MacKenzie Scott has been one of the most generous philanthropists during the past few years, and an episode in college may help explain why. After finalizing her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, Scott ended up with a load of shares she earned from helping to build the e-commerce giant during its early days, when she helped with …
Read More »CHICAGO (AP) — Baltazar Enriquez starts most mornings with street patrols, leaving his home in Chicago’s Little Village on foot or by car to find immigration agents that have repeatedly targeted his largely Mexican neighborhood. Wearing an orange whistle around his neck, the activist broadcasts his plans on Facebook. “We don’t know if they’re going to come back. All we …
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The new Amazon documentary John Candy: I Like Me takes its title from a famous scene that happens surprisingly early in the 1987 comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles. In what is arguably Candy’s most beloved performance, he plays Del Griffith, a sweet-natured if initially irritating traveling salesman who winds up accompanying uptight Neal (Steve Martin) on a series of cross-country …
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Lady Gaga made time to attend the 2025 MTV VMAs on Sunday night to accept her Artist of the Year award. The “Abracadraba” singer was in New York City as part of her Mayhem Ball tour, where she would perform at Madison Square Garden. “I thought about what it means to be rewarded for being an artist, being rewarded for …
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Luigi Mangione, who is accused of gunning down a top insurance company executive on a New York City street, has inspired others to embrace violence, including the gunman behind last month’s deadly attack on the NFL headquarters in Manhattan, federal prosecutors contend in a new court filing. Mangione, the prosecutors argued in Wednesday’s filing, poses a threat to the public …
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On a recent Sunday morning, at a Bible camp outside of Gainesville, Florida, Nik Johnson got up to preach, not about hellfire and brimstone, but about a very different fire: Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE). “Ultimately at the end of the day, financial independence really ain’t about us,” he said. “It’s about people that we love and the causes that …
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Key Takeaways VINE soared 115.29% to a 6-month high of $0.157 before slightly retracing to $0.151 by press time. A whale bought 22.4 million tokens for $3.19 million, despite losing $125k on the PUMP trade. Vine Coin [VINE] soared 115.29% in the last 24 hours until press time, hitting a 6-month high of $0.157 before slightly retracing to $0.151. Over …
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