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Since the Donald Trump-founded social media platform, Truth Social launched in February, the site’s financial origins have been cloaked in layer of mystery. The company secured an alleged $1 billion in funding, but that money remains inaccessible pending a successful public launch. In the interim, Trump’s media venture has pulled together about $38 million in debt, according to SEC filings, and that money didn’t come from Trump himself. So, who provided it?Finally, we have some answers, according to a report from Reuters.…

This Denver Broncos season may be bearing little fruit in the win-loss column, but cities and counties in the metro area that helped pay for the stadium in which Russell Wilson and company play their games are busy unpeeling a juicy $41 million windfall from the recent sale of the team. According to an accounting from the Metropolitan Football Stadium District released this week, Denver is the top recipient on the list of 47 cities and counties, with a disbursement of $12.5 million from the stadium district. At the bottom…

Shinkafi’s Secret Share The Nigerian spy boss Umaru Shinkafi, whose name has never been publicly connected to AOG or Addax, was a signatory to all five Credit Suisse accounts. A former police officer, Mr Shinkafi became the head of the National Security Organization – now known as the State Security Service – in 1979. He held the post until about a month before the civilian government was ousted in a military coup in 1983. Mr Shinkafi unsuccessfully ran in the primaries as a would-be presidential candidate under…

A new White House directive will require academic journals to provide immediate access to papers that are publicly funded. Announced Thursday, the policy, which will be phased in over the next several years, will end a rule that had allowed publishers to keep tax-financed publications behind a paywall for 12 months. Previously, only research funded by federal offices with R&D expenditures of $100 million or more had to be published in open access, as per 2013 White House guidance. The new…

The has updated its policy on federally funded research. Going forward, the results of studies funded by the government must be made public right away. Until now, researchers who receive federal funding have been allowed to publish their findings in academic journals exclusively for one year, effectively adding a paywall to their work. Agencies will need to update their policies accordingly by December 31st, 2025. The Biden administration hopes that the move will afford more equitable access to research. "All members of…

| Out of all the Hasbro action figure lines, G.I Joe is easily one of the best, right up there with Marvel Legends. It is not even the fact that the products in the line are great, but the marketing teams behind them are truly incredible. The fan engagement is truly a great thing, and unlike the Star Wars team, these people really love what they do. A brand new HasLab campaign kicked off only a couple of weeks giving G.I. Joe fans a Classified Series 6" H.I.S.S. Tank. This is the first Classified Series crowdfunding…

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday that she believes GlobalWafers will follow through on its plan to build a silicon wafer factory in Texas — but only if Congress passes funding for the CHIPS for America Act by the time the August recess begins."This investment that they're making is contingent upon Congress passing the CHIPS Act . The CEO told me that herself, and they reiterated that today," Raimondo said in an interview on "Mad Money.""It has to be done before they go to August…

Gigantic asteroids have smashed into the Earth before—RIP dinosaurs—and if we’re not watching out for all those errant space rocks, they could crash into our world again, with devastating consequences. That’s why Ed Lu and Danica Remy of the Asteroid Institute started a new project to track as many of them as possible.Lu, a former NASA astronaut and executive director of the institute, led a team that developed a novel algorithm called THOR, which harnesses massive computing power to compare points of light seen in…

Diffractive solar sails, depicted in this conceptual illustration, could enable missions to hard-to-reach places, like orbits over the Sun’s poles. Credit: MacKenzi MartinAs <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…