Nuremberg in the Age of Lawfare
A warped history of justice, Tarantino-style. Source link
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Is President Trump Thinking About Greenland Again?
Much-touted pharmaceutical deals could end up giving the president new leverage. Source link
The Tariffs Aren’t Helping
Donald Trump is a wholeheartedly pro-manufacturing president, and he’s definitely here to help — with a dizzying array of tariffs. Source link
A $100 Million AI Super PAC Targeted New York Democrat Alex Bores. He Thinks It Backfired
It turns out that when an AI-friendly super PAC with $100 million in backing from Silicon Valley bigwigs identifies you as its first target, it ends up generating a lot of attention. “I…
Transcript: Trump’s Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Backfires Badly
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 21 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
Google is spending $40 billion to build 3 new data centers in Texas
Google has 44 data centers in operation or in development around the world, but as demand for AI and the need for compute capacity grows, the company is getting started on three more. This…
Parenthood Has Made Me Detest Robots
You can’t throw a pacifier in American discourse without hitting someone talking about how having kids changed them. From Pete Buttigieg to Sarah Palin to the legions of guys who had…
Polluters Have Their Claws in These Democratic Governors
Lil Sis, a group that tracks corporate influence in politics, reports that polluting industries have spent $15.9 million on lobbying in New York state since 2021, increasing their spending…
Trump’s Polls Are Tumbling. So Is the Stock Market. Coincidence?
It would be difficult to dispute that the economy has stumbled on Trump’s watch. Inflation started rising immediately after Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs. Job creation…
Donald Trump Is a Lame Duck Now
When Democrats ended the government shutdown a week after the election—without securing an extension of the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies—it seemed like they were throwing Trump a…
Foxconn-Nvidia US$1.4 billion Taiwan supercomputing cluster to be ready by H1 2026, Foxconn says
Apple’s top iPhone assembler has been expanding beyond electronics into electric vehicles and AI data centres Foxconn said on Friday (Nov 21) that a US$1.4 billion supercomputing centre it…
Japanese logistics firm Nippon Express expands footprint in Singapore
Move enables it to meet increasing demand for logistics services amid development of the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone LOGISTICS company, Nippon Express (NX) opened an expanded…
Singapore stocks track regional declines on Friday; STI down 1%
Local stocks ended lower on Friday (Nov 21), tracking declines in the region. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) was down 1 per cent or 42.73 points at 4,469.14, although the iEdge…
TikTok cares about your well-being and now has a special hub to prove it
Instead of teens simply putting down their phones to take a break, TikTok wants them to use the app’s new breathing exercises and affirmation journal to improve their well-being. Over the…
Trump’s Angry Tirade Calling for “Death” to Dems Just Backfired Badly
On Thursday, President Trump called for the execution of a number of members of the opposition party. This came after Democratic lawmakers released a powerful video informing military and…
We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies
In fairness to researchers, it can be difficult to run a randomized clinical trial for vitamin D supplements. That’s because most of us get the bulk of our vitamin D from sunlight. Our…
Founder of India’s top broker Groww joins billionaire financial elites
Keshre is the twelfth billionaire to emerge from India’s financial services industry in recent years The initial public offering of Groww, India’s answer to Robinhood Markets, was the…
Singapore GasCo to seek LNG offers in Q1 2026 for supply from 2028
Singapore’s new state gas buyer GasCo will seek offers in the first quarter for liquefied natural gas term supply for delivery from 2028 to meet an expected supply gap in the country, its…
The billion-dollar AI startup rejecting 996 hustle culture
As startups race to keep up with advances in artificial intelligence, some of them seem to be borrowing from China’s exacting work culture—which normalized a 72-hour workweek, or a “996”…
3 signs in an interview that your future boss might be a bad boss
“Your new boss didn’t even offer you a glass of water?” my mother had questioned me in disbelief. “After how many interviews? You should not take that job. I am telling you not to take…
Maybank Q3 profit up 3.3% at RM2.6 billion
Maybank’s net profit for the third quarter ended Sep 30 rose 3.3 per cent to RM2.62 billion (S$828 million), from RM2.54 billion in the same period a year earlier, the company said on…
Foxconn can make 1,000 AI racks a week, to increase next year, chairman says
The company has been expanding beyond electronics into electric vehicles and AI data centres Foxconn chairman Liu Young said on Friday (Nov 21) that the company now had the capability to…
Indonesia’s US$52 billion fund to invest 5% of assets abroad
The plan marks a key shift for BPJS TK has outgrown Indonesia’s shallow capital markets Indonesia’s largest social security fund is poised to invest as much as 5 per cent of its nearly…
‘Baby Shark’ creator’s 62% wipeout sinks stock below IPO price
The frenzy for the company behind the viral children’s hit Baby Shark has quickly cooled with shares dropping below their initial public offering (IPO) price just days after debut. Shares…