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Oracle sends ‘force majeure’ notice about data center project — stock drops 3%
Published Thu, Sep 24 20268:48 AM EDTUpdated 5 Hours Ago
Samantha Subin @samantha_subin
Key Points
Oracle sent a “force majeure” notice to the developer of its data center project in New Mexico.
The company is looking to delay payment if the project doesn’t come online in 2028, according to Bloomberg.
The data center, dubbed Project Jupiter, has faced regulatory hurdles and local opposition.
Oracle
shares fell more than 3% on Thursday following news that the company sent a “force majeure” notice tied to its New Mexico data center project to protect itself from higher expenses.
“Project Jupiter remains on our planned schedule,” Oracle said in a statement to CNBC. “We are fully committed to New Mexico and confident in our path forward.”
Bloomberg was first to report the news, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The company is looking to delay payment on the campus, dubbed Project Jupiter, if it fails to come online as expected in 2028, according to the report.
Oracle sent the notice to the developer, which is a unit of Blue Owl Capital
, CNBC confirmed. Blue Owl also saw its shares fall on Thursday.
“This notice does not change the financial commitments to this multi-year project,” Blue Owl Capital said in a statement to CNBC.
The New Mexico data center project, which is part of the broader Stargate artificial intelligence infrastructure build-out with President Donald Trump, has been riddled with setbacks and regulatory hurdles.
That includes local opposition to data centers ahead of the upcoming midterm elections and concerns from environmental groups. The site has also faced delays with the buildout of a natural gas pipeline intended to fuel the facility.
Shares of Bloom Energy, which is slated to power the more than 2.4-gigawatt facility with its fuel cells, fell 3% on the news. In a post to X, the company said it remains “committed” to the contract and following the “planned timeline.”
Oracle co-CEO Clay Magouyrk told analysts on the company’s earnings call on Sept. 10 that Project Jupiter would not affect its previously stated fiscal 2027 revenue or earnings guidance.
Concerns have also mounted over Oracle’s $18 billion in debt tied to the data center, which is already trading at stressed levels, according to the Financial Times.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/oracle-data-center-force-majeure.html
Peter Schweizer: Xi Jinping Is NOT Winning Within China or Abroad
Breitbart News 24 Sep 202630
Americans tend to believe China’s President Xi Jinping enjoys a smooth ride as president but, as Peter Schweizer explains,that’s only because Xi puts his dissenters in jail.
“As he was stepping on the plane to come to the United States, Xi purged two top generals. And he purged them for ‘political unreliability,’” says Schweizer, who is author of three bestselling books about China. “These two generals were members of the Central Military Commission, which is the most important political body in all of China.”
On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers of the Government Accountability Instituteexplain that Xi’s position in China is not as solid as media critics of Trump like to portray.
“In the last two years, President Xi has purged six members” out of a total of eight from the same body, Schweizer adds. “They were arrested, imprisoned, and charged with capital crimes.The only two remaining are Xi himself, and the dude that he has investigating the other guys,” he says.
“That speaks to the overall level of instability within China,” says Eggers, “and also his ability to quell dissent in China that no one else who doesn’t live in a dictatorship can.”
“This guy is a hard-nosed S.O.B. People criticize Trump for his language,but Xi is enormously nasty when it comes to political opponents,” Schweizer says. “Over the last two years, more than forty-five Chinese generals or admirals… went missing,” Schweizer adds. “Their families don’t know where they are… This is not the sign of a guy who is stable and loved and in a strong position.”
The news draws historical parallels to Josef Stalin’s repeated purges, exiles, and executions of so-called “counterrevolutionaries” in the Soviet Union. The question for western political analysts and intelligence is whether there is real and growing resistance to Xi within China, or a new viral strain of Stalin’s infamous paranoia. That requires a look at how the Chinese economy is really doing behind the regime’s unfailingly rosy economic growth claims.
“The reality is largely hidden,” says Eggers.
“The Chinese economy is headed towards its lowest growth since 1991,”says Schweizer. “They’ve actually stopped reporting a lot of economic data because it’s so bad… This is things like business confidence, real estate transactions, etc.”
One key comparative measure we do know is that for the U.S., the total debt is about 125 percent of annual GDP. For China, the debt ratio is 300 percent of that country’s total output, Eggers explains.
All of this, Schweizer believes, is important to bear in mind when Trump and Xi meet this week in Washington and various political commentators try to handicap the positions of each country’s leader.
“The underlying dynamics and power positions of these two leaders is frankly the opposite of what a lot of the domestic media is telling you, either because they just don’t like Trump or because they are so ignorant of what is really happening in China today,” Schweizer explains.
And both hosts predict the coverage from the legacy media will remain that way. “ABC is owned by Disney, which has a lot of commercial activity in China,” Schweizer says. “You do something to tick off Xi, and he’s going to kick them out of the country.”
The topics of the summit will focus on Iran and AI, the hosts predict. As pressure is building on Trump within the tech communityto make some kind of deal with China to slow down AI progress, Schweizer is blunt aboutthe odds China would honor any such deal: “zero percent.”He recalls what happened during COVID. “They signed a grant agreement with the NIH [National Institutes of Health] to give us all the research records. They violated that agreement.” He cites several other related agreements China violated.
“The bottom line is they are not going to abide by any AI agreement,” Schweizer says.“It’s designed to constrain us, not them.”
On the Iran situation, the hosts note that China imports 90 percent of its oil and, because of Trump’s moves in Venezuela and with Iran, China’s ability to import oil has been hobbled. The country is using up its own stockpiles and will soon have to buy at elevated prices, causing yet more damage to the Chinese economy.
https://www.breitbart.com/podcast/2026/09/24/peter-schweizer-xi-jinping-is-not-winning-within-china-or-abroad/
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Washington Post: Trump Deputies Deny 440,000 Asylum Requests
People arrive for immigration court hearings in New York, Monday, July 27, 2026.
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President Donald Trump’s deputies have denied more than 440,000 asylum claims, according to data from the Washington Post. Many of the claims are from economic migrants.
A Washington Post analysis of immigration court records shows immigration judges, who work at the behest of the Justice Department, have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Donald Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined.
The judges’ removal orders mean that ICE can quickly return the migrants to their homelands.
The success of this aspect of immigration policy is also shown by TRACReports.org, which shows that Trump’s immigration judges have approved only 5 percent of asylum requests in 2026, down from 50 percent in September 2023. Trump’s 5 percent rate ensures only about 800 approvals and 15,000 denials each month.
Officials are also reducing the massive backlog of 3 million asylum claims created by President Joe Biden’s welcome policies. The backlog hit 3.7 million in 2024, and is falling below 3.1 million, thus shortening the time that asylum claimants can live and work in the United States.
Washington Post: Trump Deputies Deny 440,000 Asylum Requests
People arrive for immigration court hearings in New York, Monday, July 27, 2026. Seth WeniSeth Wenig/AP
The Post reported on September 24:
A Washington Post analysis of immigration court records shows immigration judges, who work at the behest of the Justice Department, have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Donald Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined.
The judges’ removal orders mean that ICE can quickly return the migrants to their homelands.
The success of this aspect of immigration policy is also shown by TRACReports.org, which shows that Trump’s immigration judges have approved only 5 percent of asylum requests in 2026, down from 50 percent in September 2023. Trump’s 5 percent rate ensures only about 800 approvals and 15,000 denials each month.
Officials are also reducing the massive backlog of 3 million asylum claims created by President Joe Biden’s welcome policies. The backlog hit 3.7 million in 2024, and is falling below 3.1 million, thus shortening the time that asylum claimants can live and work in the United States.
The rapid removal of migrants helps ordinary Americans by nudging up their wages and pushing down their rents.
The asylum wins for Americans match the overwhelming evidence that most Biden-era migrants were not fleeing political threats. Instead, they were rationally walking through the asylum loophole offered by Biden’s business-aligned deputies, including his pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
Biden’s deputies released migrants who said they wanted asylum and offered them work permits so they could get jobs quickly to repay their debts to smugglers who helped them get to the United States.
For example, a 2026 survey of border migrants by pro-migration groups showed that only one out of every 27 migrants even claimed to meet the core requirement for winning political asylum in the United States.
Just 3.7 percent of 364 migrants surveyed said they were fleeing because of their “political opinion.” In contrast, 54 percent said they were motivated by “economy and employment” to seek wages in Americans’ workplaces.
The Washington Post article provided what seems to be a case of a migrant rationally exploiting Mayorkas’s welcome. Unlike many poor Ecuadorian migrants, college graduate Grace Calero flew into the United States on a tourist visa in 2023, the Post said:
Her monthly income of about $3,000 per month [in Ecuador] put her among the country’s top earners. But she said she had begun receiving death threats in response to consulting work she had done for local political figures. Though she changed her phone number and took down her social media accounts, Calero said, she continued receiving threatening letters at her home.
… In 2024, she applied for asylum. Her [now 19- year-old] daughter joined her claim the following year. Asylum seekers who do not have a visa or remain in the United States after one [visa] expires are considered unauthorized immigrants.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/09/24/trump-deputies-deny-440000-asylum-requests/
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In Florida, “Calero worked for a marketing company promoting food brands and traveled to different stores around the state,” she told the Post.
Ironically, Calero was detained amid a police investigation that started when her car was smashed by another illegal migrant.
She and her daughter left ICE detention after they agreed to go home amid a rush of publicity in Ecuador.
The Washington Post article, however, hides the huge economic and human cost of Biden’s asylum loophole. In 2023, for example, Breitbart News reported:
“The U.N. Missing Migrants Project estimates at least 349 people either disappeared or died in Caribbean waters last year, nearly twice as many as the year before,” the Post reported on July 27, adding:
“That’s the highest toll since the agency began tracking them in 2014 and is probably an undercount,” said Edwin Viales, a data and research assistant for the U.N. project. “In the bottom of the Caribbean Sea,” Viales said, “there are thousands of remains of migrants who remain unidentified.”
Some of Biden’s asylum-seekers have been charged with and/or convicted of killing American residents in crimes or auto accidents.
“The amount of lives that we’ve saved… by shutting down the border … is already in the thousands,”Trump deputy Stephen Miller told reporters during an April 2025 casual press conference on the White House driveway.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/09/24/trump-deputies-deny-440000-asylum-requests/
Florida AG James Uthmeier: Sarasota Teacher ‘Tried to Cancel’ Eighth Grader for His Conservative Views
Alana Mastrangelo 24 Sep 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Sarasota teacher Liz Ballard “harassed, disparaged, and deliberately tried to cancel an eighth-grade student for his conservative views.” The AG blasted the teacher in a letter to the Sarasota school district.
“I sent a letter to Sarasota Schools after a Pine View teacher allegedly labeled an 8th grader a ‘misogynist’ based on his political affiliation, ignored his parents’ wishes, and disparaged the child’s father,” Uthmeier wrote in a Monday X post, sharing the letter he sent.
“If true, she should be fired and never teach in Florida again,” the Florida Attorney General added.
Ballard, who teaches history at Pine View School in Osprey, Florida, is accused of singling out the boy as the “conservative perspective” in her classroom and later labeling him a “misogynist” — a slur she went on to spread around the school, Uthmeier said in his letter.
Moreover, the teacher engaged in this behavior despite the boy previously informing her that “his parents expressly forbid him to take part” in her debates, and even “openly questioned the suitability and influence of the student’s father,” the Florida AG added.
Uthmeier also noted that “multiple HR investigations initiated by multiple parents” against the teacher have nonetheless resulted in her continuing to teach at Pine View School.
“Ballard singled out this student and, in defiance of his parents’ express instructions, pressured him to defend political positions on demand in front of his class-mates. She made disparaging remarks about his father,” he said.
“By facilitating the spread of a damaging label throughout the school, she engaged in the reputational destruction of a child,” Uthmeier added, asserting that “Ballard’s deliberate bullying and harassment” puts her in violation of “Florida law, School Board policy, and at least six ethical principles.”
In his letter to Superintendent Terry Connor and School Board of Sarasota County members, the Florida Attorney General reminded them that “Florida law prohibits bullying or harassment of any student at any public K-12 educational institution.”
“Based on the foregoing allegations, if true, Ms. Ballard should be dismissed and her educator certificate revoked,” Uthmeier wrote, before calling on the superintendent and school board to inform his office “of the actions the district has taken, or will take” to address the matter by October 1, 2026.
On Tuesday, the superintendent acknowledged having received the letter, adding that members of the school board “take the concerns seriously and will respond to the Attorney General’s Office,” according to a report by WFLA.
“Every student deserves a classroom where they feel safe, respected, and free to learn,” Connor said. “No student should face harassment, humiliation, or retaliation because of their beliefs or their family’s views.”
“Respect for students and parents is fundamental to the trust our community places in our schools,” the superintendent continued, adding that “the allegations in the letter warrant careful attention.”
Connor maintained that he and the school board “will examine the relevant facts and records, ensure a fair process for all involved, and take appropriate action based on the findings and requirements.”
Ballard, meanwhile, has denied the account, telling WFLA, “What I read in that letter is not accurate at all compared to the actual investigation.”
Jason Means, President of the Sarasota Classified Teachers Association — the labor union representing the teacher — said the investigation into Ballard has been going on for several months, and that some action has already been taken by the school board.
“She’s a great teacher at a great school, Pine View’s a great school,” Means said, before claiming that Uthmeier may have “overstepped his bounds a little bit,” and that he believes the Florida AG “might have bigger fish to fry.”
“I mean, obviously it’s within the laws of the state of Florida,” the labor union president conceded, before acknowledging, “I can see where he would say that he would have the right to send such a letter.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/09/24/florida-ag-james-uthmeier-sarasota-teacher-tried-to-cancel-eighth-grader-for-his-conservative-views/
Pezeshkian says Iran still seeks US deal despite ‘assassination’ of supreme leader
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (L) speaks with Fox News’ Special Report anchor Bret Baier during an interview, September 24, 2026. Fox News
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with Fox News’ Special Report thatTehran remains willing to reach an agreement with Washington despite the killing of its supreme leader, scientists and military commanders in US and Israeli attacks.
“We do not choose war. The war was imposed on us. We do not seek war,” Pezeshkian said Thursday.
He said Iran was seeking an agreement based on its rights under international law and remained willing to move forward with an earlier understanding reached with President Donald Trump.
“We did reach an agreement with your president,” Pezeshkian said. “That agreement was signed, and based on that, we are willing and still wish to move forward.”
Pezeshkian also said Iran had not closed the Strait of Hormuz and that it had remained open when the country was attacked.
“They assassinated and martyred our esteemed supreme leader, our scientists, our military commanders and government,” he added.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609240829
Pretty twisted story and it doesn't explain a lot about the war, so is FOX their outlet now?