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Hong Kong Bourse Regains Favor on Hopes of a Market Revival
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. is having its best week in years.
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Growth-Plus-Inflation Economy Is a ‘Lose-Lose’ for Biden
The latest good news and bad news about the US economy is just plain bad news for Joe Biden.
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Marcos Deepfake Fanning China Tensions Linked to ‘Foreign Actor’
A “foreign actor” is likely behind deepfake content that made Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sound like he’s urging military action against China, according to his communications office.
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SCOTUS Weighs the Risk of Presidential Timidity Against the Risk of Presidential Impunity
Without “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for their “official acts,” Donald Trump’s lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, presidents will be afraid to do their jobs. “If a president can be charged, put on trial, and imprisoned for his most controversial decisions as soon as he leaves office, that looming threat will distort […]
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Texas Public Colleges Crack Down on Peaceful Anti-Israel Protests
As pro-Palestine demonstrations erupt at college campuses across the nation, several public colleges in Texas have come under fire for cracking down on peaceful protests. While public universities are bound by the First Amendment, a March executive order by Gov. Greg Abbot forces colleges to suppress antisemitic speech, seemingly motivating some of the universities’ responses […]
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New Evidence that Making Legal Migration Easier Reduces Illegal Border Crossings
(Miguel Juarez Lugo/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) I and others have long argued that making legal migration easier is the best way to reduce disorder at the border. To a large extent, this basic Economics 101: if a much-coveted good or service is banned or severely restricted, that predictably creates a large black market. Thus, just as alcohol prohibition […]
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NOAA Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Are Not Evidence of Climate Change
“Billion-dollar weather and climate disasters broke U.S. record in 2023, NOAA says,” reported PBS earlier this year. “NOAA: US sees record number of billion-dollar weather, climate disasters in 2023,” observed Fox Weather. “U.S. Hit by Record Number of High-Cost Disasters in 2023,” declared The New York Times. These and many more headlines were based on […]
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Judge Acquits Backpage Co-Founder Michael Lacey on Most Counts
A federal judge has acquitted Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey of dozens of counts, including a majority of those on which federal prosecutors planned to retry Lacey later this year. U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa also acquitted former Backpage executives Jed Brunst and Scott Spear on multiple counts of which they were convicted by a jury […]
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David Beito: Was FDR a Tyrant?
Why has President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s dark side been hidden? Scholars consistently rank FDR as one of America’s greatest presidents. The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey ranked him number two, below Lincoln, and respondents to the Siena College Research Institute studies have ranked him number one in six out of seven survey years. Perhaps it’s […]
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Greenpeace Crusade Will Blind and Kill Children
Greenpeace and other anti-biotech activist groups have logged a win in a crusade that could ultimately blind and kill thousands of children annually. How? By persuading the Court of Appeals of the Philippines to issue a scientifically ignorant and morally hideous decision to ban the planting of vitamin A–enriched golden rice. The objective result will […]
