Cuba’s President Warns That US Attack Will Cause ‘Bloodbath’

Judge Who Oversaw Utah Gerrymander Resigns For Affair With Plaintiff's Attorney Authored by Ben Sellers via HeadlineUSA, With partisan battle lines being drawn nationwide in a legal showdown over redistricting, Utah may be next in line after the judge who forcibly gerrymandered a congressional seat for Democrats stepped down in disgrace. Diana Hagen, a justice on the Utah Supreme Court resigned Friday in a letter to Gov. Spencer Cox. Utah News Dispatch: Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen announces her resignation from the court. Hagen faced allegations she had a relationship with an attorney...

Wall Street's Trillion-Dollar Bet On "Tax Alpha" Tax alpha — the practice of improving investment returns by reducing taxes — has become one of the fastest-growing strategies on Wall Street, according to Bloomberg.  Rather than focusing only on beating the market, many investment firms now design portfolios to minimize taxes, often producing higher after-tax returns even if pre-tax performance is similar to traditional strategies. After years of rising markets, many wealthy Americans hold large unrealized gains in stocks and funds. To address the resulting tax burden, asset managers have developed a wide...