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In early 2017, the US Intelligence Agency made a clear judgment as to why Russian President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a vast effort to hamper the recent US presidential election.Putin wanted to cripple the faith that Americans have in their elections, but they wanted to discover the US-led “liberal world order” that Russians view as a threat to their security. As a way to achieve this goal, Russia worked to help Donald J. Trump win the election.Eight years later, Trump sat in his oval office, sitting in a fuss with Ukrainian President Voldimir Zelensky, once again making his own judgment…
What does President Trump really believe in?Does he want to run in the third term or is that a joke? Does he intend to grab control of Gaza and expel millions of Palestinians, or is it just a proposal? Is Black History Month a waste of time and money, or is it worth a gorgeous celebration at the White House?Anyone looking for definitive answers has a hard time finding them.Since taking office, after returning to his position, Trump has occasionally used the dizzying rhetorical tactics of slowly changing positions and changing his message to a muddy, contradictory position on the…
KSHB 41 Reporter Caroline Hogan covers development throughout the Kansas City area. Share your story ideas with Caroline.-Due to increased rents and overall economic uncertainty, Terry Sanchez, owner of the bone fort items of the strange thing, said he was closing the store and moving his business entirely online.Retail trend analyst CoreSight estimates that 15,000 companies across the country will close brick and mortar stores compared to last year. Sanchez has been buying and selling bone sule items for 50 years and has been in the West Bottoms space for just over eight years. Unfortunately, the retail industry has changed.”We…
Martin Lewis and Elon Musk don't seem to have much in common. One is a trustworthy UK personal finance guru. The other is the wealthiest person in the world and an intimate ally of Donald Trump. However, their wisdom and wealth each becomes a powerful weapon for the con artist.”I have the suspicious honour of being used in scam ads more than anyone else in the UK, despite never advertising,” Lewis tells the Guardian.”When we add Elon Musk, we're the majority of fraudulent ads,” says the founder of Moneysavingexpert.com.Lewis' position as a force for good means that people pay attention…
Welcome to logoff. Today, I focus on Donald Trump's impact on the economy. Because we see early signs of how the president's policies are affecting the rest of us.What's the latest? It got two early indications of how Trump's economy is doing today. The government reported that the US added net 151,000 jobs in February. And financial markets closed for their worst week since early September.Is Trump's fault for this mediocre economy? During the period of inflation under Joe Biden, his defenders quickly pointed out that the economy is influenced by factors outside the president's control. The same can be…
Iconic musical Hamilton The New York Times have cancelled its highly-profile plan to perform at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts next year. The news comes weeks after President Donald Trump declared the Kennedy Center chairman.”This latest action by Trump means it's not the Kennedy Center as we knew it.” Hamilton Creator Lyn Manuel Miranda told The New York Times. “The Kennedy Center is not created in this spirit, and while it's the Trump Kennedy Center, we won't be part of it. We're not going to be part of it.”In February, Trump replaced all Democrat appointees with his…
By 2017, the true crime podcasting space might have already seemed crowded — but perhaps what it was missing was full body chills. That was the year Ashley Flowers and her pal Brit Prawat launched their true crime podcast Crime Junkie into an arena that already included pioneers like Serial (2014), Generation Why (2012), and My Favorite Murder (2016). The casual way Flowers narrated crimes to her friend, who responded with dramatic gasps and her trademark exclamation (“Full. Body. Chills.”), resonated and their breezy takes on everything from local Indiana cold cases to high-profile murders (they think Scott Peterson’s innocent)…
Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved to overturn America's longstanding approach to tackling homelessness. Having enjoyed bipartisan support for decades, the “housing first” model prioritizes putting people in stable accommodation before addressing other issues such as mental health and substance abuse. This evidence-backed approach first became prominent in George W. Bush's presidency, and Salt Lake City became an early success story in 2005. It was supported by the Trump administration during his first term as president, with former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson praising the model several times.But as homelessness gets worse due to the country's…
Last year, a specific archetype for an ideal boyfriend gained traction online: a Man in Finance. Trust fund. Six-foot-5. Blue eyes. What began as a playful TikTok song from creator Megan Boni became a viral sensation — endlessly memed and remixed until even David Guetta hopped on the track. Aside from its earworm status, “Man in Finance” winked at a wider trend in dating: the standards for what women desire in a romantic partner have reached new heights. Boni later said she was inspired by the complaints of women, herself included, who lament singledom “but then have this laundry list…
The Great Gatsby is 100 years old this year, which feels right in a way. After all those years as a perennial mainstay of the American high school English curriculum, all those Gatsby-themed flapper parties, all those valiant but ham-fisted attempts to adapt it, we know the beats of it well: the parties, the glamour, the green lights, and the beautiful clothes. It might as well be a hundred. On the other hand, there are parts of Gatsby that feel so fresh and modern that they could have been written yesterday. In our own moment, as the world’s richest man…