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Four months after Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner's murders, their 35-year-old son published an emotional essay detailing his grief.

"It's been really insane," the actress told her Instagram followers.

"It's been really insane," the actress told her Instagram followers.

From a shady Secret Santa to a drama-filled dinner, “Next Gen NYC” season 2, episode 10 kept us on our toes and our “Virtual Reali-Tea” co-hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real are here to unpack all the messy love-triangle moments. In this episode, Ariana Biermann seemingly gets the ick after Liam Obergfoll says “I love...

From a shady Secret Santa to a drama-filled dinner, “Next Gen NYC” season 2, episode 10 kept us on our toes and our “Virtual Reali-Tea” co-hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real are here to unpack all the messy love-triangle moments. In this episode, Ariana Biermann seemingly gets the ick after Liam Obergfoll says “I love...

Josh Allen made his stance clear on this hot-button topic.

Kelley is also the mother of daughter Kaliyah, 4, who is being raised by Judd on the country singer's Tennessee farm.

Kelley is also the mother of daughter Kaliyah, 4, who is being raised by Judd on the country singer's Tennessee farm.

Aerial footage captured the devastation caused by flash flooding in Nepal on Wednesday, August 26, showing mud flowing through valleys in the Rasuwa District. Local politician KP Khanal said the footage was taken from a helicopter. Authorities reported a sudden surge in the Bhotekoshi River, which enters Nepal from Tibet. At least 95 people were...

Any term used to describe a crisis could be applied to the Dodgers right now, and that would be the case even if owner Mark Walter wasn't under federal investigation.

Books and pencils aren't the only essentials kids need as they go back to school.

Other social media firms are yet to respond, while the debate from campaigners is far from over.

US Tungsten Scrap Export Ban Takes Effect As Global Supply Crisis Deepens

The Trump administration's export halt on tungsten scrap and shredded battery material took effect Thursday as the latest effort to retain critical supplies within the US. The measure comes as the US confronts a tungsten-supply crisis marked by limited to nonexistent domestic mine production and years of alarming dependence on China-dominated supply chains, even as Beijing increasingly uses critical-mineral exports as geopolitical leverage and curtails shipments abroad.

The Commerce Department directive prohibits exports of tungsten scrap and so-called black mass, the shredded remains of lithium-ion batteries that can be processed to recover lithium, nickel, cobalt and other valuable materials. The restrictions take effect today and will remain in place for one year.

The action follows President Trump's executive order authorizing federal agencies to restrict overseas shipments of scrap containing recoverable critical minerals. Waivers will be considered only when companies can demonstrate "undue hardship" or "irreparable harm."

As of 2025, the US had no mined tungsten production, while China produced 67,000 tons, nearly 79% of global output. Trade data from 2024 show that the US relied on imports for roughly half of its tungsten consumption.

In February 2025, China imposed export controls on selected tungsten products. Rotterdam prices have subsequently jumped nearly 800% since China limited exports of the industrial metal. This has only driven up tungsten and scrap prices.

Wall Street has generally viewed tungsten's role in the industrial economy primarily through a defense lens, such as armor-piercing ammunition, missile components, penetrators, fragmentation materials, and counterweights. But as Lewis Black, CEO of Almonty Industries, recently pointed out, the critical material has many uses beyond defense, including aerospace, energy, medical, automotive and consumer products. It is also, in fact, a critical building block of the artificial-intelligence boom and its associated data-center buildout.

Black, whose mining company controls the largest high-grade tungsten reserves outside China, wrote in a corporate update: "While everyone watches the defense story, you need to keep an eye on semiconductors too. There's a gas called tungsten hexafluoride: WF₆. It's what lays down the microscopic tungsten wiring inside advanced memory chips, the kind the entire AI boom is built on. No WF₆, no advanced chips."

Related:

• The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty"

Wall Street has largely framed the tungsten shortage as a defense story. But what Black stresses is that this view is far from the complete view. With the entire US economic boom predicated on data center buildouts and chip stacks, the obscure tungsten-based process gas that sits deep inside the manufacturing chain for advanced logic, high-bandwidth memory, DRAM, and 3D NAND chips may become one of the biggest risks capable of derailing the buildout if China continues to throttle exports of the critical material.

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/27/2026 - 09:05

Imagine A 'Whites Only' Hike Through The Countryside...

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,

Picture a "whites only" ramble through the Peak District. The press would treat it as a national emergency. Now take look at what is already happening there, with official blessing.

The National Trust has spent years partnering with Muslim Hikers for Ramadan walks and overnight retreats at Ilam Park. The charity's own channel promotes Enjoy the beautiful Peak District on a Ramadan walk with the Muslim Hikers.

The weekend features a guided hike, congregational prayers, iftar, night prayers and suhoor, with YHA Ilam Hall booked exclusively for the group on National Trust land.

The National Trust has an entire program dedicated to muslim-only 'Ramadan walks' in the Peak District. pic.twitter.com/w7uji2g6GD

— Suffragent (@Suffragent_) August 26, 2026

That is sold as inclusion. Reverse the identity and it becomes a hate incident.

Muslim Hikers founder Haroon Mota states "It's about showing our communities that these places are for us too."

Other groups drop even that pretence. Peaks of Colour calls itself "a Peak District-based walking club by and for people of colour only." Founder Evie Muir says the point is to "reclaim space in the outdoors."

Allow us to re-introduce ourselves! We're @PeaksOfColour, a Peak District-based walking-for-healing club, by and for POC only! Our monthly hikes and regular walk-shops explore both the outdoors, and alternative routes to healing and justice ? give us a follow! ????

— Peaks of Colour (@PeaksOfColour) June 17, 2022

Allies can donate, but they cannot join the walk.

And to join a Peak District walking club by and for people of colour only (that centres healing, community, joy and nature connectedness over fitness) join Peaks of Colour here: https://t.co/bAYZy2xBhW

— Evie Muir (@xeviemuir) April 25, 2022

Another group called Wanderers of Colour ran a Peak District climbing festival this August billed as "Europe's only climbing festival by and for Black and people of colour."

Collaboration, Connection, Conversations!
An amazing day with @wanderersofcolour during their climbing festival last Saturday. Thanks to @Alpkit Hathersage, welcome& refreshments. We finished with @HopeValleyDairy ?@peakdistrict @pdnp_foundation#getoutside @OrdnanceSurvey pic.twitter.com/AlTlssMmrf

— Peak District Mosaic (@PDistrictMosaic) July 13, 2024

A whites-only weekend on the same gritstone would not get a listings write-up. It would get a police inquiry.

Then there is this development:

Halal Fish & Chips in the Peak District?

Almost every national park we have is now catering for Muslims and serving halal food.

Do the locals get a choice in this?

How much more? https://t.co/XCm9ZL7fD1 pic.twitter.com/XoJnEQxJ1j

— Kiera Diss (@KieraDiss) August 26, 2026

The Lake District has gone full halal ?? https://t.co/OCodOjblUA pic.twitter.com/0lDvHyS7F3

— Kiera Diss (@KieraDiss) August 26, 2026

A 2022 DEFRA report complained that rural facilities served "white English culture," including "traditional pubs, which have limited food options and cater to people who have a drinking culture."

Muslims from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds, it said, felt unwelcome because of it. The approved solution is not adaptation. It is a rewritten menu.

National Trust director-general Hilary McGrady spelled out the official line on LBC in March. Ethnic minorities, she said, do not feel the countryside is "a place for them."

"They don't necessarily know 'what am I meant to wear, how do I behave? What's a countryside code? I've never heard of it'."

The research, she added, "comes back really clearly to say they don't. So we accept that and we have to respond... because the National Trust is here for everyone."

Britain's national parks are already open to anyone who can stay on the path. The Trust's answer is still to treat the existing rural culture as the problem, while hosting Ramadan residentials at Ilam Hall.

Julian Glover's 2019 Defra review called national parks "an exclusive, mainly white, mainly middle-class club" and a "'white' environment" at risk of becoming "irrelevant to the country that actually exists."

National Landscapes fell in behind it. The Chilterns promised outreach to Muslims from Luton and marketing in "community languages." Malvern Hills said "most white English users value the solitude" while "ethnic minority people" prefer "social company."

Nidderdale pledged a "more diverse cultural interpretation of the countryside." The Telegraph's February headline did not distort the papers. It was a drive to make the countryside "less white."

In 2024 Wildlife and Countryside Link told an all-party parliamentary group: "Cultural barriers reflect that in the UK, it is White British cultural values that have been embedded into the design and management of green spaces."

It added that "racist colonial legacies continue to frame nature in the UK as a 'white space'."

That is the climate in which a people-of-colour-only club is called community and a whites-only ramble would be called extremism.

The Guardian writer John Harris recently praised Peak District paths where a common sight is "women in their 20s wearing hijabs picnicked on giant rocks." Country walking, he wrote, had been "one of the most monoculturally white pursuits there is." The new scene is, according to Harris, "a wonderful rejection of the right's monotone vision of England."

While the reports fuss over clothing, dogs and menus, the British countryside itself is increasingly being used as a dump.

In November a fly-tip on the River Cherwell near Kidlington piled waste an estimated 20 feet deep and 500 feet long.

In January farmer Katie Davies found a river of rubbish down Bwlch Mountain in Treorchy, visible for miles. "I'm extremely frustrated and upset," she told the BBC. "It's just devastating." The mess "keeps me up at night."

Natural Resources Wales called fly-tipping "a serious crime." Over 70 percent of incidents involve household waste moved by unlicensed carriers.

The Kinder Scout trespassers wanted the right to roam. The new version wants branded weekends, race-gated clubs, faith residentials on Trust land, and a countryside redesigned because Defra decided "white English culture" was the defect.

The hills were not meant to be carved up by identity. Octavia Hill, a National Trust founder, wrote that "the need of quiet, the need of air and... the sight of sky and of things growing seem human needs, common to all." Common to all is the opposite of a programme that sorts walkers by race and creed, then calls the native remainder colonial.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 08/27/2026 - 08:45

Jobs 'AI'pocalypse No! Initial Jobless Claims Hover Near Record Lows

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time dropped to 203k last week

The first time initial jobless claims hit this level was in May 2022.

New York and Illinois saw the largest rise in initial claims while California and New Jersey saw the biggest declines...

Continuing jobless claims also dropped, holding below the 1.8 million Americans Maginot Line...

Another week, another confirmation that the 'low hire, no fire' economy remains the driving force and the Jobs AIpocalypse remains absent for now.

Tyler Durden Thu, 08/27/2026 - 08:36

Za'Darius Smith's surprise and brief retirement came down to family first.

New York grandmother Alisa Goods’ body was found in an embankment near a Las Vegas airport by a homeless man, who notified parking attendants about the grim discovery, according to Metro Police. Surveillance footage showed Goods, 63, “falling down an embankment, getting back up and then collapsing on Aug. 8,” the same day she disappeared...

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Los Angeles wants $2 billion in federal cash to prepare its transportation system for the 2028 Olympics, but the Trump administration left the request out of its budget. LA Metro says the money is needed to move millions of visitors during the Games. An LA2028 sign is seen on the Los Angeles Coliseum. Half would...

A Florida teen mom has vanished with her six-month-old daughter, sparking an urgent search for the pair who have been described as “missing and endangered” by cops.