Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana grilled Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Wednesday on what level of debt was “unsustainable.” “So, what the president is saying is — these are my words, not his — because of his budget, we’re going to have three heart attacks and a stroke instead of four heart attacks and a stroke,” Kennedy said during a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee, noting that the federal debt was slated to climb by $18 trillion over ten years. (RELATED: Biden HHS Secretary Unable To Say How Many Gov’t Workers Actually Show Up To Work In Federal Buildings) President Joe Biden released a proposed budget for fiscal year 2024 March 9, which included over $5 trillion in new tax increases , including a 20% hike in the capital gains tax rate and a 7.6% increase in the top income tax rate. WATCH: “Well, I would not agree that we’re going to have three heart attacks and a stroke because we have a very large economy, and while … [Read more...] about ‘Answer My Question’: Sen. John Kennedy Grills Biden Treasury Secretary On ‘Unsustainable’ Debt
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From Tort Law To Cheating, What Is ChatGPT’s Future In Higher Education: UC Berkeley
0 Schools This fast-changing technology will upend course assignments, be deployed as a 24/7 tutor, and change the way we think about knowledge work. Bea Karnes , Patch Staff Posted Reply Press release from UC Berkeley News: BERKELEY, CA — It passed the bar exam, first with a mediocre score and then with a ranking among the top tier of newly minted lawyers. It scored better than 90% of SAT takers. It nearly aced the verbal section of the GRE — though it has room for improvement with AP Composition. In the months since the machine-learning interface ChatGPT debuted, hundreds of headlines and hot-takes have whirled about how artificial intelligence will overhaul everything from health care and business to legal affairs and shopping. But when it comes to higher education, reviews have been more mixed, a blend of upbeat and uneasy. Many have forecast the “death of the college essay,” though it’s still very much … [Read more...] about From Tort Law To Cheating, What Is ChatGPT’s Future In Higher Education: UC Berkeley
On and Off ‘Ted Lasso,’ Toheeb Jimoh Has Stepped Out of the Background
In the Season 2 finale of “ Ted Lasso ,” Toheeb Jimoh’s character, Sam Obisanya, stands in front of the vacant storefront he has just bought. “What’s it going to be?” asks the woman who has handed the soccer player his keys. “A Nigerian restaurant,” he says, a broad smile on his face. This moment is a turning point of sorts for Sam, a mark of his ambition and growth from the young man viewers met in the “Ted Lasso” pilot who had recently arrived in Britain. So it’s fitting that Jimoh, 25, chose Enish, a West African restaurant in Brixton, in South London, a stone’s throw from the actor’s childhood home, for an interview. Dressed in a black sweater and matching cargo pants and tucking into rice and ayamase, a spicy meat stew, Jimoh said that Sam has had a “beautiful arc” over the past two seasons. “If you had told me at the start of Season 1 that Sam would be a business owner, one of the stars of the team, and dating the boss, I wouldn’t have believed you,” he said. Sam has also … [Read more...] about On and Off ‘Ted Lasso,’ Toheeb Jimoh Has Stepped Out of the Background
For Two Los Angeles Artists, the Spiritual Is Political
LOS ANGELES — At the Charlie James Gallery, in the Chinatown neighborhood here, a surprising exhibition of spiritually reflective and esoteric artwork opened recently. Surprising because the artists, Patrisse Cullors and noé olivas, are known for their activism and social engagement, and because the works in the show, “Freedom Portals,” reject the strident, declamatory tenor of much political art. Cullors and olivas, the exhibition guide notes, are practitioners of Ifá, a Yoruba religion from West Africa. Cullors’s artworks, each made from a framed section of black-and-white patterned cloth embroidered with cowrie shells, are titled after Mejis or Odù, sacred Ifá verses used in divination, a central feature of Yoruba religious practice. Hung high on the walls like church icons, sculptures by olivas consist of garden shears wired onto small puddles of iridescent, dichroic glass. All his pieces are titled as prayers — “Prayers of Protection” or “Prayers of Support” — but prayers to … [Read more...] about For Two Los Angeles Artists, the Spiritual Is Political
Doocy Presses KJP On Chinese Energy Company Paying Biden Family Members
Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on members of President Joe Biden’s family receiving payments from a Chinese energy company. A memo released by the House Oversight Committee disclosed that Biden family members received over $1.3 million in payments from Rob Walker, a family business associate, after he had been paid $3 million by a Chinese energy company. “House Oversight says they’ve got bank records showing a Chinese energy company paying three Biden family members through a third party, what were they paid for?” Doocy asked. “Look, I’m just not gonna respond to that from here,” Jean-Pierre said. “We have heard from House Republicans for years and years and years how the inaccuracies and lies when it comes to this issue and I don’t know where to even begin to answer that question because again, it’s been lies and lies and inaccuracy for the past couple years and I’m just not gonna get into it.” … [Read more...] about Doocy Presses KJP On Chinese Energy Company Paying Biden Family Members
Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once his country’s richest man, has resided in “gulag lite,” as he calls the Russian penal system under Vladimir Putin, for six years. Since the spring, on most working days he is roused at 6:45 in the morning, surrounded by guards and packed into an armored van for the drive to court. For two hours each way, the man who once supplied 2 percent of the world’s oil crouches in a steel cage measuring 47 by 31 by 20 inches. Convicted of tax evasion and fraud in 2005, Khodorkovsky now faces a fresh set of charges that add up to the supposed theft of $30 billion. In the dark of the van, Khodorkovsky tries to prepare for his trial, replaying in his mind his night reading, the daily stack of documents from his lawyers. But Russia’s most famous prisoner worries too about what would happen if a car slammed into the van. (Collisions are routine in Moscow’s clotted avenues.) “Your chances of making it out alive,” he wrote me one day this summer, “at any speed, are next to … [Read more...] about Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?
