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China Has a Plan for Its Housing Crisis. Here’s Why It’s Not Enough.
China has a housing problem. A very big one. It has nearly four million apartments that no one wants to buy, a combined expanse of unwanted living space roughly...
Russia, in New Push, Increasingly Disrupts Ukraine’s Starlink Service
Just before Russian troops pushed across the Ukrainian northern border this month, members of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade lost a vital resource. Starlink satellite internet service, which soldiers use...
U.S. Approves Investment Product Tied to Popular Cryptocurrency Ether
Federal regulators on Thursday approved an investment product tied to the cryptocurrency Ether, the most valuable digital asset after Bitcoin, in a major boost for the crypto industry.The Securities...
Facing Possible Cash Crunch, Giant Real Estate Fund Limits Withdrawals
A giant real estate fund managed by the company of the billionaire investor Barry Sternlicht is limiting the amount of money that investors can redeem, in an attempt to...
Everybody Hates Ticketmaster
Live Nation’s market power, the DOJ says, creates “a diminished incentive to innovate” that reduces customer service and product quality. That criticism isn’t new. In a 2010 Wired story,...
Trump Is Suddenly Very Worried About Protesters
The presidential candidate who stood and watched as scores of his supporters rampaged through the U.S. Capitol is being proactive about security for the Republican National Convention in July.The...
Some iPhone Customers Could Get Up to $349 in an Apple Settlement
Some Apple customers who owned an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus and experienced audio issues may be entitled to up to $349 as part of a proposed $35 million...
Senate Republicans Kill Their Own Border Deal to Suck Up to Trump
We allege that Live Nation relies on unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the United States at the cost of fans,...
The Surprising Figure Who Thinks Judge Cannon Is Doing a Terrible Job
On Thursday, former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb accused Judge Aileen Cannon, the federal judge overseeing his ex-boss’s classified documents case, of “incompetence,” insisting that there’s more than...
Louisiana Republicans Pass Most Draconian Law Yet on Abortion Pill
Louisiana Republicans have passed a draconian bill classifying abortion pills as schedule IV “controlled dangerous substances”—and threatening anyone in possession of the pill without a prescription with prison and...
