Backing Off Hyde Would Betray a Core Principle on Abortion
‘Flexibility’ on Hyde doesn’t just fund abortion — it abandons the position that abortion isn’t health care. Source link
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Donations top $1.5 million for wife and children of the woman fatally shot by ICE in Minneapolis
The GoFundMe campaign created for the family of Renee Macklin Good has surpassed $1.5 million in the two days since she was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent…
U.S. companies are ready to pony up $100 billion to build up Venezuela's oil infrastructure
U.S. oil companies are prepared to invest $100 billion to rebuild the oil infrastructure in Venezuela, President Trump announced Friday during a roundtable meeting with U.S. oil…
Elon Musk's Grok bot restricts sexual image generation after global outcry
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Thursday started restricting the ability for non-paying users to create deepfake, sexualized images after global pushback from users and governments. Late last…
U.S. expected to reap 30 million barrels of Venezuelan oil
As much as 30 million barrels of Venezuelan oil is on its way to the United States, according to President Trump, which would be the equivalent of one month's worth of Venezuelan…
Feds detail 3 more noncitizen voting cases
Federal authorities this week won a guilty plea from an illegal immigrant who cast votes in Michigan, plus announced indictments against two men they accused of voting illegally in New…
Hennepin County prosecutor calls on the public to share Renee Good shooting evidence with her office
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Friday called on members of the public to send any video or other evidence in the fatal shooting of Renee Good directly to her office, despite the…
DNC threatens lawsuits against states that cooperate with feds to scrub voter rolls
The Democratic National Committee warned 10 GOP-led states Friday that it will sue them if they cooperate in a Trump administration effort to clean up their voter rolls. Source link
The Unnecessary Greenland Crisis
The U.S. needs to replace stick with carrot. Source link
Yes, We Need a $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget
Trump’s taste for gilding everything can be over the top. It’d be a national service, though, if he manages to make the U.S. defense budget golden. Source link
Wall Street opens higher after jobs data; tariff ruling awaited
Wall Street’s main indexes opened slightly higher on Friday (Jan 9), as investors digested weaker-than-expected jobs data, while awaiting a Supreme Court ruling on US President Donald…
China probes competition among food delivery platforms to curb price war
Despite a government campaign to rein in overcapacity and stabilise prices, its consumer prices ended 2025 the same as 2024 China will investigate cut-throat competition among food…
China’s GigaDevice Semiconductor locks top-end pricing in HK$4.68 billion Hong Kong listing
China’s GigaDevice Semiconductor has set an offer price of HK$162 per H share in its Hong Kong listing, raising HK$4.68 billion (S$772.5 million), according to an exchange filing on Friday…
The Better-Than List for 2025, the Year of Sedition
The movies that saved movies from themselves. Source link
The Week: A Tragedy in Minnesota
Plus: Trump captures Maduro. Source link
The Supreme Court Is Getting Presidential Power All Wrong
The nation’s highest court is distorting the Framers’ intent on the power of the presidency. Source link
Newsom Has His Own Massive State Fraud Problem
California’s scandal dwarfs Minnesota’s. Source link
What “The Pitt” Taught Me About Being a Doctor
“The Pitt” easily could have felt like one long sequence of overstuffed, heavy-handed scenes. It’s a testament to the show’s artfulness that, most of the time, it doesn’t. Instead, we…
Can Nvidia repeat its record-breaking year?
Chipmaker Nvidia had a record-setting year in 2025, becoming the world’s most valuable company as the frenzy around artificial intelligence propelled its rise to the top. Now the Santa…
Is Life a Game?
What does make a meal or a trip “successful”? It’s hard to say; this is one of the reasons that you can see value capture happening and be almost powerless to stop it. For many years,…
Is S$5 billion enough? Panel weighs impact of EQDP on Singapore equity valuations
There was agreement that the sum has kickstarted things, and that the challenge would be to keep up the momentum built in 2025 The idea of allocating S$5 billion annually to fund managers…
China curbs rare earth exports to Japanese companies after dual-use ban
China has begun restricting exports to Japanese companies of rare earths and powerful magnets containing them, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday (Jan 8), after Beijing banned…
MAS, SGX RegCo propose rule changes to pave way for SGX-Nasdaq dual-listing bridge
A key step was taken towards setting up the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and Nasdaq dual-listing bridge, as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) proposed various legislative and…
Shanghai benchmark hits 10-year high as easing deflation lifts sentiment
Mainland China and Hong Kong stocks advanced on Friday (Jan 9), with the Shanghai benchmark topping the psychologically important 4,100 points to a decade high, as investor sentiment…