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Princess Diana's younger brother's book, "Swan Song: Diana, My Sister" is out today, in which he makes multiple claims about the royal family.

Hannah-Jones should be furious at the adults who failed her daughter. But she still defends them — calling school choice a racist scam and complaining about a lack of resources.

A high school student in Turkey opened fire on their fellow pupils on Tuesday, injuring at least 11.

To say Gavrikov’s first season with the Rangers didn’t go the way he imagined would be a colossal understatement.

"Might they, she dared hope, move there together, and carve out a life?" Di's brother, Charles Spencer, writes in his new book.

"Might they, she dared hope, move there together, and carve out a life?" Di's brother, Charles Spencer, writes in his new book.

"I'm not political, and neither is Saritha. When I met her, I heard somebody who wants change. Saritha is the only person I'll vote for," the grieving mom says in her endorsement of Saritha Komatireddy.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Don't just sit and watch these TV deals pass you by!

Energy groups are putting pressure on Gov. Kathy Hochul to refire the Indian Point nuclear plant during green “climate week” events this week.

The Nuclear Renaissance Disconnect: Utilities Plan Big While Stocks Lag

The Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI) newly released 2026 Future of Nuclear Power survey captured American nuclear energy ambitions across 21 utility companies covering 95 commercial reactors. Reactor owners find themselves planning new reactors to meet the AI-juiced electricity demand of the future, along with the added demand from increased domestic manufacturing and electrification.

More than 97% of the units surveyed are considering or pursuing approval to operate for at least 80 years. It goes to highlight the long lifespan of reactor plants, with some owners now planning for operations out to 100 years from initial construction. 

NEI estimates that uprates, restarts, longer refueling cycles, and other improvements could collectively add more than 7 GW of nuclear generation from the existing fleet over the coming decade. That's more than the power you would get by building six new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors.

That includes roughly 2.2 GW from restarting the previously shutdown plants at Palisades, Three Mile Island, and Duane Arnold.

Between the 21 utilities surveyed, the report states those companies are planning for 33.6 GW of new nuclear generation over the next 15 years. Roughly 28 of those GWs are concentrated in 2035-2039.

New capacity is broadly split between large reactors and small modular reactors, while respondents reported no microreactor plans.

As we noted when covering The Nuclear Company's South Carolina reactor plans, America's “nuclear renaissance” still has to make the transition from announcements to actual construction.

Interest in supplying power to specific loads sheds some light on what the utilities are looking at powering with their growing nuclear ambitions. Over a dozen respondents are looking to provide energy for data centers. However, this is the first year that has seen zero interest in powering hydrogen generation plants.

2024 saw about a dozen respondents interested in behind the meter setups for powering hydrogen production facilities. After Congress changed up the tax credits for hydrogen applications to expire in 2028, interest from the utilities dropped down to only three respondents in 2025, leading to zero for this year.

Despite the incredibly rosy future being painted by the nuclear segments of America's utilities, the stock market holds a different opinion on the nuclear sector's constituents.

With SPY up about 12% this year and XLE up over 40%, the nuclear sector has trailed behind significantly. Of the three main nuclear-themed ETFs, none of them currently hold positive returns since the beginning of the year.

The uranium-heavy URA and the industrial/services-heavy NUKZ are down about 2-3%, while the more concentrated NLR is down about 13% YTD.

After multiple reactor developers, including Oklo and NuScale, had explosive runs in 2024 and 2025, multiple names in the nuclear corner have fallen over 50% in recent months as the nuclear theme is still tightly tied to the momentum and AI infrastructure trade.

The sector has a chance of being taken more seriously if grid-scale construction can finally start getting announced at scale, but for now, everything still seems to be in the talking stage, which is exciting absolutely no one.

The microreactor space has seen an increase in interest on the private side, with recent funding rounds for microreactor developers pushing over $1 billion. These reactors have some different application opportunities outside of the scope of traditional utilities, such as national defense applications and remote community power. 

As we've detailed at length with the DOE's Reactor Pilot Program, this class of reactor capacity is actually showing tangible progress towards commercialization.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/22/2026 - 05:45

Democratic Socialists of America and Party for Socialism and Liberation mobilized within hours of the shooting.

A Tennessee Wendy’s restaurant manager has been arrested after admitting to cops she tied her neurodivergent co-worker to a kitchen grill – and bizarrely claimed it was part of a TikTok stunt.

Despite German State Stimulus: Machinery Industry Braces For A Catastrophic Year

Submitted by Thomas Kolbe

Friedrich Merz does not make it easy to interpret current economic data correctly. The debt king from Brilon is not only distorting the statistics with his “special (debt) assets”: More than 320 billion euros in direct and indirect state subsidies are flowing, according to Freiburg economist Lars Feld, through subsidy channels that are penetrating ever deeper into the German economy. Artificial economies are emerging there, economic homunculi that will remain permanently dependent on the taxpayer.

What Is Still Growth, and What Is Debt-Financed Illusion?

In July, the Federal Statistical Office reported a strong increase in orders for German industry: Real order backlogs rose by 2.5 percent compared with the previous month, and by as much as 10.9 percent year-on-year – a figure of Olympic proportions.

Behind the statistical facade, however, it quickly becomes clear where the wind is actually coming from: Above all, the Other Transport Equipment sector increased its order backlog by 3.9 percent compared with the previous month – the billions in debt for the defense industry are creating a positive mood at Rheinmetall, Hensoldt and Co.

What a contrast to the real economy! The automotive industry, still the backbone of the German economy, can no longer escape its downward spiral: In July, carmakers once again recorded a decline in their order volume, this time by 1.7 percent compared with the previous month.

Adjusted for debt-financed defense orders, it becomes clear that the trend is still heading south. The fact is that with every additional month of the current policy, the economy is losing ground to foreign competitors. Who is surprised, given the sky-high energy costs and Brussels’ increasingly aggressive regulatory agenda?

The election campaign team of the Federal Chancellor had barely finished celebrating the good news from industry when the band of illusions snapped and reality came rushing back like an arrow.

A current assessment of the actual situation in the engine room of the German economy gives reason to fear the worst for this year: On Thursday, the German Engineering Federation VDMA reported a real decline in production of 4.1 percent for the first seven months compared with the same period of the previous year.

That is a horror figure, descending on the Federal Chancellor like a media guillotine. The outlook is dark: Since 2018, the sector has lost almost one-fifth of its production activity.

This dramatic development is not part of a typical economic cycle. Germany is caught in a spiral of deindustrialization that even historically unprecedented government debt programs will no longer be able to slow down. The parties of eco-socialism bear responsibility for this disaster, above all Merz and the CDU.

Confused, yet firmly committed to this political ideology, the Chancellor steers his government through the fog. At the ceremony marking the 150th birthday of Konrad Adenauer, Merz emphasized his unwavering commitment to reform and was met with icy silence.

He had only one of 630 votes in the Bundestag, Merz said. His authority to set policy guidelines did not extend beyond the cabinet either. After that, he said, one found oneself on the high seas of the Bundestag.

It is always the same game: A commitment to reform and an awareness of the problems are staged for the cameras. In reality, the government remains committed to the joint strategy of the CDU/CSU and SPD: the debt-financed expansion of the state economy.

It seems almost comical when Friedrich Merz resorts to nautical metaphors in his hour of need. Is he not himself the captain who, to put it somewhat pathetically, is steering the state ship straight toward the iceberg visible to everyone?

Where is even the attempt at reform? Why does Merz not dare to break with the destructive climate policy and begin a serious path toward consolidating public finances, one that includes a remigration program, encompasses an end to the senseless development aid, and also includes a rejection of the taxpayer-funded NGO establishment? A return to diplomacy with the Russians would also be the order of the day.

Of course, it would mean the end of the coalition. Merz would have only the AfD left as an option. Yet Merz remains trapped inside the firewall cocoon. Despite the visible crisis, the Chancellor shows no progress in understanding the situation and refuses any willingness to reform. Politically speaking, Merz is a globalist who firmly believes in the success of his military Keynesianism. It is supposed to support the collapsing economy and, if necessary, at the price of geopolitical risks in relations with Russia.

Yet the collapse of the economy is moving faster than he is. How far exactly was described by consulting firm Roland Berger, which in its analysis of the automotive industry drew a definitive line under the Chancellor’s hopes for a rapid recovery. In the coming years, Berger forecasts, another 200,000 jobs will be cut in this sector. A catastrophe is taking shape that everyone can see, yet which is not leading to a political change of course.

Within a few years, only around half a million people will still be employed in the former German key industry, according to Berger. A development with drastic consequences for the entire sclerotic German economy.

Volkswagen alone counts around 63,000 individual companies in its global supply chain – more than 10,000 of them in Germany.

The true significance of the decline of this industrial powerhouse is almost impossible to grasp amid the current dynamics. It is telling that the media mainstream attempted to consistently exclude this historically unprecedented collapse from this year’s election coverage.

The fact remains, however, that the CDU in particular bears a considerable share of the responsibility for Germany’s deindustrialization. Whether it was the nuclear phase-out, largely decided by the Union, the aggressive policy of CO₂ taxation, or ever stricter climate regulation – the CDU has created facts both in Berlin and in Brussels together with its green socialist partner parties.

And against this secular trend, the Federal Chancellor’s military Keynesianism will not be able to hold out for long.

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About the author: Thomas Kolbe, a graduate economist, has worked for or over 25 years as a journalist and media producer for clients from various industries and business associations. As a publicist, he focuses on economic processes and observes geopolitical events from the perspective of the capital markets. His publications follow a philosophy that focuses on the individual and their right to self-determination.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/22/2026 - 05:00

Nikole Hannah-Jones makes it painfully clear that this part of her “fight for school equality for all Black children” . . . failed.

Hurricane Polo grew into a Category 4 storm in the eastern Pacific late on Monday and was forecast to bring heavy rain to southwestern Mexico but remain offshore.

President Donald Trump is due to meet with leaders of Greenland and Denmark on Tuesday to sign a deal that will allow a larger US military presence on Greenland and could end a standoff over the strategically located and mineral-rich island.

US Views Of Islam Have Deteriorated In Past 25 Years

The view that Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions is more widespread in the United States today than when Pew Research Center first asked Americans this question in March of 2002, around six months after the catastrophic events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaeda Islamists.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, in January, 51 percent of surveyed American adults said Islam was more likely to encourage violence, split between 76 percent of Republicans or Republican leaners and 29 percent of Democrats or Democratic leaners.

Shortly after the attacks that claimed the lives of almost 3,000 people, these number had still stood at an average of 25 percent, with both Republicans and Democrats answering more similarly.

You will find more infographics at Statista

As soon as Sept. 17, 2001, president at the time, George W. Bush, visited the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. and was quoted saying "Islam is peace", showcasing how different sentiments were at the time, even among Republicans.

But 9/11 was also a watershed moment for the United States and the world as a whole, eroding trust in a stable world order and a positive future.

The number published by Pew could be interpreted so that the wars that followed in Afghanistan and Iraq did more damage to the relationship between the United States and the religion of Islam that 9/11 immediately did. The survey answers over time show how political polarization, affecting many if not most topics, has progressed in the United States in the past decades.

Pew Research Center also found that around 40 percent of U.S. adults said Muslims had a negative impact on the country, while another 40 percent said their impact was neutral and 17 percent thought it was positive.

Between the years 2000 and 2020, the number of mosques in the United States had grown from around 1,200 to 2,800 while the number of Muslims living in the U.S. also more than doubled to 5.5 million.

Tyler Durden Tue, 09/22/2026 - 04:15

A Georgia city’s youngest-ever mayor lashed out at officials as he broke his silence after being ousted from his role in light of his sexting and spending scandals that had recently engulfed him.

The US on Monday reiterated its commitment to the defense of key Asian allies ‌Japan and South Korea, and the three nations expressed support for Taiwan ahead of a summit this week between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.