Three major white collar criminals were convicted in fraud schemes and ordered to pay back over $800 million. Then, Trump pardoned their criminal offenses. Now the SEC is dropping enforcement and they won't have to pay the money back. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Hawaiians are coming together to buy land back from a billionaire investment firm in an unprecedented move. One-third of the island of Molokai is owned by Hong Kong-headquartered billionaire investment firm Guoco Group. Now, people have launched a plan to buy back their island.

Samsung is now showing ads on some U.S. customers’ smart fridges. These fridges cost between $1,800 and $3,500. Samsung says the advertisement program is "enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers."

New York will soon send the state’s first-ever "inflation refund” checks to over 8 million people. The refund payments will range from $150 to $400.

BREAKING: Donald Trump suggests that the federal government might revoke the licenses of TV networks that are “against” him.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow Trump to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

Democratic Party leadership is calling for the resignation of FCC Chair Brandon Carr. They say he disgraced his office by coercing ABC to bend the knee to the Trump admin. Carr threatened the broadcaster and its affiliates, using his power in violation of the First Amendment.

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

A U.S. District court judge is holding two Amazon executives personally liable is a case over Prime subscriptions and Amazon's malpractice.

Late rent payments have jumped up. In recent months, the percent of tenants who are late on rent has risen toward 12%. But that’s not the whole story 🧵

One in three Americans has no emergency savings set aside. fortune.com/2025/09/17/e...

There are now more housing markets with falling home prices than any time since October 2012. www.fastcompany.com/91403800/hou...

Private equity firms are about to profit off of a school voucher provision tucked into the "Big Beautiful Bill."

BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.

BREAKING: The terrorism counts against Luigi Mangione have been dismissed as "legally insufficient" by a New York judge. Mr. Mangione, 27, is still charged with second-degree murder and that case is expected to proceed.

Credit scores are now falling at the fastest pace since the Great Recession. www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/e...

The major airlines are selling your data to the government. A data broker owned by the country’s biggest airlines, including American, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion records to the feds for warrantless search and monitoring of your movements. www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

The data center industry already accounts for more than 4% of total U.S. electricity consumption, and energy usage by data centers is expected to triple by 2028.

Google's AI has actually been trained largely by 2,000 workers paid between $16 to $21 an hour, according to new reports. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today the Trump admin interviewed a BlackRock executive in their search for the next Federal Reserve chair. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/b...

Spending on data center construction in the US has hit a record high of $40 billion a year, and increase of 30% from last year. www.businessinsider.com/us-data-cent...

Democratic Senators are now calling for a congressional hearing about JPMorgan's decision to keep Jeffrey Epstein as a client for 15 years. Epstein had dozens of accounts at JPMorgan before and after he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution in 2008.

Over 36 billion pounds of fruits and vegetable are wasted every year in the United States. fortune.com/2025/09/12/i...

Health insurance costs in the U.S. are on track for the biggest increase in at least five years. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The South has quickly emerged as a battleground between big tech and working people. Companies are pouring billions into data centers, but Southerners are fighting to block them. The outcomes could greatly affect residents’ economic security and the region’s water supply. Thread.

BREAKING: The recently merged Paramount Skydance is reportedly preparing a takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. If they're allowed to merge the combined company would have a valuation of over $60 billion.

A controversial $165 billion data center campus in New Mexico revealed numbers about its water consumption publicly for the first time. Filling up the four data centers would use 10 million gallons of water, and the ongoing consumption would be 7.2 million gallons every year.

The Trump Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

U.S. jobless claim applications jumped to 263,000 last week, their highest level in almost four years. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

St. Louis is considering a ban on new data center development. The city's Planning and Urban Design Agency has proposed a temporary ban on building data centers until there's a better understanding of issues around land use, the environment, regulations and more. www.stlpr.org/economy-busi...

The Trump administration is trying to cut disability benefits for roughly 300,000 Americans. These payments go to people who are in poverty and unable to work, and many are seniors.

The first email the new head of the CDC sent to the entire agency was about incorporating AI into their work. Part of it reads: “I’m excited to move us forward by making ChatGPT available to everyone in the Department effective immediately.”

Larry Ellison's net worth grew $100 billion in less than an hour today and he is now the richest person on Earth with over $388 billion. His wealth skyrocketed because of the extremely rapid stock market rise of his company, Oracle.

More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July. Now some farmers are saying that as a results of ICE raids, and of workers be afraid to show up to job sites, crops are going to waste.

New Mexico is the first state in the nation to guarantee no-cost universal child care. Starting Nov. 1st child care will be made available to every parent in the state, regardless of income. The average annual family savings are estimated at $12,000 per child.

Residential electric bills are up 10% since the beginning of the year. www.mediamatters.org/cnn/cnns-mat...

The federal judge overseeing Anthropic's proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement (where authors would get $3,000 for each of their works used by the AI company) blasted the agreement, saying a deal was made behind the scenes that would be forced “down the throat of authors.”

The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year.

Donald Trump has increased his net worth by $3 billion over the last year, mostly thanks to crypto. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

The U.S. economy added almost a million fewer jobs in 2024 and early 2025 than previously reported. Today's jobs report from the BLS shows that 911,000 fewer jobs were added during that period than previously believed. This cuts the number of jobs added in that time roughly in half.

Nearly 70% of NYC voters — including majorities of Cuomo and Adams supporters — are in favor of Zohran's plan to freeze the rent for almost 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...

TikTok is attempting to build a $10 billion data center in Brazil, but the Indigenous Anacé community is taking the company to court to stop the project. restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...

Donald Trump is trying to shut down the only federal agency that investigates chemical disasters. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

On October 1st the first $17 billion in federal Medicaid cuts will take effect. This is just the beginning of a $911 billion reduction over the next decade. And it will hurt the health care industry, one of the only industries adding jobs right now.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just allowed Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, despite a federal law meant to restrict the White House’s power to control the independent agency.

An overwhelming 65% of Americans think Trump's policies are making the cost of groceries go up, while just 13% think his policies are lowering these costs.

The Trump administration has canceled the Biden era rule where airlines would have to compensate passengers for flight disruptions.

A survey of 1,700 companies shows that employers are anticipating the sharpest increases in medical costs in 15 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/h...

There are now 500,000 more people selling houses than buying them, marking the largest imbalance ever recorded.