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Key Bridge Nightmare: Contractor Dropped After Costs Spiral
Key Bridge Nightmare: Contractor Dropped After Costs Spiral
Left-wing Gov. Wes Moore's claim that the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild is the "fastest-moving large infrastructure project in the United States" just hit a major roadblock.
Fox Baltimore's Gary Collins reports that Maryland officials canceled Kiewit Infrastructure Co.'s contract for Phase 2 of the bridge rebuild, the construction phase, after the contractor's proposal reportedly far exceeded state estimates.
BREAKING NEWS: The contract for Phase 2 for the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild has been officially cancelled.
The contract is expected to go up...
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Jun 26, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Russia's Lavrov Admits That Anchorage Only Bought Time For Ukraine To Rearm
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Authored by Andrew Korybko,
Lavrov sheepishly said during a roundtable event last week that “I do not even want to suspect that Alaska, like the actions of the Europeans, was designed to buy time to rearm the Kyiv regime. I don’t even want to think about it. But in reality, things turned out the way they did.”
This came three and a half years after former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted in December 2022 that the Minsk Accords were just a ruse to...
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Mar 4, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Services ISM Smashes Estimates, Prints At 56.1 Highest Since 2022, As Prices Paid Tumble
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After the Manufacturing ISM print earlier this week came modestly stronger than expected (albeit with the Prices Paid component spiking and sending 10Y yields higher), some were expecting a similar improvement in today's Services ISM print. What they got instead, was a blowout number, and one suggesting that whatever weakness the US economy was in for much of the latter part of 2025, is now over.
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Jul 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Houston, We Have Shareholders
Houston, We Have Shareholders
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
SpaceX’s highly anticipated Starship test flight never made it off the pad Thursday evening. Instead, the launch was scrubbed after what appeared to be an automatic abort during engine startup, marking the first major operational disappointment since the company became publicly traded just weeks ago.
As of this writing, the company has not released a detailed explanation for what happened. SpaceX has only said there will be no launch today, that engineers will review the issue, determine the cause, and announce the next...
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