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The food preparation decisions that go into the production of deep-fried potatoes at McDonald’s have become a source of fresh controversy in the U.S. Armed with a questionable theory about the nefarious effects of seed oils on human health, Secretary […]

Tucker Carlson’s transformation from bow-tied, mainstream conservative journalist to MAGA ideological firebrand happened over the course of more than 20 years. Once a fixture of traditional Republican-leaning outlets like The Weekly Standard, Carlson moved to the right as a prime

Not content to give you anxiety only in the bleak depths of winter, studios keep rolling out horror movies this spring. Some of them, including these five chillers, might even make fans wish it were still cold enough to hide

Former President Barack Obama, 63, remains one of the most well-known people in the world since leaving office in 2017, and although he maintains a hands-off approach to intra-party disputes, he is also a fixture of national Democratic Party politics

FBI Director Kash Patel is mostly known as a fiery, combative figure in the MAGA universe. His calling card is unflagging loyalty to President Trump, but prior to the rise of the 47th president, he had a routine legal career

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s almost unfathomable wealth is not his only source of fame. He was also the subject of a widely praised 2010 film directed by David Fincher about Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook as a Harvard undergraduate during the

Most wealthy Americans have a similar origin story: They were born into wealth and made more of it, or they were raised in a comfortable, upper-middle-class lifestyle they leveraged to catapult themselves into the elite. Former Dallas Mavericks owner Mark

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is one of the most recognizable members of an uber-wealthy global elite. As the owner of the Washington Post since 2013, he is also a frequent target of press critics on both sides of the American

By the standards of the Trump administration, which features a billionaire president and a number of billionaire cabinet members and advisors including the world’s richest man (Elon Musk), Vice President J.D. Vance is a comparative pauper. As he narrated in

President Donald Trump has said since the beginning of his political career that his vast wealth insulates him from ordinary political pressures and makes him less likely to engage in corruption. And while he may not be in the same