Warren Buffett believes the vast wealth gap in America is due to 1 ‘inevitable consequence’ Unlike most billionaires, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has always been a vocal advocate for working class Americans. He famously suggested raising taxes on wealthy individuals like himself and recently claimed that no American would have to pay […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday a review of 1 million claims for the Employee Retention Credit representing $86 billion shows the “vast majority” are at risk of being improper. The ERC was designed to help businesses retain employees during pandemic-era shutdowns, but it quickly became a magnet for fraud. Its […]
(Bloomberg) — France’s leftist alliance unveiled plans to address the country’s economic challenges with a vast increase in taxation and public spending, and reaffirmed it would abolish several of Emmanuel Macron’s pro-business reforms. Most Read from Bloomberg By 2027, when the president’s mandate ends, the New Popular Front is budgeting €90 billion ($96.2 billion) annually […]
“Join this group and invite all your friends,” is a message that children and young people are increasingly seeing on WhatsApp when joining new groups. These can be hubs for illegal content and can be dangerous, says Kira Liebmann, a family coach in Germany advising parents on how they can protect children from threats online. […]
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has asked a United Nations body to formally recognize the extent of its undersea continental seabed in the South China Sea, where it would have the exclusive right to exploit resources, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday, in a move that rejects China’s vast territorial claims to the […]
The vast coin collection of a Danish butter magnate is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to 72 million dollars (£57.4 million). Lars Emil Bruun, also known as LE Bruun, stipulated in his will that his 20,000-piece collection be safeguarded for 100 years before being sold. […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The vast coin collection of a Danish butter magnate is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million. Lars Emil Bruun, also known as L.E. Bruun, stipulated in his will that his 20,000-piece collection be safeguarded for 100 years before being […]
Xi Jinping has benefited in many ways from Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, not least in his single most important personal goal: to go down in history as the Chinese leader who annexed Taiwan in defiance of the West. Xi has seen what Western sanctions on a brutal aggressor amount to. He has spent […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Tuesday set a new goal to protect vast U.S. water sources, from rivers to wetlands, as part of a series of announcements marking Earth Week. The administration plans to announce a new goal of protecting, restoring and reconnecting 8 million acres (3.2 million hectares) of threatened wetlands and […]
Jeremy Hunt tackled the flea problem Liz Truss highlighted in Downing Street by replacing the carpets at “vast” personal expense. The UK chancellor, who was brought in by Ms Truss to clear up the economic mess created by the mini-budget, said he had also dealt with the problems in the No 11 flat. Mr Hunt […]
A careful analysis of satellite imagery reveals thousands of miles of unmapped roads slicing through rainforest in Southeast Asia. So-called “ghost roads” are laid down by miners, loggers, poachers, drug traffickers, and land grabbers, often illegally. The research found the reach of such roads is “severely underestimated, with many roads being out of government control,” […]
Over two million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Mars, scarring the surface with one massive crater and around two billion smaller individual craters. These secondary craters appear across a region of 1,000 miles (1,800 kilometers), making this asteroid event one of the biggest impacts seen on the Red Planet in relatively recent history. […]