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- The GOP’s Culture-War Hail Mary
Last week, as the war with Iran dragged into its seventh month, gas prices shot up to an average of $4.50 a gallon, and polling showed President Trump about twice as far underwater with American voters as he was at this point in 2018, Republican senators determined that the time had come to discuss the most pressing issue of the 2026 campaign: transgender athletes. “Girls’ sports are for girls. Boys’ sports are for boys,” Senator Marsha Blackburn said in a news conference.With 32 days to go until the midterm elections, Republicans’ closing strategy is obvious: They’re going all-in on trans. (It seems to have worked for them before, after all. More on that in a minute.) In Texas, Republicans are running an unsettling AI-generated ad that shows the Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico dressed as Maria von Trapp and singing about girls with mustaches. A spot in Iowa accuses the Senate candidate Josh Turek of supporting “sex changes for kids.” On X, former Representative Matt Gaetz offered a tidy summary of his party’s agenda: “I hate the war too,” he told a concerned voter. “But the Democrats want to trans your kids.”Partly, this is because Republicans don’t have much else to say. The administration’s immigration-enforcement strategy isn’t exactly popular. Voters have lost faith in the GOP on economic issues. Meanwhile, the president is obsessing over Corinthian columns. But Republicans also have some reason to believe that making trans happen is a useful strategy: It’s helped them before. Two years ago, a series of ads about Kamala Harris’s support for gender-affirming surgeries proved to be some of Trump’s most persuasive. (“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”) In November, such ads could mean the difference between Republicans retaining and losing the Senate. “They believe that it energizes the base and divides ours,” Lanae Erickson, a senior vice president at the center-left think tank Third Way, told me. “And they’re right about that.”[Read: The Republicans are bolting from Trump]But it’s not clear that Democrats have figured out how to thwart the Republicans’ transgender gambit without betraying their own coalition.The most jaw-dropping attack on Talarico probably comes from the American Principles Project, which has released an ad that is essentially a modern version of Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Daisy,” a sinister spot about the threat of nuclear war. The ad opens with a little girl standing in a field, counting flower petals.… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - ATA Truck Tonnage Index Falls 0.5% in August as Freight Demand Remains Weak
U.S. trucking activity declined again in August as freight demand remained weak despite continued reductions in available industry capacity. The American Trucking Associations reported that its advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 0.5% in August, following a revised 1.2% decline in July. The seasonally adjusted index registered 112.7 in August, down from 113.3 the previous month. ATA uses 2015 as the index baseline of 100. Compared with August 2025, truck tonnage declined 1.6%, a larger year-over-year decrease than July’s 0.7% drop. ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said trucking market conditions have changed significantly during 2026. However, he emphasized that the improvement carriers are experiencing is largely the result of reduced trucking capacity rather than strong freight demand. Tonnage has declined during four of the past five months and is now 4.3% below its recent peak recorded in March. The index has also fallen below year-earlier levels during three of the past four months. Even so, Costello noted that market conditions have generally improved because supply constraints have reduced the amount of available trucking capacity. Fewer trucks competing for freight can create a better operating environment for remaining carriers even when overall shipment volumes remain relatively soft. Despite the recent declines, trucking activity remains positive for the year overall. Through August, tonnage was 1% higher than during the same period in 2025. ATA attributed the year-to-date increase mainly to stronger year-over-year gains recorded between February and April. ATA also reported that its not seasonally adjusted tonnage index fell 0.6% in August, reaching 116.1 compared with 116.7 in July. The unadjusted index measures actual changes in freight hauled without accounting for seasonal patterns that can affect monthly transportation activity. Truck tonnage remains an important measure of broader U.S. economic activity because trucks transport a large share of domestic goods. ATA estimates that trucking represents 72.7% of the tonnage carried by all domestic freight transportation modes. Trucks hauled approximately 11.27 billion tons of freight in 2024, while motor carriers generated about $906 billion in revenue. ATA’s index primarily reflects contract freight rather than traditional spot-market shipments. The organization calculates the index using surveys of its motor carrier members, a process it has maintained since the 1970s. The August results show a trucking market still working through uneven freight demand. While falling capacity may help improve rates and operating conditions for some carriers, recent tonnage figures indicate that a broader freight-volume… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have ‘significant’ ch...
Fortnite and Minecraft also told to 'lift their game' by online safety regulator. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - ‘An Unexpected Pleasure’
The Jazz Couriers (left to right): Ronnie Scott, Bill Eyden, Tubby Hayes, Colin Bates, Terry Shannon In his heyday, Tubby Hayes was universally accepted as the the finest jazz musician Britain had produced. Good enough to perform at the Half Note in New York in 1961 (in front of an opening-night audience including Miles Davis) and to take the place of an indisposed Paul Gonsalves in Duke Ellington’s saxophone section at the Royal Festival Hall in 1964: these were the sort of accolades that entered local legend. There have been several generations of British jazz musicians since Hayes died in 1973, aged 38, after a heart operation, and it’s no longer unusual to hear world-class music from local players. There’s also no shortage of recordings from remind us how good Hayes really was, and now there’s a new three-CD box, titled An Unexpected Pleasure, containing unreleased studio and live sessions from 1958 to 1972, full of further evidence of his stature. It was co-compiled and annotated by Simon Spillett, a tenor saxophonist who is the appointed curator of the Hayes story and published a definitive biography, The Long Shadow of the Little Giant, back in 2015. As long as Spillett is around, time will be not be allowed to erase Hayes’s name from the historical record, and the new box does a useful supporting job in that regard. Based largely on sessions for BBC’s weekly Jazz Club, it opens with half a dozen crackling tracks from 1958 by the Jazz Couriers, the two-tenor quintet co-led by Hayes and Ronnie Scott, with the young Jeff Clyne replacing Colin Bates on bass in the line-up seen in the photo above. Their version of “Just One of Those Things” is about as hip as such things got back then, its rocket-propelled tempo suiting Hayes perfectly. Three tracks recorded as a guest with the Kurt Edelhagen Big Band at a German festival the following year include a gorgeous arrangement of “Round Midnight”. A jump to 1962 shows the influence of Kind of Blue on “Modes and Blues”, a Hayes original from a fine BBC session with his quintet, with Jimmy Deuchar on trumpet, augmented by three extra brass, and the leader doubling on vibes. The second disc opens with four tracks the quintet in 1964, Hayes now adding flute to his armoury, before the scene switches to Oslo and a 1966… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Kodiak Targets Dallas-Houston Corridor for First Driverless Highway Freight Serv...
Kodiak AI has selected the Dallas-Houston corridor for its first driverless highway freight service, with the autonomous trucking company planning to remove the safety observer from its trucks by the end of 2026. The planned deployment would move Kodiak’s driverless operations from specialized industrial environments onto one of Texas’ busiest commercial freight corridors. For now, a safety observer remains inside the cab during operations. However, Kodiak says its autonomous trucks are already completing deliveries between the company’s hub in Lancaster, Texas, and Houston without the observer taking control. That includes both the Interstate 45 portion of the trip and surface streets at the beginning and end of the route. The approximately 219-mile Dallas-Houston lane is familiar territory for Kodiak. The company has operated autonomous trucks on the route with safety drivers since 2019 and says it has accumulated more than 3.5 million autonomous miles there. The extensive testing gives Kodiak years of operating data from the corridor as it prepares to transition toward fully driverless service. In August, Kodiak began conducting daily preparation runs using the hardware and software configuration it intends to use for driverless operations. The company is also testing trucks without drivers on closed courses, where engineers can recreate unusual or dangerous situations that would be difficult or unsafe to deliberately test on public highways. Those tests are part of Kodiak’s effort to complete its long-haul safety case, which brings together engineering evidence, testing results, and other documentation intended to demonstrate that its autonomous driving system can safely operate without anyone in the cab on a defined route. As of the end of August, Kodiak said 93% of the claims and supporting evidence in its long-haul safety case were materially complete. The company describes this figure as its own internal measure of progress rather than an independent safety rating. Earlier in 2026, Kodiak reported that the same measure stood at 84% in February, showing continued progress toward its year-end target. Kodiak already has experience operating trucks with no one inside the cab. The company began fully driverless commercial operations for Atlas Energy Solutions in the Permian Basin in December 2024. By June 30, 2026, Kodiak’s autonomous system had been installed in 35 Atlas-owned trucks, which had accumulated more than 40,000 hours of paid driverless operations. The Dallas-Houston launch would represent a significant expansion because it would place Kodiak’s driverless trucks on a major interstate freight route… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
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Last week, as the war with Iran dragged into its seventh month, gas prices shot up to an average of $4.50 a gallon, and polling showed President Trump about twice as far underwater with American voters as he was at this point in 2018, Republican senators determined that the time had come to discuss the most pressing issue of the 2026 campaign: transgender athletes. “Girls’ sports are for girls. Boys’ sports are for boys,” Senator Marsha Blackburn said in a news conference.With 32 days to go until the midterm elections, Republicans’ closing strategy is obvious: They’re going all-in on trans. (It seems to have worked for them before, after all. More on that in a minute.) In Texas, Republicans are running an unsettling AI-generated ad that shows the Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico dressed as Maria von Trapp and singing about girls with mustaches. A spot in Iowa accuses the Senate candidate Josh Turek of supporting “sex changes for kids.” On X, former Representative Matt Gaetz offered a tidy summary of his party’s agenda: “I hate the war too,” he told a concerned voter. “But the Democrats want to trans your kids.”Partly, this is because Republicans don’t have much else to say. The administration’s immigration-enforcement strategy isn’t exactly popular. Voters have lost faith in the GOP on economic issues. Meanwhile, the president is obsessing over Corinthian columns. But Republicans also have some reason to believe that making trans happen is a useful strategy: It’s helped them before. Two years ago, a series of ads about Kamala Harris’s support for gender-affirming surgeries proved to be some of Trump’s most persuasive. (“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”) In November, such ads could mean the difference between Republicans retaining and losing the Senate. “They believe that it energizes the base and divides ours,” Lanae Erickson, a senior vice president at the center-left think tank Third Way, told me. “And they’re right about that.”[Read: The Republicans are bolting from Trump]But it’s not clear that Democrats have figured out how to thwart the Republicans’ transgender gambit without betraying their own coalition.The most jaw-dropping attack on Talarico probably comes from the American Principles Project, which has released an ad that is essentially a modern version of Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Daisy,” a sinister spot about the threat of nuclear war. The ad opens with a little girl standing in a field, counting flower petals.… [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 weeks ago
U.S. trucking activity declined again in August as freight demand remained weak despite continued reductions in available industry capacity. The American Trucking Associations reported that its advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 0.5% in August, following a revised 1.2% decline in July. The seasonally adjusted index registered 112.7 in August, down from 113.3 the previous month. ATA uses 2015 as the index baseline of 100. Compared with August 2025, truck tonnage declined 1.6%, a larger year-over-year decrease than July’s 0.7% drop. ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello said trucking market conditions have changed significantly during 2026. However, he emphasized that the improvement carriers are experiencing is largely the result of reduced trucking capacity rather than strong freight demand. Tonnage has declined during four of the past five months and is now 4.3% below its recent peak recorded in March. The index has also fallen below year-earlier levels during three of the past four months. Even so, Costello noted that market conditions have generally improved because supply constraints have reduced the amount of available trucking capacity. Fewer trucks competing for freight can create a better operating environment for remaining carriers even when overall shipment volumes remain relatively soft. Despite the recent declines, trucking activity remains positive for the year overall. Through August, tonnage was 1% higher than during the same period in 2025. ATA attributed the year-to-date increase mainly to stronger year-over-year gains recorded between February and April. ATA also reported that its not seasonally adjusted tonnage index fell 0.6% in August, reaching 116.1 compared with 116.7 in July. The unadjusted index measures actual changes in freight hauled without accounting for seasonal patterns that can affect monthly transportation activity. Truck tonnage remains an important measure of broader U.S. economic activity because trucks transport a large share of domestic goods. ATA estimates that trucking represents 72.7% of the tonnage carried by all domestic freight transportation modes. Trucks hauled approximately 11.27 billion tons of freight in 2024, while motor carriers generated about $906 billion in revenue. ATA’s index primarily reflects contract freight rather than traditional spot-market shipments. The organization calculates the index using surveys of its motor carrier members, a process it has maintained since the 1970s. The August results show a trucking market still working through uneven freight demand. While falling capacity may help improve rates and operating conditions for some carriers, recent tonnage figures indicate that a broader freight-volume… [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 weeks ago
Fortnite and Minecraft also told to 'lift their game' by online safety regulator. [TheTopNews] Read More.
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The Jazz Couriers (left to right): Ronnie Scott, Bill Eyden, Tubby Hayes, Colin Bates, Terry Shannon In his heyday, Tubby Hayes was universally accepted as the the finest jazz musician Britain had produced. Good enough to perform at the Half Note in New York in 1961 (in front of an opening-night audience including Miles Davis) and to take the place of an indisposed Paul Gonsalves in Duke Ellington’s saxophone section at the Royal Festival Hall in 1964: these were the sort of accolades that entered local legend. There have been several generations of British jazz musicians since Hayes died in 1973, aged 38, after a heart operation, and it’s no longer unusual to hear world-class music from local players. There’s also no shortage of recordings from remind us how good Hayes really was, and now there’s a new three-CD box, titled An Unexpected Pleasure, containing unreleased studio and live sessions from 1958 to 1972, full of further evidence of his stature. It was co-compiled and annotated by Simon Spillett, a tenor saxophonist who is the appointed curator of the Hayes story and published a definitive biography, The Long Shadow of the Little Giant, back in 2015. As long as Spillett is around, time will be not be allowed to erase Hayes’s name from the historical record, and the new box does a useful supporting job in that regard. Based largely on sessions for BBC’s weekly Jazz Club, it opens with half a dozen crackling tracks from 1958 by the Jazz Couriers, the two-tenor quintet co-led by Hayes and Ronnie Scott, with the young Jeff Clyne replacing Colin Bates on bass in the line-up seen in the photo above. Their version of “Just One of Those Things” is about as hip as such things got back then, its rocket-propelled tempo suiting Hayes perfectly. Three tracks recorded as a guest with the Kurt Edelhagen Big Band at a German festival the following year include a gorgeous arrangement of “Round Midnight”. A jump to 1962 shows the influence of Kind of Blue on “Modes and Blues”, a Hayes original from a fine BBC session with his quintet, with Jimmy Deuchar on trumpet, augmented by three extra brass, and the leader doubling on vibes. The second disc opens with four tracks the quintet in 1964, Hayes now adding flute to his armoury, before the scene switches to Oslo and a 1966… [TheTopNews] Read More.
2 weeks ago
Kodiak AI has selected the Dallas-Houston corridor for its first driverless highway freight service, with the autonomous trucking company planning to remove the safety observer from its trucks by the end of 2026. The planned deployment would move Kodiak’s driverless operations from specialized industrial environments onto one of Texas’ busiest commercial freight corridors. For now, a safety observer remains inside the cab during operations. However, Kodiak says its autonomous trucks are already completing deliveries between the company’s hub in Lancaster, Texas, and Houston without the observer taking control. That includes both the Interstate 45 portion of the trip and surface streets at the beginning and end of the route. The approximately 219-mile Dallas-Houston lane is familiar territory for Kodiak. The company has operated autonomous trucks on the route with safety drivers since 2019 and says it has accumulated more than 3.5 million autonomous miles there. The extensive testing gives Kodiak years of operating data from the corridor as it prepares to transition toward fully driverless service. In August, Kodiak began conducting daily preparation runs using the hardware and software configuration it intends to use for driverless operations. The company is also testing trucks without drivers on closed courses, where engineers can recreate unusual or dangerous situations that would be difficult or unsafe to deliberately test on public highways. Those tests are part of Kodiak’s effort to complete its long-haul safety case, which brings together engineering evidence, testing results, and other documentation intended to demonstrate that its autonomous driving system can safely operate without anyone in the cab on a defined route. As of the end of August, Kodiak said 93% of the claims and supporting evidence in its long-haul safety case were materially complete. The company describes this figure as its own internal measure of progress rather than an independent safety rating. Earlier in 2026, Kodiak reported that the same measure stood at 84% in February, showing continued progress toward its year-end target. Kodiak already has experience operating trucks with no one inside the cab. The company began fully driverless commercial operations for Atlas Energy Solutions in the Permian Basin in December 2024. By June 30, 2026, Kodiak’s autonomous system had been installed in 35 Atlas-owned trucks, which had accumulated more than 40,000 hours of paid driverless operations. The Dallas-Houston launch would represent a significant expansion because it would place Kodiak’s driverless trucks on a major interstate freight route… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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