Trump Says US Military Operation To ‘Guide’ Ships Out of the Strait of Hormuz Is Paused

Pennsylvania Data Centers Face Increased Oversight Under New Law By Diana DiGangi of UtilityDive Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro, signed a budget Sunday which will require data centers to report their exact water and power usage annually to the state. It also requires the PJM Interconnection to give Pennsylvania state regulators additional insight into its demand forecasting. “The current process by which utilities submit information to PJM lacks transparency for policymakers, regulators and stakeholders,” states House Bill 1924, which was folded into Pennsylvania’s 2026-2027 budget. “There is a need for oversight by...

Inflation Fears Plummet As UMich Sees Democrats' Confidence Pick Up In February After rebounding strongly in preliminary February data (as Democrats came to their senses over the fearmongered Trump tariff-flation), the final UMich sentiment survey print slipped lower with the headline lowered from 57.3 to 56.6. Both Current Conditions and Expectations were lower than the flash print with the latter falling to 2 month lows and the former holding at 4-month highs... Does anyone else think its weird that all the numbers were exactly the same at 56.6 Source: Bloomberg Democrats and Republicans...

The Appalachian region, while always relatively poor, had strong families and institutions that held things together. In the aftermath of the expansion of the welfare state and the shrinking of the iron, steel, and coal industries, we have seen social breakdowns and increasing drug addiction.