This College Dropout Thinks His AI Startup Can Do What Elon Musk Couldn't: Expose Fraud
Alex Shieh, creator of Bloat@Brown, co-founded the Antifraud Company to investigate and publicize corporate fraud in critical government programs.
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Alex Shieh, creator of Bloat@Brown, co-founded the Antifraud Company to investigate and publicize corporate fraud in critical government programs.
The total is over 600 percent more than what the agency spent from January to October 2024.
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Shrugging off the radicalization of right-wing political culture is a mistake.
Even atheists might prefer time-tested faiths over illiberal upstarts.
Author Benjamin Wallace explores several possibilities but admits the mystery remains unsolved.
Trump’s presidency may have amplified executive power, but unless lawmakers roll back those powers—and the bloated government behind them—the next administration will do the same.
Opposition to technological innovation is as mistaken as it is bipartisan.
Socialism is government control of the means of production. When the government becomes your largest shareholder, that's a strong first step.
Graham Platner's excuses aren't exactly persuasive.
The new report examined prices of French wine after Trump imposed tariffs in 2019.
FBI Director Kash Patel called it “the insider trading saga for the NBA,” with Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier among those charged.
Sam O'Hara went viral for playing "The Imperial March" behind groups of National Guard soldiers in D.C. He also says it led to him being illegally detained.
The president somehow believes that tariffs can deliver wins for both producers and consumers. It is maddening and nonsensical.
As digital life overtakes culture, physical bodies are becoming more important than ever.
Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy.
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Long-ago debates about executive authority are not as distant as they might initially seem.
Wildfire smoke is bad for your health. Environmental regulations make it worse.
Desperate New York influencers try to shame the longtime local activist out of the mayoral race, so that a disgraced former governor can again lose to Zohran Mamdani
Politicians across the aisle love free speech—until they're in power.
The decision “erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States’ control over their States’ militias and the people’s First Amendment rights,” Judge Susan P. Graber warned in her dissent.
Former Sen. Jeff Flake discusses how Trump reshaped the GOP, why populism betrayed conservative values, and why he believes the system can still be reformed.
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Antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have singled out Live Nation as a scapegoat for concertgoers' insatiable appetites.
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Government interference in health care should be reduced, not expanded.
In case after case, Homeland Security's Public Affairs Office releases incorrect information about arrests carried out by federal immigration officers.
The potential for deadly error underlines the lawlessness of the president’s bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy.
Former White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, has no explanation for her failure to notice Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
Despite trims, the Energy Department is still wasting billions.
The billionaire Salesforce CEO said Trump should use the National Guard to clean up San Francisco's streets.
Police officers took Jeana Gamble to the ground on the side of the road because they found her costume "obscene."
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to ease some tariffs on goods not produced in the U.S., as the consequences of a universal tariff scheme are becoming impossible to ignore.
The murder of an American activist tore apart Britain’s hallowed free speech club.
The Singaporean government hanged Pannir Selvam this month, the 10th convict to be executed in 2025 for nonviolent narcotics violations.
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Will the Supreme Court grant Trump the overwhelming judicial deference he demands?
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He was transferred to a detention center over 500 miles away from his family.
The law applies to millions of Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety, including cannabis consumers in states that have legalized marijuana.
He had a valid work permit and a pending asylum claim, but Ihsanullah Garay was still detained. He now faces deportation while battling brain cancer.
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