How should government spend carbon tax revenues? A high-powered group of Republicans and business executives proposed replacing regulations for reducing greenhouse gases with a carbon tax. The two most interesting things about this initiative are who proposed it and what they’d do with the money. | View caption Hide caption The other day, a high-powered group…
Justice Society When $1 billion isn’t enough. Why the Sioux won’t put a price on land. | View caption Hide caption How do you make reparations for historic harm when money is off the table? To accept cash for stolen land would be to sell out in the purest sense, members of the Sioux say.…
A postwoman was found dead after spending three horrifying days being trapped in a lift she entered during a paper round. Olga Leotyev, 32, reportedly desperately screamed for help from the top floor of a nine-story building in Tashkent, Uzbekistan – but her pleas were unheard. Her concerned loved ones reported her missing when she…
WASHINGTON — Virginia leaders are pushing for a new FBI headquarters to be built in Virginia. Maryland leaders say their state is the “superior” choice. And conservative Republicans want to nix the new headquarters project completely. As the House GOP majority wages war on the FBI and Justice Department for “weaponizing” the government against former…
A body was found in a 55-gallon drum Monday near Malibu’s famous Surfrider State Beach, authorities said. A report was called in around 10:30 a.m. about a body in a barrel that had washed up on the beach. Details about the cause of death or the identity of the person in the barrel were not…
Russian officials say they shot down three Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow early Sunday, hours before the start of a major military parade attended by President Vladimir Putin. Images from a crash site in Moscow showed the façade of a skyscraper damaged on one floor, with glass shattered and structural beams snapped and deformed. One person…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: A $100 piece of a $55 million painting A 1963 portrait by British artist Francis Bacon is about to make its stock market debut, said Carol Ryan in The Wall Street Journal. Next month, “a company named Artex is…
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit Donald Trump filed against CNN in which the former U.S. president claimed that references in news articles or by the network’s hosts to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election as “the Big Lie” was tantamount to comparing him to Adolf Hitler. Trump had been seeking punitive damages of $475 million in…