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Last week, the pop star's rep revealed she will be taking a break from the spotlight once her tour comes to and end.

Last week, the pop star's rep revealed she will be taking a break from the spotlight once her tour comes to and end.

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The visit comes as Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic tries to balance the country's traditional ties with Moscow against pressure to align its foreign policy with the European Union.

California’s embattled public universities are back in the Trump administration’s crosshairs. The Department of Education on Thursday launched federal civil rights investigations into two deep-blue state schools, San Jose State University and San Francisco State University, over allegations they allowed antisemitism to flourish while Jewish students were threatened, isolated and driven into fear on campus....

Islamic Society Sues City Over Rejection Of Mosque Proposal

Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times,

The Islamic Society of Tulsa has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and four individual city council members after the city denied its request to build a mosque and Islamic community center.

The suit, which was filed on Aug. 3, alleges the denial violated the U.S. Constitution, the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and Oklahoma law by discriminating against Muslims.

The city of Broken Arrow said in an email to The Epoch Times that it does not comment on lawsuits. The city acknowledged on July 28 that the U.S. Department of Justice had started an investigation into the matter.

“The City Council and Administration are fully engaged with the DOJ in its investigation,” the city stated, adding it would have no further comment.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is investigating whether Broken Arrow violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act after denying the rezoning application for the Islamic Society of Tulsa.

According to the complaint, the Islamic Society of Tulsa bought about 15 acres of land in Broken Arrow in 2014 with the intention of building a mosque, a community center, and a small commercial development.

City planning staff concluded the proposal complied with the city’s comprehensive plan and recommended approval. The Broken Arrow Planning Commission also voted to recommend approval after a lengthy public hearing.

The lawsuit claims the proposal was rejected by the City Council after “a wave of bigoted opposition from members of the community and local politicians.”

Despite recommendations from city staff and the Planning Commission, the City Council voted 4–1 on Jan. 12 to deny both the rezoning request and the conditional use permit.

The lawsuit further alleges the city approved similar rezoning and permitting requests for Christian churches and commercial developments while allowing those applicants to address traffic and engineering issues later in the approval process.

The complaint seeks a court order allowing the project to proceed, a declaration that the city’s actions were unlawful, and monetary damages including attorneys’ fees.

It also notes the DOJ’s investigation into whether the city violated federal religious land-use protections.

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is asking the Trump administration to halt the DOJ investigation.

In a letter to President Donald Trump and acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche, Drummond called the investigation “federal overreach” and said land-use decisions should be left to state and local officials.

Drummond also asked the DOJ to withdraw requests for records involving private citizens, require senior-level approval for any further investigative steps, and coordinate with the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office before taking additional action against Oklahoma municipalities.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2026 - 09:20

Carson Beck's sister Kylie was impressed by the Arizona Cardinals rookie quarterback in his preseason debut in the 2026 Hall of Fame Game against the Carolina Panthers Thursday.

David Thalman, 20, and his sweetheart Franceska Warick, 20, were reported missing Saturday after they were last seen on Lake Michigan near Washington Island, a Wisconsin tourist hotspot.

While everyone was talking about Carson Beck starring in the early moments of his first preseason NFL game of the year, it was another rookie quarterback who stole the show on Thursday night. Haynes King, a 25-year-old undrafted rookie who started his college career at Texas A&M before moving over to Georgia Tech, put on...

Sagal and Ritter were in production on "8 Simple Rules" when the actor suddenly collapsed and died in 2003.

Sagal and Ritter were in production on "8 Simple Rules" when the actor suddenly collapsed and died in 2003.

Bonds & Bullion Jump, Dollar Dumps As Rate-Hike Odds Slump After Payrolls Miss

As we noted in our preview, today's payrolls print was indeed "bad news is good news" as the surprise five-sigma miss (-23k) on payrolls (albeit with a drop in the unemployment rate) sent rate-hike odds reeling lower...

“History doesn’t repeat, but sometimes it rhymes. For the third time in as many years, July jobs data saw a mid-summer loss of momentum. While incoming inflation data will be the ultimate arbiter, slowing jobs growth helps support a September hold,” says Lindsay Rosner, head of multi sector fixed income investing at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

That helped smash Treasury yields lower, led by the short-end...

...which in turn crushed the dollar...

...lifting gold above $4350...

Some good news for Bessent, JPY is strengthening...

Stocks are also soaring, with Nasdaq leading the way...

Admittedly, as JPMorgan's Feroli flagged, technical effects such unwinding of World Cup-related hiring could have driven the softer payroll print...

Jeffrey Rosenberg, a portfolio manager at BlackRock, says on Bloomberg TV, “I’d be hesitant to just write this report off.”

He says that the decline in the unemployment rate essentially reflects a drop in the supply side of the labor market. 

... but for now, the panic among the Fed whisperers that Warsh has unleashed more uncertainty (and is driving up the term premium) is now a back story as attention shifts from inflation back to growth.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2026 - 09:05

The 35-year-old "American Horror Story" alum and her husband, Cody John, walked down the aisle last month in an Idaho ceremony.

The 35-year-old "American Horror Story" alum and her husband, Cody John, walked down the aisle last month in an Idaho ceremony.

The Gilded Age star closes out two weeks of guest co-hosts on Live.

New report reveals Silicon Valley’s shocking wealth gap.

A former Pentagon employee and his wife saw a strange, triangle-shaped aircraft fly over their Colorado home late one night in October 2023, according to a startling account included in the fifth batch of UFO files released by the Trump administration Friday. The account, outlined in a FBI interview summary known as a Form 302...

US employers lost 23,000 jobs in July – far below estimates that the economy would add more than 80,000 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.

Winter Is Coming: Europe Faces Twin Diesel And NatGas Crunch

Samantha Dart, co-head of global commodities research at Goldman Sachs, began the week by telling Bloomberg TV that the global diesel-supply crunch is "what keeps her up at night." She followed up Wednesday with a client note warning that European natural gas storage levels are also lagging the seasonal average ahead of the winter heating period.

Benchmark TTF futures have fallen 7% this week to about 54 euros per megawatt-hour, but Dart maintained her 60-euro balance-of-third-quarter forecast. She noted that Northwest European LNG imports missed July expectations by 2.1 million tons on an annualized basis, leaving storage just 43% full at month-end versus the 45.5% projected.

The latest Bloomberg data shows that Europe's NatGas storage is about 57.87% full, roughly 18 percentage points below the 2009–25 average.

"Specifically, the July miss in European LNG imports (and the resulting miss in storage fill) vs our expectations suggest that European gas storage still has some catching up to do, while LNG supply availability remains uncertain," Dart wrote in the note.

Dart continued, emphasizing that Europe must accelerate NatGas injections to reach her 67% storage target by the end of October. Higher potential Qatari exports, weaker Asian spot demand and reduced Egyptian imports could free additional cargoes for Europe, though an early drop in TTF prices risks redirecting LNG back toward Asia.

Dart warned that if Gulf energy exports recover only gradually, December TTF prices may need to exceed 100 euros to curb Asian demand. A faster reopening of the Hormuz maritime chokepoint could push prices to 40 euros.

Dart continued:

On net, we still see risks to our winter TTF price forecast skewed to the upside. In a scenario where Middle East energy exports normalize only gradually through 2027, we estimate that Dec26 TTF would likely need to move above 100 EUR/MWh, 110% above our 50 EUR/MWh base case, to significantly discourage Asia LNG demand. In contrast, we estimate that a faster-than-expected ramp of Hormuz flows would allow TTF to sell off back in line with the coal-to-gas switching threshold of 40 EUR/MWh, 20% below our current Dec26 TTF price base case.

Putting it all together, if disruptions in the Hormuz persist, Europe could enter winter with NatGas and diesel inventories well below seasonal norms, setting the stage for another surge in energy prices.

Professional subscribers can read more NatGas notes at our new Marketdesk.ai portal.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/07/2026 - 08:55