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What the exploding pager attack means for air travel - WSJ
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69519&nl=daily] In other
cases, attempted terrorist attacks have prompted short-term increases
to security at airports. After a terrorist attempted to detonate a
bomb concealed in his underwear on a trans-Atlantic flight in 2009,
more extensive security procedures including full-body pat-downs were
implemented for a period for travelers who had recently been to or
held passports from certain countries.

“TSA has the flexibility to modify security procedures, protocols
and technologies at any time to meet evolving threats," said Keith
Jeffries, vice president of the Security Screening Group at K2
Consulting, a Maryland-based consulting firm focused on security in
air travel and other industries.

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- Sara Khan, Investment Strategist, Global Finance Partners

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The Quest to Build a Telescope on the Moon - The New Yorker
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A few months ago, I flew to Houston to visit a small startup called
Lunar Resources, which aspires to build the largest telescope in the
solar system—not on Earth but on the far side of the moon. Houston
is nicknamed Space City; on the ride from the airport, I passed the
ballpark where the Astros play, and, outside a McDonald’s on East
NASA Parkway, I saw a giant sculpture of an astronaut holding French
fries. I found Lunar Resources in a boxy building where the company
leases square footage from the aerospace contractor Lockheed Martin.

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How AI can help spot wildfires - MIT Technology Review
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In February 2024, a broken utility pole brought down power lines near
the small town of Stinnett, Texas. In the following weeks, the fire
reportedly sparked by that equipment grew to burn over 1 million
acres, the biggest wildfire in the state’s history.















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It Was Already the Most Hated Corporate Mandate of All. Now Its Really
Getting Out of Hand.
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Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky
office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace
questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct
Report, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the
modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.

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Reparenting Can Help You Heal Childhood TraumaHere's How
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For some people, these difficult situations have caused our inner
child to carry unhealed wounds that stick around into adulthood. This
can go relatively unnoticed until we have kids, as becoming a parent
tends to remind us of our childhood and the burdens that might've come
along with it.














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How to beat the menace of perfectionism in your creative work
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If you've ever had job interview training, you'll probably have been
warned to prepare for the question, "What are your weaknesses?" Some
believe the best answer is "I'm a bit of a perfectionist".

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Luxury fashion in the artisanal tradition is a good thing | Aeon
Essays
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is course leader on the MA in fashion communication at Central Saint
Martins, University of the Arts London. He is the co-author, with
Brenda Polan, of The Great Fashion Designers (2nd edition, 2019).














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The Priest Who Helps Women in the Mob Escape - The New Yorker
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Luigi Ciotti was pacing by the open gates of a low concrete building
in Turin. He had been waiting for an hour. In front of him was a wide
street smelling of diesel and flanked by the bollards that keep
Italians from parking where they shouldnt. With his shrewd eyes,
flowing white hair, untucked black shirt, and black pants, Ciotti
could have been a theatre director waiting for his lead to show up.
Rather, he was a priest. He chatted with three bodyguards, who stood
just behind him, their eyes fixed on the road. Finally, a Fiat 500
approached. As soon as the car cleared the gates, the security detail
slammed them shut. In the back of the vehicle was a young woman in a
pink Converse sweatshirt and leopard-print leggings. On her lap sat a
small boy with a pacifier. A teen-age girl was next to them.

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US investigates China-backed venture firm over Silicon Valley
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FBI probe into Hone Capital comes after it became the most prolific
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This $2.1 Billion AI Company Is Making Tens Of Millions In Revenue By
Automating Dull Workplace Tasks - Forbes [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69519&nl=daily]
When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, company executives scrambled
to figure out how to use generative AI systems to make their
businesses run more efficiently. Now, after what seems like a marathon
of flashy demos and announcements, theyre eager to cut through the
hype and roll out tools that actually trim costs and offer a real
return on investment.

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The little-known Chinese biotech whose cancer drug beat Keytruda has
global ambitions - STAT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69519&nl=daily]
Recent headlines about a potent new immunotherapy have mostly focused
on the U.S. company helping to develop it. Less attention has been
paid to Akeso, a Chinese biotech that had kept a low profile until its
drug bested Mercks mega-blockbuster Keytruda in a late-stage lung
cancer trial.














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4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process - Harvard Business Review
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Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer
discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework
IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects,
understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators,
leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this
way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial
for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

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Trump Media Shares Near All-Time Low - Inc.com
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Trump Media shares tumble to new low after insider selling curbs
expireShares of former U.S. President Donald Trump's media company
bounced back slightly in early Tuesday trading after hitting a new low
on Monday, extending recent losses after restrictions on insider
selling expired.














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The fascinating truth about why common sense isn't really that common
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In the 18th century, philosopher James Beattie compiled a list of 17
common-sense beliefs. A few are incontrovertible: I exist; A whole is
greater than a part; Virtue and vice are different. But others seem
unnecessarily moralising: Ingratitude ought to be blamed and punished;
I have a soul distinct from my body; There is a God. Then, there are
the scientifically contestable: The senses can be believed; I am the
same being that I was yesterday or even 20 years ago; Truth exists.
Overall, his list seems quaint and outdated. Worse still, it gives no
clear idea of what common sense is. Surely, we can do better.

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The Science Behind Nootropics Do They Actually Work? - Discover
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Sometime in 2024, I started getting ads in my Instagram feed from a
supplement company called Thesis. The ads generally featured
good-looking, fashionable people telling neat, 30-second stories about
how the supplements had solved their chronic procrastination,
indecision, or distractibility. Many of the evangelists were
identified as high-achievers in their respective fields a Ph.D.
neuroscientist, a CEO, or a surgeon.














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Has Harris pulled ahead of Trump? The state of the 2024 polls,
explained.
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Now that the dust has settled after the first and perhaps only
presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former
President Donald Trump, the state of the polling looks clear: Harris
has a slight edge in a race that remains extremely close.

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Xis Economic Adrenaline Shot Is Only Buying China a Little Time -
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Tuesdays hastily arranged briefing delivered a sweeping policy
package. Economists say reversing the slump will require much more.













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The Real Science Behind the Animated Emotions of Inside Out 2
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Inside Out fans last saw 11-year-old Rileyand Joy, Fear, Sadness,
Anger, and Disgust, a.k.a. the five core emotions in the headquarters
of her brainfinally accept her feelings in the conclusion to Pixars
beloved, Oscar-winning 2015 film. In return, she received a brand new
expanded console control board. On it flashed a red emergency light
labeled Puberty. Whats Poo-berty? asks Disgust. Its probably not
important, says Joy.

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What HBOs Sleeper Hit Does Better Than Anything Else on TV Right Now
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The biggest stories in the financial markets in the 2020s have
resolved around silliness. The bizarre nature of modern markets has
taken different forms, but you’ve never needed a finance degree to
understand that these stories have been a bit unserious. An oddball
crypto CEO depressed markets for months when he took money from
depositors at his crypto exchange, gave it to his hedge fund, and
invested it in made-up coins whose value was tied to confidence in his
own business. A Reddit and YouTube poster proved he can shift the
value of a public company by billions of dollars by posting a meme
with no words in it. Retail investors more or less directly donated
millions of dollars to the people to whom Bed Bath & Beyond owed
money, propping up the company’s stock price as it slipped into
bankruptcy. The money is real but the actions are all ridiculous, and
the people committing them are either amateurs or fraudulent,
boy-wonderish CEOs with funny haircuts.

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This trader's got the 'perfect' job for full-time travel and he's
teaching others how to do it
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He learned the ropes close to home at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange,
before moving to Chicago, where he started trading corn, wheat and
soybean options, gold, Dow futures â "a little bit of everything," he
said.

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Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in
perpetuity
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When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a
vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false
information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory
settings, OpenAI summarily closed the inquiry, labeling the flaw a
safety issue, not, technically speaking, a security concern.

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Nomura Faces Fine for Bond Market Manipulation, Yomiuri Reports -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69519&nl=daily]
A manager in the Global Markets division is suspected of fraudulently
moving prices in government bond futures around 2021, the newspaper
reported, citing unidentified sources.

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Giving T cells extra batteries supercharges them against cancer
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T cells are our first line of defense against cancer, but the battle
tends to exhaust them. Now, scientists have found a way to give them
extra “batteries” to keep them fighting longer, with promising
early results in mice.

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With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue - FTFT
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The great migration from Elon Musks X has seen users, especially
progressives, retreat into one particular silo

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US election merchandise sellers hit by flood of cheap Chinese
competition - FTFT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69519&nl=daily]
US manufacturers say wrongly-labelled online goods are eroding their
election-year hopes

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'Can AI sit there in a fleece vest'': John Mulaney's Salesforce roast
was a masterclass in corporate comedy
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"You look like a group who looked at the self-checkout counters at CVS
and thought, 'This is the future,'" the comedian said. "If AI is truly
smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we
should die. So many of you feel imminently replaceable."

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China Repackages Its History in Support of Xis National Vision - WSJ
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Propaganda campaign to promote Communist Party history is largest
mass-education drive since Mao era

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I Flew in the Most Expensive Seats on the Cheapest Airlines - WSJ
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Bargain-basement carriers Spirit and Frontier now have premium options
to make your flight cushier; heres what theyre like

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The Art Market Is Tanking. Sothebys Has Even Bigger Problems. - WSJ
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The auction house, owned by highly leveraged billionaire Patrick
Drahi, is pushing off payments, awaiting a financial lifeline from an
Abu Dhabi fund

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This Unicorn Is Taking On Adobe. Can It Fly? - Bloomberg
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Australias Canva bets on AI to turbocharge growth ahead of an
anticipated IPO

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How Law Roach made teenage Zendaya a red carpet star - WSJ
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Chastity, a client of the store who would later become my mentor,
called about a favor for her friend’s daughter. This 14-year-old
girl was a young actress, known for her roles on the Disney Channel.
My client told me that this actress was invited to Justin Bieber’s
Never Say Never premiere and she didn’t have anything to wear. Next
thing I knew, I had disappeared into the Kitson boutique at Santa
Monica Place with a teenage Zendaya.

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Big Tech is rushing to find clean power to fuel AIs insatiable
appetite - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69519&nl=daily]
The scramble to build AI data centers that require massive amounts of
energy is upending the industry’s climate pledges and spurring it to
work with power producers to speed development of new clean-energy
sources.

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I want to be a stay-at-home mum, and feel angry that society won't let
me | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
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I'm 30, and have had two abortions in the past three years with two
long-term partners, due to not being in a secure financial situation.
I feel good about this decision. Even though I'm now with a wonderful
man, we haven't been together very long and haven't been financially
ready.

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OpenAI Pitched White House on Unprecedented Data Center Buildout -
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Startup says US should build 5 gigawatt data centers

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Scientist Nuke an Asteroid in a Lab Mock-Up - Scientific American
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The findings, published on September 23 in Nature Physics, showed some
really amazing direct experimental evidence for how effective this
technique can be, says Dawn Graninger, a physicist at Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. Its very
impressive work.

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A threatened ports strike is already having an impact in America - The
Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69519&nl=daily]
FED UP WITH waiting ages to load and unload his trailer, Malcolm
McLean, a former lorry driver, developed containers, which could be
easily lifted on and off lorries and ships. They changed the freight
industry.The first ship carrying containers left the Port of Newark,
which is part of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
(PANY/NJ), in 1956.

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Trump's Low-Tax, High-Tariff Strategy Could Clash With Economic
Realities
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While Mr. Trump was in office, manufacturing employment was
essentially flat before the pandemic and had declined by the time he
left office. In January 2021, the Alliance for American Manufacturing
described his promises of an industrial resurgence as “mostly
rhetoric.”

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Trump Is Briefed on Iranian Assassination Threats
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Russia and China have also engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed
at influencing American elections. American spy agencies have assessed
that Russia favors Mr. Trump, seeing him as skeptical of U.S. support
for Ukraine, and U.S. officials announced a broad effort to push back
on Russian influence campaigns this month.

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Beijing threatens to block Calvin Klein owners access to China - WSJ
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Beijing said it is investigating PVH, the owner of Calvin Klein and
Tommy Hilfiger, for alleged discrimination against products from the
Xinjiang region—setting up a potential block on the American apparel
firm’s sales in China just as the U.S. introduces measures to limit
Chinese access to its own market.

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Iran's Dilemma: How to Preserve Its Proxies and Avoid Full-Scale War
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It wants to restore deterrence against Israel while avoiding a
full-scale war between the two countries that could draw in the United
States and, in combination, destroy the Islamic Republic at home.

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Opinion | This Grain Should Be the Next Quinoa
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More and more of us in the food industry are beginning to see the
possibilities. My friend Garrett Oliver, the brew master at Brooklyn
Brewery, partnered with the food company Yolélé to brew beer using
fonio. Yolélé is working directly with smallholder fonio farmers in
the Sahel region, just south of the Sahara, to connect them with local
and global markets. It is investing in processing facilities to create
more job opportunities, and bringing an African grain to a new
audience in the United States.

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Warren Buffett Has Purchased $78 Billion of His Favorite Stock -- but
Another Time-Tested Company Has Been His Top Buy Over the Past Year
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American Express is an advertising partner of The Ascent, a Motley
Fool company. Sean Williams has no position in any of the stocks
mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Berkshire
Hathaway. The Motley Fool recommends Occidental Petroleum. The Motley
Fool has a disclosure policy.

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How the next president should reform Medicare
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Paul Ginsburg is a senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for
Health Policy & Economics and is a former vice chair of the Medicare
Payment Advisory Commission. Steve Lieberman is a nonresident senior
scholar at the Schaeffer Center, a former assistant director at both
the Congressional Budget Office and the White House Office of
Management and Budget, and a former senior adviser to the
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  

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Missouri Man Executed After Long Fight for Exoneration
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“Marcellus Williams should be alive today,” the local prosecutor,
Wesley Bell, said in a statement. “There were multiple points in the
timeline when decisions could have been made that would have spared
him the death penalty.”

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Chemical Leak From Rail Yard Near Cincinnati Prompts Evacuations
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The leak unleashed an odor that was detectable across the region.
Several miles away, across the border in Bright, Ind., Eileen Kailholz
said she had noticed a “weird” smell when she went outside to tend
to her bird feeders, unlike anything she had ever smelled before.

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House to Vote on Short-Term Spending Bill to Avert a Shutdown
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Mr. Johnson had previously pushed for a longer-term spending deal that
also included legislation requiring that those registering to vote
show proof of citizenship. Democrats rejected those demands, and some
conservatives in the House joined with them last week to sink their
own speaker’s proposal.

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Leadership, but No Clear Leader, Failed at Tragic Trump Rally
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Senator Gary Peters, Democrat of Michigan and the committee’s
chairman, stressed the panel would continue digging into the 2,800
pages of documents obtained from law enforcement and pushing for more
interviews before issuing a final report. The interim report details
multiple information requests that have yet to be answered.

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Kushner's Fund Has Reaped Millions in Fees, but So Far Returned No
Profits
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“Affinity’s investors may not be motivated by commercial
considerations but rather the opportunity to funnel foreign government
money to members of President Trump’s family, namely Jared Kushner
and Ivanka Trump,” Mr. Wyden wrote in a letter to Affinity this
week, asking two dozen questions.

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Leadership Failures Helped Lead to FAFSA Debacle, Watchdog Finds
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But the accountability office’s findings highlighted startling
details about just how poorly the department underestimated the
problems that would affect families and force college administrators
to sort out discrepancies through much of this summer.

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Trump Golf Course Suspect Is Charged With Attempted Assassination
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Just hours before that, federal prosecutors in North Carolina unsealed
charges against Mr. Routh’s son, Oran A. Routh, accusing him of
buying and possessing child pornography. An F.B.I. search of his
apartment for evidence in his father’s case uncovered “hundreds”
of sexual images on his phone involving children as young as 6,
according to a court filing.

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Alex Jones's Infowars Will Be Auctioned Off to Pay Sandy Hook Families
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The situation is further complicated by the fact that a jury has yet
to decide how much in damages Mr. Jones must pay Lenny Pozner and
Veronique De La Rosa, whose son Noah Pozner died in the shooting.

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