Is America ready to elect a recovering addict as president? How about one who wants to hold 12-step recovery meetings in the White House? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hopes to be that president, the onetime heroin user saying he long ago left behind his dependency on “drugs, sex, alcohol or extreme behavior” to balm a […]
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Trump Is Fine With SCOTUS Legalizing Bump Stocks, Which He’d Helped Ban
The Supreme Court struck down the nationwide ban on bump stocks on Friday that former President Donald Trump had worked to implement, but his campaign had relatively little to say on the matter. “The Court has spoken and their decision should be respected,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s campaign press secretary said in a statement. Leavitt then […]
A Gen Xer got $110,000 in student loans forgiven after he’d paid off more than he borrowed. It’s allowed him to scrap his plans to work part time in retirement.
Steven Perry, 58, got $110,000 in student loans forgiven last August. It was a result of Biden’s one-time account adjustments for PSLF and income-driven repayment plans. Perry said he wasn’t expecting the relief, but it opened up financial freedom to save for retirement. Steven Perry, 58, was never anticipating student-loan forgiveness — even after making […]
A Gen Xer got $110,000 in student loans forgiven after he’d paid off more than he borrowed. It’s allowed him to scrap his plans to work part-time in retirement.
Steven Perry, 58, got $110,000 in student loans forgiven last August. It was a result of Biden’s one-time account adjustments for PSLF and income-driven repayment plans. Perry wasn’t expecting the relief, but it opened up financial freedom to save for retirement. Steven Perry, 58, was never anticipating student-loan forgiveness — even after making payments for […]
Bill Gates Could Be The World’s First Trillionaire If He Had ‘Diamond Handed’ His Microsoft Shares — He’d Be Sitting On $1.47 Trillion Today
In the late ‘90s, amidst the frenzy of the dot-com boom, Wired magazine made a bold prediction that Bill Gates, the tech titan behind Microsoft, could soar to trillionaire status by 2005. The math seemed sound: Gates’ stake in Microsoft, which had ballooned from $233.9 million at its IPO in 1986 to a staggering $72.2 […]
Woman Poisoned Boyfriend to Death Thinking He’d Inherited $30M. Then She Found Out It Was All a Scam
Ina Thea Kenoyer has pleaded guilty to murdering her longtime boyfriend, Steven Edward Riley Jr., by poisoning him with antifreeze Minot Police Department (2) Ina Thea Kenoyer in October 2023 mugshots. The North Dakota man believed he had inherited $30 million. So did his girlfriend. Soon after, he was dead. Only later was it revealed […]
Libertarians Name 2024 Pick As Trump Says He Could’ve Won Nomination If He’d Wanted
The Libertarian Party on Sunday announced its delegates selected Chase Oliver to lead them into the 2024 presidential election, while former President Donald Trump claimed he would have “absolutely” won the party’s nomination if he wanted it. Oliver welcomed the news in a post on his account on X, formerly Twitter. “There is no better […]
Machete-swinging man killed by police in Pasco identified. He’d made threats before
Pasco police officers shot and killed a 47-year-old man, who allegedly charged at them with a machete on Thursday night. Salih Beslic of Pasco was identified as the suspect who confronted officers outside a shopping center on the 3200 block of Court Street. Franklin County Coroner Curtis McGary said an autopsy is scheduled Saturday morning. […]
Maddow Blog | Why Trump said he’d testify in his criminal trial, but didn’t
As his criminal trial was poised to begin, Donald Trump told reporters they should expect to see him on the stand. “Yeah, I would testify, absolutely,” the defendant declared. “I’m testifying. I tell the truth, I mean, all I can do is tell the truth.” The language, which the former president repeated more than once, […]
Rocky Mountains hiker disappears after texting friend he’d reached the summit of Longs Peak
A 23-year-old hiker went missing in Rocky Mountain National Park Sunday after he texted his friend that he had reached the summit of a mountain. Lucas Macaj from Colorado Springs, Colorado texted his friend around 1 p.m. to let them know he was at the summit of Longs Peak, a mountain in the Rockies. That […]
Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine when he did if he’d had AI tools, says Anduril founder Palmer Luckey
Many are concerned about how AI will change wars. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey believes the technology will lead to better decision-making and fewer blunders. Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine when he did if AI had helped him strategize, Luckey told Bloomberg. AI has been compared to the next atomic bomb and sparked fears about the […]
Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine when he did if he’d had AI tools, says Anduril founder Palmer Luckey
Many are concerned about how AI will change wars. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey believes the technology will lead to better decision-making and fewer blunders. Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine when he did if AI had helped him strategize, Luckey told Bloomberg. AI has been compared to the next atomic bomb and sparked fears about the […]