Labour targets TikTok microinfluencers ahead of election | Keir Starmer

Labour has appointed a dedicated employee to work with influencers and seed positive messages about Keir Starmer’s party on TikTok and Instagram, as the UK’s political parties prepare to target “microinfluencers” during the general election campaign. During previous British elections, political parties often asked big-name celebrities to send a supportive tweet or attempted to win … Read more

Municipal Bonds: Election And Tax Implications

Dzmitry Skazau As the U.S. Presidential election draws nearer, many investors are eyeing the future of the soon-to-expire 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act- a significant individual tax code overhaul that reduced taxes across income levels-and more specifically, its potential impacts on the municipal bond market. Although each possible election outcome will likely result in … Read more

Senate reauthorizes FISA spy program, but not before its midnight expiration

The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying on foreign “targets,” but a long, knock-down, drag-out fight over amendments kept the Senate in session past midnight on Friday, when the surveillance program officially expired. To be clear, the spying wasn’t … Read more

6 Companies Owned by IBM

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is a multinational technology company that offers a range of computing solutions and technology consulting services. Big Blue traces its origins back as early as the 1880s, but it was in 1911 that the company was first incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (C-T-R) in the state of New York. C-T-R … Read more

Truth Social Files Complaint with Nasdaq, Blames Market Manipulation for Stock Price

Trump Media, the parent company that owns Truth Social, has filed a formal complaint with the Nasdaq, expressing concern for potential market manipulation impacting the stock. Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future Tech The platform’s stock, DJT, has actually been doing well lately, all things considered. The stock gained as much as 45.3% this week, … Read more

Senate approves extension of FISA surveillance just after deadline

The Senate early Saturday passed a two-year reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program after hours of intense and sometimes acrimonious debate on the Senate floor, narrowly avoiding a key national intelligence gathering capability going dark. Senators voted 60-34 to send the bill to President Biden’s desk shortly after the midnight … Read more

Is This Beaten-Down Fintech Growth Stock a Better Buy Than SoFi?

Investors can identify favorable qualities in both of these innovative businesses. Not all stocks have benefited from the stock market’s recent bull run. In fact, some have had disappointing performances this year and remain well off their all-time highs. For example, shares of Lemonade (LMND 0.83%) sit 91% below their peak. Still, there might be … Read more

A wave of retirees is about to blow through their savings and cling to Social Security to stay afloat

Peak boomers are getting ready to retire.Alistair Berg/Getty Images Over 30 million “peak boomers” are entering retirement financially unprepared. The economy could take a hit, with industries like manufacturing and education needing to replace boomer workers. Those new retirees will likely be disproportionately leaning on Social Security to stay afloat. The youngest baby boomers are … Read more

Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets

A jury has unanimously convicted Avi Eisenberg in the US Department of Justice’s first case involving cryptocurrency open-market manipulation, the DOJ announced Thursday. The jury found Eisenberg guilty of commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation, and wire fraud in connection with the manipulation on a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange called Mango Markets. Eisenberg is scheduled to be … Read more

The best Klipsch speakers in 2024

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Klipsch speakers have impressed the audio world since the company’s inception in 1946, and the tradition of continually releasing new, innovative hardware has continued for the past 78 years. In recent years, Klipsch has branched out … Read more

Watch Taylor Swift and Post Malone’s New “Fortnight” Video

Taylor Swift has released her first Tortured Poets Department music video. The visual is for the album’s opener, “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone. Watch the new video, written and directed by Swift and co-starring the musicians with Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, below. Just two hours after Swift released The Tortured Poets Department, she surprised fans … Read more

The Mystery Woman at the Heart of an Unsolved Triple Murder Linked to Boston Marathon Bombing

Eighteen months before Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing, Tamerlan murdered three young men in Waltham, Massachusetts on September 11, 2011. Tamerlan was a boxer, and his primary accomplice in the Waltham murders was a Chechen MMA fighter, Ibragim Todashev, he knew from the gym. Together they pistol-whipped, hogtied, and … Read more

These photos show AI used to reinterpret centuries-old graffiti

Reinterpretations of the etchings Matthew Attard and Galleria Michela Rizzo At the 60th Venice Biennale, Maltese artist Matthew Attard addresses his country’s maritime heritage, along with notions of faith and progress, through the prism of AI-driven technology. His work focuses on images of ships that were graffitied by seafarers on the stone facades of chapels … Read more

Rap Blog: Lisha G is way too groovy

If this whole music thing doesn’t work out, Lisha G could moonlight as an unusually charming TSA agent: who wouldn’t want to empty their pockets when she’s like “gimme whatcha got?” But when you hit replay, which will probably happen 0.3 seconds after “Whatcha Got” ends, it’s hard to imagine the South Carolina rapper doing … Read more

VW workers in Tennessee vote to join UAW in historic win for union

Kelcey Smith displays UAW buttons in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 10, 2024.  Kevin Wurm | The Washington Post | Getty Images Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers — marking a major milestone for the union and its first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroit’s … Read more