Economy & Finance

Meta Won’t Sign EU’s Code Of Practice For Generative AI, Says Executive Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Meta’s chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, said on Friday that the U.S. tech giant will not sign the EU’s new voluntary code of practice for general-purpose AI, citing legal uncertainties and measures […]

Total Cargo Theft Surges 13%, Metals Theft Surges 96%, In Q2 2025 Cargo theft is rising sharply across North America, with criminals increasingly targeting high-value commodities and employing complex fraud tactics, according to new data from CargoNet, a product of Verisk Analytics.  In the second quarter of 2025, CargoNet recorded 884 supply chain theft incidents

Man With Metal Neck Chain Critically Injured After Being Sucked Into MRI On Long Island If you’ve ever thought all those “NO METAL” signs around MRI machines—on doors, walls, and even in the waiting room—seemed a little over the top, here’s your proof they’re not. Today in Darwinism…a 61-year-old man was critically injured Wednesday after

UK To Lower Voting Age To 16, But Could Plans To Garner ‘Socialist Fodder’ End Up Backfiring? Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, Britain’s left-wing Labour government has announced plans to lower the voting age in time for the next U.K. general election, allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in what it described as

Artificial Intelligence Breeds Mindless Inhumanity Authored by Bruce Abramson via RealClearWire, I began studying AI in the mid-1980s. Unusually for a computer scientist of that era, my interest was entirely in information, not in machines. I became obsessed with understanding what it meant to live during the transition from the late Industrial Age to the early

Ukraine Drone ‘Mega Deal’ Possible With US, Zelensky Says President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are negotiating what’s being widely dubbed a potential “mega deal” which allows for Ukraine to exchange its growing small drone arsenal and technology for more advanced American weapons. Reports say that under the scheme the United States would purchase

China Might Not Want Russia To Lose, But It Might Not Want Russia To Win Either Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, A Russian loss would be catastrophic for China’s security, while a Russian victory could end the discounted energy bonanza that’s helping it maintain its economic growth amidst the slowdown, not to mention accelerate

Pepsi Exec Floats Switch To Sugar After Trump Coca-Cola Announcement PepsiCo’s top executive indicated on July 17 that the company may switch Pepsi’s sweetener from high-fructose corn syrup to sugar, one day after President Donald Trump said Coca-Cola would soon be making the change. “Same journey that we have in foods, we’re following in beverages.

Trump Should Index The Capital Gains Tax For Inflation Authored by Stephen Moore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump should follow up on his historic “big, beautiful” tax bill with an extra booster shot for the economy by immediately indexing the capital gains taxes for inflation. engin akyurt/Unsplash.com There is a reasonable