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Credit Suisse helped rich dodge taxes

"Republican budget cuts have decimated the IRS's ability to root out this kind of offshore tax evasion scheme"

Salon · Mar 30, 2023

Senators Ask DEA To Stop Buying Its Way Around Civil Liberties

Plus: Senate Republicans spar over TikTok and free speech, Americans can't agree on how to cut spending, and more...

Reason · Mar 30, 2023

Darcelle, the world's oldest working drag queen, has died at 92

Walter Cole, better known as the iconic Darcelle XV, was crowned the world's oldest working drag performer in 2016 by the Guinness Book of World Records. Off stage, Cole championed LGBTQ+ rights.

WEKU · Mar 25, 2023

Lillard has 71 points, 13 threes as Blazers beat Rockets

His 13 3-pointers were one shy of the NBA record set by Golden State’s Klay Thompson in 2018. Lillard left the game with 44 seconds left, tied with Donovan Mitchell, Elgin Baylor (1960) and David Robinson (1994) for the eighth-most points scored in an NBA game.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 27, 2023

FTX leaders’ political donations topped $1M weeks before bankruptcy

WASHINGTON — FTX executives, including former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, spent at least $1 million on contributions across the political spectrum in the weeks before the company’s bankruptcy, including a large donation to Senate Republican leadership.

Tribune News Service · Feb 23, 2023

FTX leaders' political donations topped $1M weeks before bankruptcy - Roll Call

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and others gave $1 million in contributions across the political spectrum before the company’s bankruptcy.

Roll Call · Feb 23, 2023

A national forest site is now named after a Black paratrooper who died in a secret mission

PHILADELPHIA -- On the day that the United States stunned the world by dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a young Black man from the Main Line area of Philadelphia died in obscurity in a remote Oregon forest, the end of a brief military career that became enmeshed in some…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Feb 23, 2023

Chicago wants to make left turns safer using ‘traffic calming’ speed bumps, bollards

The city has revamped 18 busy intersections, adding rubber speed bumps and bollards to force more precise left turns. Feedback has been mixed, but the city plans to install more this year.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023

Supreme Court to hear arguments on social media immunity laws

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week about social media giants Google and Twitter in a pair of cases that could determine whether the justices effectively rewrite one of the central laws underpinning the modern internet before Congress does.

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2023

Jaime Jaquez Jr.'s clutch game leads No. 7 UCLA past Oregon to extend its Pac-12 lead

EUGENE, Ore. — Its big men in foul trouble, its offense in a funk, its most exciting freshman playing on a bothersome ankle, UCLA turned to an old friend in its time of need.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 12, 2023