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House Republicans have advanced a bill that would prohibit members of Congress and their family members from trading on certain Washington-focused prediction markets. The House Administration Committee’s GOP members on Wednesday voted along party lines in favor of the legislation, which proposes to bar lawmakers, their spouses and their dependent children from participating on prediction markets that are based on the outcome of elections or government actions. It marks the latest in Capitol Hill’s efforts to curb the threat of insider trading on the prediction markets — a risk that has burst into the spotlight in recent months after a…
The Microsoft co-founder told Congress that the sex offender pressured him with knowledge of his infidelities Billionaire Bill Gates has claimed that the late pedophile and financier Jeffrey Epstein tried to blackmail him over affairs he had with Russian women, according to newly released congressional testimony.The Microsoft co-founder appeared before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 as part of an investigation into the convicted sex offender’s activities and ties to influential figures. A transcript of the closed-door interview was released on Tuesday amid scrutiny that Gates has faced since disclosures from the so-called Epstein files were released by…
The IRS built its chatbot and live-chat programs to do something taxpayers have wanted for years: make it easier to resolve routine tax problems without having to sit on hold. But the agency can’t say that it’s working.gettyIRS chatbots were supposed to reduce phone pressures. But the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, or TIGTA, found the IRS cannot prove they work.The IRS built its chatbot and live-chat programs to do something taxpayers have wanted for years: make it easier to resolve routine tax problems without having to sit on hold. But a recent TIGTA report says the agency expanded…
Communist North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un declared at a recent Party meeting that his regime would “thoroughly exercise the position of a nuclear weapons state” in the face of threats such as the “America first” ideology and “Zionism.” Kim made the comments at a plenary meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), the only legal political party in the repressive state, which took place this weekend. According to the state newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the discussions at the event consisted in large part of Kim ordering the expansion of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program to deter alleged threats from South…
Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said the Senate approved a war powers resolution seeking to block President Donald Trump from restating U.S. military action in Iran. Cooper asked, “So it’s obviously not the first time the Senate held a vote on this measure. Why do you think it’s succeeded today?” Murphy said, “Well, this war is the most unpopular war in modern history. People know that it’s a disaster for our security, but they also are feeling the impact of it. Gas prices are above $6 in a lot of places. Grocery prices are going…
House Republican leaders canceled plans to advance a procedural measure Wednesday that would set up passage of two fiscal 2027 appropriations bills and other legislation this week, according to three people granted anonymity to describe the decision ahead of a public announcement. The decision comes amid pressure from GOP hard-liners to prioritize passage of the SAVE America Act, a Republican elections bill that has stalled in the Senate — and after President Donald Trump refused to sign a high-profile bipartisan housing bill passed Tuesday, also in a bid to get the elections bill moving. Speaker Mike Johnson and other leaders…
LineShine has been declared the world’s fastest supercomputer, overtaking American rival El Capitan China’s LineShine has been named the world’s fastest supercomputer at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, surpassing the US-built El Capitan. It marks the first time since 2017 that a Chinese machine has topped the TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.Supercomputers are used for complex scientific tasks ranging from climate modeling and human brain simulations to cryptography and advanced research.According to rankings released on Tuesday, LineShine, developed by the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, can perform nearly 2.2 quintillion (billion billion) calculations per second.…
The squad will be allowed to arrive two days before its next match after protests of unequal treatment The US has eased travel restrictions on Iran’s national football team at the 2026 World Cup after Tehran protested what it called unequal treatment.Iran’s delegation will leave its base camp in Tijuana, Mexico on Wednesday and travel to Seattle ahead of Friday’s Group C match against Egypt, according to the Iranian Football Federation.Up till now, Iranian players had only been permitted to enter the US one day before matches. The team had to relocate its base camp from Arizona to Mexico and…
The founder of one of China’s largest ecommerce companies has issued a stark warning that its entire delivery workforce of 700,000 people will ultimately be displaced by robotic automation. This replacement of the gig economy with robots, if successful, will spread around the world. The Financial Times reports that Richard Liu, founder and chairman of JD.com, delivered the warning at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO forum in Shenzhen on Sunday, saying that gig economy jobs will eventually become obsolete as robot delivery systems mature. His comments highlight mounting anxiety among Chinese policymakers about how swiftly advancing automation technologies could destabilize employment…
The legislature of the Mexican state of Sinaloa halted a petition filed by the governor requesting the payment of a pension to a retired police chief who is a fugitive wanted by the United States Department of Justice. On Tuesday, officials with the Sinaloa State Legislature held a news conference in which they revealed that the petition had been halted while various committees reviewed it carefully, Sinaloa’s Rio Doce reported. As Breitbart Texas reported, the acting governor of Sinaloa had filed the petition on behalf of Alberto Jorge Contreras, the former head of the State Investigations Agency, who had retired…