Since its summer offensive, Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian troops back considerably from the territory they captured in first several months of the conflict. They have caused perhaps 100,000 Russian casualties, but have suffered a significant number of casualties as well. The momentum has shifted in their favor, but what would it take for them […]
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On November 8th of this year, FTX, a major cryptocurrency exchange, entered into a letter of intent to be sold to Binance, a rival cryptocurrency exchange. The very next day, Binance pulled out of the deal having had a chance to look at FTX’s books. On November 11, FTX filed for bankruptcy. On November 13,
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In today’s world we are familiar with giant international corporations that dominate industry, commerce, and technology. But one of the largest in history dates back to the year 1600 in England—The British East India Company. It rose to become not only a trading corporation, but a nation-state as it reaped massive profits primarily from places
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In this episode, LAPD detectives Aguilar and Lee are pursuing a serial killer who is terrorizing the area in the Harbor/Gateway District along Sultan Road. On the chance that Ben Williams’s killers would turn up at the offices of the South Bay Neighborhood Association the next day to get paid, Aguilar and Lee drove to
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