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The reactor at the county’s Cernavoda facility has been disconnected as a severe drought left the Danube River at record lows The only nuclear power plant in Romania has been completely shut down due to record-low Danube River levels, state-owned energy company Nuclearelectrica announced on Thursday.River water is essential for cooling many European nuclear plants, making low levels an increasing constraint on power generation. The severe heatwave and drought across Europe have pushed the Danube and Rhine, two of the region’s most vital rivers, to historic lows, disrupting stable electricity generation in several countries while hampering industrial output and major…
China’s planetary defense initiative, featuring an asteroid early-warning network and a planned 2027 kinetic-impact deflection mission, advances dual-use military counter-space capabilities that pose a direct national security threat to the United States. (Photo courtesy of China Daily) China’s expanding planetary defense program, which includes plans for an asteroid early-warning network and a 2027 kinetic-impact deflection mission, serves a dual purpose as both a diplomatic tool and a military asset. Framed by Xi Jinping as a benevolent effort to protect humanity, aligning with his vision of a “community of shared future for mankind.” The initiative allows Beijing to project prestige as…
Billionaire Michael Saylor says AI may make life’s necessities cheaper or even free, but it will not eliminate money because people will always compete for scarce, status-conferring goods. Saylor refutes Elon Musk’s claim that money will be meaningless in the near future, stating: “Everybody doesn’t get a Hampton’s house. Everybody doesn’t get their own private jet.” Fortune reports that Elon Musk has been among the most bullish voices on AI’s potential to reshape the world, predicting that work will eventually become optional, goods and services will become abundant, and money could become irrelevant as AI drives toward a “universal high income.” Fellow…
The government of the Dominican Republic on Thursday expelled nine officials from the Cuban embassy in Santo Domingo. The decision drew the ire of Cuba’s communist regime, which described the expulsion as a purported plot of “subordination” against Cuba by the Dominican Republic and the United States. The Dominican Foreign Ministry detailed in an official Thursday statement that it gave nine unidentified members of the Cuban embassy and their respective families a seven-day deadline to leave the Dominican Republic. Although the Dominican government did not specify a reason to expel the communist diplomats, the Foreign Ministry said that the action…
Retail sales in the U.S. unexpectedly declined in July, dragged down by lower sales at car dealerships, gas stations, and online merchants. Sales dropped by 0.6 percent last month, the biggest decline since May 2025, data from the Census Bureau showed Friday. Despite the month-to-month decline, sales are up 5.2 percent in the first seven months of 2026 compared with the period a year earlier. Economists had forecast a mild rise in sales. The lower-than-expected sales figures are less worrying than they appear, largely driven by falling prices rather than consumers pulling back from purchases. The retail sales figures are adjusted…
Pro-migration activists have funded some 20,000 lawsuits to release roughly 17,300 illegal migrants — including many criminals — mostly with the aid of judges nominated by President Joe Biden. The massive resistance to President Donald Trump’s 2024 deportation mandate has been outlined by Politico: POLITICO is tracking the surge in litigation triggered by the administration’s novel policy that began in July, and releasing our database, below, of the 20,000-plus cases in which federal district courts reached a ruling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention practices. “Millions and millions of dollars are wrapped up in that lobby,” Michael Howell, president of the Heritage…
GOP Rep. Russell Fry threw his support behind Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) for a full term in the Senate — a key endorsement for the political newcomer who’s locked in a heated primary runoff with Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.). “On August 25, I’m asking everyone who supported our campaign to join me in supporting Darline Graham for the United States Senate,” Fry said in a statement Friday. Fry, who unsuccessfully ran in the snap primary to replace late Sen. Lindsey Graham as the Republican nominee on the November ballot, came in third place during the first round of voting. His…
More than 500 people have been evacuated in the southwestern French department of Landes as wildfires continue to spread and threaten nearby communities.Prefect Gilles Clavreul ordered an expansion of the evacuation zone after the blaze grew to cover around 1,100 hectares, or roughly 2,700 acres, officials said on Friday. Some 525 people have now been moved to safety, up from around 400 on Thursday, when the latest fire broke out.France is among several European countries battling wildfires amid a spell of extreme heat that has caused health emergencies and disruptions to power generation across the continent. Temperatures in Landes are…
Melissa L. Farris. Credit: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro The wicked individual who spray-painted and dumped chemicals on DC’s WWII memorial has been identified and arrested. As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., was vandalized on Thursday with bubbly soap and graffiti containing a very nasty message to the military. The memorial fountain bubbled over with suds, and a complete loser painted the words “Clean hands Dirty $” on one of its surfaces. The area was also splattered with red and green paint. The Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, vowed zero…
Cami Clark, the secretive wife of Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, maintains a minimal public profile while serving as a key adviser to the AI leader. Scrutiny of Clark’s history has revealed she sought investment in her “revolutionary porn company” from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein years after his jail sentence. The Wall Street Journal reports that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s wife, Cami Clark. does not work at the AI startup, but her presence around the company and its chief executive is a regular feature of Amodei’s public life. She is often seen sitting in the front row while Amodei…