Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are set to face off in their first presidential debate, and the stakes could not be higher. Harris has erased Trump’s comfortable lead in the polls, setting up a razor-thin election with less than two months to go. The highly anticipated matchup is the first time Trump and Harris will meet ...

Budding entrepreneurs from disadvantaged backgrounds in the North-West of England have a chance to secure £150,000 in funding, advertising, and resource support through the Havas Boost programme, launched by Havas Media Network UK. This initiative aims to empower business owners outside London by providing vital financial and strategic support to those demonstrating a purpose beyond profit. The programme invites ten ...

UK R&D tax relief enables companies undertaking innovative activities and qualifying R&D projects to claim corporation tax relief and/or tax credits on qualifying R&D expenditure. The purpose being to encourage UK innovation by providing relief on qualifying R&D spend, effectively derisking the cost of the R&D work for qualifying companies. This has enabled companies to invest in vital R&D that ...

Apple has suffered a major setback in its long-running tax dispute with the European Union, as the European Court of Justice ruled that Ireland had granted the tech giant “unlawful state aid.” This landmark decision, which overturns a previous ruling in Apple’s favour, orders Ireland to recover €13 billion from the company, a sum that had been held in escrow. ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. hosted a Gold Medal ceremony for the 13 U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate during the Afghanistan withdrawal.  Johnson posthumously presented the Gold Medal, Congress’ highest honor, to the 13 fallen Americans who were killed during the August 2021 ISIS-K suicide bombing at the Kabul Airport.  He ...

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., revealed the ‘biggest thing’ he believes can help former President Donald Trump in his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia.  During Tuesday night’s debate in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, Scott said that ‘the best thing Trump can get her to do is if she could talk 99% of the time.’ ‘It’ll be interesting ...

Clark Packard The US-China relationship is the most important and complex bilateral relationship in the world today. How these two superpowers interact is a paramount concern for the future of global peace and prosperity. Though Washington and Beijing have never seen eye-to-eye on many issues, the two superpowers were both largely supportive (for a while at least) of global economic ...

Walter Olson The Electoral College is out of favor these days not only among scholars and commentators but also with the general public. Why has it endured for so long despite the discontent? Reuvain Borchardt of Hamodia, an international Jewish publication that publishes an English edition, interviewed me on the topic. An excerpt: Why did our Framers establish an Electoral ...

It’s a warm, smug sort of thought, isn’t it? That you could just throw money at a problem, like lobbing loose change at a busker, and suddenly you’re the king of the world. Or in Lawrence Stroll’s case, the king of Formula One. Now, there are few places where the concept of ‘buying success’ rings more true than in the ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday confirmed that Iran has supplied Russia with short-range ballistic missiles and ‘will likely use them within weeks in Ukraine.’ ‘The supply of Iranian missiles enables Russia to use more of its arsenal for targets that are further from the front line, while dedicating new missiles it’s receiving from Iran [for] closer range ...