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Digital Trust Benchmark Report 2021 Preview

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In our Digital Trust Benchmark Report, we analyze the data from our fifth annual “US Digital Trust Survey” to evaluate ...

Taiwan’s military is training for urban warfare against Chinese troops. Here’s the kind of fight they’re facing.

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Taiwanese troops during an exercise simulating an attempted amphibious landing by Chinese forces, May 30, 2019. Kyodo News Stills via ...

Influencer marketing stats: How creators have impacted businesses in 2021

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Nearly 68% of US marketers from companies with 100 or more employees will use influencer marketing in 2021. And influencer ...

Actress Reese Witherspoon, NFL star Derrick Henry and a Republican senator’s 4 children are now all minority owners of Nashville’s MLS soccer team

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A composite photo of actress Reese Witherspoon; Sen. Hagerty, a Republican from Tennessee,; and Tennessee Titan Derrick Henry Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ...

Yes, a Crook’s Corner return could be the works. But the reopening timetable is tricky.

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The Chapel Hill restaurant that was an icon of Southern food appeared to have been lost to the pandemic. Some ...

Yes, a Crook’s Corner return could be the works. But the reopening timetable is tricky.

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The Chapel Hill restaurant that was an icon of Southern food appeared to have been lost to the pandemic. Some ...

Fears grow of Russian ‘peacekeepers’ in a village surrounded by a breakaway regime propped up by the Kremlin

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A soldier stands guard at the ferry landing and entrance to Molovata Nouă, Moldova. Charles Davis/Insider Insider traveled to a ...

Amazon union loses at Staten Island warehouse a month after pulling off a historic win just across the street

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Brendan McDermid/Reuters Amazon workers at a Staten Island facility have rejected a bid to unionize, according to a vote count ...

Wall Street landlords are finely tuned to make profits. That can squeeze tenants.

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The home-rental industry says it has improved the single-family rental experience, providing houses that were previously inaccessible to renters. But ...

Why is a Japanese soy sauce company buying up Raleigh-area homes to rent them out?

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Yamasa spent nearly $49 million to purchase 184 rental houses in Wake and Johnston counties since 2018. Wall Street corporations ...

After foreclosures, NC neighborhood is transformed again, by corporate landlords

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More than a decade after the foreclosure crisis, Concord’s Southern Chase attracted institutional investors converting homes to rentals. The buys ...

With piles of cash, big investors become NC’s top rental-home landlords

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This is a business primed for continued growth, one dependent on scooping up more single-family homes, a traditional cornerstone of ...

Here are some important things to know about your tenant rights in North Carolina

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With the increase of single-family homes being converted into rentals, it’s important for people to understand their rights as a ...

Wall Street landlords are finely tuned to make profits. That can squeeze tenants.

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The home-rental industry says it has improved the single-family rental experience, providing houses that were previously inaccessible to renters. But ...

Why is a Japanese soy sauce company buying up Raleigh-area homes to rent them out?

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Yamasa spent nearly $49 million to purchase 184 rental houses in Wake and Johnston counties since 2018. Wall Street corporations ...

After foreclosures, NC neighborhood is transformed again, by corporate landlords

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More than a decade after the foreclosure crisis, Concord’s Southern Chase attracted institutional investors converting homes to rentals. The buys ...

With piles of cash, big investors become NC’s top rental-home landlords

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This is a business primed for continued growth, one dependent on scooping up more single-family homes, a traditional cornerstone of ...

How to tell if a corporate investor owns the North Carolina rental house you like

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Corporate landlords have been buying up homes in North Carolina for years and converting them into rentals. Here are a ...

ICE spends $7.2 million to increase facial recognition and location tracking of migrants

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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detains a suspected undocumented immigrant during a traffic stop in Charlotte, North Carolina, in January ...

Russian troops stole $5M worth of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership, which remotely locked the thieves out of the equipment

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Farmer Morda Vasyl drives a tractor pulling a planter with sugar beet seeds on the Zahidnyi Bug Farm on March ...

Kinzinger says ‘it’s insane’ that Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes a ‘victim’ whenever confronted about the insurrection

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene John Bazemore-Pool/Getty Images GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said “it’s insane” that Greene positions herself as a ...

Homeland Security head says they ‘could have done a better job’ explaining the ‘disinformation’ board

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Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks speaks at a White House press briefing on March 1, 2021. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik ...

Gubernatorial candidate at Trump rally says he will ‘take sex education out of the schools and put it back in the homes where it belongs’

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Nebraska candidate for governor Charles Herbster greets guests before the start of a rally with former President Donald Trump on ...

Trump confused the names of candidates in a closely contested GOP Senate primary that’s 2 days away — one of whom he endorsed last month

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JD Vance; Donald Trump; Josh Mandel Jeff Dean, File/Associated Press; Chris Seward/Associated Press; Tony Dejak, File/Associated Press Trump endorsed JD ...

Bill Gates says he ‘made a huge mistake’ meeting with Jeffrey Epstein for fundraising dinners promoting the Gates Foundation

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Bill Gates at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland on November 2, 2021 Jeff J Mitchell/Pool/Getty Images Bill Gates ...

Capital gains are the profits you make from selling your investments, and they can be taxed at lower rates

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Capital gains come with tax advantages that reward investors who hold their investments for over a year. Pra-chid/Getty Images Capital ...

Bonds can be taxable or tax-free — here’s your guide to the different types and calculating what’s due on them

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Municipal bonds are the main federal tax-free bond on the market. baona/Getty Images Bonds and bond funds generate two types ...

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was re-banned from Twitter 3 hours after returning to the platform since his initial ban in 2021

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MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, speaks to reporters outside federal court in Washington, Thursday, June 24, 2021. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP ...

Some of the most dangerous weapons used in Russia’s war on Ukraine are starting to float away

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A warning sign reading “Dangerous mines!” on a beach in Odesa, Ukraine, April 5, 2022. STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images Naval ...

A 2,000-foot glass-bottomed bridge said to be the longest in the world just opened in Vietnam — take a look at the pedestrian walkway, suspended high above a valley

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Nhac Nguyen/AFP via Getty Images Vietnam just opened a 2,000-foot-long glass-bottomed bridge, said to be the longest in the world.  ...