No country should be allowed to host the World Cup while imposing discriminatory rules on qualified and participating teams.
This ought to be a very basic requirement.
🏀 The New York Knicks went up 2-0 in the NBA Finals with a victory Friday night, putting them just two wins away from their first NBA title in 53 years.
The team is playing with the UAE government-backed “Experience Abu Dhabi” logo stitched onto its jerseys under a sponsorship deal worth around $30 million per year.
Rep. Jim McGovern (MA) says, “Fans should know that the sport they are enjoying is fueling crimes against humanity. They should know that the NBA is investing in the UAE, and the UAE is investing in atrocities in Sudan.”
The Knicks are the NBA’s only individual franchise with a direct sponsorship arrangement of this kind with the UAE. The broader NBA-UAE partnership is estimated to generate roughly $500 million in advertising revenue.
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A Texas county granted Elon Musk an 100% tax exemption for a proposed TeraFab chip manufacturing facility that could cost upwards of $119 billion to implement over four years.
Grimes County will be home to a massive data center that produces high-performance semiconductor chips for Tesla vehicles, robots, and SpaceX systems.
Musk won't pay a dime thanks to the tax abatement the county commissioners are giving SpaceX.
So who will pay for the complex? The residents of Grimes County when they check their electric bill.