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Boston lawyer once named 'most eligible bachelor' is sentenced to 5-10 years for raping 21-year-old
A former Boston lawyer and prosecutor who was once named one of People magazine’s most eligible bachelors was sentenced Monday to between five and 10 years in state prison for rape. Gary Zerola, 52, was found guilty last month after a jury deliberated for five hours and has been incarcerated since then. Prosecutors said that Zerola, in January 2021, paid more than $2,000 for a night of drinking with a woman he was dating and her 21-year-old friend who'd just graduated from college.
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Warren Buffett once told Barack Obama the wealthy should pay more tax — and that his wealth is partly down to luck
Warren Buffett complained he shouldn't pay a lower tax rate than his secretary, called out wealth inequality, and defended estate taxes.
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Clarence Thomas Couldn’t Cover $267,000 For An RV, But Wanted Patients To Pay Out Of Pocket For Life-Saving Care
The corruption allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas are only getting worse after a review discovered last week that the RV-loving, yacht-riding, jet-setting judge did not recuse himself from a 2004 health insurance case despite a clear conflict of interest.
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California is 1st state to ban school rules requiring parents get notified of child’s pronoun change
California became the first U.S. state to bar school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child’s gender identification change under a law signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The law bans school rules requiring teachers and other staff to disclose a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation to any other person without the child’s permission.
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Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric plays a prominent role in first night of RNC
Some high-profile speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention leaned into anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, doubling down on the party's 2024 platform, which calls for keeping "men out of women's sports" and ending "left-wing gender insanity."
2 min read - OpinionChicago Tribune
Editorial: Time to sound the alarm on Illinois’ miserable economic performance
As Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren pushed for a new football stadium on the lakefront, he said that if you look around today’s Chicago, you see a paucity of cranes in the sky. That’s visual evidence of the moribund nature of the Illinois economy. But it’s yet more bracing to view the Land of Lincoln’s stagnant state of affairs laid out in depressing facts and figures that even the most ...
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What Republicans won't say and Democrats don't like to discuss about US inflation
If the deep split in U.S. politics makes characterizations of economic data a dependable tell about party affiliation, the coming Republican and Democratic conventions will put that phenomenon on steroids, amp it to 11, and leave little room for shades of gray. Republicans want things to seem bad and stoke sentiment against the incumbent Democratic party. Democrats want people to forget about the hardship high food and housing costs have caused on their watch, and put sticker shock in the cont
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