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A state tax court in Maryland invalidated the nation’s first state tax on digital advertising and directed state officials to refund tax payments already collected from major tech companies. People pass a building on the Google headquarters campus in Mountain View, Calif., on July 23, 2025. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The legal dispute had been closely watched by …

Maryland Court Strikes Down Nation’s First State Tax On Digital Advertising Read More »

An ongoing federal investigation into billionaire Mark Walter’s business empire is raising alarm bells about Wall Street’s use of insurance capital to finance private credit and other illiquid investments.  Bloomberg reported that Walter’s TWG Global holding company said in a filing that it will wind down its exposure to affiliated businesses by up to $6.5 billion after the transactions drew …

Mark Walter Probe Puts Wall Street’s Insurance-Private Credit Machine Under DoJ Scrutiny Read More »

DePeña’s lawyer told reporters ‘he doesn’t speak English’ when pressed on fraud charges The mayor of a northern Massachusetts town went viral on social media in recent days after his lawyer told reporters the mayor doesn’t speak English when they pressed him about being arrested for COVID-19 pandemic relief fraud. Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña, 61, was arrested …

Blue state mayor arrested for fraud sparks uproar for not speaking English in viral clip: ‘How is this real’ Read More »

Non-invasive procedure, which targets precise brain areas, resulted in immediate results for Bud Leavell Bud Leavell, 72, suffered from severe tremors for years after his Parkinson’s diagnosis, making it impossible for him to enjoy his favorite pastime of repairing radios in his garage. But within minutes of receiving a newly approved ultrasound treatment, his tremor was …

Parkinson’s patient’s yearslong tremor vanishes within minutes of new ultrasound treatment Read More »

Former Anoka County assistant attorney Andrea Leigh Sampson (Hennepin County Jail) A former Anoka County, MN, assistant attorney, who spent years on the public payroll specializing in family and civil law, has been charged with 26 felonies for allegedly helping run a sophisticated sex trafficking operation that preyed on women across the Twin Cities. Andrea …

Former Anoka County, MN, Prosecutor Charged in Sprawling Sex Trafficking Ring — Used Shell Companies to Hide Profits While Women Were Threatened, Assaulted, and Exploited for Years Read More »

Two God-fearing Kentucky women just looked at a $26.48 million check and told the people writing it to take a hike. Ida Huddleston, 82, and her daughter Delsia Bare, 54, own neighboring pieces of a family farm in Mason County that has been worked for nearly 200 years. Developers hunting land for a massive 2.2-gigawatt …

Kentucky “Country Hicks” Tell AI Data Center Developers to Kick Rocks After Turning Down $26 Million Read More »

The newly declassified investigation files also show that the FBI had initially tried to recruit the infamous Fang Fang as a source that could share information on Chinese influence operations targeting public officials in the United States. The FBI developed evidence that a Chinese woman with direct ties to that country’s intelligence service had potentially …

FBI Had Evidence Swalwell Got Illegal Donations From Suspected Chinese Spy, Bombshell Memos Show Read More »

Below is my column in The Hill on the familiar bust-and-boom cycle of socialism, where failure is used to call for even more radical changes. While House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week reaffirmed that Democratic Socialists are part of the Democratic Party, radical figures are demonstrating how extreme this agenda is for some. For example, Socialist …

For the American Left, Nothing Succeeds as Much as Failure Read More »

The beauty of Enes Kantor Freedom and Royce White’s trolling of the WNBA is that it exposes the arbitrary nature of the left’s rules. Defenders of the WNBA are pointing out, I assume rightly, that the two are just pretending to be women and therefore have no business being in the WNBA. Enes Kantor Freedom and Royce White, …

Deconstructing Deconstructionism: Royce White and Enes Freedom Tying WNBA Into Knots Read More »

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) spending appears to have no effect on lowing housing prices, according to a recent report by government spending watchdog OpenTheBooks.com, which analyzed data released by the U.S. Census Bureau and Federal Housing Finance Agency from 2015 to 2024. Additionally, the data suggests it that homeownership has become harder to …

New Report Shows Just How Bad the Housing Crisis Is Read More »