According to the old cliché, a frog dropped into a pot of boiling water will immediately leap out, while the same frog placed in a pot of room-temperature water is incapable of noticing the water slowly coming to a boil, and will remain in the pot, unaware of the impending doom, until it is cooked...
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US civil servants will be fired if they do not go to the office five days a week under Elon Musk’s plan to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home,” Musk and Vivek...
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I ndian billionaire Gautam Adani, indicted in New York over a $265 million bribery scheme, is a first-generation tycoon whose phenomenal rise has been accompanied by a series of damaging controversies at home and abroad. Asia's...
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Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will throw the U.S. economy into chaos by 2026. Morgan Stanley’s chief global economist, Seth Carpenter, says these tariffs are a surefire way to drive up inflation and tank growth. The plan is to slap a 10% to 20% tariff on all imports and hike up to 100% on goods...
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(Reuters) -The U.S. embassy in Kyiv has received information of a potential significant air attack on Wednesday and will be closed, the U.S. Department of State Consular Affairs said in a statement. "Out of an abundance of...
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