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CFPB expands oversight of digital payments services including Apple Pay, Cash App, PayPal and ZelleHow mentoring can empower women working in private markets

2 mn readThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday issued a finalized version of a rule saying it will soon supervise nonbank firms that offer financial services likes payments and wallet apps. Tech giants and payments firms that handle at least 50 million transactions annually will fall under the review, which is meant to ensure the newer entrants adhere to the […]

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Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s

6 mn readProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program. On May 14, the final day for submitting new bills in the Mississippi Legislature, a bold new package of them landed on the desks […]

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Scott Resumes Giving Away Millions In Large Chunks

3 mn readShe is back at it. MacKenzie Scott, who in the past few years has given away more than $17 billion, has provided $65 million to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in New York City. It is the largest contribution in LISC’s nearly half-century history. The LISC gift was not a solo. The Corporation for Supportive Housing […]

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‘That was the greatest day of all our lives’: The migrants who passed through Ellis Island

6 mn readIsabel Belarsky was one of the millions of people who were processed on Ellis Island before its immigration facility closed in 1954. In 2014, she told the BBC about reaching the gateway to the US from the Soviet Union in 1930. On 12 November 1954, a Norwegian seaman Arne Petterson was questioned by immigration officials […]

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Did Sony just confirm that Venom will be in Spider-Man 4?

2 mn readLast month, Marvel and Sony finally revealed that the follow-up to Spider-Man: No Way Home will hit theaters on July 24, 2026. It will likely be many more months before we learn anything of substance about Spider-Man 4, but two weeks ago, Sony Pictures Japan issued a press release (via The Cosmic Circus) that appears to point toward Tom Hardy’s Venom crossing over […]

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UN chief calls for slavery reparations to overcome ‘generations of discrimination’

2 mn readUnited Nations chief Antonio Guterres called on Monday for reparations over the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved people as a way to tackle its legacy in today’s society, including systemic racism. From the 15th to the 19th century, at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped, forcibly transported by European ships and merchants and sold into slavery. […]

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