A new survey of Southeast Asian opinion leaders shows they prefer China to the United States as a partner, while the region’s biggest geopolitical concern is U.S. global leadership.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday declared unconstitutional a nearly 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, calling it an unnecessary and improper means for ​Congress to exercise its power to tax.

The washing machine panel thing in my apartment has these metal buttons that are perhaps the most satisfying metal buttons I’ve ever pressed in my life. If my neurospicy brain had a swimming pool of these things I would die happily of starvation while flopping around pressing as many as I could. How in the world do I track down a featureless metal button and know I’m getting the right thing without being able to press them before buying? Are there like names for different types of buttons? What kind of rabbit hole am I looking at here? I want to refit my computer to have one of these things as my power button

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According to the European Commission, the State of Israel is responsible for an unprecedented level of killing and injury of civilians, a large-scale displacement of population and the systematic destruction of hospitals and medical facilities in Gaza. [1] Israel also implemented a blockade of humanitarian aid that could amount to starvation as a method of war. Israel is in breach of multiple rules and obligations under international law and fails to prevent the crime of genocide as ordered by the International Court of Justice.[2]

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War gestern bei Nikita Miller mit einem Kumpel und das war eine derbe Enttäuschung. Ich kannte diverse clips aus dem Internet und da sah der ganz gut aus, aber das täuscht. Der bringt Witze, die mittlerweile eigentlich jeder Depp mindestens 5 mal gehört hat, 50% der Show bestanden aus Explodierer Witzen auf dem Niveau “Höhöhö, Frauen”. Außerdem muss ich mir nicht von irgendwelchen cis-Typen erklären lassen, dass ich als Transfrau eine Frau zweiter Klasse bin. Der hat halt wirklich zwischendurch einfach nur transphobes Zeug gelabert, wo die Pointe daraus besteht, dass es transohob ist und “man das ja nicht sagen darf”.

The sign proudly announces that the roundabout near Zalaegerszeg in western Hungary was built with 500 million forints (about $1.5 million) of funds from the European Union.

The Texas court of criminal appeals has overturned the death sentence of Clarence Curtis Jordan, a 70-year-old man with intellectual disabilities, who spent nearly 50 years on death row – much of that time without a lawyer.

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And I’d do it every time because I love her dearly.

Calls are increasing inside Congress for investigations into the prediction market platform Polymarket after the latest instance where groups of anonymous traders made strategic, well-timed bets on a major geopolitical event hours before it occurred.

A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated and left her bruised and bleeding, an allegation Swalwell strongly denies.

After a fiery trip through Earth’s atmosphere that lasted nearly 15 minutes, the crew’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday.

An HHS spokesperson said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya had concerns about the paper’s methodology. Some current or former CDC employees worry about political interference

Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Marc Siegel made some eyebrow-raising comments lamenting that birth rates are down among teenagers aged 15 to 19.

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New rules approved by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could blunt the impact of a federal judge’s order freezing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee and putting many of its decisions on hold, experts say.

Car ownership has long been integral to the American dream. But as automakers slash the production of inexpensive models to cater to customers who can afford oversized pickups and sport utility vehicles, buyers find themselves facing sticker shock at the same time they are already frustrated by the lingering effects of high inflation.

Former allies of Democratic contender withdraw support after accusations in San Francisco Chronicle and on CNN

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I am a Certified Public Tax Accountant (Zeirishi) and financial planner in Japan, specializing in international taxation and transfer pricing. I am also a member of IFA (International Fiscal Association). I have a parallel background in IT — from early microcomputer programming through enterprise ERP implementations.