A rotation away from Big Tech and into smaller stocks was a big drag on the Nasdaq Composite on Wednesday. The tech-heavy index fell 1.2%, while the S&P 500 was down 0.7%. The Dow was down just 100 points, or 0.2%.
A rotation away from Big Tech and into smaller stocks was a big drag on the Nasdaq Composite on Wednesday. The tech-heavy index fell 1.2%, while the S&P 500 was down 0.7%. The Dow was down just 100 points, or 0.2%.
Need To Escape Socialism? Come To Florida! Authored by Jeffrey Folks via American Thinker , The difference between red and blue states is not just a matter of degree; it is a qualitative difference based on the loss of freedom in blue states and an entirely different attitude in the red states. The best example is the contrast between what now exists in New York and Florida. Whereas New York, espe...
Need To Escape Socialism? Come To Florida! Authored by Jeffrey Folks via American Thinker , The difference between red and blue states is not just a matter of degree; it is a qualitative difference based on the loss of freedom in blue states and an entirely different attitude in the red states. The best example is the contrast between what now exists in New York and Florida. Whereas New York, especially New York City, is slipping into a socialist nightmare, Floridians are living the dream. In New York, freedom is constrained by high taxes and regulations, and things are only getting worse. In Florida, taxes are low and getting lower, and the sun almost always shines. Image: Donkey Hotey via Flickr , CC BY 2.0 . Florida voters understand the importance of limited government , and they have created a well governed, fiscally sound state. Eliminating the state income tax in its entirety was only the beginning: Now there is movement toward lowering property taxes or eliminating them altogether, which would benefit nearly everyone in the state. Gov. Ron DeSantis is perhaps the biggest supporter of property tax reform. The governor proposed eliminating property taxes for all Floridians in his 2025 State of the State address, in which he said forcing citizens to pay property taxes for life is like “ renting one’s property from the government.” T he governor’s proposal would apply to all property, including commercial and rental property. There is widespread support for some form of property tax relief, but the devil is in the details. An interim plan to rebate approximately $1,000 to owners of primary residences was proposed in March 2025. In response, Senate Bill 7034 was introduced to create a legislative commission to study the feasibility of eliminating all or part of the state’s property taxes and with the likelihood of a state constitutional amendment to appear on the 2026 ballot. Other legislative proposals include an increase in the state’s homestead exemption (curr...
After weeks of sexualized images of women and children being generated with Grok with very limited interventions from Elon Musk's xAI, California Attorney General Rob Bonta plans to investigate whether Grok's outputs break any US laws. In a press release Wednesday, Bonta said that "xAI appears to be facilitating the large-scale production of deepfake nonconsensual intimate images that are being us...
After weeks of sexualized images of women and children being generated with Grok with very limited interventions from Elon Musk's xAI, California Attorney General Rob Bonta plans to investigate whether Grok's outputs break any US laws. In a press release Wednesday, Bonta said that "xAI appears to be facilitating the large-scale production of deepfake nonconsensual intimate images that are being used to harass women and girls across the Internet, including via the social media platform X." Notably, Bonta appears to be as concerned about Grok's standalone app and website being used to generate harmful images without consent as he is about the outputs on X. Read full article Comments
Yao Qian, who previously led the technology supervision division at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), appeared in an anti-graft documentary aired Wednesday by state broadcaster CCTV A former senior Chinese financial official who once championed the country’s push into digital currency concealed millions of yuan worth of illicit cryptocurrency in cold wallets tucked inside an offic...
Yao Qian, who previously led the technology supervision division at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), appeared in an anti-graft documentary aired Wednesday by state broadcaster CCTV A former senior Chinese financial official who once championed the country’s push into digital currency concealed millions of yuan worth of illicit cryptocurrency in cold wallets tucked inside an office drawer, according to a state television exposé. Yao Qian, who previously led the technology supervision department and the IT service center of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), appeared in an anti-graft documentary aired Wednesday by state broadcaster CCTV, where he admitted to stockpiling the funds and believing the technological complexity of cryptocurrencies would obscure his wrongdoing.
BBC Persian has received dozens of accounts from inside Iran. Defiant despite potential repercussions, the witnesses said they wanted to ensure the rest of the world knew of the violence against the protesters.
BBC Persian has received dozens of accounts from inside Iran. Defiant despite potential repercussions, the witnesses said they wanted to ensure the rest of the world knew of the violence against the protesters.