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The pop star isn't above being petty.

The pop star isn't above being petty.

The “Stop Nick Shirley Act” is a blatantly unconstitutional law that violates the freedom of the press. That’s why I am asking the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice to intervene to block its implementation. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the controversial bill, AB 2624, into law despite knowing that there were serious objections to...

Freedom told The Post’s Stefan Bondy that nobody from the league had informed him of any ineligibility. 

The duo have been spotted spending time off the court in the streets of New York as romance rumors heat up.

The duo have been spotted spending time off the court in the streets of New York as romance rumors heat up.

Former Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Allen Robinson announced his retirement on his 33rd birthday, ending an 11-year NFL career with six teams.

Some pundits questioned his signing.

"Blakeman will be a check on Mamdani. Hochul isn't," "Defend Empire State" PAC founder Jason Meister said.

DOJ To Deploy 1,000 Election Monitors For Midterms

The Justice Department is preparing to send a record 1,000 federal monitors to polling places for the 2026 midterms, the largest deployment of its kind in the agency's history. Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general who runs the Civil Rights Division, gave the number to Bloomberg last week and the figure alone tells you how central "election integrity" has become to this administration's second-term agenda.

This is not unprecedented. The Civil Rights Division has monitored polling places for decades under the Voting Rights Act, which bars discrimination, intimidation, or obstruction of voting based on protected characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability.

According to the Department of Justice, "The Voting Rights Act permits federal observers to monitor procedures in polling places and at sites where ballots are counted in eligible political subdivisions."

The Division determines whether federal observers are needed in an eligible jurisdiction. If so, the Division notifies the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that federal observers are needed, which OPM recruits, and then, in cooperation with Division attorneys, supervises federal observers. Federal observers write reports of the activities they witness in polling places and provide those reports to the Division.

The pool of potential monitors is thinner than it used to be. More than 70 percent of the Civil Rights Division's career staff took early retirement or resigned amid the division's priority shake-up under Dhillon, and despite a recent hiring push, the office remains understaffed.

This represents a significant escalation of the use of election monitors compared to past elections. The Biden administration's DOJ sent 289 monitors to polling places during the 2022 midterms. Then, in 2024, the DOJ sent 714 monitors across 27 states and 86 jurisdictions, a majority of them Civil Rights Division attorneys and staff, with a smaller contingent drawn from the Office of Personnel Management's separate and largely diminished federal observer program, which trains volunteers to watch and take notes at polling sites under court order.

A DOJ spokesperson offered the outline of an answer to how they intend to pull off such a large increase in monitors, saying the department plans to recruit federal employees, including staff from U.S. Attorney's Offices, to volunteer for the effort.

According to CBS News, the Civil Rights Division has filed 31 lawsuits against states seeking unredacted voter data, arguing the requests are necessary to confirm voter rolls are accurate and that noncitizens are not registered. The states on the receiving end characterize the lawsuits as an effort to manufacture doubt about election administration rather than genuinely clean up the rolls. The DOJ has not won a single one of the 31 lawsuits, and judges have blocked its data requests outright in 23 of them.

The broader push fits into President Trump's second term agenda, which has made election integrity a signature priority, most visibly through his backing of the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a valid photo ID to vote in federal elections. The FBI has also opened a string of criminal investigations tied to the 2020 presidential election, including in Fulton County, Georgia, and in Arizona, keeping that election in active legal limbo nearly six years later.

Supporters of the monitoring surge will call it overdue vigilance against a system Republicans have long argued is vulnerable to fraud and administrative sloppiness, as was recently uncovered in New Jersey, where more than 6,000 noncitizens were found on the voter rolls. However, critics will call it a pretext for a federal presence at polling places, timed to a midterm cycle in which control of Congress hangs in the balance.

Tyler Durden Mon, 08/24/2026 - 21:20

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested in Ohio for allegedly trying to pay $140 for sex, sparking a wave of brutal memes from NFL fans.

Jesse Watters described Abdul El-Sayed’s position as “wacky” and “sick.”

The illegal vending clogging the Brooklyn Bridge is a family affair -- with children as young as 11 left alone to peddle goods to tourists.

The rerecorded version of Swift's debut album could be right around the corner.

The rerecorded version of her debut album could be right around the corner.

A win-win for two franchises in need of more Ws.

Talk about your ivory tower. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority — LA’s central homelessness agency — has headquarters in the AON Center on Wilshire Boulevard, The California Post revealed this week. Among the tower’s features: helicopter rides to LAX, Maybach car service, and a luxe gym with an infrared sauna and cold plunge. LAHSA,...

The musician has denied the allegations against him, referring to them as “absolutely and categorically false."

The musician has denied the allegations against him, referring to them as “absolutely and categorically false."

Japan Power Prices Surge To Highest Since 2023

By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com

Japan’s nationwide day-ahead electricity price soared by 20% in one week to settle on Monday at the highest level since January 2023, as gas supply disruptions from the Middle East and an intense heatwave pushed up prices and consumption.  

The day-ahead power price in Japan has jumped to $0.16 (25.18 Japanese yen) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on Monday, per data from the Japan Electric Power Exchange cited by Bloomberg.

The heatwave in Japan is set to intensify later this week, with temperatures peaking on Wednesday, according to weather forecasts.

While the heatwave is boosting consumption, the oil and gas supply disruption in the Middle East has raised Japan’s fuel costs as LNG prices have doubled from before the Iran war began and Qatar’s LNG supply was trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz.

Japan, one of the world’s biggest LNG importers, earlier this summer reduced gas-fired generation in favor of coal as the price of liquefied natural gas remained elevated.

Japan has been burning more coal and less gas for power generation since the war in the Middle East started, and it is not the only one. All Asian countries have made the switch from gas to coal on affordability and availability grounds.

Moreover, surging oil prices have led to a significant increase in Japan’s import bill for oil and LNG.

The price of spot LNG deliveries into northeast Asia soared to a five-month high at the end of last week amid the renewed hostilities in the Middle East and the return of the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, which cut off Qatar’s LNG supply again.

The average spot LNG price for October delivery into north-east Asia was estimated at $22.50 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) at the end of last week, the highest level since the early days of the Middle East conflict.

As a result, fuel costs for power supply in resource-poor Japan jumped to the highest level in over three and a half years.

Tyler Durden Mon, 08/24/2026 - 20:55