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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he ‘would love’ for Mike Pence to appear before the January 6 committee
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Kinzinger said he “would love” to see former VP Mike Pence appear ...
Biden considering student loan forgiveness is ‘a tremendous victory’: Rep. Ayanna Pressley
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on September 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. Drew ...
Michael Jordan once turned down a huge endorsement deal because he didn’t like the product’s name
Michael Jordan wasn’t poor at the time, but the offer he rejected was huge compared with what he was making ...
McConnell was unnerved about Biden’s child tax credit becoming too popular for the GOP to kill, book says
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images McConnell was anxious the Biden child tax credit ...
An Illinois couple found half-eaten, ‘very well-preserved’ McDonald’s fries from the 1950s inside a bathroom wall while renovating their home
Erin McDowell/Insider An Illinois couple made an unusual discovery while renovating their home in April. Rob and Grace Jones of ...
Ukraine’s Air Force debunks ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ death, says it is not one man but represents all pilots
A t-shirt featuring “The Ghost of Kyiv” is seen at the Aviatsiya Halychyny clothing company on April 22, 2022 in ...
A former NATO commander says there’s ‘no situation comparable’ to the deaths of top Russian military officers amid the country’s invasion of Ukraine
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis attends a panel in Washington, DC, on January 30, 2019. Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty ...
Biden took a dig at Putin during White House Correspondents’ Dinner, telling Trevor Noah he won’t be jailed for roasting him on stage
Left: Joe Biden; Right: Trevor Noah Left: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File; Right: Danny Moloshok/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images Biden ...
Graphic video shows a Russian infantry squad battling to rescue a wounded comrade while under intense Ukrainian fire in the ruins of Mariupol
A Russian soldier stands atop hit T-80 MBT in a position close to Mariupol’s embattled Azovstal plant as his unit ...
Trump often demanded ‘reciprocity’ from governors who asked the White House to help with crises in their state: book
Former President Donald Trump. Evan Vucci/AP Donald Trump frequently pushed for “reciprocity” when helping governors deal with crises. Trump, for ...
Ukraine minister accuses Russia of stealing ‘several hundred thousands tonnes’ of grain from areas of the country it controls
The accusation of grain theft was made by Ukraine’s deputy agriculture minister. Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images ...
After going to prison aged 15, this millennial is now learning how to launch his own fashion company
Shaquiel Campous plans to launch his own clothing range after the project. Shaquiel Campous Shaquiel Campous was sent to prison ...
A French Alpine ski school lost 90% of its Russian oligarch clients this year — but it stayed afloat thanks to its wealthy Arab customers
Courchevel, France. Neil Emmerson/Getty Images Few Russian tourists have visited the Alpine ski resorts of Courchevel amid the Ukraine war. ...
The CEO of an exclusive jet carrier says he ‘kissed a lot of frogs’ before landing a Wi-Fi deal with SpaceX
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Ryan Lash / TED Elon Musk’s SpaceX signed its first Starlink Wi-Fi deal with JSX, a ...
Confused by corporate landlord lingo? Our glossary translates jargon into plain English
To understand the growing industry of investors buying NC homes to convert them into rentals, it’s useful to understand some ...
Security for Sale: How we made the best count of NC corporate-owned rental homes
The Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer are making the investor subsidiary list and the database of corporate ...
After foreclosures, NC neighborhood is transformed again, by corporate landlords
More than a decade after the foreclosure crisis, Concord’s Southern Chase attracted institutional investors converting homes to rentals. The buys ...
Confused by corporate landlord lingo? Our glossary translates jargon into plain English
To understand the growing industry of investors buying NC homes to convert them into rentals, it’s useful to understand some ...
Security for Sale: How we made the best count of NC corporate-owned rental homes
The Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer are making the investor subsidiary list and the database of corporate ...
After foreclosures, NC neighborhood is transformed again, by corporate landlords
More than a decade after the foreclosure crisis, Concord’s Southern Chase attracted institutional investors converting homes to rentals. The buys ...
This apartment-sized floating home has two bedrooms and its own rooftop garden – take a look
The Float1 floating home. Abby Wallace/Insider. This houseboat has tinted windows and an outdoor terrace where occupants can overlook the ...
I started my marketing company in a movie theatre cafe and sold it for millions of dollars five years later. Here’s how I knew it was time to find an office.
Maira Genovese worked from a movie theatre cafe for 18 months while scaling her business. MG Empower Maira Genovese is ...
How the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan crushed a restaurant owner’s business, leaving him with nothing but a ‘gloomy future’
Laziz Mahal, which had to close down earlier this year. Mojeburahman Musleh A Kabul restaurant owner has finally closed his ...
High inflation in parts of the US won’t come down until house-price growth does too. An economist says that could take some time.
In March, inflation in Tampa was 10.2%, while it was 6.1% in the New York metro area. AP Inflation in ...
Take a look at Google’s latest New York campus, which features the city’s largest rooftop park and panoramic views over Manhattan
The new office has a rooftop park. Jakob Dahlin/Courtesy of Google. Google opened a new campus situated along the Hudson ...
Biden cites threats to democracy after roasting Trump at White House correspondents’ dinner
US President Joe Biden attends the White House Correspondents Association gala at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC, on ...
How corporate landlords used piles of cash to become North Carolina’s biggest homeowners
This is a business primed for continued growth, one dependent on scooping up more single-family homes, a traditional cornerstone of ...
Tucker Carlson privately mocked Trump and declined a phone call from the former president to his Fox News show: report
Fox News host Tucker Carlson discusses ‘Populism and the Right’ during the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit at the Mandarin ...
Fox News and Tucker Carlson use ‘minute-by-minute’ ratings that show their audience loves ‘white nationalism’ talking points, report says
Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The New York Times published a three-part series on Tucker Carlson Saturday. ...
Netflix CEO was warned that Dave Chappelle specials would cause ‘internal strife and bad press’ for the streaming service, report says
Actor Dave Chappelle attends 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images A former exec told CEO Ted Sarandos that ...
