A criminal investigation into the former prince continues and police have retained material seized from his homes. Continue Reading »

Special correspondent Lucy Manning explains why the Hight Court has ruled that search warrants used to search Mr Mountbatten-Windsor's home were unlawful. Continue Reading »

Police say they apprehended two Latvian men at about 02:00 BST while they were inside the perimeter. Continue Reading »

The prime minister has intervened in the row over the motion passed by members at Green Party conference. Continue Reading »

Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters, who lived in London, drowned in the sea in May. Continue Reading »

OpenAI has told investors that it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, CNBC confirmed. Continue Reading »

SpaceX agreed to purchase a nationwide spectrum portfolio as it to pushes its Starlink service deeper into the U.S. telecommunications market. Continue Reading »

The comments from David Zervos come after the 10-year and 30-year yields marched to 24-year highs in recent days. Continue Reading »

Major League Baseball proposed a return to a shorter 154-game regular season schedule as it attempts to convince players to approve a salary cap. Continue Reading »

Starbucks has reportedly been working with advisers on a takeover proposal for Chipotle, but a potential deal comes with pros and cons for investors. Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP La Bourse de New York a terminé dans le rouge jeudi, plombée par la forte augmentation des prix du pétrole avec le renforcement des inquiétudes sur le Moyen-Orient, la place américaine souffrant aussi d'une vague de vente des actifs technologiques.Le Nasdaq a perdu 1,25% et l'indice élargi S&P 500 a reculé de 0,47%. Seul le Dow Jones est parvenu à grappiller 0,10%.Nasdaq Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP L'ONG Reporters sans frontières (RSF) a dénoncé jeudi les conditions de détention de deux journalistes écroués au Bénin depuis plus d'un an et demandé "une nouvelle fois leur libération" dans un communiqué.La liberté de la presse a reculé ces dernières années au Bénin. L'ex-président Patrice Talon, qui a passé la main en avril après 10 ans au pouvoir, est accusé d'avoir opéré un virage autoritaire. Il a cédé la place à son dauphin Romuald Wadagni, élu pour sept ans.Le 10 juillet 2025, Hugues Comlan Sossoukpè, directeur de publication d'Olofofo, média critique du pouvoir béninois interdit de diffusion en mars 2025, avait été interpellé à Abidjan, en Côte d'Ivoire, puis extradé au Bénin, où il est depuis détenu à la prison civile de Ouidah (sud). Lors de son arrestation, il participait à un salon de l'innovation numérique sur invitation de la Côte d'Ivoire et avait le statut de réfugié politique au Togo.Six jours plus tard, Ali Moumouni, journaliste accusé d'être son collaborateur, avait été interpellé à Cotonou, la capitale économique béninoise, puis écroué.Les deux journalistes sont poursuivis pour "apologie du terrorisme", "harcèlement par le biais d'un système informatique", "incitation à la violence" et "rébellion", ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP © 2026 AFP Le ministre des Finances du Nigeria a dévoilé jeudi une série de mesures visant à atténuer l'impact des chocs énergétiques, dont une baisse des prix des carburants pendant 30 jours et un projet pour plafonner leurs prix.Le Nigeria est le premier producteur de pétrole d'Afrique et accueille la plus grande raffinerie du continent, propriété de l'homme le plus riche d'Afrique, Aliko Dangote.Mais les autorités ne contrôlent pas les prix du carburant, qui ont grimpé à environ 1.400 nairas (0,93 euro) le litre, contre 830 nairas (0,55 euro) avant la guerre au Moyen-Orient.Le ministre des Finances, Taiwo Oyedele, a expliqué que les mesures visaient à alléger la pression sur les ménages et les entreprises, tout en évitant un retour aux subventions sur le carburant — sujet hautement sensible à seulement trois mois des élections générales."Nous offrons une réduction sur l’essence distribuée par NNPC Limited pendant les 30 prochains jours, dans un premier temps, avec une priorité accordée aux transporteurs publics à l’échelle nationale", a déclaré M. Oyedele à la presse à Abuja.NNPC Limited est l'entreprise pétrolière publique du Nigeria. Elle exploite un vaste réseau de stations-service dans tout le pays."Ce n’est pas une subvention. ... Continue Reading »

Par TV5MONDE avec AFP L'opposant politique guinéen Aliou Bah, en prison depuis décembre 2024, vient d'être gracié le 2 octobre sous demande de la Cour de justice de la Cedeao. Il a quitté sa prison ce 7 octobre. Il avait été incarcéré pour "offense et diffamation" envers le président Mamadi Doumbouya. Une décision saluée par l'ambassadeur de France Luc Briard. L'opposant politique guinéen Aliou Bah, en prison depuis décembre 2024, vient d'être gracié le 2 octobre sous demande de la Cour de justice de la Cedeao. Il a quitté sa prison ce 7 octobre. Il avait été incarcéré pour "offense et diffamation" envers le président Mamadi Doumbouya. Une décision saluée par l'ambassadeur de France Luc Briard.La Cour de justice de la Communauté économique des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Cedeao) avait demandé fin septembre la "mise en liberté immédiate et sans condition" d'Aliou Bah, l'opposant guinéen condamné en janvier 2025 à deux ans de prison pour "offense et diffamation" ... Continue Reading »

Par AFP Par Martín RASCHINSKY © 2026 AFP Les négligences médicales aux derniers jours de vie de Diego Maradona méritent la prison, a estimé l'accusation au procès sur sa mort, requérant jeudi des peines de 4 à 12 ans contre l'équipe soignante, coupable d'une "organisation chaotique" laissant la star en "situation d'abandon", livrée "à son sort".Après six mois de procès, et un réquisitoire de plus de trois heures, le procureur Patricio Ferrari a établi une distinction entre deux groupes d'accusés parmi les professionnels de santé en charge de l'idole du football argentin en novembre 2020, lors d'une convalescence post-opératoire à domicile.Il a requis entre 8 et 12 ans contre trois d'entre eux, coupables selon lui d'homicide avec dol éventuel, c'est-à-dire de négligences commises tout en en sachant qu'elles peuvent entraîner la mort.Contre trois autres, il a retenu le chef moindre d'homicide involontaire, et requis 4 à 5 ans de prison. Fichier vidéo ... Continue Reading »

Friedrich Merz is funding Ukraine at the expense of German taxpayers, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Explore a CIA’s investigation into Bandera’s death, from interviews with Ukrainian emigres to his disputed theory of suicide in Munich Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Houthi forces struck Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport with two salvos of missiles on Thursday Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Former German spy chief August Hanning’s friendship with Mossad’s bungling ex-director has landed him in the dock for treason Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

As bills rise and industry weakens, many Europeans are asking why Brussels keeps prioritizing escalation over diplomacy and daily needs Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Матч между "Краснодаром" и "Зенитом" пройдет 10 октября в Краснодаре Continue Reading »

Глава Пентагона Пит Хегсет заявил, что люди должны понимать, что за такие преступления их ждут серьезные последствия Continue Reading »

Главной особенностью Гран-при является его проведение при искусственном освещении Continue Reading »

В МЧС призвали сохранять спокойствие, включить любой общедоступный телеканал или радио и прослушать сообщение Continue Reading »

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Houthis blow up plane in brutal Riyadh airport attack... (Top headline, 1st story, link) Related stories:Saudis Hit By Deadliest Attacks So Far...Pakistan joins air campaign to retaliate...Oil Back Above $105...New footage shows attack on U.S. post in Kuwait...Tehran targeting American bases in Germany? Continue Reading »

Saudis Hit By Deadliest Attacks So Far... (Top headline, 2nd story, link) Related stories:Houthis blow up plane in brutal Riyadh airport attack...Pakistan joins air campaign to retaliate...Oil Back Above $105...New footage shows attack on U.S. post in Kuwait...Tehran targeting American bases in Germany? Continue Reading »

Pakistan joins air campaign to retaliate... (Top headline, 3rd story, link) Related stories:Houthis blow up plane in brutal Riyadh airport attack...Saudis Hit By Deadliest Attacks So Far...Oil Back Above $105...New footage shows attack on U.S. post in Kuwait...Tehran targeting American bases in Germany? Continue Reading »

Oil Back Above $105... (Top headline, 4th story, link) Related stories:Houthis blow up plane in brutal Riyadh airport attack...Saudis Hit By Deadliest Attacks So Far...Pakistan joins air campaign to retaliate...New footage shows attack on U.S. post in Kuwait...Tehran targeting American bases in Germany? Continue Reading »

New footage shows attack on U.S. post in Kuwait... (Top headline, 5th story, link) Related stories:Houthis blow up plane in brutal Riyadh airport attack...Saudis Hit By Deadliest Attacks So Far...Pakistan joins air campaign to retaliate...Oil Back Above $105...Tehran targeting American bases in Germany? Continue Reading »

Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores face a new US charge over alleged torture. Continue Reading »

Several cars torched and foreign-run businesses forced to shut in Johannesburg's Soweto and coastal city of Durban. Continue Reading »

The British government says it will retain its presence in occupied East Jerusalem after Israel removed its consulate. Continue Reading »

UN says fighting has displaced more than 200,000 people in five weeks. Continue Reading »

As Israeli settlers harvest olives on Palestinian land, farmers face growing violence and loss of an ancient tradition. Continue Reading »

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Shirin Saeidi, fired after praising Iran’s late supreme leader Ali Khamenei and calling for Israel’s dismantlement, says Arkansas’ antisemitism law was used to punish her views despite a faculty panel’s unanimous recommendation to reinstate her Continue Reading »

NBC, Axios and The Atlantic report that the Pentagon is preparing for possible renewed military operations against Iran within weeks, potentially before the November 3 elections, as Trump says Tehran is willing to make sweeping concessions despite stalled negotiations Continue Reading »

Bar Zonshine was 23 when four of his soldiers were abducted and he fought for two and a half days near Kissufim; three years later, he has abandoned plans to leave the army, still asks ‘what if’ and says Oct. 7 must remain ‘a warning sign above our heads’ Continue Reading »

Trump vows the US will ‘always stand against terror and evil’ as top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries calls for a dramatic policy shift and Palestinian state; New York mayor heckled at Union Square vigil Continue Reading »

The U.S. military has drafted options for three days of strikes, but in recent months the president has repeatedly vetoed plans to restart the war. Continue Reading »

The aircraft carrier, whose crew endured food shortages, spent much of its nearly 11-month deployment in combat without a day off. Continue Reading »

Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions. Continue Reading »

Half of homes in Maine rely on heating oil. Rising costs driven up by President Trump’s war with Iran have become central to the state’s Senate race. Continue Reading »

A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators. Continue Reading »

The Chinese upstart says it has trained high-performing AI models cheaply, without using the most advanced chips. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek, SoFi and more in the latest Market Talks covering Technology, Media and Telecom. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek is called “amazing and impressive” despite working with less-advanced chips. Continue Reading »

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies” author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Continue Reading »

Apps can add flexibility and freshness to your routine. Just try not to get injured. Continue Reading »

Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave after a deadlock over hostage releases was broken. Continue Reading »

Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in. Continue Reading »

Some of the women were held alone for extended periods and spent eight months in tunnels, an Israeli medical official said. Continue Reading »

The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea. Continue Reading »

Residents of Goma reported gunfire and shelling after rebels overran Congolese troops. U.N. officials estimated that more than one million displaced people were now inside the city. Continue Reading »

Rev. Hodari Williams will succeed co-founder Alexandra Rojas in leading the progressive PAC. Continue Reading »

In a debate, the Iowa Republican candidate for Senate said millennials are “the worst group of savers” during a discussion about Social Security. Continue Reading »

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Weeks after he called for an end to the war with Iran, the GOP Senate candidate is breaking with the Trump administration again. Continue Reading »

Paxton’s closed-door comments — that D.C. Republicans are largely controlling his race — have irked several close to the Texas Senate rescue effort. Continue Reading »

“If we lose this majority or whatever, I don’t know what my next chapter of life is,” the speaker said. Continue Reading »

More than 70% of poll respondents who had seen ads said they’d either seen more spots in support of Democrats or an equal amount between the parties over the past week, despite the GOP's cash advantage. Continue Reading »

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Republicans violated Senate rules. Continue Reading »

In a debate, the Iowa Republican candidate for Senate said millennials are “the worst group of savers” during a discussion about Social Security. Continue Reading »

The super PAC, which has also attacked Republican Reps. Andy Ogles and Chip Roy, is out with their first ad on Boebert’s past “Beetlejuice” incident. Continue Reading »

Trump pledged to keep the blockade in place, while ruling out attacks ahead of Nov. 3. Continue Reading »

Convincing young men to show up for Republicans in November won’t be easy, and even administration allies are skeptical Vice President JD Vance can stanch the bleeding. Continue Reading »

Legal protection for thousands of Ukrainians in the U.S. expires later this month, and the Trump administration could choose to renew, revoke or ignore it. Continue Reading »

The DNC alleges that taxpayer-funded spots kept airing after Trump said his super PAC would cover them. Continue Reading »

Trump has spent about $11.6 million on ads promoting himself using funds from the Department of Homeland Security. Continue Reading »

On September 10, in a continuation of what is now a nearly decade-long war on the national head count, the Trump administration proposed unprecedented changes to the 2030 U.S. census. Among the most important of these is a new rule that violates the Fourteenth Amendment's command that the census count "the whole number of persons in each state" by effectively replacing the word "persons" with "citizens." Continue Reading »

The Trump administration proposed to change the national census to only count U.S. citizens and permanent residents and exclude immigrants living in the country illegally ahead of the 2030 census. Continue Reading »

While the well-organized among us are starting to make our plans for 2027, the folks who work at the U.S. Census Bureau already have their 2030 planners out, getting ready to conduct the constitutionally mandated decennial count of people in the country. In preparation, the Bureau is proposing significant changes to ensure fair representation for the American people in the coming decade. Continue Reading »

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A DOJ report that accused the Biden administration of weaponizing the government against concerned school parents was covered widely by the right but missed by the left and center. Continue Reading »

The biggest winner in Brazil's blockbuster weekend election did not even appear on the ballot. Banned from public office, former President Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest, serving a 27-year sentence for a coup plot after his 2022 election loss. The 71-year-old watched from confinement on Sunday as his eldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, scored an upset victory over leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the first round of the presidential election. Continue Reading »

Political developments in Brazil and Spain overnight are adding volatility to certain overseas markets, highlighting mounting pressure on failing left-wing regimes. In Brazil, right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round lead over socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva significantly strengthens his position heading into the Oct. 25 runoff. A Bolsonaro victory would shift Latin America's largest GDP to the right, reinforcing a broader regional once-in-a-generation realignment from unhinged leftist regimes to common-sense right-wing governments. Continue Reading »

For most of the past quarter of a century Brazil was dominated by the Workers' Party (PT). A left-wing alliance of trade-unionists, progressive Catholics and academics built a large welfare state and defined Latin America's version of social democracy. That era is over. On October 4th the PT and its ageing leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, were trounced in the first round of Brazil's general election by Flávio Bolsonaro and his Liberal Party (PL). Continue Reading »

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's statement marking the third anniversary of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel sparked outrage Wednesday — and racked up millions of views on social media. Mamdani is a longtime critic of Israel and has been especially fervent in decrying its treatment of Palestinians since the 2023 attack. But his anniversary statement garnered particularly pointed pushback because of its timing, with critics arguing Wednesday was the kind of occasion when elected leaders should avoid divisiveness. Continue Reading »

Donald Trump's latest campaign rally was rocked by repeated protests on Wednesday as the US president urged Texas voters to back embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton. At least half a dozen demonstrators interrupted the US president during his remarks in San Antonio, with some led away by police. One was physically assaulted by an older Trump supporter as he tried to leave the arena. Continue Reading »

The U.S. Agency for International Development has debarred three more individuals and a company tied to agency programs for misconduct involving government resources and taxpayer funds, according to a new federal watchdog report. Continue Reading »

Three years ago, Hamas murdered, raped and slashed its way into Israel, abducting innocent victims and bringing a bloody, self-destructive war to Gaza. This, in turn, has unleashed a wave of antisemitism in the West. While some fear a homegrown antisemitic Right, personified by Tucker Carlson's Hitler apologetics, data shows it is the Left that currently poses a far greater threat to American Jews. Continue Reading »

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'We are going to change the map of the Middle East,' Netanyahu said two days after the massacre. Continue Reading »

On a field where music festival revelers were gunned down by Hamas-led militants three years ago, Israelis on Wednesday embraced and wept for those lost in an attack that plunged the Middle East into war. Continue Reading »

The last seconds of Bernard Cowan's life were captured by the body camera of one of the gunmen who killed him. Continue Reading »

Lately, not a day goes by in Europe without some drone scare, fire or blackout being blamed on Russia. We are told that these incidents are all part of a relentless "hybrid war" that Russia is waging against Europe — one that involves drone incursions, airspace violations, sabotage, arson, cyberattacks and more. We are told this "includes plots to place incendiary devices aboard DHL cargo planes, blow up railroad tracks in Poland, and burn down warehouses and shopping centers all over Europe", as well as "acts of sabotage against defense companies and the defense industry in Europe", and "attacks on European critical infrastructure" — but also, apparently, sending secret agents to defecate in the lavatories of Finnish MPs. We are also told that "[s]uch attacks began occurring shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022", and have escalated in recent months and weeks. According to Kaja Kallas, "Europe faces a fast-proliferation of sabotage attacks and airspa… Continue Reading »

President Donald Trump will not reimburse the federal government for taxpayer-funded advertisements promoting him and his administration ahead of the November midterms — and even dropped a new ad on Tuesday. Continue Reading »

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is moving to investigate President Trump for allegedly misusing taxpayer dollars to pay for government-sponsored campaign ads. Continue Reading »

President Donald Trump said his primary super PAC will start covering the administration's taxpayer-funded political ads in the wake of bipartisan backlash. Continue Reading »

Microreactors Rack Up Wins With Grid-Scale Plants Stuck At Planning Meetings At the smaller end of the nuclear industry, tangible progress is becoming easier to find every week. Equipment is getting manufactured and delivered, safety reviews are being completed, and uranium is being split apart. This is painfully contrasted against what the grid-scale reactor side of the house has to show for the past couple years of the American nuclear renaissance: big announcements about fancy plans… Start with Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) MARVEL reactor. INL announced DOE approval of the final safety analysis covering zero-power criticality. Its primary coolant system has arrived, and criticality is anticipated in December. MARVEL is the sodium-cooled microreactor design that the reactor being commercialized by Aalo Atomics is based on. Last Energy followed up the MARVEL news the next day with DOE approval of the final safety analysis for its Texas A&M reactor pilot. The project now advances into the final stages of preparation before startup authorization. Its full-scale core and conventional low-enriched uranium fuel connect the experiment directly to the company’s commercial design. Deep Fission, the reactor company placing their pressurized water design underground, received DOE approval of its nuclear ... Continue Reading »

Hurricane Shuts 63% Of US Gulf Oil Output, Threatens Refineries; Jefferies Warns Of "Fuel Supply Event" Summary: Hurricane Isaias Landfall Forecasted For Late Friday/early Saturday  Major US Refineries In Hurricane's Projected Path  63% Of US Offshore Gulf Oil Output Shut  25% Of US Offshore Gulf Oil Output Shut As Hurricane Isaias Nears, Threatens Refineries Hurricane Isaias Shutters 63% of US Gulf Oil Production Bloomberg cites data from the Marine Minerals Administration showing US Gulf offshore oil producers have halted about 1.28 million barrels per day, equivalent to shutting in 63% of regional output. Natural gas shut-ins reached 1.127 billion cubic feet a day, equivalent to 57% of the region's production. By noon Central Time, workers from 121 offshore platforms had evacuated, while four rigs had moved outside Hurricane Isaias' cone of uncertainty. This is a massive temporary hit to US crude supply. For NatGas, the national production impact is much smaller. The next big issue is that refineries may see a decline in crude supply as offshore platforms reduce flows. Any refinery outage from storm-related damage would reduce fuel product production as a global refining crisis deepens. Major Refineries In Crosshairs Jefferies consumer staples analyst Kaumil Gajrawala warned clients ealrier ... Continue Reading »

Trump Treasury Blocks $175 Million In Federal Payments To Dead Recipients Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, The Treasury Department blocked $175 million in federal payments from going to deceased recipients in fiscal year 2026 as the Trump administration expanded efforts to prevent fraud and improper government spending. Treasury screened more than 1.1 billion federal payments totaling approximately $3.7 trillion during the fiscal year, identifying and returning about 13,500 payments that otherwise would have gone to people listed as deceased, according to the department. The results represent another step in President Donald Trump's push to tighten safeguards around taxpayer money. Access to Treasury's "Do Not Pay" system expanded from roughly 4 percent of federal programs at the end of fiscal 2025 to 99 percent in fiscal 2026. "Treasury continues to transform how the federal government protects taxpayer dollars by using better data, stronger controls, and advanced technology to stop fraud and improper payments before money goes out the door," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. The administration's efforts received praise from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who spent years pushing legislation giving Treasury permanent access to Social Security death records. "Unless you were playing Frisbee ... Continue Reading »

Citi Calls Aerospace, Defense Stocks "Close To Major Tactical Bottom" After Brutal Selloff US aerospace and defense stocks have been tracking lower as Polymarket odds assign Democrats a higher chance of taking the Senate. The chart below shows the S&P 500 Aerospace & Defense index approaching bear-market territory, down roughly 20% from its summer high, as Polymarket's implied probability of Democratic Senate control topped 64%. A nearly 20% slide in aerospace and defense stocks is drawing interest from trading desks looking to buy the dip, though stepping in now risks catching a proverbial falling knife. Citi aerospace and defense analyst John Godyn sees an opportunity to begin adding exposure. In a note Wednesday, his team outlined that many of these stocks are "close enough to a major tactical bottom."  "Both aerospace and defense have simultaneously experienced major pullbacks and, while 3Q26 is set up to be a volatile EPS season, we think that we are close enough to a major tactical bottom in many stocks to again advocate for buying the dip selectively: Opening Positive Catalyst Watch on RTX," Godyn said. The market's big disconnect is that Polymarket odds are weighing on these names, as fears ... Continue Reading »

From Force Majeure To Forced Haulage: Oracle Is Now Trucking Natural Gas To Its AI Data Centers Two weeks ago, Oracle told the world that Project Jupiter, its massive 2.45GW New Mexico mega-campus for OpenAI, was "on schedule." It also sent a force majeure notice to the developer. Today we found out how it plans to square that circle: with a lot of trucks. According to Bloomberg, Oracle has been quietly keeping several data centers on track by hauling compressed natural gas (CNG) by road straight to the server farms, and is now weighing the same stopgap for Project Jupiter, where the gas pipeline that is supposed to feed the campus is running late and threatening the timeline. The plan would let Oracle bring the early phases online before the pipe enters service. Oracle shares slid about 5.5% on the report... .... while Bloom Energy (BE), which happens to have a 2.4GW fuel cell contract for Project Jupiter (fuel cells which, last we checked, run on natural gas), tumbled 8% Regular Readers Will Recall... Back on Sept 24, we reported that Oracle had sent a force majeure notice to Blue Owl's Stack Infrastructure unit over Jupiter, ... Continue Reading »

'Bunker Mode': OpenAI's Jaw-Dropping Math Blitz Draws Boycott, Warning Over Crypto Wallets OpenAI just unleashed hundreds of AI-generated mathematical papers in a single release, which include breakthroughs on problems that have frustrated researchers for generations. The pace of discovery here has started to freak out mathematicians - who are now calling for a boycott - while top minds in crypto are raising a chilling question: could AI eventually undermine the mathematics protecting digital wallets before quantum computing? On October 6, the company published 722 manuscripts covering 372 groups of related findings, all generated by an internal AI model that has not been released to the public. The papers appeared in a public GitHub repository. OpenAI says the work emerged from testing the model on roughly 4,000 research problems, with each result in the final collection using, on average, computing power equivalent to about three hours of ChatGPT Pro's thinking mode. The collection includes claims about prime numbers, geometry and the mathematics underlying computing, touching problems that have resisted some of the world's best minds for decades. Perhaps the most startling claim concerns the Riemann hypothesis, a mathematical puzzle dating to 1859 that deals with the ... Continue Reading »

Mediocre 30Y Auction Prices At Highest Yield Since August 2000 After a subpar 3Y auction on Tuesday, and a stellar 10Y yesterday, moments ago the Treasury concluded the week's final coupon sale when it sold $22BN in 30Y paper in an average auction.  The 30Y sale priced just after 1pm, stopping out at a 5.618% high yield, up sharply from 5.308% in September, and the highest since August 2000! The high yield stopped through the When Issued by 0.1bps: good, but not as good as last month's amazing 2.7bps stop through. The bid to cover was 2.542, a drop from last month's 2.612 but above the recent average of 2.411. The internals were also average: indirects dropped from last month's near-record 79.5% to 72.3%, but that was also above the recent average of 69.1%. Directs took down 20.9%, up from 18.3% and in line with the recent average of 20.6%. And while not nearly as low as yesterday's record low, the Dealers award was 6.8%, one of the lowest on record but a rebound from September's record low 2.2%. Overall this was a good auction, but would have been much better if the market ... Continue Reading »

Yes, The Public Education System Is Broken Authored by Amy Denton via PJ Media, I have been in education for a long time. My first teaching job came two weeks after my younger nephew was born. His birthday is next week, and he'll be 29. Take out the five years when I was working in retail and going to graduate school, and I've been a teacher for 24 years. There is not enough money in the world to tempt me back into public education. I'd rather stay poor, thank you. I keep hearing about a teacher shortage. That's incorrect. There's not a teacher shortage; there's a people willing to be treated like dirt shortage. Why? How did public education come to this sad state? Jonathan Turley's opinion piece in The Hill speaks to the problem and nails it right to the wall. His opinion piece titled "The Blue-State Model for Education has Failed, and the Public has Caught On" states early on that one of the reasons the public schools have gone down the drain is because of the teachers' unions. Early in the article, Turley states, "New polling shows that ... Continue Reading »

Nasdaq Tumbles After FT Reports OpenAI Revenues Disappointing ...and just like that, the massive AI CapEx boom "excess demand" narrative is in doubt... The Financial Times reports that OpenAI’s annualised revenue is about $20bn less than has been previously signalled, according to financial documents shared with investors, a massive gap likely to damp optimism about the growth of AI demand. The company has recently told investors its revenues were approaching $50bn on an annualized basis at the end of September, far short of the $70bn reported by the FT and other media outlets late last month based on information that was provided to investors. The most immediate reaction was in Nasdaq which tumbled over 1%... The Broad AI basket is getting whacked... Who could have seen that coming with Token Costs plumbing new lows? And in the tokenized stock market for OpenAI (PreStocks), things aren't looking great:  How many more of the prior statements are about to be proved false? It appears that total token usage was not, in fact, growing far faster than the token price is dropping. And no, the Frontier models did not "model" that... — zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 8, 2026 Evidence of how leveraged the entire ... Continue Reading »

Apple CEO Ternus Faces First Big Test As Bernstein Finds Soft US iPhone 18 Pro Demand John Ternus' first big test at Apple is launching the premium iPhone 18 lineup and the likely delayed iPhone Duo, which reportedly faces production difficulties ahead of its October launch. The latest sign of iPhone demand came Monday from Bernstein technology analyst Mark Newman, who said global iPhone sales rose in August, extending an 18-month streak of annual volume growth, though early demand indications for the new premium 18 Pro lineup softened in the US and several other major markets. "Initial market feedback on iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max is mixed vs. the 17 lineup. In the US, Pro & Pro Max demand is down low single digits YoY with Pro waiting times shorter vs. Pro Max were longer. China, however, saw launch week sales up 12% YoY. Other regions were mixed," Newman wrote in the note. Global iPhone sales rose 7% from a year earlier, while revenue increased 13%, supported by a 6% increase in average selling prices, Newman said. Volume growth slowed from 14% in July. Newman's new figures show the iPhone 17 ... Continue Reading »

US Government Moves $1BN In Seized Bitcoin After $770MM Transfers By Cointelegraph The US government completed another major transaction involving seized cryptocurrency hours after moving a significant amount of Bitcoin to a Coinbase Prime wallet. Blockchain data from Wednesday showed that a wallet associated with crypto seized by the US government had transferred more than 12,267 Bitcoin (BTC), worth more than $1 billion at the time of publication. The move came just hours after similar transfers from the government totaling $770 million in BTC to a Coinbase Prime wallet. Arkham Research linked the wallet moving the Bitcoin to the recovery of funds from the 2016 Bitfinex hack, in which hackers stole 119,756 BTC. The identity of the owner of the recipient address was unknown at the time of publication. This is insane! The U.S. government just transferred out another 12,267 $BTC ($1.01B).https://t.co/esJntewKzzhttps://t.co/sLXScezBrB pic.twitter.com/U64EA8AJwp — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) October 8, 2026 Cointelegraph reached out to the US Marshals and the Department of Justice for comment on the Coinbase Prime transfers but did not receive an immediate response. Estimates suggest the US government held 328,372 BTC as of 2026, resulting from seized assets in criminal cases and investigations. US President ... Continue Reading »

Trump Declares He Won't Attack Iran Before Midterm Elections, Oil Plunges Summary Oil plunged after Trump said on Truth Social the US will not attack Iran before the November midterms. Late Wednesday reports said Pentagon was ordered to prepare Iran attack options for before midterms. Iran expanded tanker attacks beyond the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. In Saudi Arabia, Riyadh airport suffers direct missile attack from Iran-aligned Houthis. US announces end of Iranian blockade by October 31, 2026? Yes 22% · No 79%View full market & trade on Polymarket Oil Plunges As Trump Says No Attacks Before Midterms President Trump just issued a new Truth Social Post Thursday just after noon time (eastern), wherein he declared "we will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections" in November. Oil dropped on the statement (though is still up on the day)... The full Trump post below, wherein Trump also claims that active discussions with the Iranians are still happening, and that oil is "flowing in record numbers"... Quick Iranian rection: U.S. and Israeli officials say Iranian leaders are deeply suspicious of Trump's statements. The officials said Iranian leaders want to ... Continue Reading »

Another One Bites The Dust: Nvidia-Backed Firmus Slashes IPO Price 25% As AI Data Center Window Slams Shut Two weeks ago, when SoftBank's SB Energy pulled the marketing of its giant IPO meant to find its even more giant data center, we wrote that "slowly the data center dream is turning into a nightmare" ("SB Energy Delays IPO Funding World's Largest Data Center Amid Investor Revolt, Public Outcry", Sep 22). Two days later we went a little further: SB Energy is next and then it's all over — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 24, 2026 "All over" may be premature. "Next," however, has arrived right on schedule. Overnight, Bloomberg reported that Australian data center operator Firmus closed the books on its struggling IPO "without clear indication of the price or the deal structure," as investors grew "increasingly concerned that the deal could be pulled." Artist rendering of what the data center will look like... maybe... one day...  if it's ever completed.The Nvidia-backed company had been trying to raise as much as $5.5 billion at A$11 a share, which valued it at A$43.7 billion ($30.4 billion) and would have made it one of the largest listings in ... Continue Reading »

Russia's Crown Jewel Refinery Ablaze After Drone Strike, Data Center Also Hit In War First Ukrainian drones have hit a major Russian industrial hub and oil refinery which lies very far away from the front lines of fighting, in Western Siberia, north of the Kazakh border. The Omsk Oil refinery and industrial complex is located well over 1500 miles from the Ukrainian border. Regional Governor Vitaly Khotsenko announced Telegram that several drones were shot down by air defenses, but that one made it through to impact. Circulating social media image of aftermath of the attack on Omsk.Ukraine's General Staff was quick to own up to the Thursday attack, stating, "The destruction of such facilities is the exercise by Ukraine of its inalienable right to self-defense in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter and is aimed at reducing the military-economic potential of the Russian Federation." While the extent of potential damage to the refinery itself remains unknown, images from local residents showed explosions and fire in the area near the oil refinery. Emergency crews are active at the scene of the facility, Russia's largest, which is owned by Gazprom Neft 8 October 2026: Multiple channels report a ... Continue Reading »

Guacaccino? Starbucks Explores Chipotle Takeover In Potential Record QSR Mega-Deal Chipotle Mexican Grill shares jumped in the early US cash session after a Financial Times report said Starbucks has explored acquiring the Mexican-style quick-service food chain. FT says Starbucks executives have worked with advisers in recent months on a takeover proposal for Chipotle, which has a market value of nearly $41.3 billion. The report is based on people familiar with the potential transaction, but no formal offer has been submitted. Marrying the two chains would combine businesses that generated nearly $50 billion in sales last year. Starbucks operates about 41,000 owned and licensed stores worldwide, while nearly all of Chipotle's 4,200 restaurants are in the US. One of the biggest potential benefits would be combining Starbucks' global reach with Chipotle's restaurant model, giving the group more ways to grow beyond coffee and breakfast sandwiches on the international level.  Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol has been working on a turnaround strategy for the chain since taking the helm in September 2024. He previously headed up Chipotle from 2018 to 2024 and held executive roles at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Procter & Gamble. Chipotle's shares have ... Continue Reading »

Trump Admin Cracks Down On Foreign Worker Fraud: Bans MSFT From H1-B Program, Probes 9 Colleges Over J-1 Visas, Hikes Costs For Students In the last 24 hours, the Trump administration has announced three major efforts to crack down on foreign worker/student visa fraud. First, US ⁠Vice President JD Vance ​said on Thursday that the ‌federal government is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa as it accuses the company of fraud. “If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” said Vice President JD Vance in a White House news conference announcing the decision. Secretary of Labor Keith ​Sonderling added that some of ⁠the largest ⁠IT firms ⁠in the ​world would also be suspended ​from that ⁠program, including Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCO and Capgemini, as well ⁠as Adobe. Microsoft did not immediately respond to ⁠a request for comment. Second, the Trump administration is going after nine elite universities on suspicion of visa fraud, accusing them of unlawfully benefiting ... Continue Reading »

The Gas Station Gets Its Gas: NANO's Laser Enrichment Partner Takes Delivery Of Its First Uranium Last week NANO Nuclear bought the license to handle the back end of the fuel cycle. This week, the front end showed up in a cylinder. On Thursday morning, LIS Technologies (LIST), the privately held laser enrichment company in which NANO Nuclear (NNE) is a shareholder and strategic partner, announced that it has accepted its first shipment of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) at its Demonstration Test Loop facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on the footprint of the former K-25 gaseous diffusion plant, a cornerstone of the Manhattan Project. In other words, uranium is back at K-25, only this time it's going in front of a laser. It's a milestone that matters well beyond a private startup's press release, because, as we explained in "NANO Nuclear Buys The One Thing You Can't Speed Up: A Fuel-Cycle License" last week, NANO is quietly assembling something no other microreactor developer has: an end-to-end domestic fuel chain, from enrichment to deconversion to fabrication to transport to reactor. Today, the enrichment link went from slideware to "licensed material on site." What Actually ... Continue Reading »

Explosions Rock Riyadh's International Airport Amid Houthi Attack, Travelers Evacuate King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has come under Houthi attack once again on Thursday, and may have suffered a hit, as eyewitnesses have told Reuters of smoke rising from an aircraft at the major travel hub in the Saudi capital. Some new, unverified shocking images emerging... 🚨BREAKING: Footage Confirms Yemen Destroyed A Saudi Aircraft At Riyadh International Airport The incident has caused airlines around the world to cancel flights to the Saudi capital. Yemen is imposing a no-fly zone in retaliation for attacks on its civilian population. https://t.co/NydL1KtCqa — MintPress News (@MintPressNews) October 8, 2026 Witnesses were also cited in The Associates Press as having heard "several explosions" - after which an urgent evacuation notice was given. The Houthis in Yemen have been going after airports as well as Aramco oil facilities. In two separate attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, the kingdom's Abha International Airport and King Khalid International Airport were targeted by Houthi missiles. The AP details of the Thursday flight stoppage in Riyadh as follows: King Khalid International Airport “closed again,” the Flightradar24 monitor said Thursday afternoon on X not long after the ... Continue Reading »

Golden Naked Trump Statue Unveiled At European Parliament A golden statue of a naked Donald Trump is on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, at one of the busiest intersections connecting two of the Parliament's buildings, and is scheduled to stay until Thursday. Named Orange Plague, the 8.5-foot sculpture shows the US president holding justice scales and a long golf club, its ball made to look like the world, while sitting on the shoulders of a smaller, clothed man. Text on the plinth reads: "I am sitting on the back of a man. He is sinking under my burden. I will do anything to help him. Except stepping down from his back." Jens Galschiot, the Danish artist who created the sculpture, said: "Trump represents one of the greatest threats to the rules-based world order, democratic values and our common effort to solving the climate crisis." "We must address this issue and stand together against such destructive influence." Galschiot said the statue, covered in 23-carat gold leaf, was inspired by the story of The Emperor's New Clothes, in which a vain leader parades naked through the street, believing he is dressed ... Continue Reading »

Consumers May Be Eligible For Up To $280 In Equifax Credit Reporting Settlement Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Millions of consumers whose credit information was inaccurately reported by Equifax because of a coding error may be eligible for compensation from a proposed $100 million class-action settlement. Equifax Inc. corporate offices in Atlanta on Sept. 8, 2017. Tami Chappell/ReutersThe settlement covers U.S. consumers for whom Equifax reported a credit score or credit attribute to a third party between March 17, 2022, and April 8, 2022, that differed from what would have been reported without the coding issue, according to the court-approved settlement website. Consumers who received an email or mailed notice are considered settlement class members based on Equifax's records. To receive money, eligible consumers must submit a valid claim by Dec. 28. Claims can be filed online through the settlement website or submitted by mail. It is currently estimated that each claimant could receive between $95 and $280. The actual amount will depend on how much money remains after court-approved attorneys' fees, litigation expenses, administrative costs, and other expenses are deducted, as well as the number of valid claims filed. Attorneys representing ... Continue Reading »