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Trump Goes to Bat for FIFA Chief After Kushner Deal Crashes and Burns

As you’ve probably heard by now, it’s been a rough couple of weeks for FIFA chief Gianni Infantino. First, there was the absolute crashing and...

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Trump Pal Ronald Lauder Is Cutting Off the GOP

Billionaire Ronald Lauder has spent decades writing checks to Republicans, giving some $40 million to the party in the last ten years alone, including...

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Everyone Hates FIFA’s Plan to Let Jared Kushner’s Brother Run the World Cup

After FIFA’s decision earlier this month to delay a one-game red-card suspension for U.S. player Folarin Balogun — which followed a phone call...

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When Warren Buffett Is Your Daddy

A 2010 interview with the musician and youngest son of Warren Buffett, who talks about why his father never wrote the family blank checks.

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Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Sweet, Sweet Tungsten Deal

First Daughter Ivanka Trump made headlines last month when she shared in an interview that she and Jared Kushner are hard at work building a $1.4...

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Bill Ackman Aghast Bernie Sanders Isn’t Pro-Trillionaire

Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman and democratic-socialist senator Bernie Sanders probably weren’t ever going to see eye to eye on matters...

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Elon Musk Isn’t the Only One Getting Absurdly Rich Off the SpaceX IPO

As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, when SpaceX goes public today, Elon Musk — already the richest person in the universe by several hundred...

12.06.2026 20

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Knicks Finals Tickets Surge Into $100,000 Territory

Knicks mania is sweeping New York City, and with it comes the psychosis that some people say you would have to be experiencing to spend more than...

05.06.2026 10

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The JPMorgan ‘Sex Slave’ Accuser Needs a New Lawyer

The JPMorgan saga involving a former banker accusing a colleague of allegedly drugging and sexual assaulting him took another strange turn on Tuesday,...

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SpaceX Warns of Mass Extinction in Eye-Popping IPO Pitch

After years of operating in relative darkness for a company of its size and ambitions, Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally pulled back the curtain on...

21.05.2026 20

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The SpaceX IPO Could Make Elon Musk a Trillionaire

Elon Musk’s rocketship-AI company SpaceX is expected to go public on June 12, and when it does, the richest man in the world hopes investors will...

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Trump Touched Down in China With Elon Musk and Jensen Huang

Donald Trump landed in Beijing this morning for a two-day, high-stakes China summit — and he brought a clown car’s worth of delegates from the...

13.05.2026 20

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Get to Know the Banker Behind JPMorgan “Sex Slave” Claims

Banking giant JPMorgan has been home to many of Wall Street’s biggest scandals over the past 20 years, which include but are absolutely not limited...

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