Talking about tax policy is one of the best ways for President Joe Biden to create a contrast with Donald Trump on who will fight for average Americans. As Trump told a group of wealthy campaign donors earlier this month, one of his signature issues if elected president in November will be extending the tax cuts Republicans enacted during his term in 2017—which overwhelmingly benefited wealthy Americans. There's no audio of the statement, but it echoes comments Trump made last year during a...
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We MOSTLY do it without thinking. Yet experts say when — and how — we urinate can reflect or even improve our general health. For instance, new research suggests that hand grip strength can reflect the strength of your pelvic floor — which is linked to incontinence. Here, we get the experts’ view on the latest thinking and advice..
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Big Tech censors work to violate Americans’ constitutional rights and then turn around and demand implicit trust from those same Americans. This was evident from two recent events. Soon after Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi warned Americans to pay attention to the “mass censorship” occurring online thanks to public and private partners, a “disinformation” expert called on Americans to believe only “trusted” and pre-approved sources for election-related content. Yet the very sources...
Big Tech censors work to violate Americans’ constitutional rights and then turn around and demand implicit trust from those same Americans. This was evident from two recent events. Soon after Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi warned Americans to pay attention to the “mass censorship” occurring online thanks to public and private partners, a “disinformation” expert called on Americans to believe only “trusted” and pre-approved sources for election-related content. Yet the very sources...
A handful of new Australian novels feature women getting older in a culture that would prefer it happened out of sightGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn 1972 the feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, then 62, published her book The Coming of Age to “break the conspiracy of silence” surrounding ageing. In it she argued that old age is culturally defined, arriving at different moments in the human life cycle depending on the time and place. “Society,” she wrote, “looks upon old age...
Shaheen Shah Afridi was left disgruntled last month when PCB replaced him with Babar Azam, who was reappointed as Pakistan captain. The manner in which it was done created controversy as Afridi was left furious with a statement on PCB's website which carried his quotes, which he did not say.Ahead of Pakistan's T20I series vs New Zealand, Babar held his first press conference in his second captaincy stint. Speaking about his relationship with the pacer, the batter reassured fans that they were in...
Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden's generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.
Tesla says new Cybertruck orders placed today won’t be fulfilled until next year
When you’re mad as hell, it’s human nature to want to tell someone about it. Many work friendships have started over mutual venting about the boss. But while your gut reaction may be to send a “this guy” Slack to your commiserating buddy every time something (or more likely, someone) pisses you off at work, it’s probably not going to make you feel any less peeved. According to new research that took into account 154 different studies on anger, venting isn’t an effective way to get rid of anger....
Apple Inc wants to boost its investment in Vietnam, state media quoted the US tech giant's CEO Tim Cook as saying in Hanoi on Tuesday, a day after the US company said it wanted to increase spending on suppliers in the Southeast Asian nation. Vietnam is already a key manufacturing hub for Apple and Cook was speaking while meeting Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, state media reported. Vietnam will set up a working group to support Apple's investment, Chinh told Cook during the meeting,...