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Pentagon to send 1,500 troops to border to start Trump-ordered surge

2 mn readThe U.S. military is sending around 1,500 active-duty troops to the country’s southern border, the acting secretary of defense said Wednesday. “This is just the beginning,” Acting Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses wrote in a statement. The troops consist of 1,000 soldiers and 500 Marines, who will work with Customs and Border Protection in El […]

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Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall

2 mn readThird-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Capital One is still battling to fix whatever brought down its systems on Wednesday, which has left people unable to access their money. While the US banking and credit-card giant continues to accept incoming deposits, attempts to withdraw funds or look up accounts bring up […]

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Peter Thiel warns young Americans of US real estate ‘catastrophe’ — but also sees ‘giant windfall’ for some boomers

3 mn readAs a co-founder of PayPal and the first outside investor in Facebook, Peter Thiel is widely recognized for his expertise in the tech world. But lately, the billionaire venture capitalist has been sounding the alarm on an entirely different sector: real estate. During a recent interview with The Free Press, Thiel drew upon the insights […]

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Wall Street gains ahead of Trump 2.0 and expected flurry of executive orders on Day 1

2 mn readWall Street opened in the green ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Monday. President-elect Trump’s inauguration is Monday, and his first days are expected to be filled with a flurry of executive orders on day one. “Reports suggest 100 or more,” wrote Morgan Stanley analysts in a report. Any signals of […]

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New GOP bill seeks to hold private universities to same tax standard as corporations: ‘On notice’

2 mn readEXCLUSIVE: A GOP lawmaker is seeking to significantly raise taxes on endowment profits being banked by private universities to align their levy with the current corporate tax rate. Many private universities have invested funds for operational use that acquire interest each year, known as an endowment. In 2017, the Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act […]

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TikTok warns of broad consequences if Supreme Court allows ban

3 mn readThe lawyer for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance offered a warning during Supreme Court arguments over a law that would compel the sale of the short-video app or ban it in the United States: If Congress could do this to TikTok, it could come after other companies, too. The law, which was the […]

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