For founders sitting atop a mountain of stock, that beats selling shares, paying tax, and then giving away the cash.
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Diane Brady,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2026
Strategists in both parties said that this redistricting scramble has changed how donors are being approached for state legislative races — rarely the first places where the largest political funders send their cash.
Higher mortgage rates are also giving buyers leverage to press sellers for money to buy down their rate for a few years or for the life of the loan, reducing their overall borrowing costs.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2026
The halftime show began in partnership with The Salvation Army in 1997 as a way to raise money for the long-standing charity.
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Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Oct. 2026
In 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Aug. 2026
Canada halted production of its one-cent coin in 2012 and distribution in 2013 after a short transition period, while existing pennies remain legal tender.
In 2025 the hyperscalers alone poured more than $300 billion into data centers, chips, and grid capacity, and that spend is doing real work in the top-line growth figures.
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Stephen Messer,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2026
The project will focus on advanced packaging techniques that bundle multiple chips into compact units.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2026
The increase also reflects a few additional states that expanded their early voting opportunities and ones that made more of their data available since the last midterms.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Oct. 2026
Beginning January 2027, Ford Foundation staff will shift to three temporary units to maintain its existing grants while simultaneously transitioning new ones.
At the time, Rastinejad and her colleagues wondered whether a black hole’s gravity had ripped up a companion neutron star, as if unseen godly hands had pulled it apart like dough.
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Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
20 Oct. 2026
Before the dough is baked, those microbes spend hours breaking down parts of the flour, a process that creates prebiotics, which feed the healthy bacteria already living in your gut.
In the Bucha district, one woman was killed and 21 people were wounded, eight of them children, while hundreds of buildings were damaged, according to police.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2026
Their contracts can run hundreds of pages, making harmful terms easy to bury.
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