Paramedics at Ben Taub General Hospital speed a patient with a gunshot wound to the trauma team for further care. Ben Taub is the largest safety-net hospital in Houston. Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gregory Smith/Corbis via Getty Images Paramedics at Ben Taub General Hospital speed […]
The Biden administration is being asked to open a civil rights investigation into Wednesday’s decision by the Texas Education Agency to stage a state takeover of Houston Independent School District, the state’s largest and most diverse system whose school board was often at odds with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Rep. […]
Two years ago this month, Australia passed a law called the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code, which, as the name suggests, forced digital platforms like Facebook and Google to negotiate deals to pay the news media for the latter’s content. If they failed to do so, the […]
Remember back in the good old days when Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the electric television set and told us that she and her husband’s administration were the targets of a “vast, rightwing conspiracy,” and everybody thought that was hilariously funny, if not deeply paranoid? And we all had a […]
A pair of surveys measuring the economic outlook of businesses showed mixed results Tuesday, as chief financial officers turned slightly more optimistic while small businesses were a little more pessimistic. Deloitte’s Signals survey for the first quarter found an increased appetite for risk and growing optimism about the prospects for […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin.Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images The Kremlin said Russia will not be impacted by the US bank crisis. Kremlin’s spokesperson said Russia is ‘insured’ against the fallout from Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. Sanctions over the Ukraine war have cut Russia off from the international financial system. It’s been a rocky […]