In federal court in Boston, a second parent was sentenced in the college admissions bribery scandal. Businessman Devin Sloane got four months in prison, and he'll have to pay a $95,000 fine.
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The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow says paperwork indicates the accused sex trafficker “directed” a $2 million donation from Bill Gates to the lab.
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Fentanyl is one of the biggest killers in the opioid epidemic. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Ben Westhoff, author of the new book Fentanyl, Inc., which tracks the rise of the synthetic drug.
At the root of the company’s miscalculation was a flawed assumption that pilots could handle any malfunction
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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was so thrilled with the sweetheart plea deal his legal dream team scored for him in Florida that he threw in an added bonus — nearly $1 million worth of donations to their favorite charities, including a tony Manhattan prep school.
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IN A FEDERAL lawsuit, the tech giant Oracle has provided new details to support its accusation that Amazon secretly negotiated a job offer with a then-Department of Defense official who helped shape the procurement process for a massive federal contract for which Amazon was a key bidder.
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The Wasington Post has graciously asked Emmet Sullivan to liberate Mike Flynn's unredacted 302. But Flynn is opposed to the motion.
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Kushner Cos., the real estate firm owned by the family of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, has received about $800 million in federally backed debt to buy apartments in Maryland and Virginia. The arrangement increases the government’s exposure to Kushner Cos. at the same time that its former chief executive officer is one of the most powerful people in the White House.
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Anonymous posts video commenting on Julian Assange arrest.
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How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make An Improbable Comeback
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The House Intelligence Committee has sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Erik Prince. House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress. According to the Mueller report, Prince attempted to establish a back channel between the incoming Trump administration and Russia.
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Brazil's newly inaugurated leader, Jair Bolsonaro, is sometimes called the "Trump of the Tropics." The reality is much worse.
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The Rational National’s David Doel analyzes the Democratic Establishment’s posture towards Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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The divide between tech giants that we utilize in our everyday lives and the military is shrinking constantly if not entirely non-existent. Should we be worried? Take a listen ...
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Federal officials have charged actresses Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and dozens of other parents with mail fraud … a multimillion-dollar scheme to cheat college admissions standards. They allegedly paid a consulting firm that fabricated academic and athletic credentials and arranged bribes to help get their children into prestigious universities.
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Shoshana Zuboff is the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.” This powerful new work integrates her lifelong themes: the digital revolution, the evolution of capitalism, and their implications for humanity in the 21st century.
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Tim Wise articulates the double standards that exist when valid criticism of Israel is automatically treated as anti Jewish hatred.
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Allegations have circled Robert Kelly for decades; Activist, filmmaker and writer Dream Hampton executive produced Surviving R. Kelly, a six-part docuseries focusing on Kelly's alleged victims and their family members. Hampton describes an "ecosystem" that has supported and enabled Kelly over the years — at the expense of black women.
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