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The French Government introduced a tax on Wednesday aimed at giant tech companies’ digital sales, in an attempt to curb the practice of paying global levies in countries with lower tax rates. The bill, which is to be discussed by cabinet ministers…
Chinese legislators have urged the country to formulate its own space law to boost the development of commercial space and pay more attention to the outflow of talent. China’s private space sector will embrace more opportunities in 2019. The country should…
The House Oversight Committee has launched an investigation into allegations of voter suppression in Georgia — a hugely controversial issue in last year’s midterm elections. In a pair of letters sent Wednesday to the state’s governor and secretary of state,…
During her first hearing before the new Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen insisted that the cages Customs and Border Protection (CBP) used to detain migrant and asylum-seeking kids aren’t really cages. “Sir, they are not cages,…
Last week, a strange shard of fashion marketing pierced many thousands of bubbles, after Nate Bethea, a journalist and U.S. Army veteran, excavated a thirty-second ad for Grunt Style, a clothing brand pitched at soldiers, sailors, and Marines. The year-old…
“An Elephant Sitting Still,” the 2017 film by the Chinese director Hu Bo that’s being released this Friday, is one of the greatest recent films; its mighty ambition and mighty power are suggested by its unusual length (it runs nearly…
