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When it comes to the Clippers-Kawhi Leonard scandal, Adam Silver believes it’s time to move forward.

We're so ready for Season 3.

For what is largely considered to be the team’s biggest strength, it was an extremely promising sign going forward. 

Kamala Harris needs to find a way to cash out of politics — like the rest of the failed politicians do.

Board Votes To Shut Down Kennedy Center

Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The board of the Kennedy Center voted Sept. 15 to close the arts facility “immediately” for safety reasons so rehabilitation work may be performed on the building, President Donald Trump said.

Workers outside The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washingotn after they updated the signage in honor of President Donald Trump on Dec. 19, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Trump made the announcement on Truth Social hours after a federal judge blocked the board from putting Trump’s name on the building’s facade or renaming its grounds in his honor.

U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper ruled that the plan to add inscriptions honoring the current president would violate an existing injunction and the 1964 law that made the cultural center a memorial to the late President John F. Kennedy, which only Congress may alter.

The judge said that in 1983, Congress amended the 1964 law to ensure that “no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.”

Trump said the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking an expedited appeal of Cooper’s new ruling.

He said the closing of the center would happen “immediately,” but the rehabilitation project, which he described as “a very large and complex job,” cannot get underway until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issues a ruling “on the Board’s approved name.”

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 18:25

Plus, the jewelry collab he'll be dressing his clients in for "like a million years."

Plus, the jewelry collab he'll be dressing his clients in for "like a million years."

Josue De Paula is quickly making his mark during his first MLB call-up

New York State Corrections Officers Police Benevolent Association members voted 1,370 to 78 to endorse Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman.

Cheap is in the eye of the beholder.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels have seized a key shipping strait and attacked a Saudi pipeline, sending oil prices to $108 a barrel amid Gulf infighting.

The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance the Clarity Act, a major blow to the crypto industry as the legislation could become even more difficult to pass if Dems win back seats in the midterm elections.

A dozen individuals from Syria, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and Somalia have all been arrested in connection to an alleged daycare fraud scam, accused of funneling more than $10 million in taxpayer-funded childcare subsidies to bogus providers.

The two actors have been separated "for a while," they confirmed in a statement.

The two actors have been separated "for a while," they confirmed in a statement.

Dollar General CEO Warns Even "Upper-Middle Acting Like Lower-Income" Amid Fuel Crisis

Speaking at Goldman Sachs' 33rd Annual Global Retailing Conference on Tuesday morning, Dollar General CEO Todd Vasos offered a downbeat assessment of its customer base, warning that financial stress is spreading up the income ladder to middle- and upper-middle-income households. 

Years of elevated prices for everyday goods, compounded by gasoline prices above $4 a gallon nationally and $6 a gallon for diesel, are certaintly reshaping consumer habits across income cohorts. Vasos said that even customers earning $100,000 or more, whom Dollar General classifies as higher income, are increasingly under stress. 

Vasos explained:

And we've always said here at Dollar General for our core customer that any time that gas prices get anywhere close to four and then crests $4 a gallon, the customer changes their their shopping behavior, stays closer to home normally shops more often, but buys less on each occasion.

And that's exactly what the core customer is faring. But the interesting thing with this economy, because of the other sustained headwinds of inflation over the years that have passed, even that middle to upper middle is acting more like a lower income shopper these days. And they had that same characteristic. And then high income for us is that that $100,000 plus crowd.

The CEO of Dollar General, which has more than 21,000 stores nationwide, offers a real-time snapshot of consumer spending patterns and sentiment.

On Monday, Jefferies food analyst Scott Marks also flagged new pressure on convenience store customers as gasoline and diesel prices soared in August.

All of this highlights the Trump administration's urgent search for energy price relief ahead of the midterms. Export restrictions on diesel entered the conversation earlier today with Senate Majority Leader John Thune. The administration is also considering measures to increase U.S. refining capacity (yet capacity is at 98%). Whether Trump officials will suspend federal fuel taxes remains to be seen.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 18:00

A Stunning Case In The Making? The Supreme Court Orders New York To Respond In Second Amendment Case

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

One of the cases that I have been following as we approach the October term of the Supreme Court is Calce v. New York, a case challenging New York's ban on stun guns. While it is important not to overplay the significance of the order, some justices clearly want to hear more on the case before deciding whether to grant a writ of certiorari for review. New York City was just ordered to file a response to the petition. With the two other major Second Amendment cases on the docket, a review in Calce could be one of the most impactful Second Amendment terms in decades.

Calce is a challenge brought by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, and individual plaintiffs against New York City's ban on stun guns. They argue that "electronic arms" like stun guns and lasers are protected under the Second Amendment. The only difference is that, rather than a projectile, such weapons "work by producing electrical pulses that make the target's muscles spasm, and thus quickly but temporarily disable him."

Notably, nine years ago, the Court issued a per curiam opinion in Caetano v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts that sent back a case to the First Circuit that challenged a similar ban. The Court rejected the logic of the First Circuit, which held that they were not in common use at the time of the Second Amendment's enactment. The Court pointed out that in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 582 (2008), it expressly rejected that argument and held that the Second Amendment "extends... to... arms... that were not in existence at the time of the founding." It also rejected two other rationales.

Massachusetts responded to the loss by changing its law. In so doing, Massachusetts shows a modicum of strategic sense to avoid another likely loss. However, New York City (as usual) was undeterred.

Notably, the district court judge and the Second Circuit upheld the ban on the ground that the challengers failed to "provide any evidence that stun guns and tasers are in common use." That seems strikingly close to Caetano.

Calce could clarify not only the "common use" element but also the burden on challengers in such cases. The Second Circuit seems to have departed from the guidance of last year's decision in Wolford v. Lopez, rejecting Hawaii's "Vampire law" limiting areas where lawful weapons could be carried in the state without prior approval.

New York City must now respond by October 8, and the Court could decide on review at the October 15 conference.

If granted, the case would join an already weighty Second Amendment docket. The Court will be hearing arguments in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins. Both cases will address the move in various blue states to ban AR-15 and other semi-automatic weapons, including the popular Glock 9mm. The addition of Calce would make this a formidable Second Amendment term.

These cases also show how the same blue jurisdictions continue to feed the Court with Second Amendment cases that will likely only reinforce the rights that they are seeking to limit. I have previously written how New York, D.C., and Chicago are examples of Democratic cities that routinely commit lasting self-inflicted wounds to gun control efforts with poorly conceived and poorly drafted measures.

Calce has the makings of a truly stunning Second Amendment case in extending protections to electronic arms.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/15/2026 - 17:40

Two-thirds of Gen Z believe becoming a tradesperson is a quicker path to a $100k salary than going to college, a new poll reveals.

LA Mayor Karen Bass skipped a congressional hearing probing $1 billion in alleged waste and fraud in the city's troubled homelessness system.

Stafford doesn't appear too concerned about Garrett, but should he be?