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U.S. Supreme Court docket to Overview Recount to Receive Web Sales Tax

By Updated on The U.S. Supreme Court will consider freeing state and local governments to collect billions of dollars in sales taxes from online retailers, agreeing to revisit a 26-year-old ruling that has made much of the internet a tax-free zone. Heeding calls from traditional retailers and dozens of states, the justices said they’ll hear…

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Trump waives Iran nuclear sanctions ‘for closing time’

US President Donald Trump has decided he will continue sanctions relief for Iran, keeping the landmark 2015 nuclear deal in place for the time being.  The White House said on Friday that Trump will waive the sanctions on Iran for the « last time », unless an agreement can be reached between the US and Europe within…

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‘Shithole’ nationalism

One thing that is upsetting about the comments that US President Donald Trump made calling African and African-descent nations « shitholes » is that his African and African-descent supporters from the 2016 election period haven’t come out to support him on that. After all, loyalty counts for something, doesn’t it? Some of these people are my friends,…

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We Veteran Broadband Files We Shouldn’t Maintain — Here’s What Went Heinous

Over the summer, FiveThirtyEight published two stories on broadband internet access in the U.S. that were based on a data set made public by academic researchers who had acquired data from Catalist, a well-known political data firm. After further reporting, we can no longer vouch for the academics’ data set. The preponderance of evidence we’ve…

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Iran’s socioeconomic protests are inherently political

« We are workers. We are not political ». This was a slogan that appeared on a series of banners raised by Andimeshk Municipality workers in southern Iran during their protests over unpaid wages earlier this year. At a first glance, the slogan seems to be a confirmation of some of the recent analysis and commentary on…

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Ali Abdullah Saleh’s assassination and Yemen’s tribes

German sociologist Max Weber’s highly cited definition of the modern state as a « community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory » does not fit well with the case of Yemen.  In North Yemen, some tribes have enjoyed autonomous political and military power since the start of the civil…

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Rebekah Shelton is now not in truth stupid – Immense Brother star confirms her Twitter became hacked

Rebekah Shelton has confirmed she isn’t dead – despite a tweet on her account appearing this morning to say she had passed away. The Big Brother star posted a video on the same Twitter account saying she’d been hacked. « I’m not dead!!!!!! Please stop spreading this news!!!!! My lawyer is already working on this and…

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Fiat Chrysler Is Involving a Plant From Mexico to Michigan

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (fcau) said on Thursday it will shift production of Ram heavy-duty pickup trucks from Mexico to Michigan in 2020, a move that lowers the risk to the automaker’s profit should President Donald Trump pull the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Fiat Chrysler said it would create 2,500…

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US core client prices upward push by most since Jan 2017

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