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The 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.323 percent on 18 August 2026, its highest since 2007, as Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance reported, with the 10-year near 4.7 percent against roughly 4.2 at the start of the year per CNN. This is a global move: Japanese 10-year debt at a three-decade high, German 30-year bonds costliest since 2011, French 30-year borrowing at pre-2008 levels. The framing most coverage reached for was that Japan was dumping Treasuries. It is the opposite of what happened. The US and Japan ran their first joint yen-buying intervention since 1998, roughly 85 billion dollars over t
Does a first-time DWI offender in Texas have to install an ignition interlock? There are three answers. Code of Criminal Procedure art. 42A.408(b) says a court MAY require one for a plain first offence — discretionary. Subsection (c) makes it mandatory at 0.15 BAC or with a prior conviction. And Transportation Code 521.246 makes it effectively mandatory for anyone who wants to keep driving, because proof of installation is a precondition of an occupational licence. Also: why fitting the device removes the usual time and place restrictions, and why refusing the test costs 180 days against 90 fo
A post says the US trade deficit went from $136 billion to $29 billion under Trump. Both figures are real monthly readings. March 2025 was a record because importers front-ran tariffs; October 2025 was the lowest since 2009 because non-monetary gold was about 90 per cent of that month's rise in exports. The year they belong to closed at $901.5 billion against $903.5 billion — and the goods deficit rose to $1,240.9 billion. This episode also carries the strongest fact for the other side, which is missing from the post and from the fact-check we were commissioned from. Full file with sources: ht
A poll put Francesca Hong 29 points ahead in Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor. She lost by half a point. G. Elliott Morris's reanalysis of the raw data explains most of it — an electorate modelled far too young, late movement, non-response bias. This episode credits his work and then covers what it was not trying to cover: a third of voters undecided, three candidates gone from the ballot, and a late endorsement from the sitting governor. Full file with sources: https://latedeciders.dailypoliticalpress.com/
Russia built eight A-50U radar aircraft and has acknowledged losing three. This episode shows the subtraction, the two loss ledgers that disagree about which three, the July 2026 surge that put the entire flyable fleet in the air at once, and the destroyed testbed at Taganrog that ended the replacement programme. Full file with sources: https://fiveairframes.nocarolinachronicle.com/
The United States is the largest oil producer in history and still imports about six million barrels of crude a day. It is not a shortage and it is not politics — most American refineries were built to run heavy, high-sulfur crude, and the shale boom delivered the opposite. This file covers what the refineries were built for, the trade that results, and the eight figures from the source brief that did not survive a check against the primary sources — including a refinery-complexity statistic circulating as current since 1996. Full dossier: https://crudemismatch.northdenvernews.com/
A 25-part thread said Russia's war economy is breaking. We checked every claim against Bloomberg, Reuters, Meduza, Vyorstka, Anadolu and Sberbank's own research. Most of it holds. Four claims diverge, and one is simply wrong. The full file: https://numbersfile.northdenvernews.com/
On 5 June 1976 the Teton Dam failed on its first filling, killing 11 people. The agency had been warned in writing by its own geologists, by the USGS, and by a former Bureau geologist who testified under oath. Fifty years later at the anniversary memorial, Idaho officials floated building again in the same drainage — and a state-federal basin study now underway lists a Teton dam as one option. What the record shows, and what it does not: https://tetondam.northdenvertribune.com/
A wellness industry worth billions rests on a 2009 review of three small Japanese studies — 37 participants in total. We read the source, found the independent Taiwanese replication that coverage almost never cites, and looked up how the field's own auditors graded the literature: 2 moderate, 6 low, 3 critically low confidence. Biomarker findings reported as biomarker findings, not clinical outcomes. Full dossier: https://outdoorscure.thecherrycreeknews.com/
A viral claim said the Kerch Bridge closed for six months of repairs. The traffic log says it reopened the same night, at 02:53. What the boring record shows about the strikes, the stalemate, and the claims that do not stand up. The dossier: https://kerch.northdenvernews.com/
