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Hawley’s health care ‘solution’ a nonstarter

The Washington Post Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, thinks he has a new idea: no taxes on health care. He has proposed making all out-of-pocket health care expenses tax deductible, saying that would “ help people immediately.” But would it? Right now, there are already significant tax ...

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI licensing deal

Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will bring characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker to the AI company’s Sora video generation tool, in a licensing deal that the two companies announced on Thursday. At the same time, Disney went after Google, demanding the ...

Democrats created insurance problem

Now that the government shutdown, i.e., “shakedown” by the Democrats is over, and during which this stunt they wanted health care, for of all people, noncitizens, because of the cost, perhaps the following would be instructive — keeping in mind they are the same party that pushed through ...

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Save the Elephants founder, dies at 83

NAIROBI, Kenya — Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to protecting elephants, has died, his Save the Elephants group said Tuesday. He was 83. Douglas-Hamilton was known for decades of conservation work, which included pioneering ...

Crypto mogul sentenced to 15 years

NEW YORK — Onetime cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison after a $40 billion crash revealed his crypto ecosystem to be a fraud. Victims said the 34-year-old financial technology whiz weaponized their trust to convince them that the investment — secretly ...

Ticker

US stock market hits record highs Wall Street set records, even as a sell-off for Oracle and worries about a potential bubble in artificial-intelligence technology weighed on the market. The S&P 500 edged up 0.2% Thursday to eke past the all-time closing high it set in October. The Dow ...