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UBS Offers To Buy Embattled Bank Credit Suisse For Up To $1 Billion, Reports Say

ToplineUBS Group AG has offered to buy Credit Suisse—a rival Swiss bank facing economic uncertainty—in a deal worth roughly $1 billion, according to several reports Sunday, as bank executives and Swiss officials sprint to contain a crisis sparked in part by…

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Putin Makes Surprise Visit To Occupied Ukrainian City Of Mariupol, Kremlin Says

ToplineRussian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise weekend visit to Mariupol, a Ukrainian city Russia seized last year after a devastating siege, the Kremlin announced on Sunday, just two days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Putin…

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New PlayStation Plus Extra Games For March: Release Date, Platform And Everything You Need To Know

This Tuesday, PS Plus Extra subscribers will have a whole bunch of new games to play, including another brand new release coming to the service on Day One: Tchia. Tchia is one of those games that just looks extremely chill and…

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Silicon Valley’s Boom As a Consequence of an ‘Easy’ Fed Is ‘You Didn’t Build That,’ Right-Wing Edition

For businesses and business sectors to succeed, they need “cheap, easy access to capital.” Those are the words of Manhattan Institute senior fellow Allison Schrager in a City Journal piece written about Silicon Valley’s ascent. Schrager asserts that the “easy money”…

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FC Barcelona Return To Four Man Midfield System For El Clasico Clash Versus Real Madrid

FC Barcelona will finally return to their four-man midfield system for Sunday's La Liga meeting with Real Madrid in El Clasico. Head coach Xavi Hernandez's rejigging of the formation was expected last weekend for a trip to Athletic Club in Bilbao,…

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‘Willow’ Cancelled On Disney Plus Because It Abandoned What Made The Original Film Great [Update: Maybe Not?]

See updates below. Willow has been cancelled, which I find at once totally unsurprising and deeply depressing. Don’t get me wrong, the Disney Plus sequel series to the classic 1988 Ron Howard fantasy film was absolutely terrible. It stunk like troll…

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Russian Troops Could Get $170,000 For Capturing A Ukrainian Tank. Don’t Expect A Lot Of Payouts.

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinImagine you’re a 60-year-old Russian draftee who just arrived at the front line in Ukraine after just a month of half-hearted training. Your weapons are 60-year-old Cold War leftovers. Your battalion has been losing scores…

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Frozen Strawberries Sold at Costco and Trader Joe’s Recalled Over Hepatitis A Risk

The products, which were sold at Trader Joe’s, Costco, Aldi and other retailers, have been linked to five cases of illness, a federal agency said.Frozen organic strawberries sold at Costco, Aldi, Trader Joe’s and other retailers have been recalled after the…

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Pro-Russia Twitter Trolls Stoked Fears About Ohio Derailment, Analysis Shows

ToplineAnonymous, pro-Russian accounts pushed anti-U.S. propaganda and spread misinformation about the recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, by using verified accounts on Twitter, according to an Associated Press analysis, complementing criticism by some Republican lawmakers of the Biden Administration’s response…

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Speaker McCarthy Threatens Federal Probe If Trump Arrested—Pence, Greene, Graham, More Blast Prosecutors

ToplineSome of President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters immediately took to social media Saturday to blast his possible indictment, after he predicted he would be arrested Tuesday and called for protests. Key Facts House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said an indictment would…

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Who Is Alvin Bragg? NYC Prosecutor Who May Charge Trump Has Gone After Bannon, Weinstein, NYPD

ToplineAn investigation of former President Donald Trump and his alleged hush money payment to a porn star is led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Harlem, New York, native who previously served as the state’s chief deputy attorney general, and…

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Sandy Hook Families Are Fighting Alex Jones and the Bankruptcy System Itself

As the families seek more than $1.4 billion awarded by courts for Mr. Jones’s lies, a New York Times review shows he is transferring millions of dollars to family and friends, potentially out of reach of creditors.HOUSTON — The Infowars conspiracy…

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Trump’s Backers Blast Possible Arrest—McCarthy Threatens Federal Probe

ToplineSome of President Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters immediately took to social media Saturday to blast his possible indictment, after he predicted he would be arrested Tuesday and called for protests. Key Facts House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said an indictment would…

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48 Hours Till Payroll, $200,000 to Go: Diary of a Bank Failure

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank set major financial disruptions in motion. It also made one founder’s week a scramble.Sara Mauskopf’s day-to-day concerns — her customers, her employees, her own three children — don’t typically involve the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.…

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El Clásico Preview: Real Madrid Eyes A Comeback To Unsettle Barcelona’s Numbers Control

In pure soccer terms, this Clásico will be decisive, as the winner will gain the genuine belief that it can win La Liga. Table-topping Barcelona hosts Real Madrid for the fourth matchup in five competitive meetings this season, and the equation…

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