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Tactical Truck Costs A Mere $400,000
Read the full story on Backfire News If you have the cash, you can buy this Goat Atlas APC tactical truck for just under $400,000. Why…
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Who is Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle? A favorite for next pope
Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has emerged as one of the two favorites to become the next pope, but he faces accusations of not…
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What Buffett’s Exit Means
A conscience of capitalism prepares to step off the stage It was closing in on 1 p.m. when Warren Buffett, seated onstage before a rapt…
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Procurri Corp moves towards delisting by appointing IFA for privatisation offer
Procurri Corp has appointed Evolve Capital Advisory as the independent financial adviser (IFA) for the acquisition offer from parent…
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Investors still harbour hope of Fed’s Powell giving a rate-cut the thumbs up
THE S&P 500 plunged into a bear market in April, then staged an epic recovery, and now the US Federal Reserve will reveal which was the…
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European allies mull $90B contingency for Ukraine if Trump peace plan fails
The European Union's commissioner for defense has proposed ramping up military support for Ukraine, should President Donald Trump's peace…
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Kenya government condemns 'shameful' shoe-hurling at president
The Kenyan government has described as "shameful" an incident in which a shoe was thrown at President William Ruto during a rally on…
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SIC proposes changes to takeovers and mergers code to protect competitive process, improve disclosures
The Securities Industry Council (SIC) on Monday (May 5) issued a consultation paper on amendments to Singapore’s Code on Take-overs and…
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Sias strongly disagrees with IFA opinion on ‘exploitative’ Sinarmas Land offer; urges offeror to revise bid
David Gerald, the president of Securities Investors Association (Singapore), or Sias, has criticised the offer for Sinarmas Land by the…
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Trump threatens a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, saying the movie industry in the U.S. is dying
President Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the U.S. Source link
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Germany's Vossloh to supply rail fastening systems in China deal
A View of the administrative offices of Vossloh Locomotives. Vossloh said its Chinese subsidiary Vossloh Fastening Systems China has been…
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Transcript: Fox News Visibly Rattled as Trump’s Slide in Polls Worsens
So we’ve got the polls are fake. We’ve got, You can’t look at the polls because Trump’s agenda isn’t built for 100 days. And then you’ve…
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Pope Don, &c.
On Trump and the GOP; capitalism and imperialism; the Epstein case; notable centenarians; and more. Source link
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There’s No Way to Replace the Income Tax with Tariffs
Even if it could raise enough revenue (which it can’t), it would undercut Trump’s other tariff goals. Source link
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Congress Should Decide Harvard’s Tax Exemption
The Supreme Court should never have made the president the arbiter of the community’s conscience in deciding when colleges must be taxed.…
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Pope Trump Goes Up in Orange Smoke
The nonsense we talk about vs. rare spiritual opportunities. Source link
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America Must Lead in the Middle East with Strength, Not Slogans
U.S. leadership can’t be built on one-off deals or delusions of grand bargains. Source link
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Donald Trump says he asked to send US army into Mexico
President Donald Trump said that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has turned down his offer to deploy American troops into Mexico to…
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Singapore stocks end higher on Monday; STI up 0.2%
Top gainer is DFI Retail Group at US$2.71, while the biggest decliner is Yangzijiang Shipbuilding at S$2.11 Stocks in Singapore ended…
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My New York City Tour of Tours
I’m a sucker for guided tours. I love a CliffsNotes condensation of a place. All of Rome in ninety minutes gave me a Visigothic sense of…
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The Battling Memoirs of The New Yorker
In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Before doing so, however, he sat around with the boys in the bar and thrashed out…
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Christoph Niemann’s “Spotted in New York City”
For the cover of the May 12 & 19, 2025, special issue about New York—our second issue commemorating the magazine’s hundredth anniversary,…
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Why I Broke Up with New York
All this may seem to imply some deeper judgment about the city—that I think it’s wanton and unregulated, a “Where’s Waldo?” of Boschian…
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Why I Can’t Quit the New York Post
Worse, I’m not sure I want to. If I’m away and something big happens, I usually ask a friend if he can stop by a newsstand so I don’t miss…