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Iran Puts Captured US Reaper Drone and Israeli Hermes 900 on Display, Says It's Reverse-Engineering Both

Iran's Tasnim news agency released images of a mostly intact US MQ-9 Reaper drone, an Israeli Hermes 900, and F-15 parts, claiming the IRGC is reverse-engineering the hardware. The display is propaganda first, technical threat second, but it lands at a genuinely sensitive moment for US-Iran diplomacy.

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us economy 5 3m ago 4 min read

Texas Democrat Casar Introduces Bill to Tax AI Companies and Fund New Federal Jobs Agency

Rep. Greg Casar introduced the AI Tax and Work Protection Act, which would tax AI companies on computing power or revenue and use the money to fund a new Work Protection Administration modeled on FDR's WPA. It's one of at least five competing Democratic proposals on AI's economic fallout, and the party has no unified plan.

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cn tech 6 7m ago 3 min read

China Controls the Parts List for the Humanoid Robot Boom, Barclays Analysis Shows

Barclays mapped out the humanoid robot supply chain and found China dominates the rare earth magnets, motors, batteries, and manufacturing that go into every robot's 40 to 70 actuators. Japan holds the high-precision gearing chokepoint. The market is tiny now, $2-3 billion, but projected to hit $200 billion by 2035, and Washington has to decide how much of that gets built on Chinese parts.

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us politics 7 10m ago 4 min read

TPS for 350,000 Haitians Officially Terminated, Mayor Mamdani Pledges NYC Legal Help

A federal judge cleared the final legal hurdle this week for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians, following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in June. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city is legally required to separate TPS-holding employees who lack other work authorization, while offering free legal help to navigate the fallout.

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us economy 5 13m ago 4 min read

Kellogg Moves Up Timeline to Strip Artificial Dyes from Froot Loops, Apple Jacks by End of 2026

WK Kellogg announced Thursday it will eliminate artificial colors from its entire cereal lineup, including Froot Loops and Apple Jacks, by the end of 2026, a year ahead of its original 2027 pledge. The move follows pressure from RFK Jr.'s MAHA campaign, a Texas AG investigation, and years of consumer petitions.

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us sports 3 18m ago 4 min read

Historian Victor Davis Hanson Says Caitlin Clark Generated $1 Billion for a WNBA That Won't Settle Its Trans Debate

In an Aug. 6 podcast, historian Victor Davis Hanson cited AI estimates crediting Caitlin Clark with roughly $1 billion in added value for the WNBA, while blasting the league for dodging questions about biological men in women's sports. The underlying trans-athlete debate remains unresolved by the league, its coaches, or the players' union.

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us economy 7 1h ago 4 min read

China Fires Back at US Over Uyghur Forced Labor List With Drone Curbs and Six Blacklisted American Firms

After DHS added 43 more Chinese companies to its forced-labor import ban list last Friday, Beijing responded Wednesday with export controls on drones bound for the US, sanctions on six American entities, and a new national security probe into imported printing equipment. China called the US move illegal and never addressed the slave labor allegations.

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us energy 6 1h ago 3 min read

EU Sets Plan to Triple Energy Storage by 2030 After Years of Energy Crises

European energy ministers agreed in June to triple the EU's energy storage capacity, targeting roughly 200 gigawatt-hours by 2030 after gas reserves fell to about 50% capacity. It's a reasonable response to a self-inflicted problem: Europe built out intermittent wind and solar faster than it built the backup systems needed to keep the lights on.

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us politics 6 1h ago 4 min read

Fired Miami Prosecutor Sues DOJ, Says Old Anti-Trump Blog Posts Got Him Axed in Three Hours

Will Rosenzweig was two weeks from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case when a conservative influencer resurfaced his years-old, defunct blog and tagged DOJ officials. He was fired within three hours, and he's now suing, claiming the government can't punish a citizen for political speech made before he ever took the job.

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us politics 6 1h ago 3 min read

Trump Tells U.S. Attorney Pirro to Reverse Course on Dropped Reflecting Pool Case

President Trump publicly demanded U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro reconsider her decision to drop vandalism charges against a man accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Pirro's own office told a court the damage was caused by a bad liner installation, not sabotage, and a judge dismissed the case Thursday. Trump wants a redo anyway. The physical evidence and the prosecutor's own filing say this wasn't vandalism. The president disagrees. Someone's wrong here, and it isn't the guy who got his charges dropped.

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us economy 6 1h ago 3 min read

56 Decomposing Bodies Found at Chicago Funeral Home That State Had Already Flagged Once Before

Cook County investigators found more than 50 bodies decomposing in unrefrigerated, rodent-infested conditions at South Chicago Chapel, months after neighbors started complaining about the smell. The couple running it, Johanna and Clark Morgan, already had a crematory shut down for the same thing last year. No charges have been filed yet, but the state let repeat offenders keep operating on grieving families.

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us politics 5 1h ago 3 min read

Shelby County, Tennessee Sees Decade-High Democratic Primary Turnout After Redistricting Fight

A fifth of active registered voters in Shelby County, Tennessee turned out for Democratic House primaries this week, the highest share in ten years, according to the Washington Post. The county includes Memphis and is majority-Black, and the surge comes after Tennessee Republicans redrew the district lines that had elected Democrat Steve Cohen for years.

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us tech 4 1h ago 4 min read

Situational Awareness Fund Puts $400 Million Into Chip Tooling Startup After AUM Fell From $45 Billion to $10 Billion

Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund just committed $400 million more to Source Foundry, a one-year-old chip-tooling startup, bringing its total stake to $500 million. The move comes six weeks after the fund's assets under management collapsed from $45 billion to roughly $10 billion during a rough stretch for AI stocks in July 2026. That's a huge bet on one private company right after a liquidity scare.

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us politics 6 2h ago 3 min read

DHS Plans to Hire Private Investigators to Track Down Deported Migrants Overseas

DHS is proposing a $9 million contract to hire private investigators who will locate deported immigrants in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, photograph their homes, and hand-deliver notices for unpaid immigration fines. The agency has already assessed more than $84 billion in civil fines, even as it simultaneously tells migrants that leaving the country voluntarily will wipe those debts clean.

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us economy 6 2h ago 4 min read

White House Pushes to Delay Hemp THC Ban While Chief of Staff's Son-in-Law Sits in the Industry

Senate Republicans are deadlocked over a provision that would delay a federal ban on intoxicating hemp products until December 11. The White House is lobbying hard for the delay, and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles' son-in-law runs companies that sell the very gummies and vapes the ban would outlaw. No investigation has been announced and the White House denies any conflict of interest. Separately, farm groups are pressing the Senate to pass a $95 billion budget package with $12 billion in agricultural aid before its August recess.

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us finance 5 2h ago 3 min read

Muni Bond Market on Pace for $580 Billion in New Issuance This Year, BlackRock Says

BlackRock's municipal bond team says 2026 is shaping up to be a record year for both new issuance and cash flowing into muni bonds. For high earners paying federal and state taxes, munis remain one of the few places to get a real after-tax return without taking on much credit risk.

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us economy 7 2h ago 4 min read

Trump Announces $2 Billion in Mining Deals and $180 Million for Mining Schools

President Trump rolled out more than $2 billion in federal financing for critical minerals projects and over $180 million for mining education at a State Department event on Friday, August 7. The goal: cut US dependence on China for materials that power everything from fighter jets to EV batteries. The math is real and the China problem is real, but building mines and training engineers takes years, not press conferences.

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au energy 6 2h ago 4 min read

BHP Workers Strike at Port Hedland This Weekend Despite Progress in Pay Talks

About 150 BHP workers walked off the job at the world's biggest iron ore export hub starting Saturday, August 8, even after both sides called a Tuesday negotiating session productive. Seven months of talks over a four-year pay deal still haven't produced an agreement, and Australia's Fair Work Commission says the strike didn't need to happen.

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us politics 6 3h ago 4 min read

Federal Judge Revives Michigan Parents' Religious-Freedom Claim Over School's Transgender Name Policy

A federal judge in Michigan reversed course and reinstated a free exercise claim from parents who sued Rockford Public Schools after staff used a different name and pronouns for their middle-school daughter without telling them. The reversal came after the Supreme Court's March 2026 ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta cast doubt on how lower courts had been analyzing these cases.

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us tech 3 3h ago 3 min read

Disney Plus Begins Testing AI-Powered Search With Small Group of Subscribers

Disney is testing a natural-language search tool on Disney Plus that builds custom rows of recommendations from typed queries, voice, or prompts. It is a limited beta with a small subscriber group, part of a wider industry scramble by Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Peacock to use AI to help people find something to watch.

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