🏭 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 Trump announces plan for $15 billion steel plant, would be largest in U.S. history

President Donald Trump announced Mesabi Metallics' plan to invest about $15 billion in a steel plant in Iowa.

The planned steel plant aims to begin production in 2030 and would create an estimate 1,750 full-time jobs, a White House official said.

Trump is joined in the Oval Office by Mesabi Metallics CEO Joe Broking and Chairman Rewant Ruia, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Export-Import Bank Chairman John Jovanovic and others, according to the official.

Mesabi Metallics, an Essar Group company, aligns with global sustainability goals, illustrating Essar’s dedication to creating enduring value while supporting a transition towards a more sustainable future.

Essar Group is a major Indian industrial conglomerate founded by Shashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia in 1969. Essar is renowned for its achievements in executing large-scale projects with national significance across India. Today, Essar Group operates in over 20 countries across various regions, including Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe and with over five decades of expertise, Essar has established itself as a leading global force in its sectors of expertise: Energy, Infrastructure & Logistics, Metals & Mining, and Technology & Retail. https://www.mesabimetallics.com/company/

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/28/trump-steel-plant-iowa.html

🇺🇸 🇮🇶 🇦🇫 As of October 1st, for the first time since U.S. forces arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, there are no active U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore.

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🪖 🇺🇸 🇮🇶 U.S. service members remain in Iraq in diplomatic support, embassy security, and training/advisory roles, but the U.S. military presence associated with Operation Inherent Resolve has ended, closing out more than 12 years of U.S.-led combat operations against ISIS in Iraq.

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Clashes in Taizz are still ongoing. Possibly preparing the ground for an assault on the city tomorrow night.

Events can unfold rapidly.

☢️ 🇺🇸 🏗 NRC Approves Construction of Nation’s First Small Modular Reactor

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a construction permit for the Tennessee Valley Authority to build a small modular nuclear reactor at its Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, clearing the way for the nation’s first commercial small modular reactor and completing the NRC’s review in 14 months. This is the agency’s second major reactor approval this year.

“Four months ahead of schedule is what the new NRC looks like,” NRC Chairman Ho K. Nieh said. “Today’s Clinch River decision demonstrates that the new NRC can make rigorous and credible safety decisions that enable major American nuclear projects to move forward.”

The NRC formally began its review in July 2025 and completed its licensing decision in 14 months, ahead of schedule. The approval follows a comprehensive safety evaluation completed by the NRC staff in June 2026, which found that TVA’s construction permit application met all regulatory requirements. The NRC also held a public hearing in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in August as part of its modernized mandatory hearing process.

TVA plans to build a 300-megawatt GE Vernova Hitachi boiling-water reactor to help meet growing regional power demand. Before loading fuel and starting operations, TVA will need a separate operating license from the NRC. TVA previously received an early site permit for the Clinch River site in 2019.

https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/news-releases/2026/26-079

🇺🇸 Mark Mitchell on X: Like I said, Gen Z is a truffle pig for inauthenticity.

Vapid, amoral arguments aren't going to work on them

📝 BurnedSion: "Dems are worse" is just a concession that you can't actually offer the person anything meaningful

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🇫🇷⚡️- Race-based riots in French high schools and universities have spread to dozens of locations throughout the week. Initially, it began as a movement to ask for better funding and infrastructure in poorly-funded establishments before spreading to schools with high amounts of immigration-based students for the sake of chaos. Far-left immigrationnist party LFI has tried to bolster the movement, which initially succeeded before spiraling out of control yesterday when one of their figureheads, Antoine Léaument, lost control of a youth crowd and got overwhelmed.

🇫🇷⚡️- The Cocarde Etudiante, the only right-wing students association in France, has begun forcefully ending blockades near certain universities as tensions rise across France.

🇫🇷⚡️- Certain students of immigrant background from "revolting" high schools have begun invading other high schools in France that are not undergoing any turmoil.

Picture sent by a local to Rerum Novarum in the Lycée Honoré d'Urfé, in Saint-Etienne. The barriers have been forcefully torn down by the crowd prior to the picture being taken.

🇫🇷⚡️- The riots have become much more violent today as revolting immigrant students have begun setting fire to infrastructure and objects outside of school perimeters. Here, a bus was set aflame an hour ago in Marseilles.

🇫🇷⚡️- The Nelson Mandela High School, in Nantes, has had its lobby entirely torched by protesters this morning as violence escalates.

🇫🇷⚡️- Riots in Marseilles have spiraled out significantly in the morning, as a fire truck is being seized and burnt by protesters. According to online medias, Marseilles seems to be the epicenter of violence.

🇫🇷⚡️- The Honoré d'Urfé High School is being evacuated due to safety concern from the security breach.

🇫🇷🇧🇪⚡️- The riots have spread outside of France's borders as students of immigration-based backgrounds have began rioting in Belgium.

Video from Marie-Thérèse Institute in Liège.

🇫🇷 - It appears the Nelson Mandela High School of Nantes is a recently renovated, "eco-friendly inclusive" all-wooden establishment with an interior designed for "positive energy". The main building of the €77M establishment is unlikely to survive the flames.