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View More NewsNA Today, the Trump Administration announced massive new tariffs, supposedly authorized by Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974: The Trump administration on Thursday finalized new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners as it seeks to reconstitute sweeping duties struck down by the Supreme Court in February. The new duties, which range from 10 to 12.5 percent, follow a five-month investigation into trading partners’ efforts to root out products made with forced labor from their supply chains and are set to take effect just as a temporary global 10 percent tariff expires. Starting Friday, 17 trading partners…
This week on Freed Up, the conversation starts with Robby and Christian’s reviews of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, including why Agamemnon stands out and whether Robby may finally be wrong about a movie. The hosts also dig into the parts of The Odyssey that felt perhaps too modern. Then they pivot to Nolan’s action scenes and why they sometimes fall short. Later, they discuss Citizen Vigilante, the New York City mayor’s comments about arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Democratic Socialists of America’s increasing embrace of communist ideas. The episode closes with a broader debate over why socialism…
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In this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Sankey speaks with Rachel Moiselle, a doctoral student in linguistics at Trinity College Dublin who has become one of the most visible voices against antisemitism in Irish public life. Of paternal Jewish heritage and raised Catholic, Moiselle began speaking out after October 7th and found herself, almost overnight, both a target and a lightning rod. She and Zoe discuss why a country with fewer than 3,000 Jews devotes so much of its political and media energy to Israel, how anti-Zionism has taken on the fervour of a replacement faith in post-Catholic Ireland, and…
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Max Friedman is a rising third-year law student at the University of Memphis.Censorship in the name of combating antisemitism has become a fact of…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit over its investigations…
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In brief Nine firms—including BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy, Galaxy, and Fidelity Digital Assets—launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium today. They are pledging a combined $15 million…
Key takeaways:Bears gained a major edge ahead of Friday’s $9 billion options expiry, especially if Bitcoin price stays below $74,000.Spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and…
More targets struck: The U.S. shot down four Iranian drones yesterday, as well as a launch unit, while Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said…
All within a matter of weeks, Anthropic unveiled new agents for finance, Circle launched nanopayments, MoonPay launched a debit card for agents and Gemini…
Bitcoin’s drop below $73,000 on Wednesday marks a short-term turning point for the market, as multiple BTC distribution signals point toward rising sell-side pressure. While…
In brief KAIKAKU.AI published Epicure, a family of three ingredient AI models trained on 4.14 million multilingual recipes. The model doesn’t store recipes—it stores…
from the baby-steps dept I’ve written quite a bit about the Stop Killing Games movement, in no small part because I think it’s way…
I am happy to pass along this hiring notice from my friends at ADF: Alliance Defending Freedom is seeking Senior Counsel with 10+ years…
Ethereum core developers may soon get a new source of funding: a blockchain lottery.Decentralized lottery protocol Megapot said Thursday it is teaming up with…