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Checks are set to hit New York mailboxes starting on Sept. 21.

Last week, the Trump administration floated the idea of redirecting federal child-care aid so low-income married stay-at-home parents could get a $9,000 subsidy per child for day care.

Pamela Melgarejo spent years trying to lose weight — but nothing was permanent. She's now lost 100 pounds and kept it off after getting bariatric surgery at the NYU Langone Health Weight Management Program.

Gas Turbine Shortage Sends AI Developers Back To Boilers And Steam

Elon Musk recently warned that “turbines are sold out through 2030,” saying SpaceX and Tesla would probably need to make turbine blades and vanes internally.

ELON MUSK: “Turbines are sold out through 2030. In order to bring enough power online, SpaceX and Tesla will probably have to make the turbine blades and vanes internally. There are only three casting companies in the world that make these, and they’re massively backlogged.” pic.twitter.com/YlKHznBXhK

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) August 29, 2026

SpaceX is preparing a factory in Bastrop, Texas, to tackle that casting bottleneck, and Musk says bringing production in-house could get gas turbines online up to 18 months sooner.

This is where it becomes important to be specific as to which type of turbines he is referring to…

POWER Magazine reports that data center operators are pairing industrial boilers with steam turbines to bypass the gas turbine backup. Applied Digital CEO Wes Cummins stated gas turbines ordered today might not arrive until 2032.

Not all turbines are equal. Gas turbines are designed to handle high temperatures and loads, which require extremely unique alloys and manufacturing techniques. Steam turbines handle relatively lower temperatures and allow for a wide range of alloys to be used.

Don't be fooled by the names, though. Both the gas turbine and the steam turbine are ultimately running on natural gas piped directly to the site.

The gas turbines would take the fuel supplied directly and generate electricity from it. Steam turbines require an intermediate step where the gas supply will be burned on site to boil water, which will be used to spin the turbine for electricity production.

Steam turbines and boilers enjoy an older, more established supply chain capable of ramping production up and down quickly, which is why POWER quotes Rentech Boiler Systems as being able to manufacture and deliver a packaged boiler within a year.

Babcock & Wilcox is already seeing significant interest in the new approach with a $2.4 billion agreement with Base Electron to supply 1.2 GW of generation for Applied Digital's AI campuses. B&W is providing boilers for the on-site power plant with operations anticipated in 2028.

Existing nuclear and new natural gas remain the most prominent answers to the data center power question. As we covered recently, Google is securing nuclear supply in Finland with a 22-year agreement with Fortum.

The ultimate goal of most of the hyperscalers is to eventually find their facilities powered 100% by renewables and/or nuclear energy, with the fossil fuels serving as the bridge in the meantime.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2026 - 05:45

Donald Trump has accused former presidents of not taking care of the White House – and claims his renovations have ensured the iconic residence is now in better shape than when construction began in 1792.  Trump, 80, unleashed the blistering attack on his predecessors on Sunday – as he shared pictures of a column that...

US District Judge Carl Nichols blocked Donald Trump’s USPS mail ballot rules, marking the second federal freeze ahead of a Supreme Court decision.

Commerce Department Finalizes Steep Duties On Solar Imports From India, Indonesia, Laos

Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,

The Commerce Department on Friday finalized steep duty rates on imports of solar cells and panels from India, Indonesia, and Laos, stating that it found that producers in those countries dumped cheap products in the United States and benefited from unfair government subsidies.

Anti-dumping margins were set at 123.04 percent for Indian producers, 94.36 percent for Indonesian producers, and 65.43 percent for producers from Laos.

Countervailing duty rates ran higher. Indian producers were assigned 126.09 percent. Indonesian producers face rates between 73.2 percent and 173.7 percent. Lao producers were given rates between 82.03 percent and 153.67 percent.

The trade case was brought by the Alliance for American Solar Manufacturing and Trade. Members include U.S. manufacturers First Solar, Hanwha Qcells, and Mission Solar Energy.

Friday's final determinations "are an essential step toward enforcing our trade laws and restoring fair competition for U.S. solar manufacturers and the workers they employ," Tim Brightbill, lead attorney for the Alliance, said in a statement.

"We will keep monitoring import data and holding bad actors accountable wherever they move next."

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) is scheduled to make a final determination Oct. 14 on whether the imports materially injured or threatened to injure domestic manufacturers. If the commission votes in the affirmative, the Department of Commerce is expected to issue final duty orders in November.

The United States first imposed anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on Chinese solar products in 2012. Manufacturers there shifted production to other Asian countries.

In August 2023, the Department of Commerce found that certain Chinese solar producers shipped products through Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam for minor processing to circumvent tariffs that would apply to Chinese imports.

In April 2025, the Department of Commerce announced plans to impose duties of up to 3,521 percent on solar cell imports from those four countries.

The department said companies there were receiving subsidies from the Chinese regime, and that those countervailing duty investigations were among the first in which it made an affirmative finding that companies received transnational subsidies.

The ITC found in May 2025 that the U.S. solar industry was threatened with material injury by the subsidized Southeast Asian imports. New tariffs on products from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam followed in June 2025.

After those four countries were hit, Chinese solar companies expanded across Southeast Asia to places that, at the time, had not drawn comparable U.S. solar trade tariffs, including Laos and Indonesia.

William A. Reinsch, a former Clinton administration trade official and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, described the pattern as "a huge cat and mouse game."

Washington has added other measures to the same supply chain. On Aug. 6, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation establishing a price floor and a 15 percent tariff on imports of polysilicon and related products, including wafers, solar cells, and solar modules. The measures take effect Dec. 4.

Minimum import prices in the proclamation are $21 per kilogram for polysilicon, $100 per kilogram for polysilicon ingots and wafers, 22 cents per watt for solar cells, and 38 cents per watt for solar modules.

"We're setting prices so that the Chinese can't dump anymore, and we're setting tariffs to say build it here," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said after the signing.

America's share of global polysilicon production capacity fell to less than 2 percent in 2024 from 50 percent in 2005, according to the proclamation. Global production has grown by more than 270 percent since 2020. Inventories reached a record 400,000 tons by the end of 2024.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2026 - 05:00

Why should taxpayers have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars prosecuting and incarcerating someone already in the country illegally, rather than deporting him?

Turkey Arrests 162 In LGBTQ+ Raids

Turkish police arrested at least 162 people and searched the offices of six LGBTQ+ associations in weekend raids designed to support the country's campaign to protect family values. The Ankara-based LGBTQ+ rights group Kaos GL claimed that beyond arrests, the government had also cut access to dozens of websites and social media accounts belonging to associate groups and rights advocates.

Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said investigations, prompted by accusations of prostitution and obscenity, were coordinated by prosecutors in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Aydin and Mersin and involved judicial proceedings against 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses across 15 provinces.

"As per the duty to protect families and children given to the state by the constitution, no criminal organization, abuse network or illegal activity which targets children, youths or families will be tolerated!" Gurlek added in a social media post.

Authorities say they seized drugs, digital equipment, smuggled alcohol and a gun in weekend police operations targeting gay bars and night clubs as well as a hammam that was said to be a place of prostitution.

The Istanbul prosecutor's office added that it had found evidence indicating that children and minors were being inappropriately swayed on issues tied to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Rights groups say the government is unfairly targeting the LGBTQ+ community, with Kaos GL saying that it had been accused of making "posts containing obscenities" accessible to children.

The weekend police operation was dubbed "My Family is Safe" by the government and was part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "Decade of Family and Population" scheme, which is designed to reverse plummeting birthrates in the aging country.

Authorities say it was intended to make sure that society does not see LGBTQ+ activity as "normal" and that raids were carried out to "protect children, the institution of the family, and our shared moral values."

Although same-sex relations are not illegal in the country, homophobia is rife, with President Erdogan blaming LGBTQ "perverts" for Turkey's rapidly declining birthrates.

That would seem a rhetorical diversion from the actual complexity of reasons for the decline, which Erdogan — who has ruled as the country's authoritarian president since 2014 as well as serving as its influential prime minister for 10 years before that — has called "a disaster."

Though Turkey's statistical agency, TurkStat, tracked a sharp decline in the total fertility rate between 2013 and 2023 (from 2.11 to 1.51), the shift brings birthrates in the country closer to those in other developed nations.

Observers say the real reasons for the drop are more likely of a structural and institutional nature rather than one chalked up to lifestyle.

Turkey's chronically worsening financial crisis, inflation, skyrocketing housing prices, family unfriendly workplace environments, limited access to affordable childcare, and higher educational and employment rates for women are all considered reasons for Turks to postpone having children, as well as for having fewer when they finally do.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2026 - 04:15

 Indonesian authorities intensified a search Monday for 129 people who were missing after a ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday, killing at least six passengers.

The Minnesota Democrat has repeatedly denied claims of marriage fraud, calling them 'bigoted lies.'

The UN Arms Embargo On Sudan Is Broken. America Has A Plan To Fix It

Authored by Hussain Abdul-Hussain via RealClearWorld,

The U.S. is rightly pushing the UN Security Council to expand the Sudan arms embargo before it expires this Saturday. Outlined by Ambassador Mike Waltz and Senior Advisor Massad Boulos, the proposal would expand restrictions nationwide to cover all territory and warring factions. A comprehensive countrywide ban eliminates regional geographic loopholes used by illicit traffickers and provides the legal teeth necessary to choke off foreign weapons, especially drones, fueling Sudan's devastating civil war, now in its fourth year.

To pass the resolution, America needs nine affirmative votes from the Council's 15 members. Alongside permanent members France and the UK, Washington's draft enjoys the support of Denmark, Greece, and Latvia. Panama and Bahrain could raise supporters to eight, one short of a majority.

Conversely, opponents include Somalia and Pakistan, two allies of Turkey and Saudi Arabia whose governments plan to continue arming the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Two other African Council members, Liberia and Congo, are leaning "no," joined likely by Colombia. Together with the permanent members Russia and China, the total no votes add up to seven, enough to block the resolution without forcing a Russian or Chinese veto.

Opponents of the full embargo argue that the SAF is the legitimate "state institutions" and should be allowed to arm itself while starving its rivals. This position aligns with SAF's chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who believes he can eliminate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

However, America correctly argues that the war in Sudan is a stalemate. Neither faction is strong or well-resourced enough to overcome its rivals, prevail, and govern the enormous Sudanese territory, an area larger than Texas, California, Montana, and New York combined.

Sudan is the third-largest nation in Africa, and its population of 53 million comprises over 500 distinct groups speaking more than 400 languages. While Arabic-speaking Sunni Muslims form the largest heritage group, they are fragmented into distinct regional and tribal confederations.

Historically, the Arab Riverine tribes - the Ja'alin, Shaigya, and Danagla - dominated Khartoum politically and economically, forming the backbone of Omar al-Bashir's former regime and the mainstay of the SAF today. In contrast, the nomadic Baggara Arab tribes from Kordofan and Darfur serve as the demographic base for the RSF. Meanwhile, non-Arab, indigenous African communities include the pastoralist Beja of the Red Sea hills, the Nuba of the central mountains, and the sedentary Fur, who gave the Darfur region its name.

Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has been ruled by military autocrats and the Muslim Brotherhood. By the 1990s, severe droughts and desertification pushed nomadic Arab herders south into lands traditionally owned by sedentary, non-Arab African farmers.

In 2003, non-Arab Sudanese launched a rebellion. Khartoum organized Arab militias - the Janjaweed, predecessor of the RSF - to engage in widespread atrocities alongside SAF. These brutal, raid-based tribal tactics are being repeated in the current civil war.

Since independence, Sudan has experienced only four brief stints of democracy. The last began in 2019, when labor unions toppled the Islamist Bashir regime and began rebuilding a democracy underwritten by SAF's Burhan and RSF's Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti).

By 2021, the two generals deemed the civilian government redundant and dissolved it to rule jointly. However, former regime elements of the Muslim Brotherhood engineered a comeback by driving a wedge between the two men, convincing Burhan he could become the country's undisputed ruler. Civil war erupted in April 2023. Burhan claimed the mantle of the legitimate government and declared the RSF an illegal militia. The RSF fought back, and the war continues to rage.

The U.S. State Department has already accused both sides of committing war crimes and has imposed targeted sanctions.

The Quad - comprising America, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE - drafted a plan to end the war, requiring both generals to step down and restore civilian rule. Burhan, however, rejected the settlement, insisting the war will only end with the SAF's total military victory.

As the conflict unfolded, the Quad clung to its toothless plan while the UN Security Council unanimously renewed an arms embargo every September that failed to stop foreign powers from supplying various factions. Now, America is coming to the UN with a plan that has teeth: a blanket arms embargo on all armed Sudanese factions.

The ongoing civil war has completely upended the alliances of Sudan's past conflicts. The SAF alliance is heavily dominated by Arab and Muslim Brotherhood factions, earning it the backing of Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.

Conversely, the RSF positions itself as anti-Islamist, receiving sponsorship from predominantly Christian and non-Arab Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, alongside Chad and the UAE.

Treating all warring factions inside Sudan as equal aggressors and starving them of weapons is the best course of action.

A total embargo will lower the tempo of death and destruction, shut down the backdoor war economy, and might finally convince all parties that a military victory is impossible, leaving a negotiated political settlement as the only way forward.

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2026 - 03:30

Two Alabama siblings were killed in a car crash that also left their older brother fighting for his life in the hospital. 

Dear Abby advises a grandmother upset that her grandson's other grandma claimed the nickname 'Mimi' to collaborate on a new name with the boy.

“Unfortunately, 21 Air has a long-established history of safety problems,” a former pilot for the company warned before Amazon's announcement.

Is Britain Abandoning Military Defense To Fund More Socialism?

It's a curious position for European governments; for the past few years they have been rattling their sabers over the Russian war in Ukraine, calling for boots on the ground.  It's the kind of intervention that would automatically trigger WWIII.  Yet, these same governments are completely unprepared in terms of military spending, armament and training.  

When the British government refused to join the US blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, almost no one cared because the British have allowed their navy to decay into irrelevance.  Twenty years ago, they had nearly 50 active fighting vessels and today they are down to 22 vessels.  Britain's GDP per capita is currently lower than the state of Alabama.  And, they keep importing thousands upon thousands of third world migrants, with the vast majority relying on taxpayer funded subsidies. 

When given a choice between funding the British military or funding more immigrants, the government has chosen to fund more immigrants.  Britain has increased welfare spending by 16% in the past 5 years alone.    

A year ago the Brits, under pressure from the Trump Administration, took steps to expand their defense budget in order to better meet an increase in NATO obligations.  Multiple European countries have been avoiding these obligations for a long time, instead relying on the US to foot the bill while they enjoyed extra cash to spend on subsidized programs.  However, the British increase in their defense budget doesn't mean much if the military is not actually allowed to spend any money.

The British Army has been ordered to pause most “non-essential” collective training (large live-fire drills, tank/Apache exercises, etc.) for UK-based units that are on standby (only 4% of British units are actually deployed).  The immediate reason is a shortage of cash in the Ministry of Defence’s day-to-day resource budget (RDEL). Fuel and ammunition prices have risen faster than planned, meaning routine training budgets drawn up years earlier no longer cover the same activity.

Their defense budget expansion is not even keeping up with inflation.   Leftists in the UK, of course, blame Trump.  But inflation in Europe hit well before Trump returned to office and the lack of accountability on the part of British progressives is not going to save them from the fallout.

Military officials warned two years ago that British training standards were outdated by a decade.  In June of this year, Defense Secretary John Healey quit after government refusals to provide adequate funding for training.  

Healey is now the Chancellor, and he's due to present a budget in October that still has yet to find roughly £1.4 billion a year for the next three years to fund a plan stays within the government’s fiscal rules. The military is required to create a budget without diverting money from health or education programs. The training pause is a short-term cash-management measure - Longer-term funding questions remain unresolved.

An easy way to stockpile significant funding for British defense would be to stop all immigration and remigrate millions of third world residents who are feeding on government welfare.  But this is something the current leadership will never do.  Multiculturalism is their priority, for reasons that remain a mystery. 

On the bright side, less funding and less capability for Europe's armies means a lesser chance that they will be shipped off to Ukraine to start a world war.     

Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2026 - 02:45

Foreigners Responsible For 87% Of Thefts, 61% Of Sexual Violence On Paris Public Transport

Via Remix News,

Foreigners account for a massive share of thefts, sexual violence, and robberies on Paris public transport in 2025, according to new government data.

According to compilations from the SSMSI data files, foreigners accounted in 2025 for 87 percent of simple thefts on Île-de-France public transport, 60 percent of robberies, and 38 percent of physical assault.

In addition, foreigners account for 61 percent of sexual violence cases on Paris public transport and its surrounding regions.

National figures for foreigners committing crimes on public transport are lower but still high, approximately 76 percent of simple-theft suspects are foreigners and 71 percent of all theft suspects are foreigners.

Some groups are highly overrepresented among foreigners.

Maghrebi nationals, for instance, account for about 40 percent of theft suspects in transport nationwide, while making up roughly 2 percent of the national population, according to data analyst Marc Vanguard.

? Des chiffres CHOC sur l'insécurité viennent de sortir.

? Dans les transports en commun, les étrangers représentent 87% des mis en cause pour vols simples en Île-de-France, et 76% sur la France entière.

Tous les chiffres dans ce fil ??? pic.twitter.com/WK38I3FlKL

— Marc Vanguard (@marc_vanguard) September 10, 2026

INSEE's latest estimate puts foreigners at 9.1 percent of France's population in 2025, or around 6.3 million people. Their share is higher in Île-de-France, especially in the multicultural Seine-Saint-Denis department, but the crime for foreigners is still disproportionately high. In total, police and gendarmerie recorded 104,880 victims of theft, violence, or payment fraud in public transport nationwide in 2025, down 2 percent from 2024 and 22 percent from 2016 - the lowest level in a decade, including the pandemic years.

???? A Brazilian tourist was subjected to a vicious sexual assault on a French train on Wednesday morning, and only escaped being raped thanks to the intervention of a brave woman who filmed the assailant to scare him off.

Jhordana, 26, had been visiting her brother in Paris.... pic.twitter.com/pxOTu4fZXf

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) October 19, 2025

Theft without violence still accounts for 77 percent of those victims. Thefts and payment frauds fell but recorded physical and sexual violence rose slightly, jumping 3 percent. Drug-use and trafficking suspects in transport rose another 5 percent after the sharp Olympic-year jump in 2024.

It should be noted that among the "French" perpetrators, their potential migration background is not recorded. There are approximately 10 million people in France with a foreign background, including second-generation citizens with a migration background. As a result, a French citizen who is an ethnic Algerian, for instance, would be recorded as a French perpetrator in all crime statistics. France does not keep data on the race of crime suspects, as required by national law.

More broadly speaking, there are estimates that foreigners and French citizens with a migration background account for two out of three crimes in France.

??? This public awareness campaign in France shows a White man as the harasser on a bus.

French interior ministry stats from recent years have shown that 69% of violent crimes, including sexual assaults and harassment, on public transport in the greater Paris region were... pic.twitter.com/H3fRwEWtK2

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) July 3, 2025

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Tyler Durden Mon, 09/14/2026 - 02:00

Malik Nabers, he insisted afterward, truly didn’t know he could play until warmups.

The American men’s Grand Slam drought is 92 straight, 24 years and counting.

Jaxson Dart, who isn’t Lamar Jackson but is absolutely a dual threat, was seeing the field with 20/20 vision, throwing accurate darts and playing the position the way Jalen Brunson plays Knicks basketball.