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Jeffrey Epstein was not the first wealthy person to use philanthropy to win over powerful friends. | Martin Bureau/AFP Not everybody acquiesced when Jeffrey Epstein came bearing gifts. Harvard University barred Epstein’s donations after he pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor in 2008, a development that frustrated his friends on the faculty, according to an internal review. One physicist, a woman whom Epstein had bragged about and racially misprofiled in an interview that Science publishe

Author Brian Barth explores the makeshift tent cities of Silicon Valley.

Accusé d'édulcorer la vie de la popstar, le film «Michael» connaît pourtant un démarrage record pour un film biographique musical.

Three months into her first year as governor of Virginia, Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) signed legislation to uniformly raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2028. The move was a drastic departure from the policy of her predecessor, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), who vetoed the $15 minimum wage proposal during his term and urged […]