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Nvidia, the American semiconductor giant, has seen its dominance in China’s advanced chip market vanish, with its market share dropping from 95% to Zero due to stringent US export controls, according to CEO Jensen Huang. Speaking at a Citadel Securities event in New York earlier this month, Huang revealed that Nvidia is completely barred from selling its high-performance AI chips, including the A100, H100, and H200 models, to Chinese companies since restrictions began in 2022. A video of the interview was released recently. Huang expressed hope for a policy shift, stating, “We will continue to explain and inform and hold...

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Is wokeness dead? It’s dead under that name, but nah, there’s a whole generation of completely useless people who have been indoctrinated into it, the way a generation of Soviet bureaucrats were indoctrinated into Marxism-Leninism. They know their ‘anti-racist’ training and since they’re useless anyway, they can justify their uselessness by explaining that being useful is actually ‘white supremacy.’ Meet Grace Hagen: the new executive director of the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association. You would think the first question in an interview would have something to do with keeping independent booksellers alive in the Midwest. But since that’s a lost cause...

(DCNF)—Federal prosecutors suggested Sunday night that they may seek to disqualify former FBI Director James Comey’s attorney. Public information shows Patrick Fitzgerald, the lawyer representing Comey, allegedly helped the former FBI director “improperly disclose classified information,” prosecutors wrote in a Sunday filing. Comey faces charges for allegedly lying to Congress about authorizing someone to be “an anonymous source in news reports” during his September 2020 testimony and obstruction of a congressional proceeding. Comey’s attorneys argued in a Monday filing it is “provably false” that Comey used Fitzgerald to disclose classified information. “In short, there is no good faith basis for...

Coffee prices have risen 20% since last year because of inflation and amid tariff disruptions to traditional supply lines, exemplifying a broader rise in grocery prices across the board. Key FactsCoffee prices have risen more than 20% since August last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Last month, prices for coffee futures reached a record high in the Intercontinental Exchange in New York after Brazil’s crop agency, Conab, cut its 2025 arabica production forecast by 4.9% to 35.2 million bags.In July, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs of 50% on Brazil and 20% on Vietnam, the two countries that together...

Daily Readings from the USCCBSomeone in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me.” He replied to him, “Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?” Then he said to the crowd, “Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one’s life does not consist of possessions.” Luke 12:13–15What’s interesting in Jesus’ statement is that of all the people who ever walked the earth, no one is more worthy to be a “judge and arbitrator” of an injustice than Jesus Himself. Yet He refuses to intervene. Why...

It seems to me that what’s been lost in the discussion about the fedgov shutdown is the fact that this country has been operating under “omnibus” CRs for some time. The proper appropriations process seems to be a forgotten function of Congress, what do we pay these people for? Even under Republican control, there seems to be no desire to do what should be done regarding funding the government; not even “King” Trump has spoken on this issue (as far as I know), and nothing from loudmouths such as Rand Paul, Tom Massie, or MTG, why? Of course, this how...

By the time the Pilsen Food Pantry opened on a recent morning, Ulysses Moreno had been there for two hours — with a line of people behind him that snaked around the corner. “This is a lifeline for me,” said Mr. Moreno, 39. He had lost his construction job a few days earlier, and with three teenagers at home, he wanted to make sure he could stock up. “Our food budget doesn’t stretch as far as it used to.” A few miles away, on Chicago’s glitzy Magnificent Mile, luxury hotels are bustling. Jewelry stores and designer boutiques do brisk business....

House Republicans are raking in record cash as the government shutdown drags on — pulling in nearly $24 million between July and September, according to new fundraising numbers. More than half of that haul — about $13.95 million — came in September alone, just as the GOP prepared for a bruising political battle over federal spending. The fight has since escalated into a full-blown standoff that has left Washington paralyzed and the government shuttered for 20 days. The National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) September windfall marks its best non-election-year September ever, up roughly 50% from the same month last year....

The left is running scared. The Supreme Court heard arguments in Louisiana v. Callais on Wednesday. It was a re-argument of the case as justices heard oral arguments earlier on March 15. The question is whether Louisiana may herd black voters into two congressional districts and have whites own the four remaining districts. Incredibly, Democrats created this segregation of voters 60 years ago in the Orwellian named Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld and enforced this separate-but-equal treatment of black and later, Hispanic, voters. That may soon end. The New York Times reported: While state laws restricting...

Deep within the Mod's underground lair: We have a possible troll sighting in sector 5. Need confirmation. Insert initial greeting program.

Florida GOP Rep. Jimmy Patronis, who previously was the state's chief financial officer, is raising concerns about nonprofits potentially exploiting tax loopholes to turn such groups into profitable ventures for their leaders or owners. “I'm done with this stuff,” Petronis said recently on Just the News: No Noise. “I get at the end of the day, it may not affect … how much I pay for my cup of coffee, but it's unethical and immoral.” Patronis questioned how non-profit organizations can afford some luxuries. When host John Solomon asked where Patronis would start in the process of eliminating non-profit benefits,...

Moscow appears to have rejected President Trump’s latest call to freeze the current state of the front lines in Ukraine, reiterating that “Russia’s stance doesn’t change.” Addressing Trump’s proposal over the weekend that the war in Ukraine end immediately and that each side keep the land they currently hold, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov scoffed at the prospect of allowing Kyiv to keep parts of the Donbas region. “This topic was repeatedly raised in various forms during contacts between Russia and the US. The Russian side answered every time, this answer is well known: the consistency of Russia’s position doesn’t change,”...

In A Nutshell * American Airlines ranked as the world’s most disliked carrier with a dissatisfaction score of 56 out of 100, earning just 2.9 out of 10 from passengers. * Budget carriers Frontier and United took second and third place, with Frontier posting the lowest passenger experience rating at 2.0 out of 10 despite serving 33.3 million travelers annually across 105 destinations. * British Airways led all airlines in lost luggage complaints with 319 searches per 100,000 passengers, while Air France matched American Airlines with 11 safety incidents and showed the second-highest baggage complaint rate. * The analysis examined...

The analysis said the median estimate is that 5.2 million people took part, while the upper approximation is 8.2 million people. Newsweek has produced a map showing which states saw the highest turnout based on the crowdsourced estimates. It shows that New York had the highest estimated attendance, with almost 380,000 people estimated to have been at events in the state, followed by California and Illinois, where about 260,000 and 250,000 people are estimated to have attended events, respectively. States with the lowest turnout include Nebraska and South Dakota, with each of those two states estimated to have had only...

FOX: These indictments caused Obama to say democracy is being threatened. TRUMP: I know. He says that all the time - HE'S the one that threatened it by SPYING on my campaign. HE STARTED IT. Obama spied on my campaign. And he did it knowing it was illegal. But he started the whole thing! There were a lot of dishonest people - and I suspect they'll be caught!

Passengers on an Air China flight witnessed a lithium battery burst into flames in luggage that had been placed in an overhead bin on Saturday. The flight was on its way to Seoul but had to make an emergency landing in Shanghai when the incident happened, the New York Post reported. The plane had departed Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport just before 10:00 a.m. with 160 people onboard, the Post said, citing the airline and Chinese state media. VIDEO AT LINK.................... When the battery ignited, travelers began calling out for help to quell the flames. “Two flight attendants sprinted down the...

This time it is breath taking. Our Plan G premium went up 37%. Here we go again. Spin the roulette wheel of health care costs and see how high they go. Wonder if it is you being singled out or another gift to the state board of insurance or just what it is and how much.

Where I work in Austin, I deal with a LOT of Hispanic customers, primarily Mexicans. They have been telling me for some time that there is almost no construction work available. Today, two in a very short space of time said they have no work. Furthermore lemons, avocados, poblano peppers or other produce into the U.S. due to tariffs and are unloading tons of it on the side of rural highways for the locals to pick up for free. We are about to see major economic problems as the Trump Administration attempts to fix YEARS of problems caused by Godless...

A Chicago elementary teacher has been accused of mocking Charlie Kirk's death as the school she allegedly worked at shut down its website. Lucy Martinez made gestures seemingly alluding to Kirk's assassination at a 'No Kings' protest at the weekend.A video went viral online of a woman, who social media users soon identified as Martinez, pointing her finger at her neck with her thumb in the air, in a gesture that mimics a gun. She raised and lowered the her finger to her neck while appearing to mouth the word 'bang.'Her movements appeared to mock the death of 31-year-old Kirk,...