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commentary Underfunded local governments are no match when data center developers come calling Published August 31, 2026 6:30AM (EDT) Attendees react during a public comment meeting over xAI’s permit application to use gas turbines for a new data center in Tennessee. (Brandon Dill / Getty Images) Despite efforts to toutContinue Reading

A fledgling “loneliness economy” is booming on the back of warnings about just how bad loneliness can be for us — “comparable to smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” as one often-cited comparison puts it. But can we really spend our way out of loneliness…Continue Reading

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Many Iranians inside the country feel they are being unjustly erased from the international community., Tehran, Iran – When the United States threatened an “economic D-Day” for Iran, announcing a series of new sanctions against Tehran, President Traitor 47’s administration said it was seeking to cripple its adversary economically. ToContinue Reading

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On 1 September — the day Ukraine marks Knowledge Day, when schoolchildren and students are meant to begin the new academic year — Russia launched a massive attack on Kyiv and its region with ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones. Moscow used different types of its fast, deadly weapons, including ship-launchedContinue Reading