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It's that time of year again.

It's that time of year again.

From innocents killed in broad daylight to the plague of homeless encampments to the violent crime that grips too many city neighborhoods, New York City has progressives to thank for its endemic disorder.

Affiliates of a terror-linked organization are active on US college campuses — and their calls for "resistance" have recently escalated into violence and intimidation.

Sean is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Sean is the only child of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Police completely closed the train station in the southern German city of Augsburg on Wednesday morning after a suspicious object exploded and another suspicious object was found nearby.

Visualizing Canada's Biggest Export Partners

More than two-thirds of Canada's merchandise exports flow to the United States - its most significant trading partner, which makes the ongoing tit-for-tat tariff spat with the Trump administration a serious threat to their economy. 

In the first half of 2026, Canada sent $214.8 billion (C$298.2 billion) in goods to the U.S. - roughly 68% of its total merchandise exports. The UK came in second at 9.2%, which was heavily influenced by precious metals transactions. China came in third at 5%. 

Or, as visualized by Visual Capitalist's Sofie Gilbert: 

As Gilbert notes further; Japan, Mexico, and South Korea followed at 1.5%, 1.2%, and under 1%, respectively. Together, those five markets received $45.8 billion (C$63.6 billion) over six months, roughly 21 cents for every dollar shipped to the U.S.

The United Kingdom Number Needs a Caveat

The dataset places the United Kingdom second overall at 9.2%, or $28.9 billion (C$40.1 billion).

Statistics Canada notes that the UK figure includes significant precious metals transactions, a pattern confirmed by Global Affairs Canada’s State of Trade 2025 report, which identifies gold exports as the primary driver of Canada’s UK shipment growth.

This helps explain why the UK’s 9.2% share is so high relative to Canada’s broader trade relationship with the country. Excluding precious metals, the EU and China are larger destinations for Canadian exports.

Why Tariffs Matter Despite Covering Just 5% of Exports

Canada-U.S. trade negotiations broke down in August 2026, with 50% tariffs now in effect on a range of Canadian goods. Canada’s reliance on a single dominant export market limits how quickly affected trade can be redirected elsewhere.

The new duties cover roughly C$28 billion worth of Canadian exports, about 5% of what Canada ships to the U.S. annually, according to BMO senior economist Robert Kavcic. BMO estimates the tariffs could cut half a percentage point from Canada’s GDP growth.

That estimate highlights the broader risk of trade concentration. The EU and China each absorb only about 5% of Canadian exports, meaning even substantial growth in those markets would replace only a fraction of the volume currently sent south.

Canada is the largest export partner of 25 states, so the trade exposure runs both ways. However, with more than two-thirds of Canadian exports destined for the U.S., Canada has considerably more at stake in any disruption to cross-border trade.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 04:15

A man jumped to his death at the University of Florida's football stadium Monday morning, days before the school's season home-opening game.

The parents of a 5-year-old non-verbal girl who was found dead in a South Carolina waterway have been arrested – hours after the child’s mom labeled her daughter “mommy’s little angel” in an online tribute.

ChatGPT, Reddit, And Roblox To Face Increased Scrutiny In Europe

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,

The European Commission has designated Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms and ChatGPT as a very large online search engine under its Digital Services Act (DSA), subjecting these online services to higher scrutiny in the region.

The Berlaymont building, the European Union Commission headquarters, in Brussels on Dec. 15, 2025. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images

The DSA sets rules for online services used by EU citizens, including social media networks, app stores, digital marketplaces, and online travel platforms.

Platforms or search engines that have more than 45 million monthly users in the European Union are classified as Very Large Online Platforms or Very Large Online Search Engines.

ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox have "declared that they reach at least 45 million average monthly users in the EU and thus meet the threshold for designation," the commission said in an Aug. 31 statement.

Once this designation is applied, these services must fulfill certain obligations, including establishing a point of contact for European authorities, reporting criminal offenses, and ensuring transparency in advertising and content moderation decisions.

The services must also identify, analyze, and assess "systemic risks" in their offerings, including those related to public security, electoral processes, public health, the protection of minors, illegal content, mental and physical well-being, and fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and media freedom.

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system that engages with user prompts, including by searching the web, which qualifies it as an online search engine, the commission said. Since Reddit and Roblox - a gaming and creation platform - allow users to disseminate third-party content, the commission deemed them online platforms under the DSA.

Services designated as very large online platforms or very large online search engines are also required to share their data with the commission and national authorities to enable monitoring and assessment of these services for DSA compliance. The services must establish an internal compliance function to ensure identified risks in their offerings are mitigated.

The recent designations require ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox to comply with additional DSA obligations by January 2027.

The Epoch Times reached out to Reddit, Roblox, and OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

The commission's very-large-online-platform designation was previously challenged by Amazon in 2023. However, in a November 2025 decision, the Court of Justice of the EU's General Court declined to annul the designation.

At the time, Amazon said it was disappointed in the ruling.

"The Very Large Online Platform status was designed to address systemic risks posed by very large companies with advertising as their primary revenue and that distribute speech and information," the company said in a statement.

"The Amazon Store, as an online marketplace, does not pose any such systemic risks; it only sells goods, and it doesn't disseminate or amplify information, views or opinions."

Amazon Store continues to be listed as a very large online platform by the European Commission.

In total, the EU has now designated 28 services as very large search engines and online platforms under DSA, the commission said in its recent statement. This includes Apple's App Store, AliExpress, TikTok, WhatsApp, X, Wikipedia, and Facebook.

Henna Virkkunen, executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy at the European Commission, said that the latest designations will hold ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox to a "higher standard of scrutiny and accountability in the European Union, in line with their large impact on our citizens and society."

"We continue to watch the digital landscape closely and will not hesitate to designate any platform that meets the threshold for enhanced supervision under the Digital Services Act," Virkkunen said.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has taken a strong stance against the EU's rules for American tech companies.

In a July 24 Truth Social post, Trump announced a formal investigation into the EU's trade practices, threatening to impose new tariffs after the bloc levied billions of dollars in fines on U.S. businesses.

The comments came after the European Commission fined Google 890 million euros (approx. $1 billion) for violating the Digital Markets Act, a complementary regulation to the DSA that targets online platforms.

Trump said that fines on Google and other U.S. tech companies will be reversed.

"The European Union will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about," Trump said.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 03:30

When officers arrived, they discovered the bobcat inside.

Thompson reportedly listed his searches as "city planning/traffic analysis" despite never being assigned tasks involving either duty.

Federal authorities say they arrested an illegal immigrant accused of strangling a woman to death inside her Massachusetts home on Tuesday.

The Global Population Is Aging At An Unprecedented Pace

The world’s population is aging rapidly, with people aged 65 and older expected to account for nearly one fifth of the global population by 2060, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s An Aging World: 2025 report.

The share of people aged 65 and older is projected to rise from 10.5% in 2025 to 19.6% in 2060. A major demographic milestone has already occurred. Between 2020 and 2025, older adults outnumbered children aged 5 and younger for the first time in recorded history.

In 2025, 18.9% of the U.S. population was aged 65 or older, ranking the country 48th oldest among 227 countries. By 2060, that share is expected to reach 23.4%. Despite this increase, the United States is projected to fall to 110th place as populations in many other countries age even faster.

Japan had the world’s oldest population in 2025, with 29.7% aged 65 and older. By 2060, South Korea is expected to take the lead, with older adults representing about 41% of its population.

Europe remains the world’s oldest region, with its population aged 65 and older projected to grow from 21% in 2025 to 30.8% in 2060. However, Africa is expected to surpass Europe in the total number of older adults. By 2060, Africa could have 249 million people aged 65 and older, compared with 214 million in Europe.

The report notes that falling birth rates, longer life expectancy, improved healthcare, better education and economic development are driving this demographic transformation. The shift is expected to place growing pressure on healthcare systems, government finances, employment and long term care.

Health is a particularly important concern. People are living longer, but healthy life expectancy is not increasing at the same pace. In the United States, an estimated 73% of adults aged 65 and older had at least two chronic health conditions between 2016 and 2019. Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias are also among the five leading causes of death globally for people aged 60 and older.

Aging populations could also increase financial pressure on governments. Across OECD countries, government health spending is projected to grow at roughly twice the rate of government revenues over the next decade. Pension systems vary significantly as well, with retirement benefits replacing more than 90% of average wages in some countries but only about half in others, including the United States.

Caregiving presents another challenge. Unpaid care provided by relatives and friends remains the primary source of long term support for older adults worldwide, with women providing a large share of that care. The COVID 19 pandemic further exposed vulnerabilities among older people, including social isolation, disrupted healthcare, job losses and limited digital access.

At the same time, older adults continue to make important economic and social contributions. Labor force participation among people aged 65 and older has increased in many high income countries, while volunteering remains significant in some nations.

The Census Bureau’s findings show that population aging is no longer limited to a handful of wealthy countries. It is becoming a worldwide demographic shift that will reshape healthcare, employment, pensions, caregiving and social policy for decades to come.

An Aging World: 2025 is the sixth edition of the U.S. Census Bureau’s global aging series, first published in 1987. The report draws on the Census Bureau’s International Database and data from organizations including the World Bank, International Labour Organization and OECD.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 02:45

A 45-year-old man is in stable condition after he was slashed in the neck during an argument in Hell's Kitchen on Tuesday night.

No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev was just two points from making the wrong kind of historic, a first-round U.S. Open exit. Then he turned history around.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East.

2 patients were in serious condition, while 4 were stable after equipment reportedly lost control after Ed Sheeran show.

2 patients were in serious condition, while 4 were stable after equipment reportedly lost control after Ed Sheeran show.