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At 16 years old, Isaiah Taylor realized nuclear reactors were being made too big. At 19, he married his childhood sweetheart, Sophie, and at 24 he founded Valar Atomics. “I’ve always just kind of known what I wanted,” the young founder told the Deseret News. “I want to build nuclear reactors, and I wanted to get married to Sophie. So why wait?” The Southern California-based company is a manifestation of his original vision: nuclear reactors need to be smaller, safer and made on a factory line. Now, at 27, Taylor plans to see his first microreactor come alive in Orangeville,...

Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline

A Baltimore police officer is charged with misconduct and making false entries in a public record that prosecutors said burdened other officers and potentially jeopardized their safety. The indictment alleges that a random audit in December 2025 found Officer Dequwan Houchins made numerous false reports of traffic stops in the electronic reporting system known as CAD for at least four months, prosecutors said. "This was just a lazy cop who didn't want to do anything and wanted to collect a paycheck," Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said during a news conference. According to prosecutors, ethics investigators suspected that Houchins used...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A recent San Francisco Civil Grand Jury report found that weak oversight within the city's homeless services system may be putting residents of supportive housing at risk, raising questions about accountability, safety and the management of taxpayer-funded programs. The report comes as city officials continue addressing concerns surrounding permanent supportive housing, where the Department of Public Health reported that 26% of all unintentional drug overdose deaths in San Francisco in 2024 occurred in such facilities. For Aisha McCain, the issue is deeply personal. [snip] The fire department was called in once the body was discovered. "He...

Wisconsin will elect a new governor in 2026 following incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' decision not to seek another term in office. The August 11 primary will decide the party nominees who will appear on the November general election ballot. Seven candidates appear on the ballot for the Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor. State Rep. Francesca Hong and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley lead the field after several prominent candidates dropped out of the race in recent weeks, including Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez and former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who still appear on the ballot.

A conservative named Bonnie Wallace is suing the Texas school board because they kicked her out of a public meeting for reading passages from a book that is available in the school library.I hope she wins.It’s incredibly hypocritical to ban this book at a school board meeting, when the exact same book is available in the school library.https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/conservative-activist-sues-hisd-reading-235847171.html

Jensen Huang built the world’s most valuable company by pioneering the specialized computer chips behind the artificial intelligence boom. To keep his vision for the future within reach, the Nvidia founder is now attempting a different kind of engineering: convincing Wall Street investors that those chips are long-term financial assets akin to commercial real estate or toll roads. His bet hinges on outpacing AI developments in China. This week, Nvidia unveiled agreements with six of the world’s largest asset managers, BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, KKR, Brookfield and Goldman Sachs. The goal was to assemble a $500 billion pipeline to finance the...

A lot of attention has been focused on the Commie Hong running in the Democrat primary for governor of Wisconsin. However, I contend that the Minnesota Democrat primary for U.S. Senator is equally, if not, MORE significant. The main contenders are a standard issue Democrat vs Flan Southside aka Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan. You might remember her from earlier this year when it was alleged that she was a ringleader of the Antifa Signal Chat that directed the Minneapolis Commie crowd harassment of ICE in an attempt to keep them from performing their duty. During these harassments, 2 people died...

...About 50 days ago, he was transferred from the prison to the hospital in what's been described as a state of a dissociative stupor. Some might say a catatonic state or a vegetative state. He's being fed through a tube that runs into his nose, down into his stomach. And we are literally on an hour-by-hour basis hoping that Mr. Gilman hangs on and that we can secure for him some kind of lifesaving medical evacuation out of Russia. ... Well, the tragedy of this whole story starts with the fact that, over 1,600 days ago, he started his detention...

James Bond producer Amy Pascal has dropped a little more intel on what we can expect from the actor who will replace Daniel Craig in the iconic spy franchise. And suffice it to say, it sounds like it’s going to be all change. Since Craig handed in his licence to kill following 2021’s No Time to Die – his fifth outing as the suave MI6 operative – it has become a national pastime to debate who the next actor will be to take on the part, following in the footsteps of Sir Sean Connery, Sir Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan...

The lengths Democrats will go to free bloodthirsty criminals are beyond belief. And now, a Gavin Newsom-appointed board in Democrat-run California has okayed the parole board granting clemency to those sentenced to life without parole (LWOP). Back in July, the California Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) took it upon themselves to create a new set of bureaucratic rules that give them the authority to review and approve the release of prisoners sentenced to LWOP. We're talking about serial killers and murderers like Scott Peterson getting released after being sentenced to LWOP. The Parole Board suddenly decided it had the power...

In a newly unearthed video, disgraced former Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman said both President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are “enemies” of America. Now running for U.S. Senate in Florida, Vindman has built his campaign around his obsessive hatred of President Trump and anyone who supports him. Appearing on a podcast called “Rick Wilson’s The Enemies List,” Vindman says: “Which enemy are we talking about here? Are we talking about Russia and Putin? Are we talking about Trump and Trumpism?… Striking similarities actually.” The comments are just the latest vitriol from the Vindman family, which includes his brother, Virginia Democrat...

. They published screenshots showing a fraction of these – 11 texts sent during Fauci’s tenure as director (NIAID). exchange on January 25, 2021, Dr. Vivek Murthy, member of Biden’s Covid advisory board, asked about risk to pregnant, whether Fauci knew any “data or reason vaccinating early vs late in pregnancy would be preferred.” Fauci “no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later would be preferred.” “Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose, could be associated with miscarriage 1st trimester.” Walensky, -director CDC, “ good point, esp after dose two.”...

More affluent areas of Britain will have to house asylum seekers too, the Prime Minister has said after more than 900 migrants arrived in small boats in the last three days. Andy Burnham was speaking on Tuesday after protests at a migrant camp being set up near Piddington, a village near Bicester, which locals fear could overwhelm the hamlet. Home Office figures show that in the last three days alone 911 people have made the perilous journey from France, including 230 in a single mega boat on Monday. A total of 3,003 migrants have arrived in Britain across the English...

Explanation: How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June 2026 the ringed gas giant had 293 confirmed moons. That's easily more than any other planet of the Solar System, including ruling gas giant Jupiter with a mere 115 confirmed moons. Most of Saturn's known moons are small, irregular satellites. Many are only few kilometers to a fraction of a kilometer across and grouped in tilted outer orbits. Six of its largest satellites can be seen here, though, in this sharp telescopic Saturnian family portrait taken on August 5. Larger than Earth's...

The bloodthirsty Islamic regime in Iran has once again shown the world exactly what Sharia justice looks like. The Islamic Republic of Iran has reportedly executed a 24-year-old woman after rejecting her claim that she acted in self-defense during an attempted sexual assault. At dawn on August 8, 2026, the mullahs hanged 24-year-old Marziyeh Neyri (also reported as Marzieh Nayyeri/Nayeri) at Qazvin Central Prison, also known as Choobindar or Chubindar Prison, according to reports from the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. She was executed for “premeditated murder” under...

A woman in Florida has lost her arm following an alligator attack that took place Saturday. A hero boater who was in the area possibly saved her life. With a group of swimmers, the woman was in the Silver River around Ocala when all of a sudden she saw an alligator heading in her direction, and in response, she used a paddle in an attempt to ward it off. The gator instead bit her right arm and pulled her underwater. Not far from the scene, John Gamache and his father were on a boat eating lunch when they could hear...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani threw his staff under the bus Tuesday after an awkward public disagreement between City Hall and NYPD officials over whether the department will send cops to serve as security detail for his wife Rama Duwaji’s upcoming Middle East trip. Mamdani appeared to blame a mistake by his City Hall staff after a high-profile back-and-forth with the police department. “There was a miscommunication. She has not yet taken that trip and when she takes that trip it will be without any NYPD detail,” Mamdani told PIX11. The mayor’s clarification came after The Post reported late Monday that Duwaji...

American taxpayers will no longer be on the hook for child sex-change hormones or surgeries, as a key Trump administration agency announced Tuesday that Medicaid will stop funding such procedures and therapies. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz tells Fox News Digital that the decision to implement a rule pulling the funding is “consistent with [the Trump administration’s] commitment to protect children from experimental and life-altering sex-rejecting procedures that carry serious long-term health risks and lack sufficiently reliable evidence of clinical benefit.” CMS, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), says...

The allegations are linked to a video Tyler Boebert, then 18, is accused of recording in 2024 with a 17-year-old.The son of Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., was arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, authorities said Monday. Tyler Boebert, 21, was taken into custody Sunday and later released on $10,000 bond, the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Tyler Boebert did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “I love my son,” Lauren Boebert said in a statement Monday. “We take allegations very seriously and pray for everyone affected during this challenging time.” It...