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How a Trump Media deal with a crypto firm exposes potential conflicts of interest
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Crypto.com was under siege.
For more than a year, the firm had been investigated by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration, part of an aggressive push to regulate the largely unregulated cryptocurrency industry. Financial regulators had told the company that enforcement action was likely.
The ... (full story)
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's handpicked board voted reccently to rename Washington's leading performing arts center as the Trump Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that made Democrats fume, saying the board had overstepped its legal authority.
Congress named the center after President John F. Ken ... (full story)
Trump's blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil raises new questions about legality
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's "blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela's coast is raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while fueling concerns that the U.S. could be edging closer to war.
The Trump administration says its blockade is narrowly ta ... (full story)
US government admits role in causing helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington
The U.S. government admitted that the actions of an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilot played a role in causing a collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk near the nation's capital, killing 67 people.
It was the deadliest plane crash on American soil in more than two decades.
The official res ... (full story)
Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation
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Across the country, small groups are working to rebuild social connection amid rising loneliness in their own modest ways.
It sounds simple — building relationships. But they're up against powerful cultural forces.
By many measures, Americans are socially disconnected at historic levels.
They're joining civic group ... (full story)