President Donald Trump vowed at his rally in Tuscon, Arizona, Thursday that he would eliminate all taxes on overtime pay — an unprecedented proposal from the federal government. This is part of a broader raft of proposed tax cuts, one of which is apparently so popular as to drive Kamala Harris to adopt it as her own. "We will end all taxes on overtime," said Trump. "You know what that means? Think about it." Trump suggested not only that Americans would have a greater incentive to work more if they knew the government wasn't skimming off the top but that businesses would have a easier time with recruitment and retention. 'It's time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break.' "The people who work overtime are among the hardest-working citizens in our country. And for too long, no one in Washington has been looking out for them," continued Trump. "They're police officers, nurses, factory workers, construction workers, truck drivers, and machine operators. It's time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break." The Labor Department under Trump issued a rule in 2019 making overtime pay available to an additional 1.3 million workers. It did so by raising the salary level that companies would have to pay in order to avoid paying workers at least 1.5 times their regular pay rate for work in excess of 40 hours a week. Even though millions of Americans benefited, supposed labor activists, Democrats, and the liberal media criticized Trump's salary-level increase, suggesting it was not as generous as one of President Barack Obama's failed schemes. Piggybacking on the success of Trump's rule, the Biden administration announced a final rule in April further increasing the salary threshold required to exempt workers from federal overtime pay requirements — from $36,568 to $43,888 by July 1, 2024, and to $58,656 by Jan. 1, 2025. As a result of the 2019 and 2024 threshold increases, a great many Americans would be able to avoid forking over their hard-won overtime earnings to the government under Trump's proposed tax policy. Reuters noted that while this proposal is a first from the federal government, Alabama paved the way this year, becoming the first state in the union to exclude overtime wages for hourly workers from state taxes. The move is, however, temporary. According to the Tax Foundation, which has been tracking proposed tax policies on the campaign trail, Trump has said he would also: exempt tips from income taxes; lower the corporate income tax rate from 21% to 20% and lower the corporate income tax rate to 15% for companies that make their products in the United States; make permanent his 2017 individual income tax cuts, which are now nearing expiration; consider swapping out personal income taxes for increased tariffs on imports; exempt Social Security benefits from income tax; and impose a 60% tariff on imports from China. It appears the Harris campaign did not take Trump's announcement well. A Harris campaign spokesman said, "He is desperate and scrambling and saying whatever it takes to try to trick people into voting for him." It is unclear whether Harris, who was recently exposed copying and pasting policies from her former running mate, will also claim this proposal for her own. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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Ahead of the pre-orders for iPhone 16, Apple released three ads about Apple Intelligence features, highlighting all the great functions you could, technically, take advantage of on your brand-new iPhone. However, none of the features will be available when the iPhone 16 launches next week. More weirdly, one of the ads highlights a feature that won't be available until later next year, most likely around iOS 18.4. That said, all of these ads feature actress Bella Ramsey in different situations, such as meeting someone she doesn't remember, going to a meeting that she didn't read what the briefing was all about, and a little girl's fish funeral. In those situations, Ramsey takes advantage of Apple Intelligence on an iPhone 16 Pro Max to continue the conversation. Here's what Apple highlighted in those ads: More Personal Siri: Siri can understand the context and answer complex queries, such as, "What's the name of the guy I met a couple of months ago at Cafe Grenel?" This feature isn't expected before 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPe8revsg3k Email Summary: Siri can summarize every email. On top of each message, there's a "Summarize" button that highlights what someone sent you. Although it doesn't show in the ad, Siri can also give you custom responses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJy6QyHaFM Custom Memory Movies: Type or ask Siri to create a movie with photos of a specific person, pet, or place. You don't need to select anything; just ask the personal assistant to do that for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHUOKPDMFU However, as mentioned above, none of these features will be available when the iPhone 16 is released. Even though there's a way you can take advantage of Apple Intelligence as soon as you get the new iPhone, you should know that the features available will be in beta and only available in American English for now. Below, you can learn more about the iPhone 16. Don't Miss: iPhone 16: Release date, features, A18, price, AI, and more The post Apple’s new iPhone 16 ads promote AI features you can’t even use appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Today’s deals: $40 Sony headphones, $50 Ninja blender, $140 AirPods 3, $60 foldable camera drone, more Labor Day weekend deals: $32 Magic Bullet bundle, $5 iPhone chargers, $199 iPad, $180 off Ninja cookware, more Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $189 Apple Watch SE, $1,000 off Sony OLED TV, $350 Dyson V8 Plus, $30 JBL earbuds, more

A hoard of four Viking Age silver bangles has been unearthed on a mountainside at a farm in Årdal in Hjelmeland municipality, Norway. Each of them are of a different style and in excellent condition. They were found less than eight inches under the surface so close together than they overlapped each other, so there is no question they have not been disturbed since they were buried in the 9th century. “This is a unique find, because we very rarely find such objects exactly where they were placed. As a rule, such valuable objects are discovered on fields that have been plowed, where an object has been completely taken out of its original context. Since the silver hoard has not been moved, it can give us completely new insights into life and society in the Viking Age,” says [lead archaeologist Volker] Demuth. The excavation was initiated when the landowner, farmer Tårn Sigve Schmidt, called in archaeologists to survey the route of a tractor road he was planning to build up the mountain. Archaeologists found evidence of an extensive Viking farm, including dwellings for people and outbuildings for animals. Artifacts discovered include fragments of soapstone pots, rivets, knife blades and whetstones. The silver bangles were found under what was once the floor of a small house. The dwelling is so small and spare that archaeologists believe it probably housed enslaved workers, and there were no other artifacts discovered in the area. The excavation found evidence that the farm was burned down around the time the silver bracelets were buried. The people who lived at the farm may have therefore buried the hoard before they fled an attack, and chosen an unlikely location to deter looters. The bracelets are similar in style to six Viking silver neck rings now in the Archaeological Museum in Stavanger that were discovered in 1769 at another farm in Hjelmeland. They were likely deposited as ritual sacrifices to mark or seal the boundaries of a settlement. They were not associated with a grave, and indeed no silver neck rings have ever been found in a Viking grave. That might suggest another motivation for the burial of the rings. According to Odin’s Law, as recorded in the Heimskringa saga, men were allowed to bring with them to Valhalla everything that was burned on the funeral pyre with them and anything they had personally buried in the ground. The bracelets were not fully excavated at the site, but rather removed in a soil block for micro-excavation in laboratory conditions at the Archaeological Museum of the University of Stavanger. Conservators have x-rayed the block and will take samples of the soil for evidence of any organic material, like a bag or a cloth, that the bracelets were wrapped in before burial. The hoard will be put on display at the museum when study and conservation is complete.

New York City lawmakers approved legislation Thursday to study the city's significant role in slavery and consider reparations to descendants of enslaved people.

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