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- Fermi America’s stock has significantly dropped following the termination of a major tenant's lease at its data center in Texas, raising concerns despite ongoing strong demand in the data center market.
- The FDA is currently investigating potential links between COVID-19 vaccinations and deaths across various age groups, sparking renewed public scrutiny on vaccine safety amid ongoing debates on public health.
- Beijing is pushing for increased domestic chip production and innovation through a projected $70 billion “Chips Act,” aiming to reduce reliance on U.S. technology while navigating recent shifts in export regulations from the U.S.
- Solar power installations in the U.S. surged by 20% in the third quarter as developers raced to secure tax credits, indicating a robust growth trend as the industry adapts to legislative pressures for renewable energy.
- The New York Times editorial board has called for heightened U.S. military preparedness in anticipation of potential conflicts with China, signaling increased geopolitical tensions and strategic considerations in U.S. foreign policy.
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Fermi Craters 50% After Losing First Tenant For Its Massive Texas Data Center
an hour ago
by Tyler Durden
Fermi Craters 50% After Losing First Tenant For Its Massive Texas Data Center Fermi America announced their first potential tenant for the Project Matador data center campus terminated their $150 million Advance in Aid of Construction agreement (i.e., lease). The stock has plunged as much as 50% in premarket trading in what is a wild overreaction with unprecedented demand for data center space (especially data centers named after the president) still offset with limited supply. Several weeks ago, we documented Fermi's difficulties with signing their first major tenant last month for their President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence campus in Texas, set
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Social Justice Gone Wild: Oklahoma BLM Leader Indicted On Fraud, Money Laundering Charges
an hour ago
by Tyler Durden
Social Justice Gone Wild: Oklahoma BLM Leader Indicted On Fraud, Money Laundering Charges A federal grand jury has unsealed a 25-count indictment against the leader of the far-left Marxist group Black Lives Matter in Oklahoma City over allegations of wire fraud and money laundering. Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, served as Executive Director of Black Lives Matter OKC (BLMOKC). As Executive Director, Dickerson had access to BLMOKC’s bank, PayPal, and Cash App accounts, where federal prosecutors allege she looted the organization “for her personal benefit,” including travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, tens of thousands of dollars in retail shopping, more
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Futures Dip After Hitting Record High, As Fed's "QE Lite" Sets Up Christmas Rally
an hour ago
by Tyler Durden
Futures Dip After Hitting Record High, As Fed's "QE Lite" Sets Up Christmas Rally US equity futures are mixed; with small caps higher and tech stocks lagging. As of 8:15am ET, S&P 500 futures fall 0.1% after hitting a fresh record high yesterday; Nasdaq 100 contracts -0.5% amid signs of rotation out of tech as the equity rally broadens; Oracle led the broader sector lower on Thursday and Broadcom is poised to do the same in US trading after its sales outlook failed to meet investors’ lofty expectations. Its shares are down over 6% in premarket on lack of updated guidance, adding to weaker
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COVID Porn Is Back
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
COVID Porn Is Back Authored by 'sallust' via DailySceptic.org, The tireless hacks at the BBC have emerged from their bunkers once again to terrorise the public by bravely touring the hospitals and whipping up hysteria about the latest outbreak of flu. It seems “literally hundreds” of patients have been bombarding A&E departments, according to Health Editor Hugh Pym and Chloe Hayward who have been courageously touring the front line: > As one patient leaves his room at Leicester Royal Infirmary’s acute unit, cleaning staff are waiting outside. > > He is barely out of the room before the bed is stripped and bleach is sprayed. The
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Beijing Prepares Its Own $70 Billion Chips Act
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Beijing Prepares Its Own $70 Billion Chips Act News earlier this week reported that President Trump had approved exports of Nvidia’s AI H200 chips to China. Shortly afterward, however, reports emerged that Beijing plans to limit access to those advanced chips as it pushes to strengthen domestic chip innovation and production and reduce reliance on U.S. technology. Both the U.S. and China are deploying national strategies through a whole-of-government approach to bolster key industries. In the U.S., Trump has developed a national strategy around chips, rare earths, and revitalizing manufacturing, and could soon announce a new strategy focused on humanoid robots. In China,
The Guardian
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UK imposes sanctions on four RSF officers for ‘heinous’ mass killings in Sudan
2 hours ago
by Patrick Wintour and Mark Townsend
Sudan, War crimes, Darfur, Conflict and arms, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UK news, Foreign policy, Yvette Cooper, Middle East and north Africa, World news, AfricaSenior commanders accused of atrocities against civilians face asset freezes – but no action against key backer UAE The UK has placed sanctions on four senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces suspected of involvement in “heinous” violence against civilians in the city of El Fasher, but decided not to take any action against their key military and diplomatic backer, the United Arab Emirates, or their chief commander. British officials suggested they preferred to use their leverage with the UAE and the RSF commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, privately, but admitted there was little sign of a ceasefire in
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Fate of 11 Nigerian troops unclear after ‘unauthorised’ plane landing in Burkina Faso
21 hours ago
by Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan
Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Africa, World newsConfusion over diplomatic standoff deepens after conflicting reports about the soldiers’ whereabouts Eleven Nigerian military personnel are reportedly still in Burkina Faso days after their plane made an “unauthorised” landing in the south-west city of Bobo Dioulasso, despite earlier suggestions they had been freed, deepening confusion about the diplomatic standoff. Burkinabé authorities told the BBC on Tuesday that the troops had been released and given permission to return to Nigeria, but officials in Abuja have said the matter is yet to be resolved. Continue reading...
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Burkina Faso releases 11 Nigerian troops after ‘unauthorised’ plane landing
2 days ago
by Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan
Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Benin, Africa, World newsMilitary personnel told they can return to Nigeria after actions described as ‘unfriendly act’ * Fate of 11 Nigerian troops unclear after ‘unauthorised’ plane landing in Burkina Faso Authorities in Burkina Faso have released 11 Nigerian military personnel held after a cargo plane from Lagos made an “unauthorised” emergency landing in its second largest city, Bobo-Dioulasso. The breakaway regional Association of Sahel States (AES) said on Monday that the C-130 aircraft had entered Burkina Faso’s airspace without clearance, calling it an “unfriendly act”. Continue reading...
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DRC fighting forces 200,000 to flee just days after Washington peace deal
3 days ago
by Reuters
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, Rwanda, US foreign policy, Trump administration, US news, World newsRwanda-backed M23 rebels clash with Congolese army and other groups as they march on strategic eastern town About 200,000 people have fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as Rwanda-backed rebels march on a strategic eastern town just days after Donald Trump hosted the Rwandan and Congolese leaders to proclaim peace. The UN said at least 74 people had been killed, mostly civilians, and 83 admitted to hospital with wounds from escalating clashes in the area in recent days. Continue reading...
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US puts sanctions on network said to funnel Colombian mercenaries to Sudan
3 days ago
by Harriet Barber
Sudan, World news, Africa, War crimes, Conflict and arms, Global development, Trump administrationUS treasury accuses Colombian nationals and companies of aiding the RSF, which has committed horrific war crimes The United States has sanctioned four people and four companies accused of enlisting Colombian mercenaries to fight for and train a Sudanese paramilitary group accused by Washington of committing genocide. Announcing the sanctions on Tuesday, the US treasury said the network was largely composed of Colombian nationals and companies. Continue reading...
South China Morning Post
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US judge blocks ICE from re-detaining Abrego Garcia, amid Trump-era immigration clash
an hour ago
by Associated Press
A federal judge ordered on Friday that US immigration officials could not detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia, hours after his release from immigration detention. Abrego Garcia was appearing on Friday morning for a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, some 14 hours after he was released from detention on a judge’s orders. His lawyers asked the judge to block authorities from detaining him again. Officials cannot re-detain him until the court conducts a...
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Ukraine says it ‘liberated’ two settlements in Kharkiv, encircling Russian troops
2 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse,Reuters
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the strategic frontline town of Kupiansk on Friday, just as Ukrainian forces reported retaking parts of the railway hub and encircling Russian troops. Standing at the city’s entrance in a bulletproof vest, Zelensky emphasised in a video message that “it is extremely important to achieve results on the front lines so that Ukraine can achieve results in diplomacy”. “Many Russians talked about Kupiansk – we can see. I was here, I congratulated the...
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Would the world be safer if the military were in charge of the US?
3 hours ago
by Alex Lo
Tom Barrack, the United States special envoy for Syria, recently made waves at an international forum in Doha, Qatar, by suggesting that “benevolent monarchies” might be the most effective form of government for the Middle East. He also suggested that Israel was not a democracy. His remarks were probably welcomed in some parts of the region, but probably less well received by the US and other Western media, which all but consider themselves guardians of proper world opinion. Barrack was just...
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UK ‘super flu’ outbreak sparks ‘worst-case’ fears amid looming Christmas doctors’ strike
4 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
The UK is facing an “unprecedented wave of super flu”, a health chief warned on Friday as the health minister urged doctors to call off a threatened five-day strike ahead of Christmas. Wes Streeting said the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) was in an “incredibly precarious situation” as flu cases mounted, and was facing a “challenge unlike any it has seen since the pandemic”. NHS figures published on Thursday showed flu cases at a record level for the time of year. The number of cases...
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US Christmas shoppers are paying a high price for Trump’s tariffs
7 hours ago
by David Dodwell
It is almost eight years since US President Donald Trump first declared that “trade wars are good, and easy to win”. How much longer will it take him and his tariff hawks to eat those words, and acknowledge the crass economic illiteracy of that conviction? How high a price must everyone pay – in particular, US consumers – before he calls off his tariff war? As America’s Christmas shopping season gets into full swing, typically accounting for around one third of US retailers’ annual profits, the...
New York Times
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China Is Getting Much of What It Wants From the U.S., Including Chips
10 hours ago
by Lily Kuo
China, United States International Relations, International Trade and World Market, Defense and Military Forces, Computer Chips, NVIDIA Corporation, Rare Earths, Communist Party of China, Japan, Trump, Donald J, Xi JinpingFor China, President Trump’s moves to loosen chip controls, soften U.S. rhetoric and stay silent on tensions with Japan amount to a rare string of strategic gains.
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Historic Shift Underway in China’s Economy as Investment Slump Deepens
5 hours ago
by Daisuke Wakabayashi and Amy Chang Chien
China, Economic Conditions and Trends, Factories and Manufacturing, Infrastructure (Public Works), Real Estate and Housing (Residential)Investment in manufacturing, infrastructure and property is expected to fall this year, a remarkable turn for an economy whose growth reshaped the world.
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Republicans Defy Trump in Indiana, and Hundreds Quarantined in Measles Outbreak
4 hours ago
by Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Kate LoPresti and Megan Twohey
United States Politics and Government, Measles, Republican Party, Trump, Donald J, IndianaPlus, the Friday news quiz.
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Indiana Senate Republicans Reject Trump’s Redistricting Effort
16 hours ago
by Mitch Smith
Indiana, Redistricting and Reapportionment, State Legislatures, Republican Party, Democratic Party, House of Representatives, Midterm Elections (2026), Federal-State Relations (US), United States Politics and Government, Trump, Donald JRepublicans hold an overwhelming majority in the Indiana Senate, but more than a dozen of them defied the president’s wishes, voting against a map aimed at adding Republicans in Congress.
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Key Takeaways After Indiana Lawmakers Defy Trump’s Redistricting Push
12 hours ago
by Nick Corasaniti and Mitch Smith
Indiana, Redistricting and Reapportionment, Republican Party, Trump, Donald J, Midterm Elections (2026), State Legislatures, United States Politics and Government, Threats and Threatening Messages, Voting Rights Act (1965)President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.