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Allegations fly as Trump announcements tied to potential insider trading schemes
Unusual trading patterns in financial markets have preceded several major announcements by President Donald Trump during his second term, raising questions about potential insider trading. An examination of market data by the BBC identified consistent spikes in trading activity hours or minutes before Trump made significant market-moving statements on social media or in interviews, and
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Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson to wed within months
Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson are racing toward the altar, with sources telling Page Six the couple are planning to say “I do” within the next few months. We hear the nuptials were, perhaps not surprisingly, the talk of Anderson’s bridal shower at Mar-a-Lago last weekend. “Invitations have not gone out, but they are
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Uproar over mama bear killing could help launch a state wildlife coexistence program
SACRAMENTO — A month after a public uproar over a mama bear being euthanized after swiping at a resident in Monrovia, state lawmakers are considering mandating the use of nonlethal ways to help allow wildlife and humans to coexist. Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas) said she believes the bear’s death, and the state’s decision to kill four wolves
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The Supreme Court will decide when the police can use your phone to track you
Check your pocket. You’re probably carrying a tracking device that will allow the police — or even the Trump administration — to track every move that you make. If you use a cellphone, you are unavoidably revealing your location all the time. Cellphones typically receive service by connecting to a nearby communications tower or other
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Trump hit with unusually blunt statement from priest in president’s own backyard
The Catholic Church is not done with Donald Trump. Just as the president appeared to dial back his attacks on Pope Leo XIV, the Bishop of Palm Beach — whose diocese includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate — issued a scathing public scolding of Trump’s “disrespectful and violent attacks” on the pontiff. According to The Daily Beast,
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One of last people to see Brian Hooker before wife Lynette vanished reveals their boozy evening — and what caught his eye
ELBOW CAY, Bahamas — The bartender who served Brian and Lynette Hooker the night before she vanished told The Post that the reported timeline of her disappearance in local waters doesn’t add up. Ken, 38, a bartender at the Abaco Inn in Elbow Cay in the Bahamas, said the Hookers spent the early evening hours
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How American Schools Can Address Political Polarization
—Thomas Barwick—Getty Images Polarization has become one of the defining threats to American democracy. The philosopher Robert B. Talisse distinguishes between two kinds of polarization: political and belief polarization. Political polarization can be good for democracy, he argues, as democracy “presupposes political disagreement” among citizens who have staunch convictions. “Any response to the challenge of
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The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad
On November 16, 2021, Matthew Ziburis sat in his car in a residential neighborhood in the Bay Area stalking an “enemy,” as he put it. A veteran of both the US Army and Marine Corps, Ziburis had previously served in Iraq. But on this mission, he was working at the behest of China’s government. The
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New COVID subvariant ‘Cicada’ is on the rise. Here’s what you need to know
A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in California — raising concerns that disease activity could rise heading into the summer. The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed “Cicada,” comes amid broader uneasiness about COVID vaccination rates among seniors — who are especially susceptible to the virus — and whether complacency after back-to-back relatively quiet
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Israel’s critics are winning the battle for the Democratic Party
The politics of Israel have shifted inside the Democratic Party — and staunch defenders of the Jewish nation are growing scarcer and scarcer. On Wednesday, 40 out of 47 Democratic senators voted to block a military sale to Israel — far higher opposition than had been previously seen on any similar measure. It was the