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Orders for business equipment rose sharply in August and earlier gains were revised higher, signaling strengthening investment demand across the U.S. economy. New orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, a closely watched indicator of business spending plans, jumped 1.6 percent to $87.6 billion, the Commerce Department said Friday. Economists had expected a 0.5 percent increase. The advance followed a revised 0.6 percent gain in July, three times the increase initially reported. Together with June’s 1.7 percent rise, the figures show core capital goods orders increased approximately 3.9 percent over three months. The sustained gains point to a growing pipeline…

The Rev. Babs Miller, a lesbian chaplain at Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico’s church, says that Jesus did not die for the sins of humanity – and is not sure whether God’s Son even really existed in the first place. Miller is listed as an “out” lesbian chaplain at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, who came out of retirement to serve the church again in 2022 because she “missed the fun of doing ministry here, and I missed all the people.” In an unearthed video, Miller stunningly reveals that she does not believe some of the bedrock foundations of the Gospel at all.…

A bipartisan group of 14 senators urged President Donald Trump to rescind his invitation for Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the Group of 20 summit in Miami in December.The letter, whose bipartisan signers were led by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chair of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee, came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the invitation on Wednesday.“President Putin bears sole responsibility for launching Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine,” the senators wrote in the letter. “Allowing him to participate in a G20 Summit in…

Attacks on Ukrainians in Poland have continued to rise as public attitudes toward Ukrainian refugees deteriorate, Kiev’s ambassador to Warsaw, Vasily Bondar, has said. His remarks came a day after a Ukrainian man was detained over a deadly knife attack at a Catholic abbey in southeastern Poland.Polish police recorded 180 attacks or acts of aggression against Ukrainians in the first half of 2026, Bondar told RBK Ukraine in an interview published on Friday. There were 275 such incidents in all of 2025, up from 267 in 2024.“We do see an increase of around 30%,” the diplomat said. He added that…

Butterworth Hospital in Michigan via Wikimedia Commons Health insurance premiums are skyrocketing again. Families opening renewal notices this year are confronting some of the steepest increases in a decade. Marketplace insurers in Obamacare are seeking median hikes of about 14 percent for 2027 after earlier double-digit jumps, and employer plans are climbing with them. Obamacare was sold as the answer to unaffordable coverage. In practice it became the genesis of a more consolidated market. Federal payment rules paid hospital systems more for the same office visit once they owned the clinic. Those rules encouraged conglomerates to buy physician practices, reclassify…

You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels. Maybe you start with the Iraq war lies. Maybe 9/11. These days for a lot of folks it’s Palestine. Reading by Tim Foley: I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone had captioned the clip, “Every awakening begins with a fracture in the lie.” Yeah. It does tend to happen like that. You start pulling…

Iranian hardliners reportedly wrote furious social media posts after White House Special Rep. Steve Witkoff met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday, with some calling for both Araghchi and President Masoud Pezeshkian to be removed from office. Curiously, the military junta that effectively rules Iran, led by its notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), seemed to tacitly endorse diplomatic contacts. One IRGC spokesman told state media that negotiations are “another facet of war.” Once the meeting between Araghchi and Witkoff actually occurred, the response from hardline Iranian social media was much more hostile, as Radio Free Europe (RFE)…

Oracle Corp. has sent a force majeure notice to a unit of Blue Owl Capital over Project Jupiter, the New Mexico data center at the center of the Stargate AI build-out. This contractual clause is invoked when a company believes that unavoidable events will delay completion of the work, which seems to be Oracle’s opinion of its troubled data center project. Bloomberg reports that the notice doesn’t mean Oracle is walking away as the project’s main tenant. According to the sources, Oracle is trying to buy itself room to delay payments if the data center doesn’t come online in 2028…

An Episcopal priest in New York City declared that Jesus is “transgender” and told the congregation that if they deny this, they are denying the “divinity” of Christ. Reverend Flourish Klink, who considers herself a transgender nonbinary individual, made the outlandish assertions during a recent sermon at Christ & St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. “God is non-binary. God is non-binary, but I’m going to go further than that, and I’m going to say God is actually also trans,” Klink said. “And now let’s get on the same page here. When we trans people are born, folks assign us a gender based on…

The White House guest list featured leaders of America’s biggest AI and technology companies as Washington and Beijing grapple with an intensifying tech rivalry Virtually all of America’s most powerful technology executives joined US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a lavish White House state dinner on Thursday, as AI emerged as a major theme of the Chinese leader’s visit.The black-tie dinner in the White House East Room brought together more than 130 guests, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…