carson v. Makin (2022).

The petitioners had asked the Supreme Court to overrule Smith, but in agreeing to hear the case, it specifically declined to take up that question. Instead, the justices indicated that they will consider if the application of Smith should be narrowed.

Smith held that neutral, generally applicable laws do not violate the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause even if they burden religious practice, and that religious objectors are not entitled to exemptions from such laws. Carson held that a state violates the Free Exercise Clause when it excludes religious schools from an otherwise generally available public benefit - such as tuition aid - solely because of their religious character. In that case, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that excluded families from a student aid program if they chose to send their children to religious schools.

In the case at hand, lower courts upheld the exclusion, citing Smith, holding that the rules were neutral and generally applicable. The justices limited review to two questions: how to apply Smith's general applicability test when secular exemptions exist, and whether Carson requires stricter scrutiny only for explicit religious exclusions.

The high court said that it will hear U.S. Department of Labor v. Sun Valley Orchards LLC on Nov. 10. The case concerns whether the federal agency has authority to conduct its own administrative hearings to collect money from employers accused of violating the terms of the seasonal farm worker visa program.

The justices agreed to review a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruling that sided with a New Jersey produce farm. The farm was fined more than $500,000 by an in-house Labor Department tribunal for alleged violations of the rules for the H-2A visa program for temporary foreign farm labor. The appeals court held that the agency's process was unconstitutional, relying primarily on constitutional separation of powers principles that limit the ability of agencies to adjudicate private rights and impose monetary penalties without going to federal court.

In its ruling, the Third Circuit also cited Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy (2024), which held that the SEC's in-house enforcement of securities fraud laws infringed the defendants' Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.

The case will give the Supreme Court another opportunity to address the reach of Jarkesy and decide how far federal agencies may go in handling enforcement cases that seek monetary penalties.

The justices indicated they will hear Nielsen v. Watanabe on Nov. 9, a case testing whether a federal inmate can sue prison staff for inadequate medical care under the Bivens doctrine.

The Supreme Court held in Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents (1971) that individuals may sue government officials for violations of their constitutional rights.

In Carlson v. Green (1980), the high court extended Bivens to an Eighth Amendment claim of deliberate indifference to medical needs where prison officials failed to deal with an inmate's acute asthma attack and exacerbated it, leading to his death on-site within hours. The Eighth Amendment bans cruel and unusual punishment.

Since the 1980 ruling, the court has said it is up to Congress, not the courts, to create damages remedies.

Kekai Watanabe was injured in a gang riot in 2021 at a federal detention center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He alleges a nurse declined to send him to a hospital and instead provided him only with over-the-counter medication. He later received a diagnosis of a fractured tailbone and bone chips.

Watanabe sued for $3 million under Bivens, alleging the prison authorities were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs and that this violated the Eighth Amendment.

A federal district court threw out the lawsuit, ruling it presented a "new context" different from Carlson. The court cited Watanabe's access to the Bureau of Prisons' administrative grievance process and the non-life-threatening nature of his injury. A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed, finding the claim closely tracked Carlson.

The Supreme Court is currently in recess for the summer. It will resume hearing oral arguments on the first Monday in October.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/13/2026 - 13:20

DiJonai Carrington hasn't found a way out of the line of WNBA fire.

Drone footage showed the swimmer in shallow coastal waters as several juvenile white sharks moved through the area.