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Sep 29 2020
News
‘At the Intersection of Two Criminalized Identities’: Black and Non-Black Muslims Confront a Complicated Relationship With Policing and Anti-Blackness
Before Jacob Blake’s father spoke to media last month about how police gunned down his son in Kenosha, Wis., he took a moment to say a Muslim prayer.
“Our family is very diverse and we don’t represent just one thing, so if you all could give me one second please, this is for my son—Jacob Blake,” Jacob Blake Sr. said shortly before reciting a verse from the beginning of the Qur’an and
Time MagazineSep 18 2022
Analysis
Patagonia’s $3 billion corporate gift is also a convenient way to avoid taxes
Yvon Chouinard, who started Patagonia in 1973 and turned it into an iconic $3 billion outdoor apparel empire, just gave away almost all of the private stock in the family-owned company to a nonprofit that will use the proceeds to fight climate change.
It’s a masterful bit of corporate maneuvering that will allow his family to effectively maintain control of Patagonia, direct billions
QuartzAug 24 2020
News
Wisconsin deploys National Guard as police shooting of Black man sparks unrest
Wisconsin’s governor on Monday deployed his state’s National Guard to Kenosha following a night of sometimes-violent unrest that came after police in the lakeside city shot a Black man multiple times in the back.
Governor Tony Evers also called a special legislative session to take up a package of bills aimed at addressing problems with law enforcement following the shooting of 29-year-
ReutersAug 16 2022
News
American Airlines agrees to buy 20 supersonic planes from Boom
American Airlines has agreed to purchase 20 supersonic Overture planes from Boom Supersonic, the companies announced Tuesday.
The deal is the second firm order in the last two years for Boom, still years from building its first commercial airplane. United Airlines made a commitment last year to buy 15 Overture jets.
“Passengers want flights that are faster, more convenient, more
CNBCOct 05 2022
News
Trump elevates Mar-a-Lago raid legal battle to Supreme Court
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has elevated its legal battle to the Supreme Court, requesting that Justice Clarence Thomas, who has jurisdiction over the 11th Circuit, vacate the stay by the court that allowed the Justice Department to continue its review of classified documents seized during the FBI’s unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon
Fox News DigitalNov 03 2022
News
Pilot Contract Talks Hit Turbulence As Country's Biggest Airlines Negotiate
Some of the country's largest airlines are struggling to finalize pilot contract negotiations, raising fears of a turbulent holiday travel season.
Air travel has bounced back from the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused close to $35 billion in losses for airlines in 2020. The pandemic also caused a delay in contract negotiations for airline workers, pushing those negotiations into 2022,
International Business TimesNov 28 2022
News
FTX’s Bahamas crypto empire: Stimulants, subterfuge and a spectacular collapse
Before Sam Bankman-Fried’s $16 billion empire imploded, Margaux Avedisian remembers thinking there was something unsettling about the cryptocurrency wunderkind.
Bankman-Fried had become a legend by pushing an image of monkish aloofness, vowing to forsake the allures of his extraordinary wealth — sleeping on beanbag chairs, driving a Toyota Corolla — and to give away his fortune for the
Washington PostSep 07 2022
News
Foreign nuclear secrets among docs found in Trump raid: report
In a stunning leak from the Department of Justice, a report on Tuesday disclosed information about top secret documents that were reportedly among the files seized by FBI agents at Donald Trump’s Florida resort last month.
Citing sources “familiar with the search,” the Washington Post said the documents detailed a foreign government’s military defenses and nuclear capabilities and can
New York Post (News)Nov 18 2022
Opinion
Nancy Pelosi’s legacy — spending a colossal amount of money
Nancy Pelosi, who announced she would not continue as the Democratic Party’s leader in the House of Representatives, has been a great legislator. You’d have to be to last for 19 years at the top of the Democratic legislative greasy pole.
That doesn’t mean she has been a great font of ideas, a great visionary, or a great leader of the American people. She has been none of those things.
John PodhoretzNov 10 2021
News
Trial Explodes: Kyle Rittenhouse Cries on Stand, Judge Berates Prosecutor
Kyle Rittenhouse broke down sobbing on the stand while testifying in his own defense on Wednesday, prompting the judge to call a ten-minute recess.
Rittenhouse began to sob and hyperventilate as he described the moment he fatally shot two attackers and wounded another during a protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisc.
National Review (News)