Author: KnowledgeHippo

President Biden, bolstering a populist pitch in his re-election campaign, has repeatedly said he will raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to make them pay their “fair share.”Republicans say Mr. Biden has “an unquenchable thirst to tax the American people.” His Republican opponent in the election, former President Donald J. Trump, recently said that Mr. Biden “is going to give you the biggest, biggest, ugliest tax increase in the history of our country.”So it may come as a surprise that, in just three years in office, Mr. Biden has cut taxes across the board.The math is clear. An analysis…

A federal judge in California on Monday dismissed X’s lawsuit against a nonprofit that studies online hate speech, ruling that the social media company’s case was designed to punish researchers for speaking freely about the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.X sued the Center to Fight Digital Hate in July in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California after the organization published several articles claiming its researchers had discovered an increase in hate speech on the platform after the Elon acquisition Mask X said the group’s investigation is hurting his business, scaring off advertisers, costing him…

A study, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA, found that the number of pill abortions obtained outside the formal health system increased in the six months after the national right to abortion was overturned. Another report, released last week by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights, found that medication abortions now account for nearly two-thirds of all abortions provided by the country’s official health system, which includes abortion telemedicine clinics and services.The JAMA study evaluated data from overseas telemedicine organizations, online providers, and community volunteer networks receiving generic pills outside the United States. Before Roe…

An attack on Friday at a popular concert venue near Moscow killed 137 people, the deadliest terrorist attack the Russian capital region has seen in more than a decade.Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. US officials have attributed it to ISIS-K, an offshoot of the group.Russian officials and state media largely ignored the ISIS claim of responsibility and instead hinted that Ukraine was behind the violence. Ukraine has denied any involvement and US officials say there is no evidence linking Kiev to the attack.Russian authorities have arrested at least 11 people, including four migrant workers in Russia accused of…

For years, Apple dominated the high-end smartphone market in China. No other company made a device that could rival the iPhone’s performance — or its status as a status item in the eyes of wealthy, cosmopolitan buyers.However, there is growing evidence that, for many in China, the iPhone no longer holds the appeal it once did. During the first six weeks of the year, historically a peak period for Chinese shoppers opening up for a new phone, iPhone sales fell 24 percent from a year earlier, according to Counterpoint Research, which analyzes the market smartphones.Meanwhile, sales for one of Apple’s…

Shortly after Jonathan Kanter took over the Justice Department’s antitrust division in November 2021, the agency secured an additional $50 million to investigate monopolies, crack down on criminal cartels and block mergers.To celebrate, Mr. Kanter bought a giant check prop, placed it outside his office, and wrote on the check’s memo line: “Break ‘Em Up.”Mr. Kanter, 50, has pushed that philosophy ever since, becoming the chief architect of the most significant effort in decades to fight the concentration of power in corporate America. On Thursday, it took its biggest swing yet when the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against…

Most of the band subscribed to a live-quick-die-young lifestyle. But as they partook in the booze and drugs endemic to the 1990s grunge scene after gigs at the Whiskey a Go Go, the Roxy and other West Coast clubs, the band’s guitarist, Valter Longo, an Italian Ph.D. student, battling a lifelong addiction to longevity.Now, decades after Dr. Longo left the grunge-era band DOT for a career in biochemistry, the Italian professor stands in his floppy-rock hair and lab coat at the nexus of Italy’s ideas of nutrition and aging.”For the study of aging, Italy is simply incredible,” said Dr. Longo,…

Yet even after many decades, I could see how Jaime and Tony hesitated between branching passages, retreating into the inner topography of memory before disappearing behind a blind curve. So many of the conversations I caught on tape were merely directive:Vamos pa’llá,””No, mas delande,””And where is Javier?» Cross talk, stifled laughter. Jaime told me that sometimes they came across skeletons of goats that died lost in the maze. We learned to listen to each other’s voices. “Yo la adoraba,” he explained helplessly.At Cueva Caballo, Jaime shouted:Se la robaron, Tony!When we found him, he was kneeling before what looked like an…

As soon as they heard the gunshots Friday night at Krokos City Hall, Efim Fidrya and his wife ran to the basement of the building and hid with three others in a bathroom.They listened as the gunfire began and thousands of people who had come to a sold-out rock concert on the outskirts of Moscow began screaming and trying to leave.Terrified and scared, Mr. Findrya did the only thing he could think of: He held tightly to the bathroom door, which didn’t lock, trying to protect the group in case the assailants came for them.”While we could hear gunshots and…

A new law in Indiana requires professors at public universities to foster a culture of “intellectual diversity” or face disciplinary action, including dismissal even for those with tenure, the latter in a Republican effort to assert more control over what is taught at the classes.The law ties the employment status of faculty members, regardless of whether they are tenured, to whether, in the eyes of a university’s governing board, they promote “free research” and “free expression.” State Sen. Spencer Deery, who sponsored the bill, made it clear in a statement that this would involve including more conservative views on campus.Reaction…