High river temperatures have forced France to cut nuclear power generation, reducing electricity output as reactors face cooling constraints... with low river levels restricting barge traffic on the Rhine and driving up shipping costs...

Li Mingtao, the chief scientist overseeing the project, said there are currently no known asteroids expected to strike Earth. Even so, he cautioned that many medium-sized objects capable of causing widespread regional destruction have yet to be discovered.

Iran said it has suspended the implementation of the MoU, suggesting that the US had “violated” commitments within the framework; Brent +2.4%.

Burnham has claimed that nationalisation – taking Britain back to the pre-Thatcher 1970s – will cure the country’s ills. He’s in for a very nasty shock...

Rapid public advances in humanoid robotics have fueled persistent (but unverified) online legends of a secret exhibition displaying eerily lifelike female androids or synthetic beings in containment chambers, highlighting how technology often emerges in classified forms years before society notices...

'It's very common practice, especially in the Pacific Ocean, for Chinese fishing vessels to transmit false positions,' said Peter Hammarstedt.

Another large source of demand, as the supply story only gets worse...

The individuals were charged with crimes such as illegally entering the United States and smuggling of foreign nationals into the country.

"Meanwhile, sentiment toward AI stocks and hyperscalers' capex binge keeps weakening..." 

We must never become "China's Taiwan", president says...

 

US and Iran geopolitical escalation after two US service members were killed in an attack on Jordan.

The judge said the competitive grant program could be reinstated without the race-based provision...

"The best summer tactic remains retreat from risk assets and/or rotate to duration, defensives, dividend yields, US dollar, rather than reload (not “time to buy”)" - Michael Hartnett.

...noticeable uptick in “angst” around the relentlessness of the pullback in AI / Semis... here's three investment themes that are NOT AI...

There would be no racial controversy if the black ladies would stop attacking the white lady while the refs do nothing...

"Following Lord Lindsey’s passing, Darline, Duchess of Charleston, ascended the High Chamber..."