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Finnish President Alexander Stubb will host a summit in Helsinki of the NATO countries that border the Baltic Sea together with Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal next Tuesday.The summit, which will take place at the Presidential Palace, will be attended by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte as well as leaders from Germany, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden.The topic will be the security of the Baltic Sea region, especially measures required to secure the critical underwater infrastructure, the Finnish presidency said in a statement on Wednesday.The discussion will focus on strengthening NATO’s presence in the Baltic Sea and responding to…

Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich is warning Chair Mike Lee to wait to schedule a confirmation hearing for Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Energy secretary, until he receives all relevant paperwork. Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, sent a letter to Lee on Wednesday that urged the Utah Republican to follow the committee’s “longstanding precedence and take seriously your constitutional responsibilities” by sharing final FBI background checks, financial disclosures and an ethics agreement before issuing a notice for a hearing for Wright, the CEO of fracking services company Liberty Energy. POLITICO previously reported Republicans are…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation Wednesday that boosts the rights of parents to know when schools are changing their child’s health care or preparing to present lessons involving “sexuality content,” as conservatives nationally increasingly criticize public schools as too liberal on such issues.The signing comes as conservatives nationally are increasingly critical of public schools as too liberal and seek to quash discussion of hot-button topics, particularly around gender identity.The Republican governor told reporters after a separate bill-signing at the Statehouse that the basis of the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” is that parents want to be…

California enacted Assembly Bill 1821 (AB 1821) last week, mandating the inclusion of Native American history and perspectives in public education.Signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 27, 2024, the legislation went into effect on January 1, 2025.The law aims to provide students with a more comprehensive understanding of the state’s history concerning the experiences of Native Americans during the Spanish colonial and the Gold Rush eras.AB 1821 amends the California Education Code to ensure that social science instruction at the elementary and secondary levels incorporates Native American perspectives.For students in grades 1 through 6, the curriculum must…

Bernd Vogel was caught posting comments on social media under photos of scantily clad models German politician Bernd Vogel has landed himself in hot water over his steamy activities on social media. Less than two months before the snap parliamentary elections in Germany, the 75-year-old was apparently spending his time posting lewd comments under photos of scantily clad models, using his primary account on social media platform X.The news about the politician’s controversial deeds spread on X over the weekend, some users wondering if the politician was aware that his comments were public and visible to everyone on the social…

Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,Outflows from bond ETFs, such as TLT, have been tremendous over the last two months. ETFs, unlike mutual funds, allow dealers to redeem shares for the underlying securities and vice versa.The exchanges most often occur when the demand to buy or sell the ETF is high, thus creating a small arbitrage for the dealer.Investors frequently associate strong inflows with higher ETF prices and outflows with weaker performance.While at times that is certainly true, other times, it’s a false indicator. For instance, as the graph of TLT below shows, fund inflows were at record-high levels in 2022 as TLT sold…

British writer lashes out at Elon Musk and defends Muslims in discussion on the massive gangrape scandal in the country. The War Room’s Natalie Winter joined Piers Morgan to discuss the UK’s massive Grooming scandal by Muslim men gangraping little white girls in communities across the country. Natalie joined British political journalist Ava Santina, Uncensored contributor Esther Krakue, and philosopher and writer Jack Symes to discuss this British crisis. It was quite amazing to watch the lengths these UK panelists will go, with there false arguments to defend the gangrape of little girls or deflect to another topic. They are…

Topline The Critics Choice Awards have been pushed back two weeks, the latest Hollywood event impacted by the Los Angeles County wildfires, which have already put a halt to many film sets, awards season events and film premieres as they continue to blaze out of control. The Critics Choice Awards were postponed from Sunday to an undetermined date. (Photo by Kevin … [+] Winter/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association)Getty Images for Critics Choice Association Key Facts The Critics Choice Awards, originally scheduled for Sunday evening, have been postponed to Jan. 26, spokesperson Julia Rossen told Forbes Wednesday afternoon. The awards…

Louisville, Kentucky, USA skyline on the river.getty A judgment creditor can obtain a charging order against debtor/member’s interest in an LLC. But what if that LLC is not formed in the state where the judgment has been entered, but in another state? Can the creditor still get a charging order against interests in out-of-state LLCs? Put another way, are only the courts of the state in which an LLC is organized empowered to enter a charging order as to those LLCs? If so, doesn’t that pretty much destroy the idea that certain out-of-state LLC statutes are better than the LLC…

A court in Shanghai on Monday sentenced filmmaker Chen Pinlin to three and a half years in prison for making a documentary about the massive nationwide protests against China’s coronavirus lockdowns in 2022. Chen, 33, was arrested in January 2024 soon after posting his film “Urumqi Middle Road” to the Internet. Urumqi is the capital city of the East Turkestan region, which the Chinese Communist government refers to as Xinjiang province – home of the ruthlessly oppressed Uyghur Muslims. Urumqi Middle Road was ground zero for the protest movement that came to be known as the White Paper Protests, named…