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Sworn to Nothing: How SDNY Beat the Wander Leak Motion
Who told Semafor about Joshua Wander’s investigation? This article examines the government declarations and court reasoning that left that question unresolved. Its central distinction concerns who personally swore a denial and whose denial appeared through prosecutor Nicolas Roos’s account of conversations. The reported chronology also places a reporter’s possession of Roos’s name before the investigation’s…
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THE ART OF THE STEAL
Jack Grynberg built an oil fortune and placed much of its ownership in his children’s names. Frank Parlato’s sixth installment examines what happened when that family arrangement became a fight over corporate control, access to money, and the founder’s remaining years. Drawing on former operations chief Gene Webb’s account, funeral remarks, and earlier reporting, Parlato…
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Hochul’s Mamdani Alliance
Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani established a political relationship that now forms part of her governing record. Richard Luthmann examines that alliance, the questions surrounding government coordination with social-media influencers, and polling that records divided public confidence. The article also revisits Mario Cuomo’s 1994 defeat by George Pataki, exploring regional voting patterns, incumbency, and…
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Penn State’s Necessary Correction
Penn State removed Joe Paterno’s statue, stripped his name from prominent places, and spent years treating its most consequential football coach like a historical embarrassment. Now, the university has opened the Paterno Family Football Experience Room inside Beaver Stadium’s Penn State All-Sports Museum. The permanent exhibit includes Paterno’s original office desk, personal artifacts, and a…
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AI is Tax Relief
The artificial-intelligence revolution is bringing trillions of dollars in data-center investment, along with an enormous appetite for American land, electricity, water, roads, and public infrastructure. That appetite gives local leaders something they rarely possess when Big Tech comes knocking: leverage. Loudoun County, Virginia, collected $1.2 billion in data-center property-tax revenue during fiscal year 2026. Oracle…
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Campbell’s Honeymoon Slate: Penn State’s 2026 Playoff Path
Matt Campbell could hardly have ordered a cleaner runway for his Penn State debut. The 2026 Nittany Lions avoid Ohio State, Oregon and defending national champion Indiana, draw seven home games and face Marshall, Temple and Buffalo before Big Ten play begins. Michigan remains dangerous. USC arrives for the White Out. Washington demands the season’s…
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WWT’s Cabo Blind Spot
World Wide Technology sells itself as a corporate sentinel. Honesty. Integrity. Enterprise risk management. Then the PGA Tour brought WWT to Diamante Cabo San Lucas, and those safeguards disappeared behind an ocean view. The tournament’s website crowns resort founder Ken Jowdy as the “visionary” who personally led Diamante’s financing. It leaves out the litigation, disputed…
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Lake America Makes Waves
President Donald Trump has redrawn another corner of the federal map. His August 27 executive order directs the U.S. government to replace “Lake Ontario” with “Lake America,” turning a geographic label into an unmistakable statement about sovereignty, history and national confidence. The order governs American federal usage and cannot dictate what Canada places on its…
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Staten Island Mansion Money Fix
Eric Bischoff welcomed Staten Island’s political establishment to the privately owned Kreischer Mansion wearing a Victorian tuxedo while elected officials from both parties celebrated $475,000 in announced or allocated public support. Behind the preservation pitch sits an LLC that owns the property, a newly incorporated nonprofit receiving government money and a related company developing weddings,…
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Moira Kim Penza: The Threat, The Fix, and The Fallout
A viral Central Park kiss may cost Nathaniel Cullerton his Wachtell partnership, his planned Gibson Dunn payday and, sources say, his marriage to Moira Kim Penza. But the scandal has also opened a locked door in Penza’s past. Former Loyola School students identify her as the sender of gun-threatening emails that brought police to the…
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