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Mido appears to finally pull the plug on marrying Debby on Sunday's episode of "90 Day Fiancé."

Forget about the Failures. What's next for Lestat and Louis?

The Democratic Socialists of America's aim is to import foreign conflicts and alien ideologies that are the antithesis of America’s founding principles.

Video shows the cop pulling the driver out the window of the smoking car to safety right as huge flames burst out of the vehicle. 

Pastor Emmanuel Marchica, 51, who lives in the gated community of Hidden Valley outside Hollister, is accused of sexually molested at least four children.

Argentina nearly landed as many punches as shots on goal in the World Cup final Sunday.

India's Nuclear Push Further Strains The Massive Uranium Supply Gap

Prime Minister Modi secured another major uranium supply line. During his visit to Australia this month, the two sides finalized the administrative arrangements needed to move Australian uranium to India under the previous 2014 nuclear cooperation agreement. The fuel must stay under IAEA safeguards for exclusively peaceful use. 

Australia holds roughly 28% of global uranium reserves. New Delhi has eyed those reserves for years, and now the yellowcake spigot can open.

This follows the March deal with Canada's Cameco. That contract covers nearly 22 million pounds of U3O8 from 2027 through 2035 at market-related pricing, worth around C$2.6 billion. 

India already buys from Russia and Uzbekistan, and holds some domestic production. The message is consistent: a country targeting 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047 cannot rely on thin indigenous resources alone. 

Current operable capacity sits near 8 GW. The gap requires sustained annual additions measured in gigawatts, not megawatts.

Cumulative net deficits keep expanding as reactor builds in China and Russia outpace primary supply response. Goldman models have only recently started taking into account the significant expansion in the SMR space as well, resulting in some relatively alarming supply gaps in the years ahead.

The Cameco agreement already reflected this reality. CEO Tim Gitzel noted that sovereign buyers are locking up volumes in a window where available supply grows more uncertain. Kazakhstan has also moved to build its own strategic reserve.

Couple these data points with Goldman's estimate of the ongoing lack of long-term uranium supply contracting by the existing global fleet…

We've been pointing to the uranium upside trade for several years now. We laid out a longer form of our thesis for the anticipated continued rise of the price of uranium just a few months ago. The idea is incredibly straightforward. There's not enough mines, and the demand is exploding faster than people can keep track of.

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/19/2026 - 21:35

Former President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, called the appointment of Merrick Garland as US attorney general the "greatest mistake" his father made in office.

It’s been a long and exhausting season for the Angels, but it appears the team has helped at least one fan rediscover his love for baseball. New York Times award-winning sports author Jeff Pearlman released a video on TikTok, revealing the Angels have rekindled his passion for the sport. “In the last [month] I’ve gone...

The "Gossip Girl" alum hasn't been lying low after settling her lengthy legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

The "Gossip Girl" alum hasn't been lying low after settling her lengthy legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

478 Individuals Charged In Border-Related Enforcements In Texas, Arizona

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,

A total of 478 individuals have been charged across Texas and Arizona over the past week in cases involving border and immigration-related crimes.

A United States Border Patrol agent enters through the United States border wall outside of San Diego, on Jan. 20, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

In Texas, 199 people, including 175 illegal immigrants, were charged in 194 cases between July 10 and 16, according to a July 17 statement from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Authorities filed 146 criminal complaints in the Southern District of Texas for felony reentry after prior removal. Illegal entry charges were filed against 17 individuals.

According to the DOJ, most of the arrested illegal immigrants have prior felonies, such as violent crimes, immigration crimes, and narcotics. Twenty-eight people were charged with human smuggling, including 12 illegal immigrants. Charges related to firearms have also been leveled against some of the apprehended people. One of the arrested individuals has a prior conviction for online solicitation of a minor.

In Arizona, 279 individuals were charged during the July 11-17 week following immigration enforcement operations, according to another DOJ statement on July 17.

Authorities filed 56 cases in the District of Arizona in which illegal immigrants were accused of reentering the United States unlawfully. Officials charged 206 illegal immigrants with illegally entering the country. Cases were filed against 17 individuals for allegedly smuggling foreign nationals into Arizona.

The 478 arrested individuals were apprehended under Operation Take Back America, established by the then-deputy attorney general Todd Blanche through a March 2025 memorandum.

The operation seeks to repel the entry of illegal immigrants into the United States, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and set up Homeland Security task forces to dismantle cross-border human smuggling and trafficking networks.

In California, 111 border-related cases were filed this week, the DOJ said in a July 17 statement. Charges filed at the Southern District of California include reentering the United States after deportation, importing controlled substances, and bringing in illegal immigrants for financial gain.

Among the arrested are a Mexican national with three prior felony immigration convictions, and a U.S. citizen who tried to traffic 131 pounds of cocaine when applying for entering the United States.

ICE Enforcement

The Trump administration is facing opposition from certain jurisdictions over immigration-related arrests.

In April, the Philadelphia City Council voted unanimously to pass the ICE OUT legislation package, which placed restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities in the city, according to a council statement on April 15.

The legislation bans the city from collaborating or sharing data with ICE, restricts ICE activity in city-owned spaces, and makes it illegal for ICE and other law enforcement agents to hide their identities with face masks and unmarked vehicles.

The committee's vote on the ICE OUT package "affirms that we will stand with our immigrant communities and refuse to turn our backs on those who call this city home," Councilmember Rue Landau said in a statement at the time.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the ban on face masks and unmarked vehicles on July 2 after the federal government requested a preliminary injunction. The prohibition was set to come into effect on July 7.

Judge Chad Kenney of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, who issued the ruling, said the city's law "attempted to sidestep the Constitution's clear mandate."

Meanwhile, ICE said in a July 1 statement that the Secure America Act, signed into law by President Donald Trump in June, provides the agency with $350 million in additional funding that would enable the arrests of more criminal illegal immigrants hiding in sanctuary jurisdictions.

Acting ICE director David J. Venturella said in the statement that sanctuary jurisdictions refuse to honor ICE detainers or coordinate to safely transfer illegal immigrants from local custody to federal authorities.

"As a result, criminal illegal aliens who could have been transferred directly to ICE are instead released into our communities, forcing our officers to locate and arrest them in neighborhoods, businesses, and other public locations," Venturella said.

"The funding from this legislation will help ICE increase its capacity to monitor releases and arrest removable criminal aliens when sanctuary jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities."

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/19/2026 - 21:00

The Data-Center Revolt Goes National: Tea Party Veteran Leads 142 Rallies Across 42 States

The backlash against the AI data-center build-out - which we've been tracking since it was a smattering of county fights across 28 states - staged its first coordinated day of action on Saturday: 142 protests across 42 states, from Wasilla, Alaska to Naples, Florida, organized by Humans First, the nonprofit that Tea Party veteran Amy Kremer co-founded and chairs. The crowds spanned both sides of the aisle...uniting a MAGA stalwart in a 'faith, family, freedom' T-shirt in New Jersey, a first-time activist in Texas, and a left-leaning organizer in California's Imperial Valley.

The fight looked like Kenilworth, New Jersey. Residents of the 8,500-person borough gathered outside the municipal court at mid-morning with drums, plastic horns, and sidewalk chalk to protest the $1.8 billion CoreWeave AI data center their planning board approved in May 2025 on the former Merck campus - a project that has since drawn more than 12,000 petition signatures against it, several thousand more names than the town has people. The woman in the "faith, family, freedom" T-shirt marched beside neighbors holding "Build community, not data centers" signs. When heavy rain arrived later in the day, they pulled on ponchos, shared umbrellas, and kept marching. One sign, caught by Business Insider's photographer on the scene: "You think this is pressure? Wait 'til there's no water pressure."

Texas, the country's hottest data-center market, hosted the most rallies - 18 - with Georgia at 11, California at eight, and Pennsylvania, Florida, and Indiana at seven apiece. In Imperial Valley, where a proposed facility could pull 260 million gallons a year from the Colorado River, Ivan DelSol, 54, told Reuters that around 50 people turned out in 100-degree heat. "It's dystopian that you would use this much fresh water for AI," he said. Organizers released no headcounts; turnout ran below expectations in some rural areas and in Atlanta, where about a dozen showed - most of them, a volunteer there said, driving in from the smaller Georgia towns where the biggest data centers are going up.

Kremer is a founding figure of the Tea Party movement who went on to found Women for Trump, and an organizer of the January 6, 2021 rally that preceded the Capitol riot (she neither planned nor took part in the riot itself). She has spent months calling data centers the defining fight of her lifetime, warning the technology could threaten humanity itself, and she is open about running the old playbook: grassroots pressure, town by town, aimed at both parties.

Today was incredible!

142 protests. 42 states. One message: ONE NATION UNITED AGAINST DATA CENTERS!

Communities across America showed up today for a National Day of Protest Against AI Data Centers to say that We The People deserve a voice before massive data centers are… pic.twitter.com/TwE7oRjR6V

— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) July 18, 2026

Her crowds bear that out. One of Saturday's Texas rallies, in Tyler, was organized by Eva Cardona, a 31-year-old self-described political nomad and first-time activist who told Reuters she wanted something more hands-on than posting on Facebook; about a dozen people came. And in Imperial Valley, the man who helped lead the rally leans left. The polling explains why a coalition that broad holds. A June Reuters/Ipsos survey found only 14 percent of Americans would support a data center in their own community. Gallup polling fielded in March found 71 percent oppose building an AI data center in their area - 48 percent strongly - a worse number than a local nuclear plant gets. And Morgan Stanley told clients in a July 14 note that support for local data-center bans runs strongest among Republican, higher-income, and urban voters, while Morning Consult's national tracker crossed a line of its own in May: "stop building" (about 45 percent) overtook "keep building while expanding energy supply" (about 38 percent) for the first time since last October.

Several democratic candidates, including candidate for Texas Governor Gina Hinajosa, stopped in Lubbock to discuss campaign topics including data centers. A data center protest was also held to collect signatures to pause building hyperscale data centers in the Lubbock area. pic.twitter.com/wh3mdGNcu4

— KAMC News (@KAMCNews) July 19, 2026

For all the movement's reputation, Kremer's demands stop well short of a shutdown. She opposes a national moratorium and statewide moratoriums alike, telling Business Insider that each community should choose what gets built inside it, and that too many of those choices are made behind closed doors. Humans First's platform runs to transparent approval processes, environmental review before permits are granted, union construction jobs, and binding developer commitments of the kind lawyers call community benefits agreements. She has aimed as much fire at her own side, accusing Republicans of giving Big Tech a free pass and predicting the industry will cozy up to Democrats the moment the majority flips. The fix, she argues, belongs to Congress.

Amy Kremer is the cofounder of Women for Trump and Women for America First. Now she's taking on AI data centers. Jacquelyn Martin/AP

The organization is a narrower thing than the crowds it convened. Humans First announced in April that its non-conservative team members would spin off into a separate group, with Kremer promising "a topflight team of conservatives" to fight Big AI and its lobbyists. The banner over Saturday's rallies, in other words, was a conservative one - which makes the mix of people who marched beneath it all the more striking.

Official Backlash

The rallies capped a fast-moving week. On Tuesday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order imposing the nation's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers - an immediate pause of up to a year on state environmental permits for projects of 50 megawatts or more while regulators draft standards covering energy demand, water use, and air quality. Her office promised localities community-benefit guidance within 60 days, and Hochul will pursue repeal of the state's sales-tax exemptions for massive data centers. A tougher bill passed by the legislature, with a 20-megawatt threshold, remains unsigned on her desk; her office has called it complicated, and Hochul said the state wants to be "the first to get it right."

New York was not alone. Virginia's new tax on data-center electricity - 1.1 cents per kilowatt-hour - took effect July 1. Pennsylvania's House passed a ban on non-disclosure agreements in data-center deals by a 171-31 vote, and separately voted 197-5 to repeal the industry's sales-tax exemption, a break worth roughly $517 million a year by 2030. Arizona's governor signed a three-year moratorium on new data-center tax breaks in June. Legislators have filed more than 300 data-center bills this year; local pauses have passed at the county, city, and tribal level in at least 15 states.

Meanwhile In China

Nothing comparable is happening on the other side of the Pacific. Two days before the marches, Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter system billed as the largest open-weight model ever built and claimed to perform level with America's best frontier models. Bloomberg has reported that Beijing plans to spend roughly $295 billion over five years on a nationwide network of AI computing hubs - and none of it will face a zoning board. Under the state's "Eastern Data, Western Computing" program, the buildout is steered into the arid, sparsely populated west; provincial governments compete to attract data centers with tax holidays, cheap land, and compute vouchers, and the state absorbs up to half of operators' energy costs, so the strain never shows up on a household bill. No Chinese county has passed a moratorium, because no Chinese county gets a vote.

The financial toll is no longer hypothetical. Third-party trackers cited by Morgan Stanley in its July 14 note put the value of cancelled or delayed projects at roughly $156 billion in 2025 and another $130 billion in the first quarter of 2026 alone - about $286 billion in all - set against the bank's own estimate of $877 billion in AI capital spending this year. The underlying quarterly count comes from Data Center Watch, a tracker run by 10a Labs, an intelligence firm whose client list includes AI companies, which logged at least 75 projects blocked or delayed from January through March - matching in one quarter the number of projects derailed in all of 2025 - as active opposition groups more than doubled from 396 to 833 and spread to 49 states.

Saturday itself stayed peaceful - chalk, chants, drums, umbrellas - though the wider fight has had harder edges: developers of the Piedmont transmission line into Northern Virginia's data-center corridor asked a federal court last summer for U.S. Marshals to escort survey crews after landowners threatened workers, an episode we covered at the time.

The industry answered forcefully. The Data Center Coalition warned that New York's moratorium tells investors the state is "closed for business" and will push jobs and tax revenue to neighboring states. Seven major AI and cloud companies - Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI - point to the Ratepayer Protection Pledge they signed at the White House in March, a voluntary commitment to cover the grid costs their facilities create. And White House AI czar David Sacks went after Hochul's case point by point on the All-In podcast, calling data centers "the scapegoat for all of the angst that people have about AI." His answer to the utility-bill complaint: let developers build their own generation behind the meter instead of competing with households for grid power.

David Sacks: Everything Kathy Hochul Said About Datacenters Was a False Accusation@DavidSacks: “These data centers become the scapegoat for all of the angst that people have about AI.

Everything she's saying there is a false accusation on datacenters. So let's just go one by… pic.twitter.com/gAxesw3fRD

— The All-In Podcast (@theallinpod) July 18, 2026

Some industry allies go further, pointing to OpenAI's June disclosure that it banned a China-linked network using ChatGPT to mass-produce comics and comments blaming data centers for rising power bills. OpenAI itself found the operation gained almost no authentic traction - and the crowds in Kenilworth and Imperial County were unambiguously homegrown.

Kremer spent Saturday evening thanking volunteers and looking past the weekend. "America is not for sale, and our communities are not collateral," she wrote on X. She expects data centers on the ballot in November, and again in 2028. The midterms are less than four months away.

Tyler Durden Sun, 07/19/2026 - 21:00

Rodri received the Golden Ball. Lamine Yamal may own the future. But the moment belonged to an oft-criticized substitute from Spain.

Spain eventually broke through Argentina’s resistance in extra time, escaping with a 1-0 victory after Ferran Torres buried the game-winner past Martínez from close range.

Fans of Spain and Argentina took over the Big Apple for the thrilling end to the World Cup 2026, where La Roja defeated La Albiceleste 1-0.

“Tattoos are a form of artistic expression protected by the First Amendment — [which] does not permit South Carolina to treat tattooing as a disfavored form of expression,” the lawsuit argues.

Sam Burns began the day at 10 under par, shot a 2-over-par 72 on Sunday, and finished at 8 under.

A commercial driver's license (CDL) should not be a license to kill. But sanctuary state policies have put illegal immigrants in the cabs of massive trucks and they continue to cause devastation.

“And now they’re world champions. It’s hard to even say that out loud.”