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Sam Bankman-Fried recounts FTX's collapse and why he feels he was wrongly convicted of fraud
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (443+ words) FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at the federal court in New York in February 2023. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Sam Bankman-Fried was once called the "crypto king." But in November 2022, his company, FTX, imploded within a matter of days. All around…...
Graham Platner says he's out. Now what?
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (480+ words) Graham Platner announced Wednesday night that he intends to suspend his campaign. CJ Gunther/Getty Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after a rape allegation against him…...
Cuba may be in shambles, but Miami's new museum keeps the Bay of Pigs alive
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (427+ words) Eduardo Zayas-Baz'n was a 24-year-old lawyer when he left Cuba for the United States and joined about 1, 400 other Cuban exiles, who were known as Brigade 2506, to participate in the Bay of Pigs invasion, the botched 1961 mission to overthrow Fidel Castro's…...
Trump can't stop talking about communists
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (400+ words) On July 5th, for America's 250th anniversary, Trump delivered an address that was in large part about communists. Daniel Torok/Zuma When Donald Trump gets into a loop, it's hard to get him out. He'll just talk in a circle until he's…...
Did birth control make my depression worse?
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1731+ words) Last summer, I noticed a shift: I was calmer and happier than I'd been in years. But when the knot and the crying jags and the inexplicably wired nights persisted, I came to think of them as just how I…...
Trump says he'll fast-track private gas plants to power AI data centers
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (1098+ words) President Trump speaks to reporters at the White House on July 6, 2026. Anna Moneymaker via Getty In brief remarks to reporters Monday at the White House, President Donald Trump noted that he was shocked to learn how much energy developing artificial…...
Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (449+ words) Palantir is not a company that is pro'public interest or welfare, or public health." What many participants may not know is that the defense technology and data giant Palantir, which has deep links to both the intelligence community and the…...
In defense of Taylor Swift's bad wedding taste
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (208+ words) The more I read, the more embarrassed I am for everyone involved." It's easy to imagine the superstar going feral as she brainstormed all the ways she could bend the world's most famous arena to her local prom queen sensibilities....
America is 250 years old. Have you ever read the Declaration of Independence?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1007+ words) Indeed, as my colleagues David Corn and Tim Murphy pointed out exactly one year ago, certain of the tyrannical acts my co-author, Thomas Jefferson, cited as grievances in that founding document are uncannily evocative of the usurpations of our current…...
Trump is using your money to pollute our air this July 4th
1+ week, 1+ day ago (346+ words) The Trump administration's July 4th fireworks show will likely produce unhealthy levels of pollution at the National Mall and the surrounding area'a fitting byproduct of the president's 250th American anniversary celebration." Internal documents from the National Park Service, which hosts the annual…...