Donald Trump may be in trouble for asking oil executives to donate $1 billion to his campaign in April. Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit watchdog organization, filed a complaint with the Justice Department alleging criminal bribery regarding Trump’s meeting with industry leaders. The former president and convicted felon told them the […]
Jun. 20—The Minnesota Court of Appeals this week affirmed the sentence of Devin Weiland of Albert Lea, who in February 2023 was sentenced to a combined 50 years in prison after shooting three people during an eight-hour standoff in November 2020 at Shady Oaks apartments. The opinion, released Monday, stated the district court did not […]
America’s gummed-up housing market is a $45 trillion mess — a big old knot of economic forces smashing into a century’s worth of cultural conditioning about the value of homeownership. There are some obvious, urgent needs: We need more housing, full stop. And that housing needs to be affordable. And we should probably stop letting […]
In 1932, the United States Public Health Service launched a study with the Tuskegee Institute to “record the natural history of syphilis.” The study started with 600 Black men, 399 who were confirmed to have syphilis, 201 who did not (the control group), and not one of them gave their informed consent. Researchers on the […]
It’s conventional wisdom that the right wing is dominated, defined, even, by “grifters all the way down.” No big surprise, then, that the insurance company footing the bill for Donald Trump’s fraud case bond is itself unscrupulous. An investigation by The Daily Beast revealed that Knight Specialty Insurance, the company backing Trump’s $175 million civil […]
A growing number of women in West Africa inject themselves with skin-whitening substances sold illegally online, at markets or in beauty salons. Apart from potential health risks, the practice also provides a gateway to a huge web of scams. AFP has investigated the risky jabs. In her quest for “fair skin”, an Ivorian YouTuber recently […]
Luna DuBois doesn’t need a crown, not when she’s already this regal! Hailing from Toronto by way of Nigeria, Luna was serving fashion, unshakable confidence, and pure C.U.N.T. from the moment she walked into the werkroom. And by that we mean she gave us the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent sensation, DuBois-style. While you could […]
As a federal judge ordered Rudy Giuliani to immediately hand over the $148 million he owes to the two Georgia election workers he defamed, the former Trump lawyer peddled unapproved supplements he said could be used as Christmas ornaments and to help him “fight the traitors,” The Daily Beast reports. In a 13-page decision Wednesday, […]