Posts by Kim Browne
Japan’s Nikkei extends losses; bonds rise as global trade frictions weigh
[TOKYO] Japan’s Nikkei share average fell for a fifth straight session on Wednesday as global trade frictions weighed on risk sentiment, while the nation’s bonds bounced back after a plunge in the previous session. The Nikkei was down 0.45 per cent to 52,751.16, as of 0137 GMT, as it pared losses after falling as much…
Read MoreICE Has Cut Its Detainees Off From Medical Care
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has stopped paying for immigrant detainees to receive health care—and isn’t planning on paying for months, independent journalist Judd Legum reported Tuesday. ICE Health Service Corps, the entity that provides immigrants in detention with health care, quietly posted last week that Acentra, the agency’s new third-party administrator for medical claims,…
Read More“You’ll Find Out”: Trump Warns Greenland on How Far He’ll Go
“Kudos to these Trump Deranged Liberals for constantly inventing new ways to light Democrat donor money on fire by spreading fake news,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Washington Post, in a Monday email. “Looking forward to your jail sentence, DJT!” one message on the card read, according to the Post. The original birthday…
Read MoreDOGE Goons May Have Used Social Security Data for Election Plot
“Kudos to these Trump Deranged Liberals for constantly inventing new ways to light Democrat donor money on fire by spreading fake news,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Washington Post, in a Monday email. “Looking forward to your jail sentence, DJT!” one message on the card read, according to the Post. The original birthday…
Read MoreMinnesota Police Chief Warns ICE Is Targeting His Cops Now
ICE’s racial profiling and unconstitutional acts in and around Minneapolis are even ensnaring local police. Mark Bruley, the chief of police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park, said at a press conference Tuesday with other area police chiefs that local police departments have been “receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets…
Read MoreTrump Makes Bonkers Claim About Nobel Prize Amid Attacks on EU
“Instead, he wants to pit us against each other so that we don’t pay attention to the fact that his net worth has more than doubled while families lose their health care and access to essential services,” Johnson continued. Trump’s purposefully unspecific proclamation is yet another example of American politicians whitewashing, sanitizing, or outright denigrating…
Read MoreTranscript: Angry Trump’s Threats Go Haywire as Damning ICE Video Hits
Sargent: Just to close this out, I think the way I would put that is that they think the supercharging of all these violent tensions and malignancies among Americans, among ethnic group against ethnic group, American against American, creates the conditions for their type of politics to take hold. I don’t know whether Trump really…
Read MorePC Partner closes 20.9% higher on positive FY2025 profit guidance
It is now listed only in Singapore, having delisted from the Hong Kong bourse on Jan 14 [SINGAPORE] Shares of electronics company PC Partner soared on Tuesday (Jan 20) after the company posted a positive profit guidance. The counter rose 27.8 per cent or S$0.32 to S$1.47 at 2.17 pm, with 2.3 million shares changing…
Read MoreThe Crisis Year for Journalism Is Here
We are under no professional obligation to treat with even-handedness the would-be architects of our demise. I suspect that a lot of people were not aware that Project 2025, the authoritarian blueprint for the second Trump administration, laid out a plethora of ideas geared specifically toward destroying the news media; many, like the destruction of…
Read MoreHow AI Is Reshaping Science’s Most Trusted Tool
A new wave of tools, based on generative AI, aims to go beyond sorting papers and to automate various stages of the reviewing process. Some products, such as Elicit and SciSpace, feel like the chatbots we are so accustomed to: users can type a question, and the system returns a summary of the research (with…
Read MoreWho Are the AWFULs? Trump Hates Them, So They’re Doing Something Right
Nomenclature is potent. Donald Trump loves a nickname, and there is power in naming things. Once a thing has a name, it can be categorized, judged, explained, and perhaps satirized and belittled. Over the last decade, Trump has had wild success with giving names to his rivals. Most are on about the eighth-grade level, but…
Read MoreBritain eases rules for companies to raise funds
[LONDON] Britain’s revamped framework for raising capital came into force on Monday, aiming to make it easier and cheaper for listed and private companies to secure funds as it replaces the EU-inherited prospectus regime. The Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regime, set out by Britain’s financial regulator over the summer, removes the requirement for…
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