North was convicted in 1989 on three felony charges for helping to arrange the illicit sale of weapons to Iran and divert the proceeds to fund a secret war against anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
North was part of the twin schemes to sell weapons to Iran and then use proceeds to fund anti-communist rebels, known as the Contras, in Nicaragua.
This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
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David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
The state Republicans have routinely witnessed battles between far-right insurgents who in recent years have complained the party isn’t Trumpy enough and the financial institutional wing that has long been the GOP establishment and funded the party for decades.
Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
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Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
In a recent study published in Nature Aging, researchers at UC San Francisco sought to identify the molecular troublemakers that cause our brains to age prematurely.
TikTok, Bluesky, Substack, the gaming platform Discord and other new players, big and small, can all learn from past policies for keeping extremists off the Internet—and return to those content moderation roots.
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Steven Stalinsky,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
High-profile extremists of the time such as Richard Butler, Robert Mathews and David Lane supported the plan.
When Sarah McLachlan first hatched the idea for the 1990s women-only Lilith Fair tour, concert promoters openly questioned whether female singer-songwriters could perform back to back on a traveling festival bill and sell enough tickets.
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Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
Important To The Event IndyCar and Penske Entertainment – the promoters of the Music City Grand Prix – indicated approximately 40,000 people were in attendance over the course of the two-day, Labor Day weekend event.
Further east, the Russian revolutionaries of 1917 adopted a utopian faith in material progress and science.
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Sonja Fritzsche,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
The film was One Battle After Another, Anderson’s high-octane adaptation of Vineland, Thomas Pynchon’s anarchic 1990 novel about a crew of former leftist revolutionaries — the French 75 — living in a slightly more dystopian version of present-day America.
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