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New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization with multiple counts of tax fraud and falsifying business records on Thursday for hiding millions in unreported income for employees, surfacing a years-long investigation into the former president’s family business. Allen Weisselberg, the company’s longtime chief financial officer, received the same charges as well as a single count of grand larceny for his central role in the alleged scheme.

Rick works 12-hour shifts at an unair-conditioned food manufacturing facility outside Portland, Oregon, whose products are shipped on in shelf-stable Tetra Paks found in grocery store aisles around the country. “After the packages get produced, a sample gets taken from the line and put in the incubation room that’s 95 degrees,” he told me over the phone. “If they bloat, then you know there’s a problem with package integrity,” and they’ll pull them. In the winter, Rick and his co-workers go in that constantly heated room to warm up... Читать дальше...

In 2005, Bill Cosby and Bruce Castor—supposedly—struck a deal.

At that point in pop culture history, Cosby was still the beloved creator of Cliff Huxtable and famous for his influential standup; he was also trying to leverage his reputation as America’s TV Dad into the persona of a professional public moralist. The year before, he delivered his now-infamous “Pound Cake Speech,” berating Black Americans for failing to name or raise their children properly and for dressing “with their hat on backwards... Читать дальше...

The Supreme Court narrowed Americans’ ability to fight racial discrimination in election laws on Thursday, upholding two Arizona measures that had been challenged under a key provision in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In a 6-3 ruling along the traditional lines, the court’s conservative majority gave states more flexibility to craft their voting laws and practices without violating the landmark statute. The result is good news for Republican state lawmakers who are scrambling to erect new barriers to voting... Читать дальше...

A few weeks ago, Paul Gibbs, a health care activist and father in West Valley, Utah, was invited to his eight-year-old nephew’s baptism. Gibbs was eager to see his relatives, and his five-year-old son, Timmy, was excited to play with his cousins. It had been a long year of being apart.

In her 1951 book The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson wrote that when she imagined the seafloor, “the single, overwhelming fact” that captured her imagination was “the accumulation of sediments.” The seafloor builds up through “the steady, unremitting, downward drift of materials from above, flake upon flake, layer upon layer,” over millions of years; geological change happens over time spans so long it is almost impossible to imagine. “The sediments,” she wrote, “are the materials of the most stupendous... Читать дальше...

Last week, Israel, with one of the highest Covid-19 vaccination rates in the world, reported something troubling: The so-called delta variant was driving another Covid-19 spike in the country—and half of the cases were among fully vaccinated people.