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by Tom Kertscher / Wisconsin Watch, Wisconsin Watch August 6, 2026 Yes. Wisconsin’s highest income tax rate is 7.65%.  For individuals, it applies to all taxable annual income above $323,290. For married taxpayers filing jointly, the threshold is $431,060. Lower tax rates apply to taxable income below the two thresholds. A married couple with taxable income of $450,000 would pay the same tax rate on the portion of their income above $431,060 as a billionaire with $50 million in taxable income would pay on the larger portion of their income above that threshold, said Jason Stein, president of the nonpartisan…

For months, Hamas’s disarmament has been the biggest sticking point in the stalled Gaza peace process. Major aspects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan are contingent on Hamas giving up its weapons, and Gaza has remained in a painful limbo since a cease-fire began last October due to the impasse. For a moment last week, it looked like change might be on the horizon as Hamas agreed to a U.S.-backed framework to lay down its arms. Last Thursday, Trump hailed the agreement, which was orchestrated by his Board of Peace and designed to bring about the full implementation…

Claim: Taylor Farms, a produce company believed to be the source of the 2026 “explosive diarrhea” outbreak, once used prison laborers in its workforce. Rating: Context The claim originated in a news report from 2022 and the documentation Snopes reviewed was from 2019. We don’t know whether Taylor Farms still uses inmate laborers as of this writing, but we reached out to Taylor Farms and the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry for comment and will update this article if we learn more. Rumors circulated in August 2026 that Taylor Farms, a produce company believed to be the source…

Palantir Technologies, the United States data analytics and artificial intelligence company which has contracts with the country’s military and intelligence apparatus, has “engineered its corporate structure” to pay no US federal corporate income tax, according to a new report.The study by the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) comes as Palantir reports soaring revenues, driven partly by government contracts, while it faces continued criticism for providing technology to the Israeli military amid the genocide in Gaza.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listHere’s what we know.What does the report show?Earlier this week, Palantir reported second-quarter revenue of…

A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of driving his car into a crowd of people in Munich last year, killing two people.The 25-year-old man, named only as Farhad N in line with German privacy laws, is an Afghan national, who prosecutors say deliberately drove his Mini into a trade union rally of around 1,400 people in the centre of the city on the morning of 13 February 2025.He hit a 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter, who both died in hospital shortly afterwards. More than 40 other people were injured, a number of them…

The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday approved a resolution holding Dr. Anthony S. Fauci in contempt of Congress for his refusal last week to answer questions from the panel, whose chairman, Senator Rand Paul, has said repeatedly that he wants to see Dr. Fauci in prison.The vote, along party lines, clears the way for the committee to recommend that the Justice Department prosecute Dr. Fauci for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena, a misdemeanor under federal law. But that does not mean the department will take up the case.For a contempt resolution to carry the force of Congress,…

Nearly 10,000 people were referred to the government’s anti-terrorism scheme, Prevent, in the year to September 2025, Home Office figures show, a record number for the programme.Figures show 10,293 referrals were made in England and Wales for 9,957 people – up by 39% from the previous 12 months and the highest number in a single year since records began in 2015.Where the age is known, 393 referrals were for children under 10, the largest proportion concerned 11 to 15-year-olds at 36%, followed by 16 to 17 year-olds at 13% of referrals. The Home Office said the spike was in part…

The sale of gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) for $55bn (£41bn) to a group of buyers including Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been finalised.The American company is known for making and publishing best-selling games such as EA FC, formerly known as Fifa, The Sims and Mass Effect.The investors, who include Affinity Partners – led by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner – are taking EA private, meaning all of its public shares will be purchased and it will no longer be traded on a stock exchange.It is thought to be the largest leveraged buyout in history, meaning a…

AI security company Zenity has disclosed the details of two AI browser hacking techniques targeting Claude in Chrome and ChatGPT Atlas, demonstrating how they can be used for account takeovers, phishing, and making unauthorized Amazon purchases. Zenity described its research in two separate blog posts published on Wednesday, one covering the ChatGPT Atlas research and one covering the Claude in Chrome attack. ChatGPT Atlas hacking Zenity researchers discovered that OpenAI’s agentic browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is vulnerable to zero-click indirect prompt injection (IPI) due to fundamental architectural design issues rather than traditional software bugs.  By exploiting ‘intent collision’ through a single…

What Clarity declines to do is impose customer identification duties on software that has no customers. Software that takes no custody and controls no transactions is in no position to identify anyone. Requiring KYC on code does not create a compliance obligation on intermediaries; it creates a prohibition on publishing code.Tokenized securitiesThe last worry is that stocks will migrate to decentralized shadow markets with few investor protections. As clearly stated in section 10505, a security does not cease to be a security simply because it settles on a blockchain. Securities remain under SEC authority, and Section 10301 is the provision…