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TAMPA, Fla. — Towers of trash left over from Hurricane Helene still littered the Florida landscape Wednesday as Hurricane Milton barreled toward the Gulf Coast and garbage haulers suspended efforts to remove the debris that could be dangerous in high winds.With only hours to go before Milton, a powerful storm already churning up “tornadic supercells,” was expected to make landfall somewhere south of Tampa Bay, the trash trucks that had been working around the clock were largely gone.And in Tampa, those who chose not to join the exodus out of town were giving those piles of wrecked furniture and other…

The platform was suspended nationwide at the end of August for failing to censor accounts spreading “disinformation” Elon Musk has been ordered to pay another fine if he wants Brazil to lift a nationwide ban it placed on his X platform in August, local media has reported, citing a Supreme Court filing out from Friday. The fine was ordered by Justice Alexandre de Moraes after X briefly became accessible in the country despite the previous ban, allegedly through Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink.The dispute between Musk and the Brazilian authorities dates back to April when Moraes ordered X to delete…

Dublin is reportedly considering ending its free-accommodation scheme for Ukrainian refugees starting from March 2025 The Irish government is considering ending its program of providing free housing to all new Ukrainian asylum seekers arriving in the country, the Irish Times has reported. The newspaper claimed that officials in Dublin are also mulling introducing a “maximum stay” rule to encourage refugees already residing in publicly funded accommodation to start fending for themselves.In recent months, several EU member states have been gradually scaling back welfare programs for Ukrainian refugees, incentivizing them to seek employment or leave. Amid its ongoing mobilization and conscription…

SNAPSHOT: Equities up, Treasuries down, Crude down, Dollar upREAR VIEW: FOMC Minutes confirms some officials would have preferred a 25bps cut; Mixed US 10yr auction; Fed’s Logan supported decision to cut rates, but with a more gradual approach ahead; Jefferson to take decisions meeting by meeting; AtlantaFed GDPNow unchanged at 3.2%; US Whole Sales and Inventory revisions miss; Bigger-crude builds than expected in EIA, though, less than API; ECB’s Kazimir not as convinced as media reports on an October cut; RBNZ cut the OCR by 50bps as expected; DoJ weighs a breakup of Google.COMING UP: Data: Japanese Corporate Goods Prices, Italian Industrial…

JD Vance wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal criticizing the Biden/Harris administration’s slow response to Hurricane Helene, which is perfectly justified. The folks at Morning Joe on MSNBC were very triggered by this. They can’t handle any criticism of the administration, even if it’s warranted. Later in the day, the editor of the Wall Street Journal appeared on FOX News and basically laughed off the criticism, noting that MSNBC is a one-stop shop for disinformation. FOX News reports: MSNBC ‘lecturing about misinformation’ is ‘quite a bit of chutzpah’ on their part: WSJ editor-at-large Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerry…

This story appears in the October 2024 issue of Forbes Asia. Subscribe to Forbes AsiaKumar Mangalam Birla (left) and Gautam Adani.Kumar Mangalam Birla: Ashish Vaishnav/Newscom; Gautam Adani: Sumit Dayal/Bloomberg This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of India’s Richest 2024. See the full list here. Until two years ago, billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla was India’s undisputed cement king. These days his UltraTech Cement is facing heat from an ultra-ambitious rival: Ambuja Cement, controlled by fellow billionaire Gautam Adani. In 2022, Adani became India’s second-biggest cement producer by capacity when he acquired Ambuja, together with its subsidiary ACC, for $6.4 billion.…

The Bureau of Prisons is implementing a new system to restrict mass emails coming into prisons.getty In March 2020, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General issued a report on the concerns of mass emails through its Trulinks (also called Corrlinks) email system to the general population. The Trulinks email system is used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmates to communicate with families and friends. The emails do not allow for photos or attachments, but are simply text messages that provide information and updates. Over the years, the system has been used to communicate information to…

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President de Gaulle of France initiated the secret operation “Vide-Gousset” and repatriated 3,313 tonnes of gold reserves from the vaults of the Federal Reserve in New York and the Bank of England in London from 1963 until 1966. De Gaulle feared America’s deficit in its balance of payments would rupture Bretton Woods and lead to a devaluation of the dollar against gold. All France’s dollars were converted into gold and to avoid treachery the metal was repatriated over the course of three years. It took 44 boat trips and 129 flights to bring home more than three thousand tonnes of…

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes announced over the weekend that the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) paid its fines to the wrong state bank account and as a result, its services in Brazil will remain suspended until the matter is solved. De Moraes banned access to X in Brazil in late August after the social media platform refused to comply with censorship orders and appoint a new legal representative in Brazil. The ban on X in Brazil came after a months-long feud between the Brazilian judge — a self-styled “anti-fake news crusader” with an extensive…