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How the Northern Lights and Digital Photography Have Boosted Astrotourism
Last August, over a calm Michigan lake, Karl Duesterhaus, 34, of Chicago, was treated to an unusual phenomenon: the northern lights, which appeared as hazy colors in a brighter-than-usual...
Corrupt Trump Opens the Door for International Bribes
“Yeah I think so, and I think, how do you do that?” Davidson replied. “Because you don’t want to send the message to families, ‘Oh, we’re not going to...
Stocks and Bonds Fall After Strong Jobs Report Fuels Interest Rate Concerns
Stocks and bonds tumbled on Friday, as investors’ worries over the scale of government borrowing were amplified by signs of stubborn inflation, extending a sharp rise in borrowing costs...
Trump’s Hush-Money Sentencing Could Hit Him Where It Actually Hurts
“Yeah I think so, and I think, how do you do that?” Davidson replied. “Because you don’t want to send the message to families, ‘Oh, we’re not going to...
Trump Appointee Has Unhinged Plan for Purging Government Workers
“Yeah I think so, and I think, how do you do that?” Davidson replied. “Because you don’t want to send the message to families, ‘Oh, we’re not going to...
Trump Organization Issues Ethics Pledge for President-Elect’s Second Term
The Trump Organization on Friday issued a new ethics agreement that it said would govern how the family and President-elect Donald J. Trump would conduct themselves over the next...
California Fires Lead to Prices Hikes on Some L.A. Rentals
Laura Kate Jones, a real estate agent in Los Angeles, is trying to find an apartment for a client whose Pacific Palisades home turned to rubble this week. The...
Republicans Plan Deadly Cuts to Government as L.A. Fires Spread
House Republicans have begun devising plans to slash health care and environmental protections as wildfires engulf Los Angeles County. The GOP is aiming to cut $5.7 trillion from the budget...
Mark Zuckerberg Goes Full MAGA With Change in Hiring Policies
Merchan was careful to note that it was the office Trump was about to take, and not his own crimes, that led to this wrist-slap of a sentencing for...
Rudy Giuliani Lands Himself in a Whole New Heap of Legal Trouble
A federal judge on Friday held Rudy Giuliani in contempt for continuing to defame two Georgia election workers. In a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C. Judge Beryl Howell ripped into...
4 Takeaways From the Arguments Before the Supreme Court in the TikTok Case
The Supreme Court on Friday grappled over a law that could determine the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular social media platform that has about 170 million users.Congress enacted...
Biden Rushes to Block Some of Trump’s Mass Deportations
“And I said to Trudeau, I said, ‘Why are, why are we subsidizing you 200 a—250 billion dollars a year? And he said, ‘I really don’t know.’ And I...