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Ella Langley Blocked From A New Radio No. 1 By Her Collaborator

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@ 03/08/2026

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is not only the biggest country song of the year, but the most successful tune of any style in America. The smash holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a milestone fifteenth frame, making it one of the eight longest-running champions in the history of the most competitive songs ranking in the United States.

Even as “Choosin’ Texas” refuses to step aside, Langley has several other singles performing well at the moment. One of them, “I Can’t Love You Anymore,” is a collaboration with country superstar Morgan Wallen. This frame, that track nearly scores both artists another winner on the Country Airplay chart, the busiest and most competitive genre-specific radio rundown in the U.S. – but one of the two musicians blocks himself from No. 1… at least for the time being.

Ella Langley’s New Single Reaches a New Peak

“I Can’t Love You Anymore” steps up one space on the Country Airplay chart, lifting from No. 3 to a new all-time high of No. 2. The collaboration may lead the ranking in the coming weeks, but for the moment, Wallen prevents himself from adding once again to his already historic total of winners. His own “Don’t We” occupies the top spot, forcing his team-up with Langley to settle for space directly beneath it.

Morgan Wallen Scores His Twenty-First No. 1

“Don’t We” also advances a single rung on the Country Airplay chart, rising from No. 2 to No. 1. The solo cut replaces Jason Aldean’s “Don’t Tell on Me,” which controlled the roster for multiple frames.

“Don’t We” becomes Wallen’s twenty-first No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart. With a new victory now included in his discography, the singer ties Keith Urban and Thomas Rhett for the eighth-most leaders in the history of the ranking.

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Here are all of Morgan Wallen’s No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart.

Ella Langley Seeks Her Fifth Country Radio No. 1

Langley is looking for her fifth Country Airplay champion and her third of 2026. She first reached No. 1 in December 2024 with “You Look Like You Love Me,” her collaboration with Riley Green. The pair returned to the top spot the following December with “Don’t Mind If I Do.”

So far this year, “Choosin’ Texas” has commanded the chart for three frames, while “Be Her,” another single from Dandelion, spent four periods in charge after first reaching No. 1 in June.

Ella Langley Has Two No. 2 Hits

“I Can’t Love You Anymore” is one of only two Langley tracks to break into the Country Airplay top 10 without making it to No. 1 – though that could easily change in the coming weeks. Both of those tunes have stalled in the runner-up position. “Weren’t for the Wind” missed out on leading by only one rung before “I Can’t Love You Anymore” matched its placement this week.

Morgan Wallen Has Never Stalled at No. 2

Wallen has never seen one of his songs finish its run at No. 2 on the Country Airplay chart. Only three of his 24 top 10 hits have failed to spend even one turn as the No. 1 most successful tune at country radio.

“I Can’t Love You Anymore” is still rising, and could soon remove itself from that short group. The other two tracks, “Everything I Love” and “One Thing at a Time,” peaked at Nos. 3 and 8, respectively.

If “I Can’t Love You Anymore” advances, Wallen will immediately earn his twenty-second leader. He’ll break out of a historic tie that he just set and move ahead of Urban and Rhett.

Morgan Wallen and Ella Langley Chart More Hits

Both Wallen and Langley appear on the Country Airplay chart with another tune this week. Wallen sits alongside Hardy, Eric Church and Tim McGraw on “McArthur,” which steps up one space to No. 19. The collaboration sits two rungs beneath its previously-established No. 17 peak.

“Loving Life Again,” one of four singles from Dandelion, earns a much grander improvement. Langley’s solo cut jumps from No. 32 to a new high point of No. 24 in only its third week on the Country Airplay chart.

ForbesElla Langley Matches One Of The Biggest Hits Of The Past DecadeBy Hugh McIntyre

Fantasy RTS Flow of War is an immediately moreish blend of worker herding, fortress building, and 90s-style visuals

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It's not as throwback as it looks

A beleaguered 2D castle in the middle of a four-way junction, from strategy game Flow of War. — Image credit: Rongcon Games

My workers in Flow of War are tireless and uncomplaining, labouring away silently in the face of all adversity. Nonetheless, I can feel their seething irritation when I plant my fortress layout awry. Flow of War is a "classic RTS" with an economic element that mostly runs itself. You conjure a bunch of minions from your town hall, pop down templates for cropfields, forges, wells, and suchlike, and watch as your drudges get on with the building and resource-gathering.

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Where you can contribute is in laying out those structures in an efficient way, so that your serfs accomplish as much as possible before the timer runs down and you have to fend off a fresh wave of attackers, emerging from hellportals around the map. After 30 minutes with the demo, I have mostly learned what not to do.

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Do not, for example, carve out a huge 8x2 block of fields, because the workers will have to walk all the way around it to water and reap the crops on the far side. Do not erect such an intricate maze of walls and arrow towers that it takes 10 whole extra seconds for your toilers to navigate the fortifications and perform vital repairs.

Oh, and don't expand your base too rapidly. The game's worker AI is a little prone to seizing the initiative, which is important in the absence of direct control, but can be a liability. If a worker sets out to build, say, a water wheel and thereby finds themself in range of a goldmine, they will take the opportunity to pocket some nuggets. This might in turn carry them out beyond your defensive line, right into the path of some jerks with swords, and oh, whoops, you've accidentally walled them out and now they're taking the long way back around the lake to your town hall.

You can recruit your own jerks with swords, together with fancier murderfolk such as multishot archers and wizards. These need to be steered manually, using ye olde drag-select. It doesn't feel like the active military aspect is especially deep; currently, I'm finding the defence and automated economy aspect more interesting.

I like strategy simulations in which I have to think indirectly, shaping the terrain chemistry rather than ordering everybody about, and working with the AI's gradually discovered quirks rather than overruling it with relentless micromanagement. There's also research to consider, which makes use of the same resources needed for construction and unit recruitment. Unlocking the right tier of buildings at the right time is clearly very important on later maps.

Speaking of which, the full game offers 30 maps to chew through and replay on higher difficulties. You also get a map editor and a randomiser. Not too shabby for £10/$10/€10 or so. I have few criticisms, so far. True, it's no visual extravaganza with quite a plain interface, but I reckon you elderly Warcrafters and Empire Agers will be able to overlook such things. Read more on Steam. %!s()

Which Of The Dead Entry-Level Cars Do You Miss The Most? - Jalopnik

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@ 03/08/2026

There are no longer any new cars available in the United States market for under $20,000, and it's getting increasingly difficult to find any under $30,000. It's a shame what we've witnessed in this industry across the last decade, as dealerships and automakers collude to increase per-unit profitability while reducing or completely eliminating affordable cars from their offerings. Long gone are the days when you could walk into a Nissan dealer and pick up a Versa for $9,999. I'm not really saying that I liked the Versa in particular, or that its death was worthy of lament. There were, however, some great entry-level cars that we're worse off for not having anymore. I want to know which ones you miss the most.

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Think back to the 1990s and early 2000s, when the car market was absolutely packed with small entry-level automobiles that sold in the hundreds of thousands. Every automaker offered a non-enthusiast compact coupe, a small hatchback, or a tiny sedan, and they were as common as cockroaches on the road. I'm thinking of things like Chevrolet Cavaliers, Ford's Focus, or even smaller things like the Mazda 2, Toyota Paseo, and Honda Fit. From the 1980s to about 2010 the small front-wheel drive car was almost a right of passage. You couldn't graduate up into a big heavy pickup or SUV until you understood how to drive, and saved enough money to buy one.

In recent memory we've lost every sub-compact hatchback, including everything from Japan, despite the fact that many of them are still in production for other markets. I'm looking at you Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris! If it weren't for massive import tariffs and the corrupt dealership network controlling the market and dictating consumer preferences, they might still be around. Tiny cheap compacts might be nice in a market defined by an affordability crisis and giant fuel price hikes.

An ode to the Ford Aspire

Back when I was fresh out of college, I purchased a well-worn Ford Aspire from a friend in exchange for a mini-keg of local beer and enough gift cards to Wendy's to buy two Baconator meals. The car didn't have a rear window, a rear seat, working air conditioning, or windshield wipers. The manual gearbox was also missing third gear, making merging onto the highway a death-defying affair. It was one of the greatest automobile experiences of my entire life. The Aspire was a truly horrible car, but I learned so much about driving dynamics and heads-up traffic pattern awareness.

Having driven this car for so long, it's always a good reminder that automakers used to push out kind of terrible cars for people who just needed bare bones transportation and didn't have a big budget. With just 64 horsepower and the kind of tepid acceleration that most cyclists could beat in light-to-light runs, the Ford wasn't fast. It also wasn't luxurious, or even particularly well built, but I'll be damned if it didn't do everything I needed it to for a few years.

I often lament the loss of this kind of car, because the American market, combined with car-centric infrastructure for much of the country, has more or less forced the working class into a debt slavery situation. Automakers have just about perfected the concept of making cars better to drive, and the improvement over the last thirty years is instantly noticeable. Instead of continuing to make cars better, then, maybe we should spend the next decade figuring out how to make them cheaper again.

So, which cheap small car do you miss most? Sound off in the comments below and we'll discuss it. Then I'll pick a few of my favorites to recap for everyone else. %!s()

Will AI Data Centers Raise Your Electric Bill? The Rules That Decide Who Pays

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Major Cluster Of Data Centers Inhabit Northern Virginia

Data centers are driving up electricity demand and forcing new grid investment. Whether that lands on your bill depends on how utilities and regulators split it.

A utility often has to start building for a data center before anyone’s sure it will get built. That can mean substations, high-voltage lines, even a new power plant, committed years before the first server rack is installed. Some arrive on time. Some come late, shrink, or vanish. The steel goes in the ground on the promise. If the project changes, the cost doesn’t.

That’s where the pressure on your electric bill starts. AI data centers can raise your bill, but not automatically and not everywhere. Size and location decide how hard a project leans on the grid. Utility rules and rate cases decide how much of that strain lands on you.

How Data-Center Costs Reach Your Bill

Strip away the “AI” framing. Utilities don’t meter AI electricity separately; to the grid, a data center is just one very large electrical load. So the narrower question is who pays for the power and the wires. The bill can fall on the data center through a dedicated rate, on homes and businesses through higher general rates, or on the utility's investors, who absorb whatever regulators won't let them recover. Usually it's some mix, and the split is set by market rules, utility plans, and rate cases, not by the size of the server farm.

The pressure is real. A 2026 study from NC State, Carnegie Mellon, and others modeled what data-center and cryptocurrency demand could do to power costs by 2030. In their scenarios, demand-weighted wholesale electricity prices rose 6% to 29% on average nationally, and as much as 57% in the hardest-hit regions, against a future without that growth. Note the terms: those are modeled wholesale prices, not your monthly bill. How much reaches your house comes down to rate design.

The Real Risk Is Paying For Customers Who Never Show Up

Here’s what should worry a ratepayer more than raw megawatts. Anyone who’s planned a large industrial build knows the schedule is a promise, not a fact. Developers file speculative requests, utilities plan for them, and then a project slips two years, halves in size, or disappears. Depending on what regulators allow, that stranded cost lands in the rate base or gets recovered elsewhere. Without protections written in advance, the cost can land on everyone else. The companies building these sites are usually willing to pay for power; what they can’t control is the calendar. A half-empty data center can still cost you money.

The terms that matter are in the contract, and two states are rewriting them. Ohio went first.

How Ohio Makes Data Centers Carry More of the Risk

Ohio’s data-center tariff, approved in July 2025 for projects of at least 25 megawatts, makes large data centers stand behind their own demand: pay for most of the capacity you reserve even if you use less, commit for the load-ramp period plus at least eight years, post collateral if your credit is weak, and reimburse the buildout or pay an exit fee to leave early. AEP says the screen worked: more than 30 gigawatts of preliminary interest narrowed to about 13 gigawatts that paid for engineering studies and 5.6 gigawatts signed under the tariff. Another 12.2 gigawatts had signed earlier, so it isn’t a clean 30-to-5.6 story, but the drop once real money was required is hard to miss. It’s too early to call it a proven shield. The Ohio Manufacturers’ Association has appealed the tariff; its president, Ryan Augsburger, put the worry plainly: “customers are being asked to pay for a future that may never arrive.”

Virginia’s New Rules For Large Power Users

Virginia, home to the largest concentration of data centers in the country, took a similar route. Its new GS-5 rate class, effective January 2027, covers customers demanding at least 25 megawatts. New qualifying customers must commit for at least 14 years, and covered customers must pay for at least 85% of contracted transmission and distribution demand and 60% of generation, used or not. Same logic as Ohio: make the giant customer carry the cost of the capacity it demands, so other customers aren’t underwriting a hyperscaler’s option to maybe build.

None of this makes data centers a villain. A large, committed load can spread a utility’s fixed costs and even lower rates, but only if it pays for its own infrastructure and everyone else is protected when it stumbles. The tariff shapes that; wholesale prices and new steel still get a vote.

How To Check Your Utility’s Data-Center Rules

You don’t need to read a filing. Find your utility’s name on your bill and run three searches:

“[utility name] data center tariff”
“[utility name] large-load rate”
“[your state] utility commission pending rate case”

Look for a separate rate class for very large customers, and the minimum contracts, collateral, and exit fees that keep them on the hook. Some of these costs won’t appear as a line labeled “data center,” so not seeing it doesn’t mean you aren’t paying.

The demand growth is real. But where the cost lands isn’t fixed by physics. Size and location set how hard a project leans on the grid. The rate case sets how much of that you’re asked to carry. That’s the decision worth watching, and right now, state by state, it’s being rewritten. %!s()

Netflix’s Best New 100% Rotten Tomatoes Scored Show Is Based On True Events

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While Netflix has a slew of highly-scored series, thanks in part to producing an astonishing amount of content, a new show stands out. The series currently has a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score among a handful of critics, but it’s unique on the Netflix top 10 list, where it currently sits in second place.

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The show is The Bombing of Pan Am 103. While that may sound like it would be a documentary series, it’s actually a drama covering the events of the attack. It stars Sex Education’s Connor Swindells in certainly quite a different role than his former Netflix show.

The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 took place on December 21, 1988, when the plane was destroyed by a bomb over Scotland, killing 243 passengers and 16 crew members. The ensuing crash also killed 11 people on the ground. It was the deadliest terror attack in UK history, and one of the deadliest in all of Europe.

Who committed the attack? In 2001, Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was found guilty of 270 counts of murder after it was proven he was connected to the bombing and got a life sentence. He died in 2012 of cancer. Another man charged, Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, was acquitted instead. Much later in 2020, Libyan national Abu Agila Masud was arrested in 2022, pleaded not guilty and has a trial set in 2026 for his participation in the bombing.

The Netflix series is focused in a pair of investigations into the bombing. Swindells plays DS Ed McCusker and Peter Mullan plays DCS John Orr, who are real individuals who investigated the attack. Orr was later knighted for his work.

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It’s somewhat unusual to see a dramatization of an attack like this as a Netflix miniseries rather than a documentary, and judging by these early reviews, it’s done a good job of telling the story. Here are a few excerpts:

Espinof: “It's a patient, meticulous, and deeply respectful series about the victims, finding its strength not in action scenes, but in its obsessive attempt to carefully reconstruct the truth.”
Decider: “It doesn’t feel like Lee and his writers are at all trying to sensationalize the investigation. Heck, he doesn’t even play on viewers’ emotions when it comes to the bombing of the flight.”

As it stands, the only show The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is behind is the #1 series, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, a documentary, not a dramatization, of a series of murders at the University of Idaho. Over the years, crime shows have been intensely popular on Netflix, and this week is no exception.

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