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My Toyota RAV4 Has Been Tracking My Driving Habits For Years Without Me Knowing and Without My Consent. Toyota and Progressive Insurance Knew About It

Is your newer Toyota RAV4 spying on you and invading your privacy? There's eye-opening information about what Toyota and Progressive Insurance are doing to monitor RAV4 and other model car owners. Here is what all car owners should be aware of.

Your new car may be a 'privacy nightmare on wheels'

New cars come with helpful bells and whistles, but also cameras, microphones and sensors that are reporting on everything you do, a new report says

Your Car Is Spying On You And Sharing Data With Third Parties

Top car brands like Hyundai, Kia, Tesla, Ford, and Toyota are collecting various forms of personal data from their vehicles.

Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I'll Help You Wreck the Planet | Common Dreams

"You won't read a more important story today," said one commentator. "Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion."

Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels

At a Pittsburgh summit, the Trump administration, energy executives, and tech barons joined as one to promote AI as the future of fossil fuels.

Revealed: Trump’s fossil-fuel donors to profit from data-center boom and green rollbacks

Energy Transfer, a top backer of US president, has received requests to power even more energy-guzzling data centers

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Trump's AI plan calls for massive data centers. Here's how it may affect energy in the U.S.

President Donald Trump’s plan to boost artificial intelligence and build data centers across the U.S. could speed up a building boom that was already expected to strain the nation’s ability to power it

Trump tells Big Tech: Your power woes? Totally fixable

: White House hosts back-slapping dinner for Tim Apple and co, datacenter grid connection relief promised by US Prez

Trump Hosts Tech Leaders at White House, Wins $600B AI Investment Pledges

At a White House dinner, Trump secured massive AI investment pledges from Zuckerberg, Cook, Pichai, Nadella, and others, while promising energy and tariff relief.

Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows

Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries

Men overcompensate when their masculinity is threatened, Cornell study shows | Cornell Chronicle

Threaten a man's masculinity and he will assume more macho attitudes, according to a study by a Cornell University researcher.

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Opinion: Trucks symbol of excess, display fragile masculinity - Reveille

Trucks are obtrusive, unnecessary and ugly. We are humans, not elephant seals. Males need to stop equating their worth with the size of the horns they honk.

What men are overcompensating for when they drive a flashy car revealed

MEN who love flashy cars really are just compensating for having tiddly todgers, research reveals.Fellas showed more interest in having a sporty motor

In the Mariana Trench, Animals Adapt in REALLY Weird Ways

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth, and we're still in the dark about much of the life that calls it home. Here are just a few of the trench's eye-popping residents.

10 Bizarre Mariana Trench Animals That Capture The Terrifying Extremes Of Evolution

From goblin shark to football fish and Dumbo octopus, the deep sea is one long spit-take.

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What polls show ahead of Friday’s Trump-Putin meeting | CNN Politics

We’re all waiting to see what comes of President Donald Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin on Friday.

The US led the charge against global corruption. Now Trump is clearing the way for kleptocrats | Oliver Bullough

Britain used to solicit money that the US would not touch – but with oligarchs and fraudsters on the rise, it must now uphold the law, says author Oliver Bullough

Trump suggests that Russia could gain access to US fossil fuel development

The US President also emphasized that a meeting with Russian dictator Putin in Alaska would be very important for Russia and the United States

Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU

The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures […]

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025

Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report says

Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions

Saudi Prince Alwaleed Becomes Twitter’s Second Largest Shareholder

After flip-flopping on his support of Elon Musk’s bid for the social media company, the royal confirmed he followed through with his $1.9 billion equity commitment to the social media company’s new owner.

Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]

Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to influence Trump and Congress, report says

Investments ‘likely to pay dividends’, analysis says, as Trump unleashes dozens of pro-fossil fuel executive actions

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025

Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

Dark Money: Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right | Stanford Law School

Join us for an author event featuring New Yorker staff write Jane Mayer in conversation with Stanford Professor Rob Reich and scholar Lucy Bernholz. O

Mapping Elon Musk's support for far-right politics across the world

Elon Musk has encouraged right-wing political movements, policies and administrations in at least 18 countries.

Peter Thiel, Trump's Man in Silicon Valley

An excerpt from 'Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left' traces Thiel’s impact on the GOP and media.

Elon Musk Is Inaugurating a New Era of Billionaire Rule

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, just used his political influence to shut down a bipartisan deal to keep the government open. It’s obscene — but it’s just one example of the ways billionaires dominate American democracy.

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Chase Agrees to Plan for Holocaust Claim

Chase Manhattan Corp. and two U.S.

Telegram CEO announces $300 million partnership with Elon Musk's xAI and Grok

Elon Musk's startup xAI is paying Telegram $300 million to roll out its Grok chatbot.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed Becomes Twitter’s Second Largest Shareholder

After flip-flopping on his support of Elon Musk’s bid for the social media company, the royal confirmed he followed through with his $1.9 billion equity commitment to the social media company’s new owner.

Who’s advertising on Twitter? One of its biggest investors: Saudi Arabia 

Elon Musk and his companies have deep ties to the kingdom’s billionaire royals.

Prince Alwaleed part of Elon Musk's $6bn AI funding round

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal has led a group of investors pouring $6bn into Elon Musk's AI startup

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invests in Elon Musk’s $24B AI startup

Kingdom Holding Company also holds a stake in Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

German Stasi murder trial 50 years after Berlin Wall shooting

A former member of the secret police in East Germany is accused of shooting a Polish man in the back.

6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025

More than $120 million from a few ultra-wealthy families who have spent years working to promote climate change denial has powered the Heritage Foundation and other groups that created the plan to remake American government.

Social Media's "Big Tobacco Moment": How Tech Giants Are Resisting Reform

A new documentary explores the harmful effects of social media on children, with growing calls for legal action and cultural shifts to limit tech's influence on young minds.

Big Tech Antitrust Scrutiny Across the Atlantic

Jeff Bezos’s Charitable Giving Is Another Billionaire Scam

The recent announcement that Jeff Bezos is donating the bulk of his vast fortune to charity should be recognizable to everyone at this point: it’s a tried-and-true scheme to rehabilitate his public image while avoiding paying taxes.

38 Schemers, Scammers and Loophole-Exploiters That Got An A for Effort But An F for Fraud Charges

Robberies without all that messy smashing-and-grabbing nonsense