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I look at the world from above Global Authentication Project Bellingcat
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Pls help Ben to preserve the evidence, if you can
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Women For Survival #GetOutTheMidtermVote
about 2 hours ago
Strongly disagree. His reference to revolutionary action thru unity in diversity, the Magna Carta of 1215 (cgecks and balances), history of religious diversity w a bone to the right, and beating swords into plowshares, fascism, shared values, etc, are all extremely significant in the current moment
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More Perfect Union
about 5 hours ago
Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon will make almost $3,000 a second in 2026. While the biggest oil companies stand to gain a total of $94 billion, the Iran War has Americans paying over $4 a gallon, airlines upcharging to offset jet fuel costs, and farmers unable to afford fertilizer.
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Oliver Darcy
about 21 hours ago
Scoop: When she started as editor in chief in October, Bari Weiss believed CBS News journalists were so biased against Israel that she quipped “they might as well be Hamas.” Much more in
@status.news
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www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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Bari’s London Calling
A major shakeup at CBS News’ London bureau comes after months of behind-the-scenes friction with Bari Weiss, Status has learned—raising serious questions about the future of the network’s internationa...
https://www.status.news/p/bari-weiss-cbs-news-london-bureau-claire-day
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Bloomberg News
about 11 hours ago
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un confirmed a policy that requires soldiers to commit suicide on the battlefield to avoid capture in Ukraine, praising those who opted for "self-blasting" as "heroes"
bloom.bg/4eLhvRA
📷️: Korean Central News Agency/KNS/AFP via Getty
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Matthew Gertz
about 11 hours ago
Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.
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Bartelds
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SeaNews
about 11 hours ago
#Osint
Intense naval military/rescue activity between
#Denmark
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#Norway
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#SAR
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Jorge Liboreiro
about 12 hours ago
🚨 Zelenskyy calls on Israel to reject the vessel carrying Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia, which has arrived in Haifa. "This is not – and cannot be – legitimate business. The Israeli authorities cannot be unaware of which ships are arriving at the country’s ports and what cargo they are carrying."
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UNITED24 Media
about 12 hours ago
⚡️ The EU is considering sanctions against individuals linked to transporting Ukrainian grain allegedly stolen by Russia and shipped to Israel.
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EU Weighs Sanctions Against Individuals Over Stolen Ukrainian Grain Shipments to Israel
The EU is considering sanctions against individuals involved in transporting stolen Ukrainian grain to Israel, raising concerns over Russia's war financing.
https://united24media.com/latest-news/eu-weighs-sanctions-against-individuals-over-stolen-ukrainian-grain-shipments-to-israel-18280
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Center for Countering Digital Hate
3 days ago
8 in 10 searches for sexual terms by simulated 13-year-old accounts on X resulted in explicit content, according to CCDH UK testing. And that's not all. After the searches were conducted, X began actively recommending pornography to the ‘teen’ accounts' For You feeds. X is failing our kids ⤵️
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The Insider
about 15 hours ago
Moscow State University’s new supercomputer, controlled by Putin’s daughter, was built using smuggled Nvidia chips The MSU-270, worth $37.4 million, was assembled from Nvidia equipment purchased through a Chinese intermediary, T-invariant reports.
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Moscow State University’s new supercomputer, controlled by Putin’s daughter, was built using smuggled Nvidia chips
The MSU-270 supercomputer, which operates under the control of Katerina Tikhonova, Vladimir Putin’s alleged daughter, is off limits even to staff of Moscow…
https://theins.press/en/news/292015
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Florian Flade
about 15 hours ago
Exklusiv💥Der Fund einer Kamera am Bahnhof
#Minden
beschäftigt die Sicherheitsbehörden - und die
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#Sabotage
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www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
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Spionageverdacht: Bahnhof für Militärtransporte mit Kamera ausgespäht?
Der Fund einer Kamera am Bahnhof in Minden beschäftigt die Behörden. Laut WDR und NDR besteht der Verdacht, dass damit militärische Transporte für Sabotageaktionen ausspioniert werden sollten. Bei ein...
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/spionage-verdacht-minden-durchsuchung-100.html
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Aaron Rupar
about 21 hours ago
Trump is mired in an illegal war that's destabilizing the world while spiking inflation & immiserating Americans, a key part of the govt remains unfunded, & Rs who control Congress are fixated on...spending taxpayer $ for a vanity ballroom Trump vowed would be privately funded A complete clown show
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404 Media
about 22 hours ago
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
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University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
https://www.404media.co/asu-atomic-ai-modules-arizona-state-university/
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David Corn
1 day ago
BIG MOTHER JONES SCOOP: There are lots of unresolved health and environmental concerns with glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup), yet the government keeps letting farmers, companies, and public agencies spray it all over—including, as we recently learned, in America’s forests.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/roundup-glyphosate-spraying-forests-monsanto-science-retraction-cancer-health-concerns-maha-trump-executive-order-supreme-court-bayer-lawsuits/
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404 Media
1 day ago
A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious.
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Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious
Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”
https://www.404media.co/google-deepmind-paper-argues-llms-will-never-be-conscious/
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404 Media
1 day ago
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
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Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/
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Marc Elias
2 days ago
My latest. I hope you read and share. Despite the will of the voters, Republicans have turned to the courts to overturn the election and discard the results.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-v...
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In Virginia, Republicans attack the map and the right to vote
Despite the will of the voters, Republicans have turned to the courts to overturn the election and discard the results.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-virginia-republicans-attack-the-map-and-the-right-to-vote/
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Jake Lahut
2 days ago
Well if this does end up happening, you heard it here first
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Techmeme
1 day ago
OpenAI publishes a five-principle framework for AGI development, pledging to resist concentrating AI power and to collaborate with companies and governments (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
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Trevor Ball
2 days ago
Iranian media have published several images of US/Israeli cluster munition dispensers and submunitions reportedly deployed during the war.
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Aaron Rupar
2 days ago
HEINRICH: You referenced Ukraine. Have you spoken with President Putin at all recently? TRUMP: I have. We're trying to get something done. I settled eight wars. HEINRICH: What was the last conversation you had with Putin? TRUMP: I don't want to reveal that.
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Carole Cadwalladr
3 days ago
And yesterday there’s another suspiciously timed article just as the Met is on brink of signing a Palantir contract, a slew of headlines appear about how it a trial of the software resulted in the force ‘rooting out’ ‘rogue officers’. Nice publicity if you get it! 4/
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Carole Cadwalladr
3 days ago
NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by
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Anne Applebaum
3 days ago
Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources.
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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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Marielza
3 days ago
"The investigation will consider whether Google’s scraping of journalistic content to feature in the ‘News’ tab and to produce AI Overviews is an anti-competitive practice and whether outlets that decide to opt-out from being featured in the overviews are being penalized with less visibility."
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404 Media
3 days ago
The remnants of a bizarre long-lost world that fell apart before our planet was fully formed are falling to Earth in the form of meteorites, according to a new study in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover
A rare class of meteorites called angrites likely come from a strange protoplanet that was catastrophically destroyed in the early solar system, leaving only fragmentary remnants.
https://www.404media.co/the-destroyed-remnants-of-a-lost-world-are-falling-to-earth-scientists-discover/
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Chris Geidner
3 days ago
Every day, I am more convinced that we are going to need to just turn everything off and start again.
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Mother Jones
3 days ago
Peter Thiel’s antichrist talks, Anduril’s Christian defense of robot wars, and Andreessen-Horowitz’s claim that AI is pro-family: How tech oligarchs are giving AI a godly rebrand.
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Tech billionaires want Christians to believe in AI
For Peter Thiel and JD Vance allies, the tech right is framing AI as a moral—even divine—mission.
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Democratic Activists
7 days ago
SOUTH CAROLINA— Just passed S.1095 out of committee. This bill is a total abortion ban that eliminates exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal anomalies & more. If you live in SC now is the time to contact you state senator & ask them to oppose this bill. It’s moving fast, so don’t wait!
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – A law prohibiting abortions in South Carolina passed a Senate committee on Tuesday and now goes to the Senate floor. Senate Bill 1095, known as the ‘Unborn Child…
https://www.wjbf.com/news/south-carolina-abortion-banning-bill-passes-committee-heads-to-senate-floor/
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Social Media Lab
3 days ago
Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known. U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars.
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Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known
U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-caused-extensive-damage-us-military-bases-publicly-known-rcna331853
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Cheryl Fury
4 days ago
🔔 for those interested in women & the Maritime world
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UNITED24 Media
4 days ago
🔴 UPD: Three people were killed, and 21 others sustained injuries as a result of the Russian attack on Dnipro. The search and rescue operations are still ongoing.
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Minnesota Star Tribune
4 days ago
One candidate is talking to police after being doxed on social media. Another says he’s being harassed. Residents caught in the middle report receiving death threats and hateful messages. What is going on in Champlin?
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Death threats, doxing: How a Twin Cities suburban City Council election filled with drama
Even the candidates for a special election in Champlin have said the discourse is embarrassing: “We’re running for local City Council, for Pete’s sake.”
https://bit.ly/4cMRr6a
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404 Media
4 days ago
America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.
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Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center
America’s nuclear scientists plan to break ground on an AI data center next week, but the Township where it’s being constructed just put a 365 day hold on providing it with water.
https://www.404media.co/community-votes-to-deny-water-to-nuclear-weapons-data-center/
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More Perfect Union
4 days ago
Retirement accounts could soon be gambling on prediction markets. Three firms have filed applications with the SEC to offer "event contracts" for retirement accounts, similar to prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi. Retirement savings could then be bet on future events.
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Prediction markets could soon be available in your retirement account
Bitwise, Roundhill and GraniteShares have filed applications with the SEC to offer event contracts as exchange-traded funds.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/prediction-markets-could-soon-be-available-in-your-retirement-account.html
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Matt Ford
4 days ago
A master class by Jerome Powell.
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Justice Department Drops Criminal Investigation into Fed
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/business/doj-investigation-federal-reserve-powell.html?smid=url-share
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Joyce White Vance
4 days ago
I’ve had time to study DOJ’s indictment of the SPLC now & it only gets more disturbing. A weak indictment, like the now-dismissed one against Comey & the one a grand jury declined to indict against members of Congress. I point out the likely ulterior motive:
joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...
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What’s Wrong With The SPLC Indictment
DOJ's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center is a critical moment in the administration's war on democracy
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-the-splc-indictment?r=5n3e
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404 Media
4 days ago
Recently: - Anthropic has tightened access to Claude Code - Meta is laying off 10 percent of its workforce - GitHub is removing access to several more expensive AI models AI companies can’t endlessly subsidize their AI products by charging users less than it costs to actually run them.
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The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy)
Venture capitalists can't subsidize cheap AI forever, and the hunger for more compute is affecting the labor market, the gadget market, and electricity prices.
https://www.404media.co/the-ai-compute-crunch-is-here-and-its-affecting-the-entire-economy/
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Ruth Deyermond
4 days ago
Either this is just a squeaky toy for Trump to play with, which is never intended to be taken seriously by anyone else, or a worrying number of people in the administration *really* don't understand what NATO is or how it works.
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd
5 days ago
"If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. It’s your job to get on Polymarket and pump the arbitrage opportunity."
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Reuters Institute
4 days ago
Today's round-up on journalism worldwide features stories on a Lebanese journalist killed by Israeli forces, Hungarian journalism’s resilience and a memorial for journalists in the UK Click to read and share 👇🏼
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Journalism Today
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/calls-investigation-killing-lebanese-journalist-reutersinstitute-v4ibf
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Steve Herman
5 days ago
Stars & Stripes ombudsman says she's been fired by the Pentagon.
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The Pentagon is trying to silence me
Outgoing Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith has spent months speaking about her growing concern over attempted control of the newspaper.
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html
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Tomi McCluskey
5 days ago
US Army soldier at Fort Bragg was charged with using classified info about the Jan. 3 US raid that captured Maduro, Venezuela's president, to make wagers on Polymarket....a site where you bet on real-world events. The soldier profited $409,881.
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U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Kash Pa...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-soldier-charged-using-classified-information-profit-prediction-market-bets?bm-verify=AAQAAAAN_____y6To7sZYZ502biZwIHXlr-7zXZUqV4H0xLTfW__wDA3SjNLqifXRaQwsikyuz6IJknyuL8xfVYRkesxcDk5V10m-HoXl2K93f17rygBphL77WVFoQ_XvlmUo922IwM_DQ66137X6wWMtpdHslcEjpJG7KbBmUw9Su4kDENpDt_yv2spThQZehgv-X1Adk5U2VHfp41co2s_QJGjRj4y0KmL1mhSCyVaE7MC1LHG0mtP-xYmD0xBOQwn6PlHkPiP5Nt46h5ZIjLGXgCZDEVD42i7rIEM379DKLPUPX0PDNmOAwFSuTqcTDVnT_UUV8vxpHLRMb7rUxPxKUPcIB23iZTRJddWDDtPHMXadpwv67xr-f1sKDLZT9NgHCO4iuC2EthmAt0
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Robert Mackey
5 days ago
Trump confirms government could 'just buy' Spirit Airlines, then confuses Obama with Biden and Jet Blue with People Express
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Kevin Elliott
5 days ago
Don't go! That's it! That's the whole thing!
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Janet Bufton 🍁🌻
5 days ago
This review is actually worse than I thought it could be. Which is an accomplishment of a sort.
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Simon Lester
5 days ago
In related news, 2 + 2 now equals 5.
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Senator Ron Wyden
5 days ago
Stephen Miller is behind the Trump administration’s push to reauthorize 702. They have already designated “Antifa” organizations as foreign terrorist groups. It’s likely Miller will use 702 to surveil, target, and suppress activists on the left.
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Financial Times
6 days ago
Crypto billionaire Justin Sun sues Trump family’s World Liberty Financial
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Crypto billionaire Justin Sun sues Trump family’s World Liberty Financial
Fraud claims come amid escalating feud between the Trump venture and one of its biggest supporters
https://ft.trib.al/A9uA1rZ
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