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WNBA star Gabby Williams: “I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team.

A U.S. critical minerals company has recently confirmed the nation’s largest known tungsten resource at its Railroad Valley Minerals Project in Nye County, Nevada, despite a NASA land withdrawal restricting exploration across part of the site.

In its updated resource report, 3 Proton Lithium (3PL) said that the project hosts an inferred resource of 1.78 million tons of tungsten. The company revealed that the deposit is part of a mineral system that also contains world-class resources of lithium, potash, and boron.

As per 3PL, the deposit is reportedly five times larger than the biggest tungsten resource currently listed in the US and comes at a time when the country relies heavily on imports for the strategic metal. Its in-situ value is estimated at about USD 152 billion based on current market prices.

However, exploration across approximately 17 square miles of the project remains restricted by a NASA land withdrawal. The space agency uses the area to calibrate satellite instruments. It says mining could interfere with the facility’s operations.

Firm in the belief that immigration enforcement is bad for business, Southwest Airlines is pushing back hard against efforts to detain illegal immigrants at U.S. airports, according to a new report.

A report from The Wall Street Journal highlights a July 25 incident in which an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent tried to board a Southwest Airlines jet in Dallas.

The agent was prevented from carrying out his duties by the airline, the outlet reported.

Dallas-based Southwest staff also refused to share passenger information with ICE.

The Wall Street Journal cited a source it did not name as saying that in recent weeks, about a half-dozen other incidents involving Southwest have taken place.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist dream of government-run grocery stores is off to a bad start. He’s issued confusing statements about whether shoppers will have to show proof of residency to shop there, admitted that he will have private grocery companies — not the city — run the stores, and said the stores won’t all be open until 2029.

But Mamdani is likely to face an even bigger problem if no legitimate grocer wants to get into bed with him.

The “request for proposals” tacitly admits that his idea of government-run stores was stillborn, since he wants bids from private companies that have extensive experience running grocery stores, that have “existing supply chains,” and will “leverage an in-house merchandising organization.”

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According to the RFP, to win a contract, companies must not only be in the grocery business already, but meet requirements such as:

• Have “strong reputations within their communities for delivering on public policy priorities of health, sustainability, community involvement, culturally responsive merchandising, and local and diverse sourcing.”
• Show how they will “engage local suppliers, small businesses and suppliers meeting high sustainability, labor, and health standards.”
• Figure out how to, “in a fair and equitable manner,” prevent customers from emptying the shelves of the “core” goods being sold at 30% below market prices.[\li]
  
  • Work only with subcontractors who will “work with NYCEDC (New York City Economic Development Corporation) to establish appropriate [minority and women-owned business] participation goals and make good faith efforts to achieve them.”[\li]
    
    • “Collaborate with NYCEDC to finalize the expected wages, benefit packages, labor practices and working conditions.”[\li]
      
      • “Demonstrate experience maintaining labor peace.”[\li]
        
        • Get approval from the city to open a store in a privately owned site, including “alignment with the Project’s affordability and operational requirements.”[\li]
          
          • “Regularly report” to the city about how it’s complying with all the above.[\li]
            
          In other words, the city will tell them what they can and can’t sell and at what prices, how much they must pay workers, who they can do business with and where, and kowtow to the city’s socialist “public policy priorities.” And the city will presumably be able to yank a company’s license whenever it sees fit.