China has already altered the Earth’s rotation with a mega infrastructure project and is now planning a project that will triple the power of the Three Gorges Dam

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One giant dam has already nudged the way our planet turns. When the enormous Three Gorges Dam reservoir in China filled with tens of billions of tons of water, NASA calculations showed that the extra mass made each day about 0.06 microseconds longer and shifted Earth’s rotation axis by roughly 2 centimeters. Now Beijing is … Read more

The D.C. Circuit has affirmed DHS authority to use expedited removal for former parolees.

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A federal appeals court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport thousands of illegal aliens. A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Tuesday lifted a lower court order striking down the administration’s deportation directives, which instruct officers to consider expedited removal for certain migrants who came … Read more

‘More affluent areas’ will have to house migrants, PM says as over 900 arrive in small boats in just three days

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More affluent areas of Britain will have to house asylum seekers too, the Prime Minister has said after more than 900 migrants arrived in small boats in the last three days. Andy Burnham was speaking on Tuesday after protests at a migrant camp being set up near Piddington, a village near Bicester, which locals fear … Read more

Liability fears keep stores and restaurants tossing food instead of feeding people

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Restaurants and grocers often throw out leftover or near-expired food instead of donating it. Liability fears for perishable items are a main reason. The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act does protect good-faith donors from most lawsuits. Current donations stay mostly non-perishable, which keeps lawsuit numbers low. More perishable donations would raise the chance of people … Read more

America’s debt pressure keeps spreading from big lenders to everyday households

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Biggest US mortgage lender United Wholesale Mortgage lost $600 million on rate bets and needed a rescue deal from Oaktree. Company suspended common-stock dividends and shares dropped about 35 percent in one day. Credit card balances rose another $21 billion to $1.26 trillion in the latest quarter. Home equity lines of credit rose $13 billion … Read more

BOFA: LOWER-INCOME JOBS, WAGES OUTPACE HIGHER EARNERS

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Bank of America says the U.S. labor market is moving beyond the “K-shaped” economy. Lower-income households saw 3% YoY job growth in July versus 1% for higher-income workers, while after-tax wage growth reached 5.2%, topping 4.2% for higher-income households for the first time since December 2024. BofA says stronger wage gains, alongside solid productivity growth, … Read more

Trump signs order cutting childhood vaccine list to 11 core shots and pushes to split MMR

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Order recognizes only 11 vaccines as recommended for all children. List covers measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, Hib, pneumococcal, HPV, and varicella. Hepatitis B, COVID-19, influenza and several others shift to high-risk or parent-doctor decision. Calls for MMR to be given as three separate shots at separate visits when available. Directs Attorney General … Read more

City sued its own newspaper to hide Google data center drinking 29% of the town’s water

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In 2021 The Dalles, Oregon (pop. ~15,000) sued The Oregonian/OregonLive to keep Google data center water use records secret after a district attorney ordered them released as public records. Google covered the city’s legal costs. The city settled in late 2022 and released the figures. 2021 use was 355 million gallons, about 29% of the … Read more

Iran demands $270 billion in compensation, Trump demands pay for 50 years of killings

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🚨 President Trump just hit Iran with a powerful counter-demand. Iran says wants compensation for the recent conflict. Trump scoffed and said now America is demanding payment for all the blood Iran has spilled over the past 50 years. From the USS Cole to murdered protesters… pic.twitter.com/cCJ1Z0gSJm — Commentary Trump Daily Posts (@TrumpDailyPosts) August 10, … Read more

When the Fed loses the bond market’s confidence, the long end does the tightening for it. US debt interest hits one trillion dollars a year

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Wall Street says inflation is beaten. The people who actually buy the groceries disagree. The New York Fed's survey just put consumers' 3-year inflation expectations above 3.3%, the highest since 2022 and hotter than any point in the 9 years before prices exploded in 2021.… pic.twitter.com/egrClKOJ8e — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) August 10, 2026 … Read more

US emergency oil stockpile hits 40-year low, Hormuz deal hopes fade and diesel jumps

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Oil prices jumped about 5% Monday as doubt grew that the U.S. and Iran will reach a deal to increase ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures climbed about 5% to close at $82.13 per barrel. Brent crude, the international benchmark, also settled around 5% higher at $87.72 a barrel. President Donald Trump told Axios on Sunday that the … Read more

The alarming desertification of France as seen from space

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🌡️ France 🇫🇷 is facing severe drought this summer, with over 85% of the country under drought warning or alert conditions. 🛰️ #CopernicusEU Sentinel-3 #ImageOfTheDay shows the stark contrast with 2024 & 2025. 🔗https://t.co/SeTmRCoWfy pic.twitter.com/CGakaU31pA — Copernicus EU (@CopernicusEU) August 10, 2026 Copernicus images compare August 2024 (green), 2025 (partially dry), and 2026 (mostly beige-ochre). … Read more