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Trillion-dollar-company Amazon skated through 2018’s tax filings without paying a cent for the second year in a row. The e-commerce behemoth, which made $11 billion last year, will pay no taxes at all, thanks to 2017’s tax reform. Rather than pay the standard 21 percent corporate income tax rate, Amazon is actually claiming a tax […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ariel Thompson of Sequoyah High School (Claremore, Okla.) was named the first MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week of the 2018-19 season. Thompson is recognized for her outstanding play during the week of Aug. 6-12. Thompson went 3-0 in the circle with three shutouts and 40 strikeouts, while homering twice […]

Artificial intelligence and machine learning pose a grave threat when they are controlled by authoritarian states, according to billionaire George Soros. He has called for a crackdown on Chinese tech companies. Talking to journalists and executives attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said on Thursday the use of such technologies by the Chinese […]

The federal Conservative leader is accusing Liberals of a “coordinated campaign” to push former ministers Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott to violate the oaths they swore before joining cabinet. At a press conference in Ottawa Monday, Andrew Scheer again called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to fully waive solicitor-client privilege and cabinet confidence for Wilson-Raybould […]

OKLAHOMA CITY – USA Softball Women’s National Team (WNT) centerfielder Haylie McCleney has been selected as a finalist for the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Sportswomen of the Year award in the team sport category, the Women’s Sports Foundation announced. A member of the USA Softball WNT since 2014, McCleney was selected based on her achievements between […]

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau sprinkled a little government funding on nearly everyone Tuesday, including key Liberal constituencies — young people, women, and seniors — who helped deliver the Grits their victory in 2015. In his pre-election budget, Morneau announced $26.7 billion in new spending since the fall economic statement — nearly all of […]

Moscow and Beijing are to ink an agreement on developing a next-generation heavy helicopter, which will be more powerful than US-made ones, Russian state-owned corporation Rostec has revealed. The landmark contract is to be signed in two months after years of tough talks, Viktor Kladov, the director of international cooperation and regional policy at Rostec, […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The NFCA is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of the 2018 Turface Athletics / NFCA Field of the Year award. Garnering recognition for the brand-new honor are Davis Diamond (Texas A&M), Farmers Insurance Athletic Complex (Davenport), Taylor Field (East Texas Baptist), Grizzly Softball Complex (Georgia Gwinnett), Wade Kirk Field (Vernon College), […]

-Quebec’s taxi industry suspended all pressure tactics over the province’s proposed overhaul of taxi regulations after a member harmed himself on live television Friday. An industry group said the decision was made after the dramatic incident at the end of an interview with a taxi owner on the LCN all-news network. Appearing alongside a suicide […]

The Chinese electronics giant Huawei has filed a lawsuit against the United States government, challenging Washington’s decision to ban federal agencies from using its products. The suit, filed with the federal court in Texas, alleges that the ban on Huawei products, passed as part of a defense spending package last year, is unconstitutional and is […]