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ToplineStrategy on Monday disclosed a bitcoin purchase valued at more than $100 million, after billionaire Michael Saylor’s firm—the world’s largest institutional holder of bitcoin—announced a rare sale of the cryptocurrency amid a broad drop in the world’s most valuable digital asset.Key FactsStrategy, in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on…
Back in 2014, Richard Gonzalez was a sergeant in the Town of Dover, New Jersey, police department. Gonzalez sued the Town of Dover for discrimination and retaliation. The case was litigated and in 2015, the Town of Dover paid a $175,000 settlement to Gonzelez. As part of the settlement, Gonzelez…
Many of your recent shows may have just wrapped up (for me, Friends and Neighbors and Euphoria), but there’s always something new to find. And how about a series with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score and a 94% audience score?Things are a little confusing here with the show being…
ToplineTicket prices to get in to game 3 of the NBA Finals have dropped nearly 50% in the day leading up to the New York Knicks clash against the San Antonio Spurs, down to just under $5,000 from a sky-high cheapest entry price of nearly $10,000 on Friday night after…
This Friday (June 12), Olivia Rodrigo will return with her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. Less than a month before the full-length’s street date, the singer-songwriter chose “The Cure” as the project’s second single, and it arrived a little more than a month…
The IRS provided Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with last-known address information for nearly 47,000 people under a controversial data-sharing agreement, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA). According to TIGTA, last year, ICE asked the IRS for address information tied to more…
Eileen Fisher has come full circle.The company’s Renew take-back program reached a milestone of three million items returned, Eileen Fisher said. Renew, Fisher’s circular label, is made up of donations of clothing and other products from earlier seasons. Customers get a $5 credit per piece, which by the company’s own…
ToplineFTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried has filed a formal request for a presidential pardon, asking President Donald Trump to erase the estimated fraud charges tied to the crypto exchange’s implosion—a long-shot bid that comes after Trump said in January he was not planning to grant the FTX founder any clemency.Key FactsThe…
I’m on the road again! It’s tax conference season, and my first stop in June was San Antonio, Texas, for The Tax Retreat. It’s been a terrific experience meeting up with my fellow tax professionals. I even ran into Charles Barkley (okay, I suspect he was here for the NBA…
Eileen Fisher has come full circle.The company’s Renew take-back program reached a milestone of three million items returned, Eileen Fisher said. Renew, Fisher’s circular label, is made up of donations of clothing and other products from earlier seasons. Customers get a $5 credit per piece, which by the company’s own…
Last week, Drake completely dominated Billboard’s R&B, hip-hop and rap charts. He had three albums’ worth of material for fans to consume, as he dropped a trio of full-lengths – Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour – at the same time. As is typically the case whenever a musician fills…
The Education Department updated key online guidance for federal student loan borrowers in advance of historic changes to disbursement, repayment, and loan forgiveness that are set to take effect on July 1. The updates provide key points of clarification as millions of borrowers struggle to understand the implications of the…
Netflix continues its bumpy pursuit of an original film lineup, with some stellar hits and other big misses. Plus, there’s the endless debate over what should or should not be allowed to hit theaters, however briefly. One that has been planted firmly on Netflix and Netflix alone is Office Romance,…
Eileen Fisher has come full circle.The company’s Renew take-back program reached a milestone of three million items returned, Eileen Fisher said. Renew, Fisher’s circular label, is made up of donations of clothing and other products from earlier seasons. Customers get a $5 credit per piece, which by the company’s own…
When Ariana Grande delivers the first single from a new album, her fans typically respond with such fervor that the tune debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Launching a song atop the most competitive ranking for individual tracks in America used to be a nearly unheard-of feat,…
Elon Musk loudly quit California after years of attacking its taxes, politics and business climate, moving SpaceX to Texas. Now the biggest fiscal event of his career could hand the state he trashed a giant tax windfall anyway.That is the awkward punchline hanging over SpaceX’s expected IPO next week. Because…
ToplineBorder czar Tom Homan said Monday New York would see an unprecedented surge in ICE agents—a sign the Trump administration is reverting back to its aggressive immigration enforcement tactics after pulling back the effort when federal agents killed two Americans at anti-ICE demonstrations earlier this year.Key FactsHoman told Fox News,…
Eileen Fisher has come full circle.The company’s Renew take-back program reached a milestone of three million items returned, Eileen Fisher said. Renew, Fisher’s circular label, is made up of donations of clothing and other products from earlier seasons. Customers get a $5 credit per piece, which by the company’s own…
Stocks are up, and the media is finally coming around to what we’ve been saying for months now.Last week, The Economist wrote a breathless piece about how the US economy is firing on all cylinders—and fears that a recession will sideswipe stocks are just plain wrong.We’re happy to see a…
Russian military bloggers are warning of a new type of Ukrainian FPV drone with thermal imaging and AI which detects the target’s face and fires a high-velocity projectile at them. A video shows a Russian soldier cut down with what look like a precise head shot from one such drone.…
Thousands of borrowers are expected to receive a discharge of their federal student loans during the month of May, said the Education Department in a court filing last week. The discharges were preliminarily approved for these borrowers in March under income-driven repayment plans. But some questions remain about the timing…




















