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The 13-year-old rising pop star took the stage at The Vic Theatre in Chicago on Saturday.

The 13-year-old rising pop star took the stage at The Vic Theatre in Chicago on Saturday.

A Broncos cheerleader has become the latest to bring the realities of an NFL cheerleading job to the forefront.

Iran Vows 'Faster, More Painful' Response To US Attacks After Weekend Sea Battle

Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday announced a heightened military posture in the war with the US, saying that new attacks on the country will "meet a faster, heavier and more painful response."

"If they haven't understood by now, they should understand before it’s too late that the rules of the game have changed and that from now on, any violation of Iran’s interests and security will receive a ‘faster, heavier, and more painful’ response,” Ghalibaf said in a post on Telegram. He has warned that Iranian retaliation will no longer be "proportionate".

Source: US Central Command 

Ghalibaf also conceded that Iran faces severe economic pressures amid US-led sweeping sanctions and the campaign of 'strangulation' and isolation efforts.

"Severe fluctuations in the exchange rate, inflation, unemployment, and market management are fundamental challenges that have put serious pressure on people’s livelihoods," Ghalibaf said.

He also laid out that the Islamic Republic must aim to bolster domestic production and use technology to "devise short-term and permanent solutions." Iran's military has all along touted that it never stopped manufacturing missiles and drones, even as US-Israeli bombs decimated many industrial sites.

Ghalibaf's words come a day after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it attacked three American military ships and three oil tankers using an "unauthorized" route in the Strait of Hormuz. Also, in the latest:

Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, a claim that the U.S. military dismissed as a "total lie."

The US military earlier on Saturday had struck three Iranian oil tankers, M/T Downy, M/T Stark 1, and M/T Kylo - in a major first of the conflict (that is, a US attack on civilian vessels).

The Iranian parliament speaker continues to try and troll Trump and Bessent on X:

Wheels up. Warm-ups before liftoff:

Diesel ATH: Short it

Your biggest creditor dumping: Good luck with Yentervention++

NOR cutting $80B: Rename Norway to Americaway

Low recruitment: Debt-to-Service w/ DO[Israel's]W, per your puppeteers

Oh. Fed's dot plot flashing red 😁 https://t.co/E1KzG1T6Yf pic.twitter.com/zJb56tsd7p

— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) September 6, 2026

Washington is meanwhile touting more and more energy flow through the Strait of Hormuz, while also appealing for other nations to help:

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright says on average nine million barrels of oil a day are getting through the Strait of Hormuz that should help relieve pressure on rising energy prices.

Wright told CNN with oil also moving through pipelines in the region, “we’re probably two-thirds or more of pre-conflict flows”.

Those flows, however, depend on the presence of the US Navy to help escort tankers and provide some protection against possible Iranian attacks. Wright said he expected other countries will eventually support the Navy’s efforts.

But events like this weekend are likely going to continue to escalate the crisis. "There’s going to be more clashes between the Iranians and the Americans. There can be miscalculations. There can be more civilian casualties" especially on the Iranian side, Sina Azodi, the director of the Middle East studies program at George Washington University, has explained.

The "small potatoes" conflict according to the Commander-in-Chief...

Reporter: Can you explain to the American people, if this is not a war, what exactly is it?

Trump: A lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing.

Reporter: It certainly doesn’t feel like small… pic.twitter.com/a4hvccNCoD

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 4, 2026

"The [US] secretary of defense can send more troops to the region, but I don’t think the Iranians are going to back down. They’re going to resist that blockade and impose further costs on the United States," the analyst said.

Indeed every escalation step ordered by Washington has typically resulted in the Iranians 'answering' with significant missile and drone attacks on US bases in the Gulf, and as far away as Jordan. Some analysts are calling this a successful 'debasification' campaign that has existed since the war's start.

Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2026 - 12:40

The Trump administration may not cut a nuclear deal with Iran and instead might pursue a policy of obliterating Tehran's ability to ever obtain a nuke, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday.

Joe's situation has never been more dire.       

Pataki, a former Long Island state senator and New York’s most recent Republican Governor, told The Post in an interview that he suffers from restrictive airway disease.

Patrick Clancy was spotted walking in Manhattan Sunday, two days after a mistrial was declared in ex-wife Lindsay's trial over the killing of their three young kids in 2023.

"It is a problem we should look at as a society."

Trade $5, get $200 in Predictions Dollars with the DraftKings Predictions promo code.

"Getting oil out of the ground's the most dangerous job in the world."

Was there a mole on the plane?

The Apple Cup is up for grabs!

From scam guys to cam girls, it's a wicked world for people looking for love online.

A murder-suicide that left a married couple and their son dead inside a burning Los Angeles home appeared to have been orchestrated by the boy's father.

Christopher passed away after “2.5 years battling a cancer diagnosis," his daughter, Nixi Parkinson Nicks, announced via Facebook.

Christopher passed away after “2.5 years battling a cancer diagnosis," his daughter, Nixi Parkinson Nicks, announced via Facebook.

A day after telling Hancel Rincon to straighten his hat, and subsequently ejecting Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol, umpire Doug Eddings apologized to the pitcher over the incident.

Powerful swells from Hurricane Marie are flooding beaches, trapping vehicles and prompting water rescues along the Southern California coast as dangerous rip currents persist through Labor Day weekend.

Waste Of The Day: $79M To Not Work

Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations,

Contractors working for the State of Illinois took a 470,000-hour paid lunch break on taxpayers' dime.

A company hired during the Covid-19 pandemic to fill staffing shortages at hospitals and long-term care facilities spent more than a third of its time on "standdown," a contract provision that paid them to be on-site and available in case they were needed.

The contractor, Favorite Healthcare Staffing, was supposed to notify the state any time its employees were on standdown for more than 24 hours. There was no evidence those notifications occurred, and the state only conducted limited oversight, according to an Aug. 11 report from Auditor General Christopher Meister.

Key facts: Favorite Healthcare earned $220.3 million from Illinois from 2022 to 2023, including $78.5 million for standdown hours.

The audit found 270 employees who billed for standdown time without actually working a single hour in two years. They earned $7.5 million.

At least eight employees even billed overtime at rates of up to $330 per hour during weeks they were on standdown for five consecutive days, according to the audit. One employee billed for overtime while he was in quarantine and not working.

Other employees billed more than 24 hours in a single day. The state paid their invoices without flagging the discrepancy, the audit found,

Favorite Healthcare was reimbursed $1.4 million for lodging costs, even though its employees were staying in their personal residences.

Upon discovering the issues, Illinois hired the consulting firm Innovative Emergency Management to review Favorite Healthcare's invoices.

But Innovative Emergency Management also had its own billing issues, the audit found. The company billed Illinois using duplicate timesheets and for employees who did not report working any hours.

Illinois later had to hire yet another firm, Crowe, to review Innovative Emergency Management's invoices. Crowe earned $1.3 million.

Summary: The public should not have to pay contractors to sit around and twiddle their thumbs, nor pay consultants to figure out why.

The #WasteOfTheDay is brought to you by the forensic auditors at OpenTheBooks.com.

Tyler Durden Sun, 09/06/2026 - 11:40