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Illinois Senate President Took $50,000 From Illegal Online Casino Operator. He Plans to Give It to Charity.

SPRINGFIELD, July 3 -- Don Harmon has spent years telling colleagues in the Illinois Senate that expanding online gambling is a bad idea. In February, the Illinois Gaming Board agreed - at least about... Read More


Beijing Pilot Who Crashed Into CITIC Tower Had Anxiety and Wrote About Ending His Life

New Delhi, July 3 -- BEIJING - His name was Liu. He was 66 years old, divorced, and living alone in a city of 22 million people when he made his final flight. He had suffered from anxiety for years. I... Read More


US-Iran Ceasefire Clears Room for Trump's Tariff Campaign Against 60 Nations

DUBAI, July 2 -- For American motorists, the US-Iran ceasefire delivered something straightforward: cheaper fuel for the first time in months, as Brent crude posted its worst quarterly decline since 2... Read More


Gulf Real Estate Giants Paid Trump $38 Million as His Global Revenue Tripled to $2.2 Billion

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- Donald Trump's personal finances grew at a pace that would be striking in any industry last year: total revenue reached at least $2.2 billion in 2025, against $622 million in 202... Read More


Xi at CPC's 105th: China's Rise Offered as a Model for Developing Nations

BEIJING, July 2 -- The Great Hall of the People filled with ordered ceremony on Tuesday, and Xi Jinping walked to the podium carrying fourteen years of unchallenged authority and a message he believes... Read More


Trump Reviewed Plans to Resume Iran War and Said No - With One Condition

New Delhi, July 2 -- WASHINGTON - At some point between the collapse of the ceasefire and the opening of indirect talks in Doha, President Trump sat with his military advisers and reviewed options for... Read More


American Pilot Shot Dead in Papua as TPNPB Sends 'Message' to Washington and Jakarta

New Delhi, July 2 -- Nicholas Gosselin flew the route from Wamena to Yahukimo for PT AMA the way he had done it before, low above the canopy of Highland Papua, where the ridgelines run so steep and cl... Read More


DraftKings and FanDuel Are $7 Million Into a Nebraska Ballot Push. Certification Is Tomorrow.

New Delhi, July 2 -- On June 26, the Tax Relief Nebraska campaign handed over 201,000 petition signatures to the Nebraska Secretary of State's office. The threshold to force a November ballot vote was... Read More


Genovese Mobsters Used 100 Fake Loyalty Cards to Win $1.1 Million at Bally's Casino

New Delhi, July 2 -- Alfonso Lalli is a retired postal worker from western Massachusetts. His attorney wants the court to know that. What the attorney would rather the court not dwell on is the compan... Read More


China's Ethnic Unity Law Mandates Mandarin and Extends Beijing's Reach Abroad

BEIJING, July 2 -- For a child entering kindergarten in Tibet this autumn, the question of which language fills the classroom will no longer rest with the school, the teacher, or the family. As of Wed... Read More