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MACROWarsh's soothing act meets a credibility test as Jackson Hole approachesDEALSBMQWF Sets Monthly Cash Dividend at CAD 0.089 per Share, Ex-Date August 28DEALSSK hynix's $28.7 billion buyback bets the stock hasn't caught up to the earningsCRYPTORosen Law Firm investigates securities class action claims on behalf of FLOW cryptocurrency investorsDEALSGoldman Sachs pays up to $410m for LCN Capital Partners in triple net lease pushDEALSSpaceX Stock Climbs 32% Since August 1. At 66 Times Sales, the Entry Point Is Still the Question.MACROWarsh's soothing act meets a credibility test as Jackson Hole approachesDEALSBMQWF Sets Monthly Cash Dividend at CAD 0.089 per Share, Ex-Date August 28DEALSSK hynix's $28.7 billion buyback bets the stock hasn't caught up to the earningsCRYPTORosen Law Firm investigates securities class action claims on behalf of FLOW cryptocurrency investorsDEALSGoldman Sachs pays up to $410m for LCN Capital Partners in triple net lease pushDEALSSpaceX Stock Climbs 32% Since August 1. At 66 Times Sales, the Entry Point Is Still the Question.
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Puerto Rico statehood push runs into a tax problem residents can already feel

The case for Puerto Rico becoming the 51st state has a clean political logic. The complication is that the people most directly affected by that logic keep naming the same thing: a federal tax structure change they say…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 23, 2026

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Mark Ruffalo rejects Paramount's antisemitism charge as $111 billion Warner Bros. merger draws fire

Mark Ruffalo is pushing back against Paramount's accusation that his public criticism of the proposed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition crossed into antisemitism. The dispute turns on a pointed question: whether…

Theo Sandoval · 2 min · August 23, 2026

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Fauci legal defense fund opens as state investigations pile on

The pardon from former President Joe Biden was supposed to close the file on Dr. Anthony Fauci. It has not. Lawyers for the retired National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director have opened the Anthony…

Cassandra Ilic · 2 min · August 22, 2026

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Joe Abraham named executive director of ICE's VOICE office after daughter's killing

Joe Abraham, whose daughter Katie was killed in a January 2025 drunken driving hit-and-run caused by a criminal illegal alien, has been named executive director of ICE's Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office…

Farida Karam · 2 min · August 20, 2026

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Walmart lifted its outlook and landed a tariff refund. The stock fell anyway.

Walmart raised its full-year guidance and received what was described as a substantial tariff refund, yet the stock dropped on sales concerns. The read-through is that investors don't trust the top line even when the…

Farida Karam · 2 min · August 20, 2026

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Five Americans die in northern Kenya helicopter crash, Telemundo executive identified among dead

A chartered helicopter went down Wednesday in a mountainous area of northern Kenya, killing five Americans. Among those killed was José Suárez, the president and general manager of Telemundo, who oversaw multiple…

Farida Karam · 2 min · August 20, 2026

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Eight-year-old boy killed after tree falls at YMCA Camp Chickami in Wayland, Massachusetts

A tree fell at YMCA Camp Chickami in Wayland, Massachusetts on Tuesday morning and killed an 8-year-old boy, a death that came on what should have been a routine summer camp morning. A camp counselor was also struck and…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 19, 2026

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Megan Moroney and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders make their case in the NFL cheerleader rivalry

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders performed at a Megan Moroney concert Friday night, dancing onstage as Moroney sang "Am I Okay?", a moment that dropped directly into an escalating competition between the Cowboys and…

Theo Sandoval · 2 min · August 16, 2026

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Air Force's World Class Athlete Program puts three service members on Olympic track as Iran conflict grinds on

The Air Force's World Class Athlete Program is training three active-duty service members toward the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics while other airmen execute combat operations in an unresolved war with Iran. The tension is…

Theo Sandoval · 2 min · August 14, 2026

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Unitree's IPO tests whether robot spectacle translates to investor returns

The case for Unitree, the Chinese robotics company preparing to go public, is that its machines can do backflips. The complication is that the technology has yet to prove its commercial viability

Farida Karam · 2 min · August 14, 2026

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Rebecca Cooke wins Wisconsin 3rd District primary, setting up Van Orden rematch in toss-up race

Rebecca Cooke has won the Democratic primary in Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District, defeating former Eau Claire City Council President Emily Berge and earning a second consecutive shot at Republican Rep. Derrick Van…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 12, 2026

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Federal judge blocks USPS from enforcing mail-in ballot restrictions before 2026 midterms

A Massachusetts federal court has handed the Trump administration another legal setback on its election integrity executive order, with the question of whether the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes before November now live…

Cassandra Ilic · 2 min · August 12, 2026

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Dallas pays $105.9 million for a defensive tackle the Jets traded away

Three years after paying Quinnen Williams $96 million to stay in New York, the Jets traded him for draft picks. The Dallas Cowboys have now committed $105.9 million over three years, with $101 million guaranteed and…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 11, 2026

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WNBA stays silent on Carrington ejection as "White privilege" post runs through the weekend

A two-word post from a locker room and an absent league ruling both traveled farther than the foul that started everything. DiJonai Carrington was ejected Saturday for a Flagrant 2 on Sophie Cunningham during the…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 11, 2026

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China's July inflation cools to slowest pace since January as Iran war disruption fades

China's consumer prices rose at their slowest pace since January in July, while factory-gate price growth also decelerated, as the supply disruption tied to the Iran war continued to ease. The combination points to…

Theo Sandoval · 2 min · August 9, 2026

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Gen Z's pro-Israel realignment puts the Democratic left on notice

The case for Democratic cohesion among young Jewish voters is fracturing, and the fracture line runs through the campus left. Pro-Israel students at the Israel on Campus Coalition's national summit in Washington this…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 9, 2026

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Military GPS jamming exercise preceded fatal New Mexico air ambulance crash, NTSB finds

A Beech King Air crew flying a medical transport out of Roswell, New Mexico, reported losing GPS capability minutes after departure on May 14 while the U.S. military conducted a planned satellite-denial exercise nearby…

Bianca Ferro · 2 min · August 7, 2026

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Sam Acho makes the case for athlete-led civility, and names the cost of getting it wrong

Former NFL linebacker and ESPN NFL analyst Sam Acho attended the Ronald Reagan Foundation Center on Civility and Democracy's inaugural Reagan Civility and Democracy Forum last week and argued that athletes carry a…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 7, 2026

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Senate moves to give Trump permanent tariff authority after Supreme Court curbs his trade powers

A push is building in the Senate to give President Donald Trump new, congressionally-backed tariff powers, after the Supreme Court struck down his broad use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 6, 2026

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Trump's second push on birthright citizenship tests whether fraud is a constitutional workaround

Two executive orders headed for President Trump's signature Thursday would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States through the commercial birth-tourism industry. The administration frames this as a…

Theo Sandoval · 3 min · August 6, 2026

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E.l.f. Beauty's $50 million tariff windfall sent profits surging 100%

A $50 million tariff refund helped E.l.f. Beauty nearly double its profits in its fiscal first quarter. The case for that result is hard to argue with on its face. What complicates it is that refunds travel in one…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 5, 2026

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Uber's $14.8 billion Delivery Hero bet nearly doubles its global reach in an all-stock deal

A $14.8 billion all-stock acquisition of Delivery Hero would nearly double Uber's global footprint and create one of the world's largest food delivery platforms outside China. The case for the deal is geographic density…

Theo Sandoval · 2 min · August 4, 2026

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White House election-integrity document dump raises questions the files alone cannot answer

A primetime address on election integrity was paired Thursday night with a document release. President Donald Trump posted a trove of files to a new White House election-integrity page as he spoke, framing the…

Farida Karam · 2 min · August 2, 2026

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Nirmal Purja and nine others killed by Broad Peak avalanche

The mountaineer who summited all 14 of the world's highest peaks inside seven months died on a mountain that does not rank among them. Nirmal Purja, 43, a British-Nepali former special forces soldier and the subject of…

Bianca Ferro · 2 min · August 2, 2026

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New York Assembly nominee's deleted GoFundMe tests the limits of democratic socialist credibility

Brian Romero, the Democratic Socialist nominee for New York's 34th Assembly District in Queens, asked supporters last week to help cover his rent and groceries while waiting out a financial gap before taking office. The…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · August 2, 2026

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Bill Maher says his vote is in play as Democrats fail to contain their socialist wing

Bill Maher has placed the Democratic Party on notice, declaring on HBO's "Real Time" that his vote is no longer guaranteed and pointing to the Democratic Socialists of America's growing grip on the party's internal…

Cassandra Ilic · 2 min · August 1, 2026

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NYC's pied-à-terre database puts Mamdani on defense with his own coalition

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration published a searchable database of 950,000 properties through the Department of Finance, identifying landowners potentially subject to a proposed pied-à-terre tax on…

Bianca Ferro · 2 min · August 1, 2026

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Space Force triples rocket contract ceiling as Pentagon eyes $30 billion in launches

The National Security Space Launch program just got much larger. The US Space Force raised the maximum value of its Phase 3 contract to $17 billion on Friday, triple the previous $5.6 billion ceiling, with the service's…

Emmett Donovan · 2 min · July 31, 2026

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Fed holds firm on rates as Iran war clouds the inflation outlook

The Federal Reserve held borrowing costs steady at its latest meeting, defying market pressure to raise rates at exactly the moment a war in Iran threatens to push inflation higher. Both forces were present at the same…

Bianca Ferro · 2 min · July 30, 2026

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The CBS settlement criticism that the merger timeline keeps alive

A $16 million payment to resolve a sitting president's lawsuit, structured partly as a contribution to his future presidential library, is either a routine litigation decision or evidence that corporate self-interest…

Theo Sandoval · 2 min · July 28, 2026

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Hefei's local government funds bank a 5,000% gain from CXMT's blockbuster chip listing

The case for China's state-directed semiconductor investment now has a headline number. Funds run by Hefei province's local government have recorded gains of 5,000% from chipmaker CXMT's blockbuster IPO, handing the…

Bianca Ferro · 2 min · July 28, 2026

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Dhillon says Sherrill called Trump a liar knowing New Jersey's voter-roll disclosure was coming

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill called President Trump a liar over his election integrity claims even though she already knew her administration was about to disclose that more than 35,000 potential noncitizens are…

Theo Sandoval · 2 min · July 27, 2026

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Oregon ballot measure to criminalize hunting and fishing falls short, but organizers aren't done

Initiative Petition 28, which would have effectively criminalized hunting, fishing, ranching, and farming in Oregon, will not appear on the November ballot after its supporters failed to produce enough valid signatures…

Cassandra Ilic · 2 min · July 27, 2026

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Prediction markets are turning inside information into a mass-market commodity

The case for prediction markets as price-discovery tools rests on the wisdom of crowds. The complication: that crowd now includes thousands of people who already know the answer, and almost nothi

Farida Karam · 2 min · July 25, 2026

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