Xi Warns Trump That Differences Over Taiwan Could Lead to ‘Clashes and Conflicts’ Between the US and China

Denmark Tallied What Every Resident Pays And Takes... Guess Which Migrants Come Out $11,000 Short Denmark's Finance Ministry added up the taxes paid and the public spending on each resident and sorted the results by origin: immigrants from the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey cost the state a net DKK 74,000 (about $11,000) each in 2019, while immigrants from Western countries paid in DKK 52,000 (about $7,700) a head more than they drew.The numbers, published in 2023, resurfaced overnight in a post on X calling them "brutal," with...

Tesla Delivers 486,432 Vehicles In Q3, Handily Beating Wall Street Forecasts Tesla handily beat expectations on deliveries for Q3 this morning, handing the electric vehicle maker a sizable beat against Wall Street forecasts. The company delivered 486,532 vehicles during the quarter, well above the roughly 461,000 units analysts surveyed by FactSet had been expecting. Tesla’s own compilation of sell-side estimates had put the consensus at 461,974 vehicles, meaning actual deliveries came in roughly 24,500 vehicles, or about 5.3%, above that figure. Of the 486,532 vehicles delivered, Model 3/Y accounted for 478,237 vehicles. The...

A Modest Proposal: Performance Reviews For Senators Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It seems as though only one thing motivates Congress to act - the threat of elections. That's why both the House and Senate have moved to pass a continuing resolution to keep funding the government until December. Originally funding was going to run out on Oct. 1, the date that was decided during the last shutdown crisis. But with virtually every member of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate up for election in November, almost no one...