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(Bloomberg) — Investors in the $4 trillion market for state and local government debt appear to be looking for the exit.Most Read from BloombergThey pulled $344 million from long-term municipal-bond mutual funds and $460 million from high-yield funds during the week ended Wednesday, according to Refinitiv Lipper US Fund Flows data. Overall they put just … Read more

High schoolers in California’s class of 2030 will be required to complete an ethnic studies course in order to graduate, under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Friday. The Golden State is believed to be the first in the US to institute such a mandate. Public and charter schools in the state will be … Read more

Republican congressman from Florida, Matt Gaetz, has promised to nominate Donald Trump as the next House Speaker, should Republicans regain the majority. A few people have floated this possibility over the last year. But Gaetz is the first elected official to make it a pledge. .@RepMattGaetz pledges that when Republicans retake the House in 2022, … Read more

In 2018, House Republicans adopted a resolution recognizing “that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.” All but one Republican voted for the measure, which was adopted 279–72. A total of 71 House Democrats voted against the resolution, while 49 joined Republicans in supporting it. … Read more

One doctor reveals how they are hiding the TRUTH! pic.twitter.com/CdFtHR2qkd — Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) October 2, 2021

Donald Trump is not happy with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and he is making that beyond clear. In a series of interviews with The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, Trump not only tore into McConnell, but he also spoke about the 2020 election and Republicans who didn’t have his back when he needed them most. The interviews, … Read more

I don’t remember voting for this… The breakthrough comes after some changes were made to the original text. Notably that the rate of 15% will not be increased at a later date, and that small businesses will not be hit with the new rates. This helped Ireland — a longtime opponent of raising corporate tax … Read more

via usatoday: Millions of voters going to the polls Tuesday will cast their ballots on machines blasted as unreliable and inaccurate for two decades by computer scientists from Princeton University to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Toyed with by white-hat hackers and targeted for scathing reviews from secretaries of state in California and Ohio, Direct Recording Electronic … Read more

There’s a new king of late-night in the hotly-contested late-night TV wars — Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld, who says of his rivals, “While they cover their asses, we’ll just continue kicking them.” Gutfeld averaged 2 million viewers over last week — when he took his NYC show on the road to Nashville — making his … Read more

Here’s some of the bits that stood out to me. He’s laying out one of the most ambitious agendas in the SEC’s 87-year history — some 49 proposals, many already drawing opposition from hedge funds, stock exchanges, online brokers and public companies. . Lawmakers’ other priorities include reining in special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, responding … Read more

The sources familiar with the probe have confirmed that the leader of the team of contractors was Rodney L. Joffe, who has regularly advised the Biden White House on cybersecurity and infrastructure policies. Until last month he was the chief cybersecurity officer at Washington tech contractor Neustar Inc., which federal civil court records show was … Read more

If tens of thousands of Americans are willing to lose their jobs – a devastating situation for most of them – in order not to comply with your policy, your policy is the problem. h/t pacmanpill