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Drop may reflect seasonal trends or it could signal that President Donald Trump's 'zero-tolerance' policy to criminally prosecute every adult who enters the USA illegally is having an effect.

Authored by Chris Hedges via TruthDig.com, The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we live in a functioning democracy, that Trump and the political mutations around him are somehow an aberrant deviation that can be vanquished in the next election, the more we will hurtle...

Authored by Chris Hedges via TruthDig.com, Our “corporate coup d’état in slow motion,” as the writer John Ralston Saul calls it, has opened a Pandora’s box of evils that is transforming America into a failed state. The “unholy trinity of corruption, impunity and violence,” he said, can no longer be checked. The ruling elites abjectly serve corporate power to exploit and impoverish the citizenry. Democratic institutions, including the courts, are mechanisms of corporate repression. Financial...

President Donald Trump's automobile, aluminum and steel tariff policies have now triggered retaliatory tariffs from other nations, including Canada, the EU and China. Last week Mr. Trump imposed new tariffs on more than $30 billion of Chinese electronic equipment and other consumer goods. Our trading partners are now threatening to ...

A little over a month ahead of 13F season, BofA has analyzed hedge fund long and short portfolios to come up with a snapshot representation of the most popular and most hated positions, as well as a broad distribution of holdings by sectors. Here is a snapshot of the findings. Hedge funds’ gross positioning is most aggressive in Discretionary, which is the fourth-biggest sector in the S&P 500 index, accounting for less than half of Tech’s weight, but hedge funds have taken the...

From NASA Johnson: "Astronauts on the International Space Station dissolved an effervescent tablet in a floating ball of water, and captured images using a camera capable of recording four times the resolution of normal high-definition cameras. The higher resolution images and higher frame rate videos can reveal more information when used on science investigations, giving researchers a valuable new tool aboard the space station. This footage is one of the first of its kind. The cameras are being...

France takes on Croatia on Sunday in the World Cup final, and judging by the displays of both sides in their semis, the French look good to win their second Cup title, in the -225 to -240 range for most bookies. Didier Deschamps’ side has the best defense in the tournament, the best goalkeeper and...

France takes on Croatia on Sunday in the World Cup final, and judging by the displays of both sides in their semis, the French look good to win their second Cup title, in the -225 to -240 range for most bookies. Didier Deschamps’ side has the best defense in the tournament, the best goalkeeper and...

Except maybe Jonathan Chait's deleted "BOFA" tweet.

Abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the hot new thing on the Left.

MTN customers in South Africa have reported that Facebook Messenger no longer uses mobile data.

It may have lost much of its euphoric luster mood in 2018, but that doesn't mean that the crypto space has been abandoned by institutional investors. Quite the contrary: according to Fortune, none other than billionaire Steve Cohen has decided to join the bitcoin party and has invested in a Autonomous Partners, a relatively new hedge fund that is acquiring both cryptocurrencies and blockchain-related companies. Autonomous Partners, led by early cryptocurrency adopter and venture capitalist...

A thriving zero-waste movement is gaining ground in India.

NSW hero James Tedesco has zeroed in on playing NRL finals football and inheriting Billy Slater's Australian No.1 jersey after ticking off his State of...

Croatia ruthlessly exposed England's limitations in the second half of the World Cup semi-final on Wednesday as Zlatko Dalic's side fought back to secure a famous 2-1 extra-time victory.

Shopping with refillable containers isn’t a a new way of shopping, emphasises Charlotte Cross, the co-founder of Charlotte's Cupboard, the UK’s first packaging-free shop on wheels.

NSW's triple zero system for fire emergencies urgently needs reform, while the relationship between the state's key agencies needs to address existing...

Authored by Darryn Pollock via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin’s polarizing effect has people on both ends of the scale either proclaiming it is going to the moon or it is going to zero. The volatile, unprecedented, and revolutionary monetary system that is cryptocurrency has a future that not many can accurately predict, but as time has gone on, the idea that Bitcoin is going to zero seems more and more far fetched. Image courtesy of CoinTelegraph A number of commentators, just recently — when...

It has been a long journey over the last two years for the English men's national football team, from national embarrassments to footballing heroes. Here, Sportsmail charts the journey...

Cape Town was set to run dry on April 12, 2018, leaving its 3.7 million residents without tap water.

Last weekend we reported that as part of the failure of a Chinese investor's inability to make a €32 million debt owed to Paul Singer's Elliott Management, the legendary investor and hedge fund billionaire was set to take control over the legendary Italian soccer club, AC Milan, whose debt infusion in the 2016 purchase of the Italian club by Li Yonghong, primed him for equity ownership in case of a default. As a reminder, Paul Singer’s hedge fund played a key role in allowing Li to conclude...

Steve Cohen backs crypto hedge fund Autonomous Partners through Cohen Private Ventures. Cohen's backing comes amid growing interest from mainstream investors in crypto assets. Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen has invested in the crypto craze, according to Fortune. Fortune reported on Thursday that Cohen has invested in crypto asset hedge fund Autonomous Partners through his vehicle Cohen Private Ventures. Autonomous, which was founded last year, has also raised money from Union Square...

Croatia ruthlessly exposed England's limitations in the second half of the World Cup semi-final on Wednesday as Zlatko Dalic's side fought back to secure a famous 2-1 extra-time victory.