Hunter Biden to plead guilty to tax crimes and admit gun offence
The two misdemeanour tax charges stem from a failure to pay more than $100,000 (£78,000) in taxes in both 2017 and 2018. A former justice department official told CBS, the…
Bernie Sanders announces Amazon safety investigation
The Senate investigation follows the increased scrutiny Amazon has faced over its treatment of workers since the pandemic, when a global outcry over conditions sparked walkouts in Europe, regulatory investigations,…
St John’s ready to help in search for missing Titanic sub
Coast guard vessels are being sent to the Canadian east coast city, which is 600km from the Titanic wreck.
Bear dangles from house window trying to escape
A neighbour captured the moment an uninvited guest tried to leave a Colorado home it broke into.
Links 6/21/2023 | naked capitalism
Is the yield curve lying? FT Unanswered questions about stolen body parts eroding public faith in Harvard, crisis PR experts say Boston Globe Fed publishes master account list Banking Dive…
Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life | naked capitalism
Yves here. Given how significant clever marketing labels and propaganda have become, I am very leery of implicit Big Promise labels like Digital You and digital twin. It strongly connotes…
Waiting for the Justices
Sometime in the next 10 days, the Supreme Court is expected to tightly restrict or ban race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The ruling could come as soon as tomorrow…
In Hosting Modi, Biden Pushes Democracy Concerns to the Background
President Biden has declared “the battle between democracy and autocracy” to be the defining struggle of his time. But when he rolls out the red carpet on the South Lawn…
Odesa Was Ready to Reclaim Its Beaches. Then a Dam Broke.
Last summer, the beaches that ring the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine were crowded with volunteers packing sandbags under bluffs where troops were positioned in machine gun nests…
Affirmative Action, From Those Who Lived It
As a top student at his Philadelphia high school in 1968, Granderson Hale knew he stood a decent chance of admission at one of the historically Black colleges that typically…