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Right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/SPI8OIZFu" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: #003965;">deported to the United Kingdom</a> one day after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in New Orleans.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; Margin: 0 0 16px 0;">
The Trump administration says it has helped close <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/BNkx3xmqYx" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: #003965;">37 commercial deals</a> worth $25.67 billion in Africa as Washington moves to compete with a much larger Chinese economic footprint across the continent.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; Margin: 0 0 16px 0;">
🍵<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Health:</strong> Something in the environment could be <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/0sNipA6BkM" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: #003965;">driving up autism</a>.</li></ul></div></td></tr></table><table class="image_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 100%;" align="center" width="100%"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 600px;">
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Charlie Becker, owner of Becker’s Books, in Houston on Aug. 8, 2026. (Mark Felix for The Epoch Times)</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0; word-break: break-word;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,Georgia,Serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; mso-line-height-alt: 31px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0;"><a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/SPI8OIZFu" target="_self" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: #3e3e3e;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book Sellers Alarmed as AI Giants Shred Millions of Books</strong></a></p></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0; word-break: break-word;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,Georgia,Serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; mso-line-height-alt: 23px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">
Charlie Becker’s family bookstore in Houston has been connecting people with literature for more than 30 years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Becker said the family has “seen a lot of changes” since his dad opened the used and rare book store in 1993.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">
When he was 12 years old, Becker remembers his dad making one of the store’s first larger purchases. Another local business planned to get rid of its collection of books, but first called Becker’s father.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">“It was in their [company’s] last days, and they said my dad had to pick up the books. I went with him to the warehouse,” he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Becker grew up with that story of rescuing books bound for a landfill with his dad. Over the years, he has watched the entire industry of acquiring and selling books change with the rise of the internet, digital cataloging, and the emergence of major sellers such as Amazon.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">
For generations, booksellers have worked to preserve humanity’s writing. However, the recent revelation that millions of print books are being scanned to train artificial intelligence models and then destroyed presents an unprecedented challenge.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">To make matters worse, book collectors and sellers say there’s no easy way to make it stop.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">The practice of what has been dubbed AI “book shredding” burst onto the scene after a 2025 court document revealed that AI tech giant Anthropic purchased millions of printed books, removed their bindings, then scanned each page into digital datasets. Afterward, Anthropic shredded and discarded the originals.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0;">
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Entrepreneur Mark Cuban speaks at a campaign event for U.S. Vice President Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris at University Wisconsin-La Crosse in La Crosse, Wis., on Oct. 17, 2024. (Craig Lassig/AFP)</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="list_block block-6" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0; word-break: break-word; color: #3e3e3e; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,Georgia,Serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; mso-line-height-alt: 23px;" align="left"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -20px;"><ul start="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; list-style-type: disc;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; Margin: 0 0 16px 0;">
Billionaire Mark Cuban campaigned for Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico on Aug. 29 to promote the candidate’s plan to <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/OtcBabPH1q9" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: #003965;">break up healthcare monopolies</a>.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; Margin: 0 0 16px 0;">
Enforcement actions carried out by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have stopped over $1.6 billion in <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/V5ttGCHEPfW" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: #003965;">potentially improper Medicare lab payments</a> so far under the Trump administration.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; Margin: 0 0 16px 0;">
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered a former White House teleprompter operator to pay more than $172,000 after finding he used nonpublic information from his White House job to <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/W1SNopONQj" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: #003965;">trade event contracts for personal gain</a>.</li></ul></div></td></tr></table><table class="divider_block block-7" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px;" align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="divider_inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 100%;" align="center" width="100%"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 600px;"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2026/08/26/id6079922-China_Artist_Mao_26237559276269.jpg?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=mb-2026-08-30&src_cmp=mb-2026-08-30&utm_medium=email&est=[EMAIL_SECURE_LINK]" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; border: 0; width: 100%;" width="600" alt title height="auto"></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-10" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0; word-break: break-word;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; direction: ltr; font-family: Arial,Georgia,Serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; mso-line-height-alt: 16px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0;">Chinese artist Gao Zhen was recently sentenced in China to three years in prison over artworks he created nearly two decades ago, which insiders say illustrates how Beijing is expanding its efforts to criminalize criticism of the regime and its leaders.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="list_block block-11" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; mso-table-lspace: 0; mso-table-rspace: 0; word-break: break-word; color: #3e3e3e; direction: ltr; font-family: Georgia,Georgia,Serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; mso-line-height-alt: 23px;" align="left"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="pad" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -20px;"><ul start="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; list-style-type: disc;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; Margin: 0 0 16px 0;">Chinese artist Gao Zhen was recently sentenced in China to three years in prison over artworks he created nearly two decades ago, which insiders say illustrates how Beijing is expanding its efforts to <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/cuJjDRnml5" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; color: #003965;">criminalize criticism of the regime</a> and its leaders.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; Margin: 0 0 16px 0;">U.S. forces, on Aug. 28, sank a vessel in the eastern Pacific that the U.S. Southern Command said was serving as an <a href="https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/AcHGSq2UM/Jlid8tcrj/8GMrNunLt/MLdSQOhvwv" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Christine Beal Dunst gives us a simple, high-protein meal you can prepare once and enjoy throughout the week: Spinach Bolognese.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Lean ground turkey or chicken support lean muscle, metabolism, and healthy blood sugar balance. Meanwhile, the spinach is packed with folate, iron, magnesium, vitamin K, and antioxidants.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0;">
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