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Happiness may be as much a state of place as a state of mind, and according to one report, some US citizens are faring better than others.

Major rating agencies could begin slashing the city's bond ratings over fears that Mandani's spending will outrun city revenue projections.

Emergency Slide Accidentally Deployed On New Qatari-Gifted Air Force One Before Trump Flew To Texas

Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times,

The new Air Force One's emergency slide was accidentally deployed on Sept. 9 before President Donald Trump boarded to attend the first-ever 2026 Republican Midterm Convention.

The inflatable slide popped out shortly before the president was scheduled to board the plane and fly to Dallas for the high-profile GOP event.

When Trump was asked by a reporter if he was confident the plane was safe to fly, the president responded, "Yeah, I am, or I wouldn't be on it."

"As the President has said, the slide was checked out to make sure everything works perfectly," White House communications director Steven Cheung told The Epoch Times via email on Wednesday.

"Air Force One is on its way to Dallas so he can deliver his much-anticipated speech to a raucous and sold-out crowd."

Trump was scheduled to give the keynote address during the first night of the 2026 Republican Convention around 9:00 p.m. ET. The president will speak on Thursday to close out the event too.

A White House official separately told The Epoch Times that "military personnel accidentally triggered the slide" ahead of boarding.

The emergency slide was taken away before Trump boarded the jet, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Trump started flying on the jet in July after the government accepted the plane from Qatar as a gift in 2025.

Days after the plane started transporting the president, the Secret Service made Trump switch planes first to the old Air Force One plane, and then secretly to an unmarked C-32A military jet, to depart for a two-day NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

White House communications director Steven Cheung revealed on July 9 that the switch-up was part of a "distraction and misdirection" strategy intended to address threats against the president.

The plane is being used as the interim presidential aircraft while the White House waits for the fully equipped VC-25B planes, which are expected to arrive at the end of Trump's second term.

The Boeing VC-25B planes were supposed to arrive in 2024 but have been delayed for years and aren't expected to be ready for flight until mid-2028.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2026 - 12:45

Trump Open To Pardoning Cohen After Former Attorney Says He Was Pressured

Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times,

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would consider giving his former personal attorney Michael Cohen a pardon after Cohen said he felt he was "pressured and coerced" while testifying against Trump in a criminal trial.

"If everything is checking out, it's something I would consider," Trump told reporters when asked if he would pardon Cohen.

"I appreciate that at least he came out, although late, he came out and rectified the situation."

A presidential pardon forgives a federal offense but does not declare the recipient innocent or erase the conviction from the criminal record, according to the Office of the Pardon Attorney. It can remove certain civil restrictions resulting from the conviction, potentially restore federal firearms rights, and improve the recipient's ability to obtain employment, professional licenses or bonding.

Cohen was a prominent critic and a prosecution witness in Trump's 2024 New York criminal trial. Cohen testified that Trump was involved in arranging a payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign-finance violations, tax evasion, bank fraud, and lying to Congress. He received a three-year federal sentence and completed his prison term and supervision requirements in November 2024. Asked whether he might seek a presidential pardon, Cohen said he did not know but might consider it later.

Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records and denied wrongdoing. In January 2025, he received an unconditional discharge, meaning he was guilty but would face no penalty.

Trump appeared on Cohen's radio show in August and praised Cohen for recanting previous statements. It was Trump's first public conversation with Cohen in eight years.

"They weaponized you. They weaponized a lot of people," the president told Cohen on the latter's 770 WABC radio program in New York. "I respect the fact that you recanted everything you said. You're going to go down as a man of courage, great courage, because you did something that a lot of people wouldn't have the guts to do."

Cohen worked for Trump for more than a decade before their relationship collapsed amid criminal investigations, public criticism, and legal battles.

A federal judge in March 2024 denied Cohen's fourth request to end supervised release early, citing concerns that Cohen had contradicted his 2018 guilty plea.

Judge Jesse Furman said Cohen denied committing tax evasion while testifying under oath in Trump's civil fraud trial, despite previously pleading guilty to that crime.

Furman said that either Cohen lied during his plea or committed perjury during the 2023 trial, demonstrating a continued need for supervision.

Cohen and his attorney called the ruling legally and factually wrong, arguing he never disputed his underlying conduct and had accepted a coercive plea deal.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2026 - 12:15

WTI Tops $101 As Strategic Petroleum Reserve Nears Record Low

Following Brent's lead (which is following Shanghai's demand push), WTI topped $100 this morning for the first time since May, fueled by festering Middle East hostilities (with Saudi-Houthi attacks stealing the headlines) and the Saudis latest statement showing crude output at a 36-year low.

That suggests the market is transitioning to a regime where $100 Brent is the new floor.

"The economic dimension is crucial," said Andreas Krieg, a Gulf expert from King's College London.

"Saudi Arabia is already contending with disruptions near the Strait of Hormuz and Houthi pressure on shipping in the Red Sea.

Attacks on Jazan and other vital economic infrastructure in the south place the Kingdom's export system under pressure from both ends."

Last night's API report showed de minimus product inventory moves withe a modest crude draw...

API

• Crude -2.6mm

• Cushing

• Gasoline +348k

• Distillates -265k

DOE

• Crude -391k (-300k exp)

• Cushing -684k

• Gasoline +1.27mm

• Distillates +2.087mm

Unlike the API report, refined products saw notable inventory builds last week while crude saw a tiny draw (the first time inventories have declined in back-to-back weeks since late June)...

Cushing stocks dipped and remain just off 'tank bottoms'...

The Trump admin drewdown a tiny 1.24mm barrels from the SPR last week - the smallest since the war began...

...now just 7mm barrels away from record lows...

US Crude production hit a new record high...

As Bloomberg's Tai Liu reports the 4-week moving average for US gasoline demand was 8.8 million barrels per day for the EIA week ended 9/4/2026, a week on week decline of 104,000 barrels per day. Meanwhile, the more volatile weekly gasoline demand figure saw a more sizable decline of 371,000 barrels per day. US gasoline crack spreads remain elevated at $40 per barrel, not far from the recent peak of $45 per barrel. US gasoline demand should continue to decline seasonally in the weeks ahead, especially at these elevated price levels. 

WTI was hovering around the $100 level ahead of the official inventory data...

...and surged above $101 after the data...

Earlier this morning, we saw PPI driven by a rebound in crude in August. At this pace of rise in crude (and fuel) prices, we will see inflation surge again next month... dragging Warsh along with more hikes (which will do nothing to solve the supply constraint).

One word - stagflation!

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2026 - 12:10

The world's largest airline is delaying its return to this popular travel destination until next year.

The NFL player, 42, started dating the "Big Little Lies" star, 34, in 2020, with the former couple calling it quits two years later.

The NFL player, 42, started dating the "Big Little Lies" star, 34, in 2020, with the former couple calling it quits two years later.

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The now-23-year-old sent "explicit" pictures and videos of herself in her underwear to Dobson, who was serving time in prison for killing a grandmother in a hit-and-run crash.

Lane Kiffin may replace Bill Belichick as the most hated man in CFB.

Crikey! Football is back, and it’s 7,900 miles away.

Some of the final photographs ever taken inside the World Trade Center’s North Tower were captured by a night-shift worker who had no idea he was documenting a world about to disappear. In the months before 9/11, electrician and amateur photographer Konstantin Petrov took hundreds of haunting photographs inside the World Trade Center — empty...

Looks like drama’s on the menu!

Rate-Hike Odds Spike As Fuel Costs Push US Producer Prices Higher

In a relatively unusual turn around, US producer prices hit today ahead of tomorrow's CPI. Interestingly Consumer prices get all the headlines, it is PPI that offers the most read-throughs for Core PCE - The (old) Fed's favorite inflation gauge).

Headline producer pries were expected to rebound significantly from July's flatline as oil prices rebounded on re-escalations in the MidEast, and they printed right in line, up 04.% MoM in August (with July's revised up to +0.1% MoM. That lifted the annual PPI gain to +5.4% YoY (hotter than expected)...

Energy has flipped from deflation to re-inflation...

PPI final demand good rose 1.1% MoM, the most since May, while PPI final demand services rose 0.1%, the lowest since May.

Here are the details behind the breakdown:

Final demand goods: The index for final demand goods advanced 1.1% in August following two consecutive decreases.

• Over three-fourths of the broad-based rise can be attributed to prices for final demand energy, which moved up 4.2%.The indexes for final demand goods less foods and energy and for final demand foods increased 0.4% and 0.1%, respectively.

Product detail: Over a third of the August increase in the index for final demand goods can be traced to prices for diesel fuel, which jumped 24.1%. The indexes for gasoline, jet fuel, home heating oil, candy and nuts, and tobacco products also advanced. In contrast, prices for residential electric power fell 0.5 percent. The indexes for fresh sausage and for aluminum mill shapes also decreased.

Final demand services: The index for final demand services edged up 0.1 percent in August, the third consecutive increase.

• The August advance can be attributed to a 2.3-percent rise in prices for final demand transportation and warehousing services. Conversely, the index for final demand trade services moved down 0.2 percent, while prices for final demand services less trade, transportation, and warehousing were unchanged.

Product detail: Leading the August increase in the index for final demand services, prices for truck transportation of freight advanced 2.0 percent. The indexes for airline passenger services, legal services, hospital inpatient care, and automobiles retailing (partial) also rose. In contrast, margins for fuels and lubricants retailing decreased 11.3 percent. The indexes for health, beauty, and optical goods retailing; machinery and equipment wholesaling; and portfolio management also moved lower.

Core PPI (Ex Food and Energy) rose a cooler than expected 0.2% MoM (+0.3% MoM exp), and pulled Core producer prices up 4.6% YoY (as expected)...

Energy was the biggest driver with Transportation and Warehousing costs jumped while Trade costs deflated...

Portfolio management costs declined as stocks stagnated...

Higher crude, higher PPI Energy...

Fuel costs were the biggest driver within Energy/Commodities with over a third of the August increase in the index for final demand goods can be traced to prices for diesel fuel, which jumped 24.1%.

And that has lifted rate-hike odds for next week, now at 75%...

Will Warsh deliver another major surprise (not hike)? Just wait for tomorrow's CPI to print cool...

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/10/2026 - 12:00

The news the San Francisco 49ers have been waiting to hear about veteran tight end George Kittle is finally here. As the team is prepared to begin their season in a Week 1 matchup against the Los Angeles Rams in Melbourne, Australia on Friday, the 49ers have removed Kittle from their injury report, and he...

The TV host claims she left Los Angeles in terror after a sinister stalker used an Apple AirTag to track her every move.

The Seahawks may have ducked a worst-case scenario for a Sam Darnold injury, but they’re far from out of the woods.