Sam Bankman-Fried just got sentenced to 25 years in prison Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was just sentenced to 25 years in prison in a New York court. He was convicted in November of fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. 03/28/2024 - 4:50 am | View Link
Baraka’s lack of disclosure Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a candidate for governor in 2025, is in trouble with ELEC. Again! 03/27/2024 - 11:55 pm | View Link
Turkey’s high-stakes mayoral races are expected to be close. Volunteer monitors will be key Unpaid volunteer monitors could be pivotal to the outcome. In 2019, President President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party used claims of irregularities to force a do-over of an election in Istanbul after ... 03/27/2024 - 6:18 pm | View Link
Oil Giants Plan to Bury Massive Amounts of CO2 in Southeast Asia Just as they first ventured to do over a century ago, the world’s largest oil companies are staking claims far from home — this time to swallow, rather than spew, planet-warming industrial ... 03/27/2024 - 9:01 am | View Link
We have a winner! Single ticket takes $1.12 billion Mega Millions jackpot Someone in New Jersey overcame the odds Tuesday night and won the $1.12 billion Mega Millions jackpot, breaking a winless streak that dated to last December. The numbers drawn were: 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 ... 03/26/2024 - 11:02 pm | View Link
Even before most Americans woke up to the news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, wild conspiracy theories about what supposedly had "really" happened were running rampant online. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports on some.
CNN's Katelyn Polantz breaks down the argument Donald Trump's lawyer made about the First Amendment to get the judge to dismiss Trump's election subversion case in Georgia.
(NEW YORK) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said.
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The eye-popping amount was a major show of Democratic support for Biden at a time of persistently low poll numbers.
A telling little clip from Mediate, where TV financial pundit Jim Cramer is basically urging Trump to cash in his chips, relinquish control or at least partial control and get a big fat payday. In theory, that sounds like sound advice. One small problem with that is what he's advocating is not technically legal.
driftglass: The revelation according to Chuck.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: No labels, no logic.
Blue Virginia: Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoes numerous bills that would have made Virginia safer.
Rewire: College students don't know their schools' abortion services.
Equal Justice Initiative: Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which explores the legacy of slavery and the lives of enslaved people.
This installment by Batocchio.
Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of the world's largest asset management firm, wrote in his annual letter to investors on Tuesday that it is "a bit crazy" that 65 is viewed as a sensible retirement age in the United States, drawing swift backlash from Social Security defenders and policy analysts.
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, replied that the CEO of BlackRock apparently doesn't know the U.