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Bloomberg found China is building a small city of AI data centers in a remote desert. In this mini-documentary, we reveal how it’s planning to use thousands of export-banned US chips to power them https://t.co/iIHBF0rFIA — Bloomberg (@business) July 31, 2025 China plans to build roughly 36 data centers in its remote Xinjiang desert zone, …
Delta Air Lines flight #DL56 from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam experienced “significant turbulence” and diverted to Minneapolis. Delta says 25 people on board were taken to local hospitals. https://t.co/6steCqXXYT pic.twitter.com/awql7kVqhA — Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) July 31, 2025 on a Delta Air Lines Flight experienced '' sever turbulence '' and was forced to make an emergency …
Saturday afternoon in northern Michigan turned violent inside a Walmart checkout area. At 4:43 p.m., a man armed with a folding knife attacked shoppers in Traverse City, leaving 11 people wounded. Six are in critical condition. Five are listed as serious. The suspect, a 42-year-old male, was subdued within minutes by a sheriff’s deputy and …
Kansas City is staring down a failed experiment. Nearly a decade ago, the city spent $17 million to buy and renovate the Linwood Shopping Center on Prospect Avenue. The anchor tenant, Sun Fresh Market, opened in 2018 with fresh produce, seafood, and a full-service deli. It was supposed to end the food desert. It’s now …
🚨NEW—CNN REPORTS THAT VIOLENT RIOTS ARE SPREADING TO MAJOR CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY! – Dallas– Louisville– Atlanta– New York City "Many protestors say it's time to take a stand against the Trump administration's policies…" pic.twitter.com/pKdjR5jwKS — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 10, 2025 🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett calls for looters to be SH0T on sight …
City of Toronto’s planning department approved condos as small as 250 sq ft. Who in city hall signed off on these shoebox apartments? 250 sq ft isn’t livable for a single—let alone a couple or family. RIP Condos… you asked for it. pic.twitter.com/q0XcqbBvqA — Shazi (@ShaziGoalie) May 5, 2025
Now, it is official! https://t.co/98XWq6Bt4f — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2025
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1914697986946252915 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An investigation is underway in Clay County after a local mother reported that a man exposed himself in the women’s locker room at the North Kansas City YMCA. “Shock, because I have an 11-year-old that comes here often with me and works out. It’s definitely a shock,” said one member. …
⬆️ MAYOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET: DEPARTMENT SALARIES/PAYROLL INCREASES/DECREASES ⬇️ • 1,647 layoffs (direct savings $114M)• 1,074 vacant position eliminations (direct savings $100M) • Fire will get a net increase: +227 positions• Housing will get a net increase: +74 positions pic.twitter.com/qRWwBQfj0g — LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia (@lacontroller) April 22, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles …
LaTarsha Brown’s noose scandal mirrors Jussie Smollett’s false hate crime How it went……. How its going pic.twitter.com/K6o3PG6FdO — Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) March 24, 2025 FLASHBACK: When school board member of @AllentownSD and city employee LaTarsha Brown reported a noose on her desk, BLM activists including fellow board members and city leaders immediately mobilized to protest calling …
STAGGERING drone footage shows the scale of the vast Chinese electric vehicle mega factory that is being built. The sprawling BYD factory in Zhengzhou, in China’s Henan province, is set to be bigger than a major US city and has its own football ground. Aerial footage of the factory and the land it is expanding …
Trump promises to close loophole—will America be robbed again? 🚨🇺🇸 WALL STREET IS COLLAPSING COMPANIES FOR PROFIT—AGAIN Joann’s, Party City, Big Lots—profitable stores, but all going bankrupt. Why? Because Private Equity loaded them with debt they knew they couldn’t survive. They call it “back floating rate debt”—adjustable-rate loans… pic.twitter.com/atsndgOeHk — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 17, …
Why jump over the new state of the art subway turnstile spikes and metal shields in NYC when you can just walk through the door?
A Welsh landfill dump where 8,000 Bitcoins are thought to be buried will be repurposed, at least partly, into a solar farm. According to BBC News, the local council will close the landfill in the 2025-26 financial year, and then it will be capped. Planning permission has been secured to develop a solar farm at …
by confoundedinterest17 Oh we’ve got trouble in (Potomac) river city … with a capital P and that rhymes with D and that stands for DOGE. But can DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency In 2025, $9.2 TRILLION of US debt will either mature or need to be refinanced. The US now holds $36.2 trillion worth of …
TOP 10 HIGHEST PAID LOS ANGELES CITY EMPLOYEES. pic.twitter.com/aHf3YdI1Nj — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 10, 2025
Tonight, the Huntington Beach City Council voted to approve the initiative brought by Mayor Pat Burns to Declare the City of Huntington Beach a “Non-Sanctuary City for Illegal Immigration for the Prevention of Crime.” As the City Council Members commented, the intent of this Resolution is to deliberately sidestep the Governor’s efforts to subvert the …
by confoundedinterest17 Some cities in the USA are simply unaffordable. The Visual Capitalist calls most unaffordable cities as least affordable. San Jose California and New York City are the two most unaffordable cities in the USA. According to household spending. On the flip side of the affordability coin is … Detroit Michigan and Cleveland Ohio. Followed closely by Dayton Ohio and El Paso Texas. Fortunately, I live …
Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame ‘tremendous demand’ As wildfires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, crews battling the Palisades blaze faced an additional burden: Scores of fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out. “The hydrants are down,” said one firefighter in internal radio …
– She’s recently been punched in the head while walking – It feels like at any time you can be stabbed while walking – Someone being stuck by a train on the subway is so common she’s become numb to it so dangerous so sad it has become to this — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) …
On December 27, 2024, a 67-year-old man was found on fire at Penn Station in New York City. Commuters alerted authorities at around 8:10 p.m. after discovering the man suffering from severe burns to his legs and upper body. He was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition. This incident occurred just five …
This is a subway station in Moscow. Compare this to New York City… pic.twitter.com/fgg5Y59J0K — Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) December 28, 2024 Incredibly filthy subway car filled with all sorts of trash in the Bronx, NY Footage shows train covered in heaps of garbage, from the floor to the seats, and it has recently attracted the …
What a failure…why take the job? Didn’t even give any severance. 🚨 BREAKING: Party City is closing ALL stores after almost 40 years in business! CEO Barry Litwin announced to corporate staff that operations are "winding down" IMMEDIATELY, with today being their final day. This marks the end for America's largest party supply retailer. pic.twitter.com/30tmqSbXFy …
I should note, these candidates were from last election cycle. I just stumbled upon this and was shocked just how out of touch these candidates actually are. How can these people be so out of touch, that they’re wrong on the cost of housing by a whole ORDER OF MAGNITUDE. h/t Not-A-Seagull
A senseless tragedy unfolded at a USPS facility just outside Houston, where employee Kevin Hines was shot and killed by his co-worker, Derrick Lott. This horrific event has left the community shaken, and authorities are working tirelessly to uncover the motive behind the crime. Around 10 p.m. Monday night, Hines, a USPS contractor, was murdered …
A retired Kansas City Fire Department battalion chief is set to receive an $850,000 settlement for dropping a lawsuit that claims he was denied a promotion due to his race and gender. Daniel McGrath, who is white, retired in January. Former Fire Chief Donna Lake gave the deputy chief’s job that McGrath was seeking in …
The man suspected of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel took a taxi to the Port Authority bus facility at 178th Street and boarded a bus out of New York City following the shooting, according to police. The unidentified man remains at large in the wake of Wednesday’s attack, which …
Home of the purple patio(Ravens), this one of the most popular bars in Baltimore. A traditional spot to pregame before headed to an O’s/Ravens game. To see it close its doors is shocking. They are keeping their suburb locations. They obviously just wanted to get the hell out of the city: pic.twitter.com/BM1hnli69e — QE Infinity …
The proposal to remove the pledge first surfaced at the board’s organizational meeting last week, but members delayed a decision until Tuesday, WEMU reports….. “I know I don’t feel comfortable pledging allegiance to a flag,” she said. “And so, I don’t participate in that, so I wanted to bring it up as a formal change …
