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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Jon Zobenica) - The UK’s Energy Woes Can’t Be Blamed on Gas Wed Sep 16 04:03:00 2026

The pursuit of net zero has inexorably raised the cost of UK electricity—for which, naturally, fossil-fuel price spikes are getting all the blame. The post The UK’s Energy Woes Can’t Be Blamed on Gas appeared first on The American Conservative .

Economy Economy The UK’s Energy Woes Can’t Be Blamed on Gas The pursuit of net zero has inexorably raised the cost of UK electricity—for which, naturally, fossil-fuel price spikes are getting all the blame. UK Special Coverage In response to discontent over the UK’s punishingly high electricity prices—with domestic rates being near the highest in Europe and industrial rates being the highest —Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh has been making the media rounds, asserting that rates are overwhelmingly “being driven by global fossil-fuel markets,” and that as a…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Luke Nicastro) - Will Conservatives Constrain the Machines? Wed Sep 16 04:03:00 2026

The need for a political response to AI is becoming increasingly urgent. The post Will Conservatives Constrain the Machines? appeared first on The American Conservative .

Artificial Intelligence Will Conservatives Constrain the Machines? The need for a political response to AI is becoming increasingly urgent. (ALLISON BAILEY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images) The end of human civilization has gotten a little more thinkable.  Last week, a 27-year-old named Jacob Coxon quit his lucrative job at Anthropic, arguably the world’s most important AI lab, because he believed his employer was building something that could “kill us all by the end of the decade.” Remarkably, his concerns were affirmed by former colleagues of his who stayed with the company: Evan Hubinger, who leads…Open

STRIPES (Rose Thayer) - Fort Carson begins demo of 300 family homes, makes way for new construction | Stars and Stripes Tue Sep 15 21:54:56 2026

The housing in Arapahoe Village dates back to the 1950s, and replacing it is the second phase of an ongoing project at Fort Carson to build 477 new homes.

STRIPES (Matthew M. Burke) - Younger veterans more likely to have elevated levels of ‘forever chemicals,’ study finds | Stars and Stripes Tue Sep 15 15:42:09 2026

PFAS exposure has been associated with health problems including kidney and testicular cancers, as well as ulcerative colitis.