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The EU is investigating Pornhub and other pornography platforms for allegedly failing to protect minors from online sexual content under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Sen. Thom Tillis’s (R-NC) newly-introduced legislation to “target predatory litigation funding practices” would undermine a “critical tool in our fight against woke capitalism,” according to the United States’ oldest consumer protection agency.

The Baby Boomers built the bond bull, and heir retirement is dismantling it. But Washington still spends as if there’s an endless pool of capital waiting to buy Treasuries.

The United States-born children of illegal aliens are benefiting hugely from American taxpayer-funded welfare, the New York Times admits.

A new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has found that increased social media use among pre-teens is associated with a massive 35 percent rise in symptoms of depression.

Europe rushed to set up meetings with U.S. negotiators after Trump fired a metaphorical shot across the bows.

Apple shares are reeling from an eight-day selloff, the longest in over three years, as President Donald Trump’s iPhone tariff threat looms over the tech giant’s future profitability.

Social Security has essentially removed 12.3 million individuals listed as age 120 or more, according to the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Entertainment industry lobbyists are trying to torpedo a bipartisan bill intended to protect AM radio, a key component of America’s public safety infrastructure and a traditional strongpoint for conservatives free of big tech censorship.

The House-passed reconciliation bill contains a buried tax on tobacco, and President Donald Trump has endorsed the Senate’s ability to make changes to the mammoth legislation.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has vowed to revive the winter fuel subsidies for the elderly and to fund the programme by cutting the green agenda and the migrant hotel scheme.

Google is funding short films that portray AI in a more positive light, moving away from the doomsday narratives common in Hollywood science fiction. The big tech Masters of the Universe hope that giant piles of cash can solve AI’s long-term PR problem.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said Sunday evening that he has agreed to delay additional tariffs on the European Union after receiving a call from EU chief Ursula von der Leyen requesting an extension to come to a trade deal.

Buy now, pay later giant Klarna suffered a doubling of net losses in the first quarter as an increasing number of customers failed to pay back their loan installments.

Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) as part of the tech giant’s efforts to stop the governor from passing legislation in the state that would require app stores to verify the ages of its users.

Those household hoards of pennies many consumers keep in jars, cups and other containers may one day become more useful after the U.S. Treasury stops producing the iconic coin next year.

President Donald Trump signed several executive orders on Friday as his administration works to make America energy dominant. 

A recent exchange between Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) and U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright revealed shocking news about former President Joe Biden’s (D) loan approvals while he was in office.

Trump’s threat of a 50 percent tariff on EU imports might actually help the European Union overcome its dysfunction.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has much work underway, announcing the cancellation of several Biden-era grants that were going toward bizarre and wasteful causes, such as research on LGBTQ+ cartoonists and gay travel guides.

The judge who is backing Harvard’s new lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s enforcement of civil rights laws was rebuked in 2023 by the U.S. Supreme Court for siding with Harvard’s legal defense of racial discrimination.

They keep saying the economy is going to slump and it keeps not happening.

A Taliban official told Reuters that the group is in the “advanced” stages of a deal to do business with Russia using local currency.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was fuming Thursday as Congress passed a repeal of California’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which relied on a special waiver from the outgoing Biden administration in December.

The National Restaurant Association celebrated Thursday’s passing of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in the U.S. House of Representatives, zeroing in on “no tax on tips” and “no tax on overtime.”

Ruling strengthens president’s control of federal agencies and limits legal tactics aimed at blocking White House agenda

Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 AI model has tried to blackmail engineers when faced with the threat of being replaced by another AI system, according to the company’s latest safety report.

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky is considering selling the pornographic social network that serves as a digital pimp at a valuation of approximately $8 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Disney is laying off 45 Venezuelan employees in the wake of the Trump administration’s cancellation of their immigration status.

Donald Trump says talks with the European Union are being so unproductive he is recommending a “straight” 50 per cent tariff on bloc exports. 

President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a tariff of at least 25 percent on Apple iPhones not manufactured in the United States.

The South African government published a draft regulation Friday allowing foreign companies to meet a 30% quota of black ownership through “equivalents” such as investing in projects aimed at economic equality.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending budget, lovingly dubbed the “one big, beautiful, bill,” strips Medicaid’s funding for transgender surgeries — a move that will impact a large portion of such procedures if it passes the Senate.

On Thursday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) argued that eliminating taxes on Social Security should be brought up as a separate bill. Miller said that due to issues with Senate rules, eliminating Social Security taxes in the reconciliation

The government should reduce the huge migration program that annually transports at least 400,000 foreign graduates into Americans’ white-collar jobs, the incoming head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency (USCIS) told senators Wednesday.