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Vegetable-Oil Inflation Sends World Food Prices Higher
Vegetable-Oil Inflation Sends World Food Prices Higher
The benchmark for global food commodity prices rose for a third consecutive month in April, hitting its highest level since early 2023, as Middle East supply disruptions, elevated energy costs, and tightening supplies of certain agricultural products appear to be driving the next leg higher in global food prices.
This is a major risk we have warned about throughout the U.S.-Iran war, as energy and supply chain disruptions spread quickly through fertilizer, diesel, freight, biofuels, grains, and vegetable oils. We even treated readers to...
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Sep 3, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Cloudflare Reports Issues Amid OpenAI, Claude, And Grok Glitch
Cloudflare Reports Issues Amid OpenAI, Claude, And Grok Glitch
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Cloudflare's status page is reporting two active issues
Downdetector Reports Outages Across OpenAI, Claude, Grok
Cloudflare Problems
There are concerns that the outages and service disruptions reported by Downdetector users across major AI platforms, including OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and Cursor, could be linked to an issue at Cloudflare.
Cloudflare's status page is reporting two active issues:
HTTP/3 issue affecting R2 custom domains: Some websites or applications using custom domains connected to Cloudflare's R2 storage may experience failed or degraded requests over HTTP/3. “Monitoring” means Cloudflare has...
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Jun 11, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Karen Bass' Brother Joins Class-Action Lawsuit Against Karen Bass over LA Wildfires
Karen Bass' Brother Joins Class-Action Lawsuit Against Karen Bass over LA Wildfires
Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA,
The brother of embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has sued the very city government his sister leads, alleging officials failed to protect homeowners and business owners during the destructive Palisades Fire.
Kenneth Bass and his wife Cindy joined a class-action lawsuit in May against the City of Los Angeles, alleging the city failed to fill the Santa Ynez Reservoir when the wildfire broke out on January 7, 2025, according to multiple reports.
The...
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Jun 5, 2026 / Tyler Durden
ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation As Air Leak Worsens
ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation As Air Leak Worsens
NASA senior adviser and press secretary Bethany Stevens wrote on X that astronauts aboard the International Space Station have quickly shifted into SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and are prepared to evacuate if needed, after cracks and leaks in the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel appeared to worsen.
"The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and has been mitigated by Roscosmos as much as possible to date. The cracks have...
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