Articles Posted by zeestephen
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Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes in his letter to [Nasdaq CEO] Friedman did not directly accuse anyone in particular of naked short selling, which is the [short] sale of stock without first having borrowed [the stock] for that purpose...But Nunes noted that as of Wednesday "DJT appears on Nasdaq's 'Reg SHO threshold list,' which is indicative of unlawful trading activity."..."This is particularly troubling given that 'naked' short selling often entails sophisticated market participants profiting at the expense of retail investors," Nunes said.
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Trump Media, in an update to a FAQ on its website, provided tips to shareholders on how to avoid their stock being loaned out for short selling...The tips come as the share price of DJT has plunged since March 26, when the company that owns the Truth Social app began being publicly traded...Trump Media's biggest shareholder is Donald Trump...
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A day after retiring the hydraulic model, Boston Dynamics CEO discusses the company's commercial humanoid ambitions...[Link has three videos]
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Scottie Scheffler (#1 - $3.6 million) - Rory McIlroy (#22 - $175K) - Phil Mickelson (#43 - $72K) - Tiger Woods (#60 - Last Place - $40K) - Jordan Spieth (+9 first two rounds - Did Not Make Cut)
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The consumer price index rose 3.5% in March 2024 - on an annual basis - according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's up from 3.2% in February...Elevated housing inflation has kept CPI readings stubbornly high. Gasoline prices also edged up...There are some bright spots like food prices...Household buying power is also up over the past year as wage growth has outstripped inflation.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on February 13, 2024...The catalyst for the House's extraordinary action...was a decision reached by the U.S. Supreme Court last June 23...That decision, U.S. v. Texas, dramatically altered the balance of power between the executive branch, Congress, and the states in instances where the executive branch chooses to...less than faithfully execute the immigration laws of our nation.
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"I will gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela," the former president said...It was not the first time Trump has likened himself to a martyr as he faces a flurry of criminal charges...Last week, Trump took to Truth Social to share a message that likened his legal troubles to the persecution of Jesus Christ.
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Virgin Voyages is targeting a new type of traveler: remote workers...It's essentially four week-long cruises packaged together to appeal to remote workers who want to spend a month at sea in southern Europe.
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Shares of U.S. health insurers fell after the Biden administration didn't boost payments for private Medicare plans as much as the insurance industry and investors had hoped...The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services late Monday said that government payments to Medicare Advantage plans are expected to rise 3.7% year over year...That is effectively a 0.16% decline after stripping out certain assumptions baked into that rate, according to insurers and analysts.
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A Florida venture capitalist and his brother moved Monday toward potential guilty pleas in an insider trading case connected to the merger that took Donald Trump's social media company public last week...Trump Media and Technology Group mentioned the case in a securities filing on Monday. "These individuals have no affiliation with TMTG and - on information and belief - TMTG is not the target of any DOJ [Department of Justice] enforcement action," the newly public company told regulators.
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In February 2024, the foreign-born population in the United States hit a new high of 51.4 million and 15.5 percent of the U.S. population - surpassing all prior records...The foreign-born share of the U.S. population has more than tripled since 1970, nearly doubled since 1990, and is up 40 percent just since 2000.
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A New York appeals court paused for 10 days a massive civil fraud judgment against former President Donald Trump...The court also sharply reduced the bond he would have to post to obtain a longer stay to $175 million.
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Donald Trump's beef with Jimmy Kimmel just keeps escalating...On Monday, Kimmel upped the ante once more by showing just how little Trump's die-hard supporters know about the world around them...The late-night host sent writer Blaire Erskine to a Trump rally in South Carolina with one simple task: Get Trump supporters to agree to answer a few questions from the American Citizenship Test...
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The findings were presented Monday at an American Heart Association meeting in Chicago and focused on a popular version of intermittent fasting that involves eating all your meals in just eight hours or less...commonly known as "time-restricted" eating...People who adhered to the eight-hour eating plan had a 91 percent higher risk of dying from heart disease compared to people...who eat their food across 12 to 16 hours each day.
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Since September 2023, the Center for Immigration Studies has been on the forefront of reporting on the Biden administration direct-flight and parole program that has authorized the arrival of more than 320,000 inadmissible aliens through the CBP One app. The program allows migrants to take commercial passenger flights from foreign countries straight to their American cities of choice, without having to go to the southern land border.
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"Today I am announcing that I will depart Congress at the end of next week," Buck said in a statement...His departure will cut the House Republican margin to 218-213...Buck is a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, but he made a name for himself in Washington for frequently breaking with his party on major issues...Most recently, Buck broke with his party and was one of three Republicans who voted against the impeachment of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
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Republican Party: Trump - 54,171 (61%) - Nikki Haley - 29,810 (33.6%) --- Democratic Party: Biden - 195,549 (84.2%) - Uncommitted - 23,574 (10.2%) --- Total Voter Turn Out: 23.2% of registered voters --- Party Share of Total Vote: Democrat - 72.2% - Republican - 27.6% --- 2020 General Election Result: Biden - 75% - Trump - 22.2% --- 2024 Open Primary: voters could choose any Party, but just one vote.
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Key to understanding the president's authority to secure the border is appreciating where the immigration authority is placed under our nation's constitutional order...[Immigration wonk alert!]...[This is a 61 page (321 footnotes and citations) essay about the legal and practical history of immigration into the USA since the 1950s]
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The victim Britt referenced was Karla Jacinto Romero, who was sex trafficked in Mexico from 2004 to 2008, twenty years before Biden became president...Britt seemingly attempted to present the anecdote as a damning example of Biden's border management.
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Stone tools unearthed in a quarry in [southwest] Ukraine belonged to ancient humans...The researchers determined they were 1.4 million years old...No human fossils have been found at the open-air site...the study suggested it would have been Homo Erectus...The earliest human fossils unearthed in Europe are from...Spain and date back 1.1 million years...In Georgia [Caucasus], human fossils found near Dmanisi are thought to be 1.8 million years old.
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