A $40 Billion ETF Shuffle Helps Foreign Investors Dodge US Taxes
Major institutions are flipping between near-identical equity funds to avoid receiving dividends — and the 30% tax that comes with them.
Russlands Angriffe auf deutschem Boden: Berlin darf nicht nur drohen, es muss richtig schützen
Die Bundesregierung reagiert hart auf Russlands hybride Angriffe. Doch Sanktionen alleine werden die deutsche Sicherheit nicht gewährleisten.
Congress Dodges Pre-Midterms Government Shutdown
The bipartisan House vote means some fights will simply be deferred to a lame-duck session, with the next shutdown threat in December.
Lawmakers Push DHS to Cancel Its Shock Gloves Contract
Last week, DHS finalized its $16.7 million purchase of 6,650 pairs of electric shock gloves from the Kentucky-based company Compliant Technologies. That comes out to about $2,400 per pair, plus some accessories like glove fresheners in case the ICE agents wearing these direct contact electroshock weapons get sweaty.
Israel-Greece air defence deal to be 'scaled up' with UAE as contender, sources say
The UAE, which operates a range of air-defence batteries, is being discussed as the next export market for a layered system
Centrist Democrats Are Trying to Throw the Michigan Race
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate race could decide control of the chamber. Yet some centrist Democrats are openly working to sink his campaign — because they’d rather hand the seat to a Trump-backed Republican than let the Left gain a foothold in their party.
Could Jewish Democrats Actually Cost Abdul El-Sayed a Senate Seat?
Our political reporter explains why the Jewish vote matters in Michigan.
Hundreds of Instances of False Election Propaganda Narratives on TV Channels
Broadcast media not only reported on the election campaign throughout June and July but also served as a platform for spreading disinformation, conspiracy theories, hate speech, incitement, and false political propaganda • Channel 14 is by far the main disseminator, responsible for more than half of these instances, but even channels not aligned with Netanyahu are not innocent of this phenomenon
OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
The Wall Street Journal’s Propaganda On Rent Control
The Wal l Street Journal’s Emma Camp recently put out a short video criticizing “rent control” (I put this in quotes because the term can describe many different policies and one of the video’s first sins is lumping them all together as one thing).
Leaked Files Reveal Uganda’s Secret Drone Deals with Israel
As Uganda prepares to deploy troops to a Gaza “stabilization force,” internal documents show a years-long Israeli program to upgrade the country's drone capabilities.
How AI plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri
A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029. It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is 4.4 light-years away.
CBS News Spins El-Sayed’s 9/11 Tweets Into a Manufactured Anti-Muslim Scandal
Centrist Democrats opened the door for anti-Muslim attacks on their party’s nominee in Michigan — finding common cause with right-wing bigots.
3 of Trump Admin’s New Competition Show “Finalists” Are Military Contractors
The Trump administration’s “reality” competition shows have already raised eyebrows over biases.
Optimized Offspring
Five years ago, I sat in my OB-GYN’s office, three months pregnant, reading a stack of consent forms for noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to find out whether my unborn daughter might have chromosomal abnormalities that would come with lifelong health problems.
€ Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario
Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada.
„Dog Whistles“
Bundeskanzler Stocker sorgte Anfang August auf seiner Österreich-Tour für heftige Debatten. Nachdem eine Bürgerin ihm vorrechnete, dass Kinderbetreuung mit 96 Stunden Aufwand pro Woche harte Arbeit sei, antwortete Stocker, er sehe Kinderbetreuung nicht als unbezahlte Arbeit.
🔴 Diskretes SPD-Strategietreffen + Reaktion auf russische Bedrohung + Schärferer Kurs in der China-Politik
SPD: Diskretes Strategietreffen in Hamm – ohne die Parteispitze
