Donald Trump has set some grandiose foreign-policy goals for his second term, from buying Greenland to ending the war in Ukraine “in a day.” Here’s one goal that is overdue, morally right and in our national security interest: deposing the regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, through coercive diplomacy if possible or force if necessary.Last week, Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term after a fraudulent election last July that independent surveys show he lost by about 35 percentage points. His opponent, Edmundo González, is in exile; the head of the opposition movement, María Corina Machado, had to…
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Entrepreneurship is starting a company. Intrapreneurship is transforming a business from within as an employee.Elizabeth Funk is familiar with both paths. As an early employee at Yahoo! and Microsoft, Funk helped pioneer services like Yahoo! Shopping and Microsoft Word. After thinking online shopping would be a cool feature, she pitched and wrote the first code for Yahoo! Shopping herself. She was also a product manager on the early team for Microsoft Word and part of the original founding team that created Microsoft Office.Elizabeth Funk. Photo Credit: In Her Image Photography. Now, as the founder and CEO of the nonprofit DignityMoves,…
Measuring body fat more carefully could help treat obesityHalfpoint/Getty Images Rethinking the way we define obesity could help millions of people worldwide, argue a team of researchers who want to introduce a new category of “preclinical” obesity. The current definition of obesity, as set by the World Health Organization (WHO), is having excess body fat that poses a risk to health. The WHO recommends that healthcare workers assess whether people have obesity by calculating their body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight relative to height. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered healthy, while below or above indicates…
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U.S. securities regulators sued Elon Musk in federal court in Washington on Tuesday in an enforcement action arising from his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, now called X.The lawsuit against Mr. Musk, who has become a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, is likely to be one of the more contentious final acts of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Gary Gensler, its departing chair.The S.E.C. contends that in buying Twitter in 2022, Mr. Musk violated securities laws by amassing a large stock position in the social media company without filing the proper notification. The complaint said he had…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 716.10 points or -1.83% to 38,474.30 • Shanghai increased 80.18 points or 2.54% to 3,240.94 • Hang Seng increased 345.64 points or 1.83% to 19,219.78 • ASX 200 increased 39.10 points or 0.48% to 8,231.00 • SENSEX increased 169.62 points or 0.22% to 76,499.63 • Nifty50 increased 90.10 points or 0.39% to 23,176.05 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00117 or 0.19% to 0.61887 • NZDUSD increased 0.00020 or 0.04% to 0.55930 • USDJPY increased 0.527 or 0.33%…
Credit: Screenshot via ABC News Say what you will about President-elect Donald Trump, but his trolling skills are off the charts. He is, for all intents and purposes, the funniest person in America. The proof? The garbage truck he used in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that became famous at the end of the 2024 presidential campaign, will appear in his inaugural parade. A truck from the company Loadmaster, a firm based in Michigan, will be one of 39 entries in the parade that runs down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House, according to the Midwesterner. The information comes…
Khloé Kardashian continues to receive criticism after she called Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass “a joke” for allegedly cutting the city’s fire department budget months before the devastating wildfires.”Community” actress Yvette Nicole Brown is the latest to slam Khloé and did so by reminding the reality television star of her family’s past excessive water usage.Khloé is not the only Kardashian who has received criticism amid the Los Angeles wildfires, as her sister Kim Kardashian was also slammed for promoting her SKIMS brand during the inferno.Article continues below advertisementYvette Nicole Brown Reminds Khloé Kardashian Of Her Family’s Water WastageOn Monday, Brown…
BEYOND VLADIMIR PUTIN’S WILDEST DREAMS As for grand strategy – the reality is that Trump’s threats to Greenland, Panama and Canada are an absolute gift to Russia and China. If Trump can claim that it is a strategic necessity for the US to take over Greenland or the Panama Canal, why is it illegitimate for Vladimir Putin to claim that it is a strategic necessity for Russia to control Ukraine? If Gill can claim it is America’s “manifest destiny” to expand its frontiers, who could object when Xi Jinping insists it is China’s manifest destiny to control Taiwan? Both Russia…
With less than a week left in office, United States President Joe Biden is expected to remove Cuba’s designation as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, according to anonymous sources familiar with his plans. The Associated Press news agency broke the story on Tuesday, citing US officials. But the move is likely to be a symbolic measure rather than a lasting policy. With President-elect Donald Trump slated to take office on January 20, the decision may quickly be reversed under the incoming administration. Still, the Biden administration pushed forward, notifying Congress of its intent. “An assessment has been completed, and we…