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Elon Musk is photographed at Space X in Brownsville, Texas on May 27, 2025. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“We’re too close to the debris”: How SpaceX rockets put passenger planes at risk

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New rule could allow election skeptics on Georgia county election boards to exclude decisive votes

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The U.S. government defended the overseas business interests of baby formula makers at kids’ expense

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee speaks at a hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Senators had questions for the maker of a rent-setting algorithm. The answers were “alarming”

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A sign advertising an apartment for rent is displayed in a window in California (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Rent going up? One company’s secret algorithm could be why

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Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner participates in a press briefing at the White House on September 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The Kushners’ Freddie Mac loan wasn’t just massive. It came with unusually good terms, too

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Donald Trump (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump’s company paid bribes to reduce property taxes, assessors say

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US President Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump tax records reveal new inconsistencies — this time for Trump Tower

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Never-before-seen Trump tax documents show major inconsistencies

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Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower, third building from left, in Panama City, Panama. (AP/Arnulfo Franco)

Trump companies accused of tax evasion in Panama

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A janitor sweeps fake dollar bills placed by protesters at the entrance of the building used by the Mossack Fonseca law firm, as prosecutors raid their offices in Panama City, Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm on Tuesday, which continued into Wednesday, looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) (AP)

Why aren’t hedge funds required to fight money laundering?

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Arkansas spurns warehousing of floundering students

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How students get banished to alternative schools

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Massachusetts tightens rules on restraining, secluding students

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“It’s a disgrace”: Inside American schools’ horrific “scream rooms”

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