At A Glance

Americans believe they need $1.5M in savings to retire.

Nantucket's Margaret Getchell helped build Macy's into a top retail store.

How does the oil industry actually work?

The story behind the University of Minnesota's 1945 starvation experiment.

How the senses remember.

Ancient Rome's Justinian Code forms the basis of two-thirds of global law today.

The psychology behind learning through consequence or association.

See the anatomy of a healthy joint.

A pilot explains what's happening during flight turbulence.

Explaining why Disney's Renaissance (1980s and '90s) ended.

Decoding the jargon of sports betting.

Find the value of a dollar dating back to 1635.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is only about two centuries old.

How South Korea invests significantly in exporting K-pop.

Motown Records' innovative songwriting assembly line.

It's so delicious that I make it almost every day! Simple broccoli recipe!

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In The NEWS

Monthly job growth falls over 70%, unemployment hits four-year high.

US employers added 22,000 nonfarm jobs in August, down from 79,000 in July. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate rose from 4.2% to 4.3%, its highest since 2021. The Labor Department's August jobs report comes after President Donald Trump responded to July's report by firing its lead economist over accusations of inaccurate data.



Pentagon sends fighter jets to target cartels in the Caribbean.

The Department of Defense—rebranded the Department of War by President Donald Trump yesterday—deployed 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico to combat Latin American drug cartels. The move followed reports two Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets flew over one of three Navy vessels dispatched last month as part of the crackdown.



Anthropic agrees to at least $1.5B copyright settlement.

The artificial intelligence company plans to settle a federal class-action lawsuit over its alleged use of pirated books to train Claude AI models. The $1.5B payment will be the largest publicly recorded copyright settlement, according to attorneys for the authors who filed the suit. The proposed deal, which covers roughly half a million books, also requires Anthropic to destroy its datasets of pirated works.



EU regulator hits Google with $3.5B antitrust fine.

The European Commission fined the US tech company for breaching the European Union's competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services. The penalty, which Google plans to appeal, came over two years after the commission announced antitrust charges. Earlier this week, in a US antitrust case concerning Google's monopoly on internet searches, the tech giant was allowed to keep its Chrome web browser but ordered to share search engine data with rivals.



Tesla poised to offer Elon Musk nearly $1T pay package.

The electric vehicle maker's board is asking shareholders to approve a nearly $1T, 10-year pay package for Musk—one of the largest in corporate history—that would also boost his voting power. To unlock the full payout, Tesla must increase its market cap by roughly eightfold to $8.5T and meet operational targets, including deploying 1 million self-driving taxis, within a decade. A previously proposed $56B package was struck down in court last year; Musk now has a $29B package.



UK deputy prime minister resigns over tax error.

Angela Rayner resigned as the UK's deputy prime minister, deputy Labour Party leader, and housing secretary yesterday after an independent inquiry found she underpaid taxes on a $1M home by roughly $54K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer began reshuffling his Cabinet on the news, moving David Lammy from foreign secretary to deputy prime minister and justice secretary, among other changes.



Separately, the Thai parliament chose conservative politician Anutin Charnvirakul to be prime minister until next year's elections. Former Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was ousted last week after a controversial call with Cambodia's senate president amid this summer's border tensions was leaked.



The world's largest, oldest iceberg is collapsing.

Iceberg A23A, once the size of Rhode Island and weighing a trillion tons, has shrunk to about the size of Houston as it drifts between southern Africa and South America. The iceberg will likely melt and shatter—creating a floating avalanche—in the coming months during the Southern Hemisphere's summer. It's been overtaken as the world’s largest iceberg by D15A, which is nearly twice A23A's current size.

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

US Drug Problem

 

According to President Trump, Secretary Kennedy, the DEA, the FBI, the CIA, Director of HHS, Secretary of Homeland Security, multiple doctors, and law enforcement officials not to mention mothers, fathers, and countless others, AMERICA HAS A DRUG PROBLEM...

We blame:

• China
• Mexico
• Russia
• Afghanistan
• NoKo
• Drug Cartels
• Open Borders
• Law Enforcement
• Liberal Judges

And...  I am sure there are plenty others at which we point our fingers.

The solution...  WHICH IS NOT WORKING TOO WELL...  is to stop the flow of drugs into the USA.

On the surface, that seems to make a lot of logic sense.

HOWEVER...

is it the right way to go?

Sure, many young people who have not tried drugs would not try drugs if there were no drugs available.

Is that the REAL ISSUE?

My question would be:

Why are drugs coming into the USA in the first place?

My answer is:

BECAUSE AMERICANS WANT THEM!!!

Why do Americans want drugs???

This is where the focus and money should be spent.  If Americans stopped wanting drugs, it would be relatively pointless to send them here, except to hook the young ones who haven't started them yet.

As long as AMERICANS WANT ILLEGAL DRUGS, illegal drugs will find a way into this country.

Economics 101

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Curtail the demand...

But first you have to find out why there is such a high demand among Americans???

• All ages
• All races
• All genders
• All Income Levels
• All Educational Levels
• All Occupations

The demand...  in my opinion...  started in the 1960s with the growth of the hippies and the counterculture movement.  Musical lyrics, believe it or not, enhanced the demand, just as RAP musical lyrics enhanced black/white violence.

Congressional leaders used racism as a diversion hiding their own corruption and re-election practices, while our govt fueled wars in other countries, so our engineering companies could become wealthy rebuilding.

While congress played, the demand for drugs slowly increased until the Cartels and China realized they could make a lot of money off of AMERICAN WEAKNESSES.

American Pride prevents us from BLAMING OURSELVES!!!

Somewhat Political

 

A New Theory of the Universe’s Origins Without Inflation

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? 

This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Spain and Italy proposed a new model for the events that transpired immediately after the birth of the universe. 

This study has the potential to challenge longstanding theories regarding the exact processes that occurred at the beginning of the universe, along with how these processes have governed the formation and evolution of the universe.

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Dan Bongino

 

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The Wooden Table

 

The Amber May Show

 

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The White House

 

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Lee Marvin

 

Brookings Brief

What’s the president’s legal basis for sending National Guard troops to DC streets?

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The neuroscience of extremes: Ruthless psychopathy to extraordinary generosity

Francis Ngaro

 

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Hundreds arrested in immigration raid at Hyundai battery plant. Most of the 475 workers who were arrested at the Georgia factory, a joint venture between the automaker and battery company LG Energy Solution, were South Korean nationals. A US official said those arrested were not legally able to work in the US and called it “the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations.” South Korea has raised concerns, and the arrests are likely to increase tensions between the US and South Korea, following intense tariff negotiations that ended with a 15% import tax on South Korean goods and a pledge by the country to invest $350 billion in the US.

Google fined $3.5b in EU ad-tech antitrust case. The European Union slapped the American search giant with its second-largest antitrust fine ever yesterday (the largest was also against Google), after its competition regulator found the company had unfairly favored its own advertising tech. The decision comes as President Trump has claimed the bloc discriminates against American companies in its tech regulation. In a Truth Social post yesterday, the president threatened a trade probe in order to “nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies.”

Anthropic to pay $1.5b to settle authors’ copyright claims. In the first major settlement by an AI company over training its model on copyrighted works, Anthropic has agreed to shell out $1.5 billion to resolve claims by authors that it downloaded pirated copies of their books for training. The settlement must still be approved by a judge, but if it had gone to trial and lost the case, Anthropic could have faced $1 trillion in damages to the authors of 7 million books, per Bloomberg. The deal comes as dozens of suits remain pending against Anthropic and its competitors in the AI space over the use of intellectual property to train their models.—AR

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Robert Reich

The jobs crash







Friends,

Sorry to intrude on you again today, but this morning’s jobs report shows that Trump’s economy is experiencing a jobs crash.

When I say jobs crash, I mean that employers have essentially stopped hiring. Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the economy added only 22,000 jobs in August (relative to the normal monthly gain of 180,000 to 200,000).

The revised figures for June, based on added data, show that 13,000 jobs were lost that month. That’s the first net loss in monthly jobs since the start of the pandemic.

Trump blames Jerome Powell and the Fed for not cutting interest rates sooner, but that’s not the reason employers have stopped hiring. They’ve stopped because the risk is too great.

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