- Reuters
Brazil's Congress advances bill to tax low-cost online orders
Brazil's lower house of Congress approved on Tuesday the main text of a bill that would enact a new 20% import tax on international online purchases under $50, significantly down from a higher tax rate that was originally proposed. The bill must still be voted on by the Senate. The new import tax rate for purchases that cost $50 or less was set on Tuesday following negotiations between lawmakers and the administration of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, which had previously expressed its opposition to the unpopular tax proposal.
- Lebron Wire
Rich Paul sees silver lining in LeBron James not going deep into the NBA playoffs
Is Rich Paul right when he says the NBA can benefit from LeBron James exiting in the first round of the playoffs?
- Associated Press
The toll of Beijing's security law on Hong Kong's activists
Activist Chan Po-ying is permitted only 15-minute daily visits to see her husband, Leung Kwok-hung, separated by a plexiglass barrier in a highly guarded Hong Kong jail. Leung, 68, is one of 47 activists who were prosecuted in the largest national security law case to date in the former British colony. On Thursday, 16 activists who pleaded not guilty — including Leung — will begin hearing their verdict.
