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The Texas ruling finding the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional is ludicrous in its reasoning and unlikely to survive appeal. It argues, in short, that since Congress removed the penalty from the individual mandate, the individual mandate is no longer a…
Outgoing Gov. Scott Walker used a very bad chart to defend Republicans’ lame-duck power grab in Wisconsin. Walker held an event in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Friday afternoon to announce he’ll sign GOP-pushed legislation that will strip many of the…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have announced plans to issue a cryptocurrency for use in cross-border transactions. This, despite the fact that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) has effectively banned digital currencies in the Middle Eastern…
Earlier China published industrial output and retail sales growth data for November, which appeared to be lower than expected. With industrial output at 5.4 percent and 8.1 percent for retail sales, the Chinese economy has started to show signs of…
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s Vice-President in charge of the Energy Union, said he had invited Moscow and Kiev to hold the next round of trilateral talks on gas transit from Russia to the European Union through…
Prior to sending probes into deep space, the company is going to test a 1 GW laser that would allegedly be able to deliver probes to planets in our solar system within months or even weeks. Breakthrough Starshot is planning…
