[PM] "We need a new Range Rover!" Anthony’s family had previously raised more than $600,000 through a separate fundraiser, which was taken down after his conviction.
The family of Karmelo Anthony
…the Black high school boy who brought a knife to a track meet, then went over to the other school’s tent, where he picked a quarrel with, then deliberately knifed, a white high school football star, leaving him to die in his twin brother’s arms. His family has been living high on funds donated by generous souls for his trial…
is seeking an additional $250,000 in donations to help pay for his appeal after a Texas judge denied his request for a new trial.
A GiveSendGo fundraiser for Anthony has raised roughly $27,000 toward the appeal. Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a 2025 track meet in Frisco.
According to the New York Post, a spokesperson for the family told reporters, “We understand that the pursuit of justice through the appellate system requires tremendous resources. This is why the legal fund has been established.”
Anthony’s family had previously raised more than $600,000 through a separate fundraiser, which was taken down after his conviction. GiveSendGo said in a statement afterward that the fundraiser “was created to support pre-trial needs, and those funds were disbursed over the past year for lawful purposes including legal defense and family relocation.”
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Should have been sentenced to Death.
Not a prison sentence, where a Parole is more likely to happen after things cool down, and the media/public moves on to other headline issues.
[Reuters] Wall Street billionaire Leon Black on Thursday sued a congressional committee that had ordered him to provide lawmakers with copies of non-disclosure agreements as part of a probe into the activities of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In June, Black refused to answer questions from lawmakers about victims of Epstein's abuse and the agreements. He declined to appear at a deposition the committee had scheduled for Thursday. He accused lawmakers of exceeding their constitutional authority when they subpoenaed him to provide the agreements.
In a complaint filed in Washington federal court, Black alleged that the House Oversight Committee and its chairman James Comer weaponized a voluntary June interview to launch an unlawful "fishing expedition."
Black, the co-founder of private equity giant Apollo Global Management (APO.N), said the committee's subpoenas have no legitimate legislative purpose and threaten to violate the privacy of women who have no connection to the Epstein scandal.
"This is no longer about finding the truth about Epstein. It is about trying to destroy Mr. Black. We were left with no choice but to file this lawsuit in response to an abuse of Congressional power," Susan Estrich, attorney for Black, said in a statement. Susan Estrich?? That old Clinton 4-packs of cigs wh0re hack is still alive? Who knew?
The committee is proceeding with Thursday's deposition to formally document the Apollo co-founder's absence before discussing next steps, House Oversight Chairman James Comer said in a statement. He defended the probe's scope, saying it aims to uncover how federal authorities mishandled the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases for decades, and how Epstein leveraged powerful connections to evade justice.
Epstein was found dead in a New York City jail cell in 2019, and his death was ruled a suicide. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a 2021 conviction for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors.
"It's a shame Leon Black is hiding behind litigation rather than provide answers to the American people,” Comer said. “Mr. Black’s testimony is crucial to our investigation as he was one of Mr. Epstein’s fee-paying clients and has several nondisclosure agreements."
EPSTEIN TIES, APOLLO FALLOUT
Black is one of several prominent political and business figures who have been called to testify about their ties to the late financier. Black relinquished the chief executive role at Apollo in 2021 after an external law firm found he had paid Epstein $158 million for tax and estate planning.
Thursday's scheduled deposition followed a voluntary private appearance Black made in June.
On that occasion, Black told the committee he never abused women or engaged in sex trafficking and had never had sex with underage women. He walked out during the interview, according to members of the committee, who ordered him to come back to testify under oath and subsequently subpoenaed him for documents.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges and served 13 months in jail. He was arrested again in 2019 on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors.
Apollo declined to comment on Black's appearance this week.
NEW: The Maria Bartiromo backstory, per multiple sources familiar....
Maria Bartiromo wanted to pursue a story related to China and 2020 election voting conspiracies... a major sensitivity for the network given its Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits.
A Fox Business executive sent a text to Fox Business producers informing them that that story could not go to air.
Bartiromo took a screen shot of the guidance and sent it to senior White House officials.
Fox News leadership learned about that after receiving a call from the White House, which they viewed as a fireable offense.
Fox pulled Bartiromo from air after Aug. 9. She was fired today. I have also learned that her executive producer Patrick Ignozzi was also fired after the annoucnement.
Maria had resigned her contract with Fox last February.
More in tomorrow's edition of IN THE ROOM
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But the media has an legal obligation to report persons passing along classified docs/info, war plans and deployments that affect the safety and national security of the USA.
I don't mean situations where a Gov _ _ _ internal group was guilty of hiding its own illegal doings, like MLK, JFK, CK, 4 Trump attempts, Epstein, planning & incidents.
So what is avenue of reproach against media for being politically bias, vindictive, and subversive, just for viewers, ratings and not factual reporting?
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From the PJM link at #1 - Democrats have spent years treating any Republican who questions the 2020 election as an enemy of democracy, despite the documented irregularities in the battleground states that year. They gave themselves a pass for disputing Bush's 2000 win and Trump’s 2016 win. But 2020’s results could not be questioned, and anyone who did paid a price. The only acceptable narrative surrounding 2020 was that it was the safest and most secure election in history, and anyone who questioned that was undermining our democracy.
A rather nice summary, doncha think?
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[Regnum] The death toll from a powerful landslide in Nepal has risen to 1,252, China Central Television reported on September 3, citing Nepalese police.
The day before, 1,127 casualties were reported. Chinese journalists, citing Nepalese authorities, report that rescue teams are continuing search operations in flood-affected areas. They are recording additional casualties from the natural disaster.
A devastating rock and ice avalanche in Nepal was triggered by an earthquake on the morning of August 26. The local Lhende River was blocked, causing water to overflow its banks and flooding areas downstream of the Bhote Koshi and Trisuli rivers. Large-scale flooding also affected China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The fate of nearly 4,200 people, including 592 foreigners, remains unknown.
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[Regnum] A magnitude 6.2 earthquake was recorded off the coast of the US state of Alaska. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported this on September 3.
According to seismologists, the tremors occurred 105 km southwest of the village of Nikolsky, with the source located at a depth of 78 km.
There were no reports of casualties or damage from the USGS.
On May 9, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck between Kamchatka and the US state of Alaska. The epicenter was located in the Aleutian Islands, 1,425 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and the epicenter was at a depth of 6 km. There were no injuries or damage.
On May 6, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake was recorded off the coast of Alaska. The epicenter was located 234 km southeast of Attu Station, with a depth of 10 km. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
[RedState] The foreign-born population in the United States has plummeted by nearly 3 million since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, according to a stunning new analysis of government data.
The preliminary analysis by Steven Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, estimates that the nation's foreign-born population dropped from roughly 53.3 million in January 2025 to 50.5 million in July 2026 — a decline approaching 3 million people in just 18 months.
If the estimate holds up, it would mark a dramatic reversal from the massive immigration surge under former President Joe Biden and the first sustained net decline in America's immigrant population since the 1930s.
The numbers, first reported by the Washington Times, are somewhat higher than some other estimates of the immigration decline and should be viewed as preliminary. They are based largely on the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey rather than an official government count of everyone who has entered or left the country.
But the overall trend is unmistakable: Immigration into the United States has slowed dramatically under Trump while deportations and voluntary departures have increased.
Camarota estimates that the illegal immigrant population fell from approximately 15.8 million in January 2025 to 13.5 million in July 2026 — a net decline of roughly 2.3 million.
The legal immigrant population declined by another 600,000, according to the analysis, reflecting fewer refugees, foreign students and other legal arrivals.
The numbers represent a remarkable turnaround from the Biden years, when Camarota estimates the foreign-born population increased by approximately 8.3 million.
Trump returned to office promising the largest deportation operation in American history while simultaneously tightening the border and encouraging illegal immigrants to leave voluntarily.
The new numbers suggest those policies are having an impact well beyond formal deportations.The Department of Homeland Security has previously estimated that millions of illegal immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office, including both formal removals and what the administration calls “self-deportations.”
Camarota's calculation is different. Rather than simply counting people who leave, it attempts to measure the net change in the illegal immigrant population — meaning new arrivals can offset deportations and voluntary departures.
That helps explain why his estimated 2.3 million decline in the illegal population can differ from larger administration estimates of the total number of people who have departed. There is also independent government evidence of an extraordinary immigration slowdown.
The Census Bureau reported in January that net international migration — the number of people entering the United States minus those leaving — plunged from 2.7 million in 2024 to approximately 1.3 million in 2025.
If current trends continue, Census projected that figure would fall again to approximately 321,000 by July 2026. The agency attributed the decline to both lower immigration and increased emigration.
That Census estimate does not establish that the foreign-born population has fallen by 3 million. It measures a different demographic statistic and covers an earlier period. But it does provide official confirmation that the historic immigration surge of the Biden years has gone sharply into reverse.
The Census Bureau also cautions that international migration is particularly difficult to measure because the flows can change rapidly and emigration is much harder to track than births and deaths. Camarota's analysis nevertheless suggests the effects are already large enough to begin changing the country's demographic trajectory.
One surprising finding is that only about 44 percent of the illegal immigrants estimated to have departed were working, according to Camarota. That's considerably below the roughly 60 percent labor-force participation rate he estimates for the illegal immigrant population generally.
That could help explain why the decline has not produced the kind of nationwide economic disruption critics of Trump's mass-deportation agenda predicted, although individual industries and regions could experience greater effects.
[SDUT] "This past year has been very complex, and we know why," Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, Cuba’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign investment, said. "The blockade is a genocide." He said, while sipping a daquiri..
The U.S. government on Thursday slapped new sanctions on Cuba in a fresh push to strangle the island’s economy and deepen its multiple crises.
Among those hit with sanctions are Fidel Ernesto Castro, grandson of former President Raúl Castro, and Cuba’s Oil Industry Supply Import Company, known as Abapet. The company is responsible for importing special equipment and spare parts needed to sustain Cuba’s crumbling power grid.
The sanctions aim to push Cuba’s critical machinery offline and exacerbate its energy crisis, said Brett Erickson, a sanctions expert and managing principal at Obsidian Risk Advisors, a consulting firm.
"The U.S. is trying to really tighten the screws as much as possible," he said.
"The Trump administration seems to have no seriousness to accept any change from Cuba other than a toppling of regime. Marco is not going to let that go," he added, referring to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Erickson anticipated that Cuba’s government would try to circumvent the sanctions "because they have to."
"They’ll get creative in how they try to procure these maintenance parts," he said, warning it would be a costlier alternative, which in turn would raise inflation and further hurt Cuba’s economy.
Island-wide blackouts have become increasingly common, while daily outages in Cuba now surpass 24 hours as the aging grid fails and fuel reserves dwindle ever since U.S. President Donald Trump in late January threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to the island.
"The goal in theory is to create so much civilian hardship and suffering that they have no option but to essentially rise up and topple their government," Erickson said. "It is an attempt to cause a humanitarian crisis."
Talks earlier this year between the U.S. and Cuba have since halted, while sanctions have increased in recent months.
Erickson said he expects the U.S. to keep targeting smaller and smaller state companies to try and push them "into a death spiral." The U.S. has previously sanctioned entities including Cuba’s state-owned oil and gas company.
[ZERO] Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sept. 3 that there was "a chance" of achieving peace with Ukraine and expressed a desire to rekindle relations with the United States.
Putin was speaking at a session of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok when he made the comments.
On the subject of Ukraine, the Russian president said Moscow was "grateful to everyone who is trying to contribute to resolving this issue," and he said that in his opinion there is "a chance" of peace, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
He said that for hostilities to end between Moscow and Kyiv, "Russia and Ukraine must first reach an agreement" between themselves, and he acknowledged that "all other countries are ready to support and assist" in achieving that.
The Russian leader also revealed that contact between Moscow and Kyiv was ongoing via the two nations' intelligence services, but he said that it was difficult for him to say "to what extent these contacts are leading to a peace agreement."
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Putin knows he will be dead within six months of ending the war. He can't end it because the ruling elites will sacrifice him to save their skins from the fury of the Russian people who suffered for a lost cause.
[Reuters] Humanoid robots working on factory floors, AI models challenging global rivals and electric-vehicle plants churning out cars at breathtaking scale are drawing a new wave of foreign visitors to China..
Investors and entrepreneurs are paying thousands of dollars for rare access to Chinese factories, seeking a front-row seat to what many believe could be the next technological revolution.
The influx reflects mounting fears of a "China shock 2.0", with Western boardrooms and capitals confronting the possibility that Chinese companies are seizing the lead in advanced manufacturing and cutting-edge technologies.
"Right now, people are looking at China as an object of study and learning — a trend that barely existed just a few years ago," says Robert Wu, CEO of Shanghai-based data research firm Baiguan. He noted that visitors often arrive with misconceptions — for instance, assuming China's robotaxi sector leads the U.S., when domestic policy caution around potential job losses actually keeps it a step behind.
Wu has organised two tours for more than two dozen investors, entrepreneurs and executives so far, charging up to $15,000 for a five-day programme. Around half the participants came from Southeast Asia.
He is part of a growing cottage industry catering to foreign demand for first-hand access to China's innovation ecosystem.
Many attendees avoid publicising their visits. Among those known to have made the trip are U.S. investment firms Dimension, Capital Group and Thrive Capital, as well as U.S. tech podcaster Lex Fridman.
While data on tech tours is scarce, broader industrial tourism is booming. China's industrial tourism sector pulled in $17.8 billion last year, according to state media, and is projected to blow past 300 billion yuan ($44.6 billion) by 2029.
Shanghai-based tech tour agency Glopen says inquiries jumped 50% in 2026 from mostly European and Singaporean clients, and it now runs over 100 single-day company tours every month.
"You cannot grasp the true scale, speed, and physicality of Chinese innovation without standing on the factory floor," says Bertrand Chen, CEO of the Global Shipping Business Network, who joined an April three-city robotics and emerging tech tour organised by Chinese American investor Rui Ma.
Ma, founder of Tech Buzz China and organizer of 11 such tours since 2019, frames it as essential due diligence: "Even if you're not actively investing in China, you're increasingly likely to encounter Chinese companies as competitors, partners, suppliers, or investments in markets around the world."
The circuit spans Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Hefei, the industrial powerhouses at the heart of China's electric-vehicle, battery, AI and robotics boom.
World leaders have also flocked to Xiaomi's (1810.HK) Beijing auto factory, while Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz was famously filmed watching Unitree's (688836.SS) dancing humanoid robots in Hangzhou, a high-profile showcase of the country's technological ascent.
[NYP] The Justice Department is backing OpenAI in its high-stakes legal battle with the New York Times, arguing in a court filing that using copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models does not violate the law.
The Times first sued OpenAI and key investor Microsoft in December 2023, alleging in Manhattan federal court that the ChatGPT creator had used “millions” of its copyrighted articles to build AI products that directly compete with the newspaper. It is one of several lawsuits accusing OpenAI and other AI giants of copyright infringement.
“The United States has a strong interest in this Court rejecting any argument that training LLMs on copyrighted texts violates copyright law,” DOJ officials wrote in the court brief published Wednesday.
To justify its stance, the DOJ argued that an adverse ruling in the Times’ favor would hamper development of AI models that “will be critical for US national security capabilities, in part because foreign adversaries won’t be held back by copyright law.
The agency also expressed concern that a ruling against OpenAI “would hamper competition in the market for LLMs, because only the largest technology companies might have the capital necessary to pay licensing fees.”
“It would be problematic—and legally incorrect—to impose broad copyright liability that would generally render training of AI models impermissible without licensing,” the DOJ added.
A Times spokesperson said the “administration is siding with a handful of trillion-dollar AI companies at the expense of the countless American creators whose work they stole.”
“Both AI and creators can thrive – AI companies simply need to pay fairly for the content that makes their products possible, as copyright law requires,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“The Administration’s proposal to let companies take that content without permission or compensation would undermine the sustainability of the human-created content that a healthy society depends on, and which AI needs to function.”
[Reuters] Gas producers and advisers promoting Australia's Northern Territory as a home for AI data centres say developers there can bypass grid-connection queues stalling projects in the populous southeast by building their own power generating units.
The pitch from companies positioned to benefit from a data centre build-out comes as Canberra plans to require new data centres from next year to be matched by renewable generation, with natural gas allowed only as a backup.
The Territory's proposed data centre developments are anchored by shale gas from the Beetaloo sub-basin, Australia's only shale gas province, which lies 500 km (310 miles) south of Darwin and sent its first commercial volumes this week.
"A developer with land and an energy source can begin generation behind the meter, right next to the facility," said Jason Finlay, a partner at Vantage North Group, a consultancy formed this year by former Territory bureaucrats.
"No connection application, no augmentation works, no four-to-eight years' wait on someone else's transmission line," Finlay said, speaking at the South East Asia Australia Offshore & Onshore Conference in Darwin.
[ZERO] Across the U.S., Americans are paying roughly 30% more for electricity than in 2020.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Cody Good in partnership with the National Public Utilities Council, uses data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration to show the change in average retail electricity prices by state across all sectors from 2020 to 2025.
Where Electricity Prices Rose the Most
Washington, DC saw the largest increase in the country, with average retail electricity prices rising 72% between 2020 and 2025. Maine followed closely at 67%, while Maryland and California rose 52% and 50%, respectively.
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Start with the rules surrounding the use of 'green energy' and the emphasis of such projects being allowed over proven, legally tilted against energy generation.
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in food services and drinking places and in local government education. The information industry lost jobs.
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Some small movement of part time jobs converting to full time.
Likewise some increase in hours of manufacturing.
Some upward revision in June and July employment numbers.
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PJ media and some others are calling this a very favorable report from a political viewpoint.
Wall Street is reacting negatively (Dow30, S&P both down about 0.5% at about noon today) as the growth douses the chances for a interest rate reduction.
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[BBC] Drivers in the US are paying more than ever for diesel at the pump as the US-Israel war with Iran continues to hit Americans' wallets.
In the US, diesel is mostly used by commercial vehicles, such as trucks, trains, boats, buses, farming vehicles and construction vehicles.
The average price for one gallon of diesel in the US has hit $5.85, compared to an average of $3.71 a year ago and above the previous high following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA).
Fuel prices have soared since the Iran conflict began at the end of February, reflecting the surge in wholesale oil prices.
In response to rising fuel costs, US President Donald Trump recently pledged to "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans" through an oil deal with Venezuela.
In January, the former leader of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was seized by US special forces following a raid authorised by President Trump.
The latest agreement, announced on Saturday, calls for the development of 17 strategic oil fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels, as well as "an investment of more than $100bn (£73.9bn) and more than $209bn in taxes" for Venezuela, according to Interim Venuzuela President Delcy Rodríguez.
The US government will retain 55% control of a joint venture with an "experienced private operator in Venezuela", a US official told the BBC's US partner CBS News.
[Reuters] The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is looking into whether an illegal operation in India that labelled chips and other food products with fake nutrition information and expiry dates represents a risk to the country's imports.
Indian authorities raided a Mumbai warehouse last week, seizing products worth nearly $80,000 as well as chemicals and printing machines used to replace old dates and nutritional information on PepsiCo (PEP.O), Nestle (NESN.S), Coca-Cola (KO.N) and Unilever (ULVR.L) products to make them suitable for export. The companies have not been accused of any wrongdoing, and the investigation is focusing on rogue exporters.
The Canadian agency "is monitoring the situation to determine whether it presents any risk to imports into Canada. At this time, the CFIA has no information indicating that products associated with this operation entered Canada," it said in a statement to Reuters.
"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency takes food fraud, including false date markings, inaccurate nutrition information, and misleading origin claims seriously," it added.
It is the first foreign agency to react to the incident.
The crackdown in Mumbai is part of an unprecedented food safety drive in India, where both federal and state authorities are aggressively checking for poor hygiene standards or breaches of food safety laws, and have at times even issued instant suspension orders.
[Just The News] Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson says he wouldn't vote for Michigan GOP Senate nominee Mike Rogers "at gun point," again appearing to show his opposition to U.S. support for Israel's government.
Carlson, a former Fox News Channel opinion show host, made the comment on his podcast released Wednesday on which he also said Rogers, a former chairman of the House Intelligence committee, is "basically a tool of Israel and the intel agencies," in addition to saying he "wouldn't vote for Mike Rogers at gun point."
Rogers is in a tight race for the open Senate seat with Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive who has recently apologized for comments that offended Jewish people, particularly Jewish Democrats in the state.
Carlson also said that "there is no one that should be further from a position of power than Mike Rogers," according to the Detroit News.
A spokeswoman for the Rogers campaign didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rogers is a former officer in the U.S. Army and FBI special agent. While serving in the U.S. House, he chaired the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2024, losing a close race against Democrat Elissa Slotkin of Holly. Michigan Republicans coalesced around him as their nominee for the 2026 election.
Rogers and El-Sayed are competing for a U.S. Senate seat that's open because Sen. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, decided not to seek another six-year term.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[SDUT] "This past year has been very complex, and we know why," Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga, Cuba’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign investment, said. "The blockade is a genocide."
