President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy sparked backlash last week after posting on X that “wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and the wind is not blowing.”
The message echoed recent remarks from Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil and gas executive, who defended Trump’s claim that renewable energy is driving up electricity costs, though he acknowledged the picture is more complicated.
He also argued that wind and solar are “intermittent” and, without large-scale batteries, “worthless” when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. Greater reliance on renewables, he added, effectively creates “a whole separate grid” that raises overall costs.
Still, the DoE’s X post drew millions of views and many mocking replies, including a community note reminding readers that batteries exist to store power when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.
Among the most prominent replies was from Elon Musk, who cut through the noise with just two words: “Um … hello?”
Alongside his reply, the Tesla CEO boosted his company’s large-scale battery business, which had recently touted a 370-megawatt-hour storage project in Australia designed to stabilize the grid and expand renewable use. His post garnered a little over half a million views. Tesla also has a solar panel business for use in homes.
The Department of Energy didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Several users also pointed out Musk’s extensive campaign support for the president last year despite Tesla’s focus on green energy.
Musk spent nearly $300 million on Republican candidates in the last election cycle, endorsing Trump after he survived an assassination attempt. After he was elected, Trump installed Musk to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE,) and the two men seemed inseparable, with Musk writing in February that he loves Trump “as much as any straight man can love another man.”
But the two also had clear ideological differences from the start, particularly around renewables. Musk heads one of the world’s leading electric-vehicle companies, and has long supported all kinds of renewable energy, including solar and wind.
The alliance unraveled in a very public break-up earlier this year over the One Big Beautiful Bill, which sparked Musk’s fierce opposition because it ended Biden-era tax credits for renewable energy and is expected to add to U.S. debt.
In a now-deleted X post, Musk escalated the feud even further, accusing Trump of being named in the Epstein files and of blocking the release of more details. Since then, Musk has said that he’ll do “a lot less” political spending in the future.
“I think I’ve done enough,” he said in a video interview with Bloomberg News at the Qatar Economic Forum.
Meanwhile, Trump’s administration has sought to cripple clean energy, blocking nearly $19 billion in renewable energy projects and announcing that it will not approve any wind or solar projects.
The president himself has used various justifications for his anti-renewable stance, saying that wind mills kill birds and are ugly, while he wrote in a Truth Social post that solar panels are “farmer destroying.”
“The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!” Trump added.
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The sister of Minnesota Timberwolves star Naz Reid was shot and killed in New Jersey on Saturday.
NBC affiliate KARE 11 received a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, saying authorities were notified of shots being fired around 11 a.m. outside the Paragon Apartment Complex in Jackson Township.
Toraya Reid, 28, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds near the exit of the apartment building.
Boyfriend Allegedly Killed Toraya Reid
Authorities later located a man who was fleeing from the location and took into custody 29-year-old Shaquille Green, who was reportedly dating Reid.
Both lived in Jackson Township, according to the prosecutor’s office, but it’s unclear if they shared an apartment.
Per KARE 11, Green is now being charged with murder and two counts of possession of a weapon. He is currently being held at the Ocean County Jail awaiting a detention hearing.
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Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer commends the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, Jackson Township Police Department, Ocean County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit, and Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office, for their collaborative efforts in connection with this investigation leading to Green’s apprehension.
Naz and Toraya’s other sister, Jakahya, posted this message about Toraya on Facebook:
“I just talked to you last night bro we was ki’ing bout this n**** not even knowing what was waiting on you the very next morning. I’ll never get over this I’ll never forgive god for taking you away from me, idk what kind of sick plan that man above has but I know losing you couldn’t have been apart of it.”
Naz Reid Mourning Toraya’s Death
On Sunday, the Timberwolves big man shared childhood photos of himself and Toraya on his Instagram Stories.
Naz, 26, previously praised his older sister for motivating and protecting him while they were growing up in nearby Asbury Park. Toraya even treated her siblings as if she was their mother.
According to TMZ Sports, Naz previously talked about Toraya in a 2023 interview with Minneapolis-St. Paul magazine, calling her “super protective” and that “she treats us like she’s our parent.”
Although Naz excelled in basketball, he told the magazine that Toraya preferred softball while their father coached football. Naz, Toraya, and Jakahya all attended Roselle Catholic High School in northern New Jersey, about 40 miles from their home.
Earlier this offseason, Naz signed a new five-year, $125 million contract to remain with the Timberwolves. His deal includes a player option in 2029-30, per Reid’s agents, Sean Kennedy and Jeff Schwartz of Excel Sports.
After winning the 2023-24 Sixth Man of the Year, Reid averaged career highs of 14.2 points, 6.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 27.5 minutes in 80 games (17 starts) last season.
A new study significantly strengthens the case that attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) brains are structurally unique, thanks to a new scanning technique known as the traveling-subject method. It isn’t down to new technology – but better use of it.
A team of Japanese scientists led by Chiba University has corrected the inconsistencies in brain scans of ADHD individuals, where mixed results from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies left researchers unable to say for certain whether neurodivergency could be identified in the lab. Some studies reported smaller gray matter volumes in children with ADHD compared to those without, while others showed no difference or even larger volumes. With some irony, it’s been a gray area for diagnostics and research.
Here, the researchers employed an innovative technique called the traveling-subject (TS) method, which removed the “technical noise” that has traditionally distorted multi-site MRI studies. The result is a more reliable look at the ADHD brain – and a clearer picture of how the condition is linked to structural differences.
Essentially, different hospitals, clinics or research facilities use different scanners, with varying calibration, coils and software. When researchers pool data from multiple sites, they risk confusing biological variation with machine error. Statistical correction tools exist – like the widely used “ComBat” method – but these can sometimes overcorrect, erasing real biological signals along with noise. That’s a big problem for conditions like ADHD, where the predicted structural differences are subtle – so if the measurement noise is louder than the biological effect, results end up contradictory.
The TS method takes a more hands-on approach – basically making the scans uniform across a study group. The researchers recruited 14 non-ADHD volunteers and scanned each of them across four different MRI machines over three months. Since the same person’s brain doesn’t change in that short window, any differences between scans are from the machines themselves. This template served as a sort of neurotypical control, which allowed the researchers to further investigate a much larger dataset from the Child Developmental MRI database, which included 178 “typically developing” children and 116 kids with ADHD.
What they found was that once the scanner bias was removed, the results became much clearer. Children with ADHD showed smaller brain volumes in the frontotemporal regions compared to their typically developing peers. These brain areas are central to attention and information processing, emotional regulation, executive function and decision-making – all markers of ADHD.
“Despite these promising results, this study had some limitations,” the team noted in the paper. “The study sample may not fully represent the broader population of children with ADHD. The participants were drawn from specific geographical regions and clinical settings, which could limit the generalizability of the findings to other populations. Additionally, this study only examined the brain structure characteristics in children with ADHD elucidated using harmonization.”
While the new findings will need to be validated on a larger scale, the TS method could help with earlier diagnosis of ADHD and personalized treatments that track how therapies affect brain structure. It could also remove some of the stigma associated with ADHD, offering black-and-white, measurable evidence that neurodivergent brains are different – neurobiological evidence that isn’t based on behavior or self-reporting.
The research also shows that, like any biology student who has struggled with experiment design will know, accurate data is all about getting the methods of testing right.
“This study demonstrated the effectiveness of the TS method in correcting measurement bias in multi-site MRI studies involving children with ADHD,” the researchers added. “These findings highlight significant structural differences in the brains of patients with ADHD, particularly in the middle temporal gyrus, and underscore the importance of using robust harmonization techniques to improve the reproducibility and accuracy of neuroimaging research.”
The US Supreme Court has ruled sweeping immigration raids in Los Angeles can continue for now, lifting a federal judge’s order that had barred agents from making stops without “reasonable suspicion”.
The Monday ruling is a win for President Donald Trump, who has vowed to conduct record-level deportations of migrants in the country illegally.
The 6-3 decision of the conservative-majority court allows agents to stops suspects based solely on their race, language or job, while a legal challenge to the recent immigration sweeps in LA works its way through the courts.
The liberal justices dissented, saying the decision puts constitutional freedoms at risk.
Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in Monday’s decision that the lower court’s restraining order went too far in restricting how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could carry out stops or questioning of suspected unlawful migrants.
“To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion,” he wrote. “However, it can be a ‘relevant factor’ when considered along with other salient factors.”
The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices issued a strong dissent penned by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote that “countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labour.”
“Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities,” she wrote.
The Supreme Court’s decision has been criticised by Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat.
“Today’s ruling is not only dangerous – it’s un-American and threatens the fabric of personal freedom in the United States of America,” she said in a statement.
The decision lifts an order by US District Judge Maame E Frimpong in Los Angeles, who had said that there is a “mountain of evidence” showing the raids were violating the US Constitution.
The order halted the raids, with Judge Frimpon saying the Trump administration cannot rely on factors like “apparent race or ethnicity” or “speaking Spanish” alone to stop or question individuals.
The judge also barred immigration enforcement agents from conducting stops based solely on someone’s presence “at a particular location” like a bus stop, agricultural site or car wash, or based solely on the type of work an individual does.
The temporary restraining order was issued in a legal challenge by immigration advocacy groups, who argued that immigration officers in Los Angeles were conducting “roving patrols” indiscriminately, and were denying individuals access to lawyers.
Judge Frimpong said this may violate the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by the government.
The Supreme Court, however, said that the administration’s actions have a good chance of ultimately being considered constitutional by the federal courts. While its decision only pertained to Judge Frimpong’s temporary restraining order, the justices also showed how the court would approach the lawsuit should it have to consider an appeal down the road.
Lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security have argued that immigration officers are targeting people based on their legal status in the US, not skin colour, race or ethnicity.
They have also said that Judge Frimpong’s order wrongly restricted ICE operations.
The Trump administration began sweeping immigration raids in Los Angeles in June, stopping and arresting people at Home Depot and other workplaces, and were met with immediate protests and civil unrest..
Trump then deployed nearly 2,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines in response, without authorisation from the state of California.
A federal judge has since ruled that the National Guard deployment was illegal. The White House responded that “a rogue judge is trying to usurp” the president’s authority “to protect American cities from violence and destruction.”
The US Supreme Court’s decision to let the raids continue comes as the Trump administration looks to ramp up law enforcement in other cities, including Washington DC.
In August, Trump ordered National Guard troops to the American capital to address what he says is high crime in the city, and is also using federal officers to bolster the district’s law enforcement.
He is now signalling that this week he will decide if he will also send federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Chicago.
Secondary ticketing marketplace platform StubHub has revealed how much it hopes to earn from its initial public offering.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday (September 8), StubHub Holdings revealed it plans to sell just over 34 million Class A shares, with an option to sell an additional 5.1 million shares. It expects the shares to fetch USD $22-$25 each.
That indicates StubHub is expecting to raise between $748 million and $975 million from the IPO. Based on the number of outstanding shares listed in the SEC filing, that price target would give StubHub a valuation between $8.1 billion and $9.3 billion.
The new data comes as the company announced the launch of its IPO roadshow, i.e. the phase of the IPO in which company execs will be promoting StubHub as an investment.
Company Founder and CEO Eric Baker will remain firmly in control of StubHub. His holdings of Class B shares – which come with 100 votes each, as opposed to Class A shares with one vote each – will leave him with 87.8% of voting power on the board, StubHub said in its filing.
StubHub filed earlier this year to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “STUB.”
The company had been aiming for an IPO since at least 2022, and its latest SEC filing suggests it may have scaled back its IPO ambitions somewhat. A news report last year said the company was aiming for a valuation of $16.5 billion.
The IPO details come in the wake of weakening earnings numbers from StubHub, which also operates the viagogo platform outside North America.
For the first half of 2025, StubHub’s net loss more than doubled to $111.8 million, or $1.84 per share, despite a 3% YoY increase in revenue, to $827.9 million.
That comes despite a booming live events industry, with rival ticket sellers like Live Nation and DEAG reporting large jumps in revenue.
However, StubHub is grappling with ballooning costs, which widened to $776 million in H1 2025, from $750.4 million a year earlier.
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs have been named as the joint book-running managers for the IPO, with additional joint book-running by BofA Securities, Evercore ISI, BMO Capital Markets, Mizuho, TD Cowen, Truist Securities and Wolfe | Nomura Alliance. Citizens Capital Markets, Oppenheimer & Co., Wedbush Securities and PNC Capital Markets are acting as co-managers for the proposed offering.
Through its StubHub brand in North America and viagogo in the rest of the world, StubHub operates ticket resale markets in over 200 countries and territories. It reported more than 40 million ticket sales from more than 1 million sellers in 2024.Music Business Worldwide
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Londoners Face Transit Chaos as Major Tube Strike Takes Effect
A major strike on the London Underground system is causing widespread disruption for millions of Londoners. The strike is expected to last until Friday.
I mean, I was hoping they’d be called off, which generally happens, and the prospect of it being all week is a bit of a nightmare. So it’s probably taken me twice as long to get in this morning. I guess more people will be working from home this week. I support what they’re saying, but it is an absolute pain for us, to be honest.
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A former Israeli soldier has created a video game based on the Gaza war, which he says aims to ‘humanise’ Israeli troops. Scenes from the game’s promo video depict the destruction in Gaza, which rights groups say Israeli soldiers already treat as if it were a video game.
Natalie ShermanBBC News, Fall River, Massachusetts
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Frank Teixeira and his daughter Sue Teixeira, co-owners of Fall River-based Accurate Services
In a corner of a cavernous 1890s factory in southern Massachusetts, 15 people are bent over sewing machines, churning out specialty, hospital-grade neonatal gear.
They are all that remain of what was once a much bigger manufacturing operation, most of which the Teixeira family shut down in 1990, reinventing their business as a largely warehousing and distribution business.
Since US President Donald Trump started rolling out sweeping tariffs, the Teixeiras have been fielding more inquiries from companies newly interested in their US-based sewing services.
But they have turned down those offers, deterred by the difficulty of hiring in the midst of an immigration crackdown and doubts that the demand will be sustained.
It’s just one of the many indications that achieving the manufacturing revival promised by the president is likely to be far more difficult than the White House has claimed.
“It’s just not going to happen,” said Frank Teixeira, who joined the family business in the 1970s and oversaw its dismantling and reinvention as Accurate Services Inc.
“Tariffs are a bad policy and eventually are going to come home to haunt us.”
Trump campaigned for the presidency on the promise of a better economy, engineered in part by tariffs that he said would lower costs and usher in a new golden age.
The message proved to resonate with voters, helping the campaign make unexpected inroads in working-class areas long considered Democratic strongholds.
That includes the Teixeiras’ base of Fall River, a former textile manufacturing hub, where Trump’s win marked the first in the city by a Republican presidential candidate in roughly a century.
But his plans were widely panned by experts, who warned that the tariffs, which are a tax on imports, would instead raise prices for American businesses and consumers and slow growth – with particular risks for manufacturers, who often rely on imported supplies.
Now nine months into the president’s term as the tariffs take hold, the gulf between Trump’s rhetoric, which boasts of investments pouring into the country, and the reality on the ground in places like Fall River, is starting to show.
US manufacturer Matouk relies on imported cloth and other materials to make high-end sheets, quilts and towels
Employment growth in the US has slowed precipitously this year, including in manufacturing. After expanding after the pandemic, payrolls at manufacturing firms have shrunk this year, shedding 12,000 jobs last month alone.
Business surveys indicate that activity in the sector is in contraction.
Last month, 71% of manufacturers questioned by the Dallas branch of the Federal Reserve said the tariffs – which range from 10% to 50% on most imports – had already had a negative impact on their business, raising the cost of resources and hurting profits.
At Matouk, a maker of high-end bedding up the road from the Teixeiras’, boss George Matouk said that between April and August tariffs had already added more than $100,000 (£74,000) a month in costs, as they hit supplies like cotton fabric from India and Portugal and down from Liechtenstein.
George Matouk said he was seeing no benefits from the tariffs
Founded by his grandfather in 1929, the company has grown to employ about 300 people in recent years – a point of pride for Mr Matouk, who faced naysayers when he returned as the third generation to join the family business after graduating from Columbia Business School in the late 1990s.
But the sudden tariff expense has forced the firm to cut investments on things such as new equipment and spending on discretionary items like marketing.
Despite the made-in-America distinction of many of his products, Mr Matouk said he expected no benefits from the tariffs because higher costs were pushing him to raise prices, a move likely to weigh on sales.
“Because the materials are subject to tariffs just like everything else, the benefits are not there,” he said.
Mr Matouk called the current challenges faced by his firm “demoralising in a new way”, since they have been inflicted deliberately, by government policy.
“We’ve done all of the things we were supposed to do in order to invest in the industrial base of the United States when no one else was willing to do it and it’s just really frustrating that now we’re being penalised,” he said.
Kim and Mike van der Sleesen, owners of Vanson Leathers
Studies on the impact of the more limited tariffs imposed by Trump during his first term on manufacturers in the US have found that small job gains in protected industries, like steel, were more than offset by losses at other firms that were dependent on parts.
But Mike van der Sleesen, who runs motorcycle jacket business Vanson Leathers, said he thought the changes this year had been so disruptive that it was premature to make predictions.
Mr van der Sleesen, who voted for Trump last year, is no fan of the president’s tariffs, which have driven up his costs some 15% this year.
However, he shared the president’s concerns that foreign companies could easily access the US market, while US firms looking to sell abroad encounter hurdles in the form of tariffs and other taxes.
One of the roughly 50 workers at Vanson Leathers
“It’s been a very uneven and unfair trade path for a company like Vanson,” said Mr van der Sleesen, whose business was founded in 1974 and employed more than 160 people as recently as 2000, before the wallop of China’s entry into the global order shrunk the workforce to about 50.
“We shouldn’t charge them and they shouldn’t charge us in my view but that’s never going to happen,” he said.
For now, demand for his jackets, which can sell for thousands of dollars, has held up. He said his suppliers in the US were reporting an uptick in activity.
“We haven’t heard overtime in the textile world for 20 years!” he said. “It’s hard to be confident that you can predict what it’s going to shake out to be because the changes have been so dramatic.”
Retired transit worker Tom Teixeira believes it will take time for things to improve
On the streets of Fall River, many Trump supporters said they remained willing to give the president time to put his strategy to the test.
“We should be able to manufacture,” said Tom Teixeira.
The 72-year-old retired transit worker voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024, won over in part by his message on the economy.
“I know how it was and it can improve but it’s not going to improve overnight,” said Mr Teixeira, who is not related to the Teixeira manufacturers, adding that he had yet to notice any major price increases this year.
“A year from now, if things aren’t cheaper, we’ll see.”
