Trump Admin Cracks Down On Foreign Worker Fraud: Bans MSFT From H1-B Program, Probes 9 Colleges Over J-1 Visas, Hikes Costs For Students

Brazil's Socialist President Sees Lead Evaporating, New Poll Shows Brazilian socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's lead over right-wing Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro continues to narrow, according to new polling data released early Wednesday. The latest polling extends the trend we highlighted last week, showing that the narrowing margin between the two candidates has transformed October’s presidential election a coin toss. Lula (Left); Bolsonaro (Right) According to a Quaest poll commissioned by TV Globo, Lula leads Bolsonaro 42% to 41% in a potential runoff. The one-point gap is within the survey’s two-point...

"Ballpark To Battlefield": Ondas' M&A Blitz Builds Drone And Ground Robotics Empire Our mid-June initiation, "How To Profit From the Asymmetric Warfare Boom," identified the leading public and private companies positioned across the drone and counter-drone space. Our first single-name coverage focused on Unusual Machines on July 23 (read here). The stock has since surged nearly 77% (read here), signaling that Wall Street is beginning to reprice these defense names as the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the Gulf-area conflict have forever changed how warfare is conducted on the modern battlefield. As our...

The Appalachian region, while always relatively poor, had strong families and institutions that held things together. In the aftermath of the expansion of the welfare state and the shrinking of the iron, steel, and coal industries, we have seen social breakdowns and increasing drug addiction.