Several people are dead and dozens unaccounted for Tuesday after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocked the city of Kumamoto, in southern Japan, according to police and the country’s meteorological agency — sending a shopping mall crumbling, causing a bridge to buckle, taking down part of a 400-year-old castle, collapsing a paper factory’s chimney and striking … Read more
RIYADH: A minister in Yemen’s internationally recognised government told AFP on Wednesday (Jul 29) that Houthi rebels were working with Iran to charge ships to transit the Red Sea, threatening another waterway after Tehran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The Red Sea’s narrow maritime artery has been a critical route for delivering Saudi crude … Read more
Anthony Fauci is invoking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to answer questions at a Senate Homeland Security hearing chaired by Rand Paul. He gave an opening statement then repeatedly declined to respond to specific questions on COVID origins, gain of function research, NIH funding, and related intel community matters. Mainstream outlets including CNN Washington Post … Read more
This is why women live longer than us pic.twitter.com/tijpDeVc9r — badger (@badger69420) January 19, 2024 This is why women live longer than men. 😂😂😂😂😂 watch until the end. pic.twitter.com/3Xie96XuIy — Peaches 🍑 (@_KingArii) January 19, 2024 Men out there living like their health insurance is use it or lose it– pic.twitter.com/LhBFHxVzNX — ₩₳Ɽ ₱₳₮Ⱨ (@WarPath2pt0) … Read more
SCHD forward yield around 3.1% loses shine when 10 year treasury pays 4.4% with no equity risk. Quarterly payout dip undercuts clean growth narrative even if annual total still rises. AI capex by hyperscalers pulls cash from dividends into growth spending creating tension for income focused funds. h/t Any-Yogurtcloset-493
Something strange happened with smartphones. A device that was supposed to connect everyone somehow became the thing making everyone feel more divided. That is the part people keep noticing. Nobody woke up one day and decided: “Let’s spend hours arguing with strangers.” It happened slowly. A few minutes checking updates. A few minutes watching videos. … Read more
Kylie Jenner’s dystopian Meta glasses get brutal backlash: ‘It’s giving fascism, not fashion’ — Meta is testing a prototype to “continuously record audio while taking photos every few seconds” without any warning light Meta’s Kylie Jenner-branded AI smart glasses aren’t selling people on the idea of surveillance chic. Weeks after Facebook’s parent company launched its wearable tech … Read more
Thomas Matthew Crooks featured in 2022 BlackRock advertisement. Ad focused on high school teacher retirement plan filmed at Bethel Park High School. Crooks was unpaid student appearing briefly in background. BlackRock confirmed the appearance and removed the ad from circulation after the assassination attempt. Incident happened during teacher Brian DeLallo segment. No evidence Crooks was … Read more
Factcheck: Boosie really paid big money and is suing claiming empty promise on Trump pardon. Payment happened and refund demand real. Whats false or overstated: He likely paid for lobbying or consideration process not guaranteed pardon itself. No evidence of signed deal promising automatic approval so “never came” ignores that these are not guaranteed transactions. … Read more
IDF sources told the Post the Axios report caught them by surprise, adding there has been no change on the ground in Lebanon or Syria. US President Donald Trump allegedly told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel should remove IDF troops from Syria and Lebanon during a phone call on Thursday, according to a Tuesday … Read more
‘Killer robots’ must be banned, UN secretary-general says The United Nations’s chief wants humanity to forbid killer robots. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called Monday for lethal autonomous weapons to be “banned by international law,” resurfacing an AI-safety dispute that was core to Anthropic’s schism with the Pentagon earlier this year. “Machines selecting and engaging their … Read more
A man takes some photos and is stopped and questioned by the British police, who want to see the images on his smartphone. pic.twitter.com/17WG3g6YxE — RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) July 15, 2026
Zero-dose children fell by nearly 750 000 in the past year, but drop-out numbers high and stagnant, increasing risk of disease outbreaks In 2025, 90% of infants globally – or nearly 116 million – received at least one dose of a diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine, and 85% – or 110 million – completed … Read more
We have decided not to limit VPNs’ Online Saftey minister Kanishka Narayan told BBCBreakfast the Government has decided not to restrict access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN) as part of a social media ban for under 16s, despite initially suggesting it would take action 'We have decided not to limit VPNs' Online Saftey minister Kanishka … Read more
Most reliable indicator in finance strikes again. We have a CNBC Investing Club meeting tomorrow where i will reaffirm that Intel is my favorite stock. Intel is the third biggest customer of ASML — Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) July 15, 2026 Absolutely insane. He did it again. UNDEFEATED. https://t.co/EPIVenrOjJ pic.twitter.com/hpH8CeyRQT — NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) July 15, 2026 … Read more
BREAKING: Trump reveals Iran called & “wants to make a deal.” — Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 15, 2026 BREAKING: Iran declares it has “no plans” for talks. https://t.co/GNDtzt8Rx5 — Polymarket (@Polymarket) July 15, 2026 h/t dr0id
Wanna throw up? Over 40,000 university professors are here on H-1B visas. Not 400. Not 4,000. Over 40,000. That’s over 40,000 American academics who are out of a job. Roughly 72–73% of those are from India. Professor Shayoni Mitra of Barnard/Columbia University is one of these so-called “geniuses” from India. She’s a professor of theater. … Read more
If you cannot pay rent what makes you think you can pay rent plus interest and fees on top. Not the American dream people had in mind. Sounds like fancy way to kick the can down the road and pile more debt on struggling families. Media presents it as helpful option but it just creates … Read more
Money goes to hardware makers who deliver now while hyperscalers pay years ahead. Capex flood creates short term pain but hopes for 2027 payoff. Math does not math if 7.6 trillion spend needs double that in new revenue to profit. Space data centers or China could absorb excess GPUs. Air conditioning companies already making killing … Read more
China casts more metal than the next nine countries combined. More than 5 times US output. That same industrial base feeds construction, vehicles, ships, weapons, and military production. China’s shipbuilding capacity sits around 200 times the US. The difference shows up when countries need to replace losses and expand production quickly. China also controls around … Read more
One sentence from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent caught my attention. He didn’t announce a new policy. He didn’t unveil a new Treasury program. He felt the need to reassure everyone that the U.S. has no plans to revalue its gold reserves and that “all the gold is there.” That’s an unusual conversation for a Treasury … Read more
Washington — As the U.S.-Iran war restarts following the collapse of the weeks-long ceasefire, senior Pentagon officials are also quietly eyeing another flashpoint much closer to home: Cuba. Military planners have in recent weeks examined a range of options for possible action against the island, including an Army-led air assault involving thousands of U.S. soldiers … Read more
It would be funny if it wasn't true. — @amuse (@amuse) July 13, 2026
PM of Canada Mark Carney: "Our objective is to double our non-U.S. exports this decade." 'We need to build new trade relationships in order to move from reliance to resilience." "We are diversifying our trade and attracting massive new investment… We are forging new… https://t.co/Wt5ntznwBr — Shazi (@ShaziGoalie) July 15, 2026 So much for lessening … Read more