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Available reporting is conflicted about whether Walmart permanently closed specific stores in 2025: several outlets and aggregators published lists naming 11 stores across states such as California, G...
Available reporting does not provide a single authoritative figure for “how much money Trump has made this year”; journalists and analysts offer differing snapshots of net worth changes, income, and r...
Multiple reputable and local reports identify John Mappin as a Scientologist: he studied Scientology in Los Angeles for years and has been described repeatedly as a practising or “known” Scientologist...
Bernie Sanders’ publicly reported net worth rose from under $1 million in 2016 (OpenSecrets’ 2016 estimate $873,031) to multiple independent outlets’ 2025 estimates of roughly $2.5–$3 million, driven ...
Target’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in January 2025 triggered sustained consumer backlash that organizers turned into a nationwide boycott; the campaign coincided with ...
Bernie Sanders and his wife have owned between two and three houses in recent years: a Burlington primary home bought in 2009 for $405,000, a Washington, D.C. rowhouse purchased in 2007 (about $488,99...
If Steve Jobs had held his original 15% stake in Apple through 2025, one calculation cited by TheStreet values that stake at about $465 billion (which would outstrip other fortunes) . Apple’s market v...
Walmart says it has “no current plans to close any stores in 2025,” a spokesperson told Fast Company, which directly contradicts multiple media lists that circulated naming as many as 11 Walmart locat...
Walmart confirmed a small number of permanent U.S. store shutdowns in 2025 as part of a “store performance” or “footprint optimization” review, with reporting citing closures in states including Minne...
Jerome “Jay” Powell moved from law into investment banking and then into the Treasury, where a personal-professional tie to Nicholas Brady — his former Dillon, Read chairman who became Treasury secret...
Donald Trump’s businesses have used Chapter 11 reorganizations at least four times (Taj Mahal 1991, Plaza 1992, casinos 2004 and 2009), a strategy that allowed those companies to restructure debt with...
Estimates of Donald Trump’s 2025 net worth vary widely: Forbes put it at $7.3 billion in September 2025, Bloomberg/other outlets reported figures from about $4.3–$7.16 billion across 2024–2025, and se...
Amazon’s recent wave of facility closures and corporate layoffs fits squarely into a broader logistics and corporate restructuring aimed at trimming excess capacity, regionalizing fulfillment for fast...
Public filings and contemporary reporting show Trump-family–linked small-cap and crypto stocks have produced wildly divergent returns: Dominari Holdings surged as much as 1,118% year-to-date in 2025 a...
Competitors reacted unevenly to the 2025 boycott of Target after its DEI rollback: some publicly reaffirmed DEI commitments (Costco and, in reporting, Walmart was named alongside Target as scaling bac...
Most 2024–2025 public estimates place Joel and Victoria Osteen’s combined net worth around $100 million, with other outlets offering wider ranges from about $40 million to "north of $100 million" depe...
Preparing for a “currency reset” requires a mix of conventional retirement hygiene—maximize tax-advantaged savings, maintain an emergency cash buffer, and rebalance toward income-producing, lower-vola...
The most recent official Senate financial disclosure for Senator Bernard “Bernie” Sanders is the Annual Report for calendar year 2024, filed May 15, 2025 and available through the Senate disclosure PD...
Bernie Sanders’ most recent public net-worth estimates cluster in the low-to-mid seven figures—roughly $2–3 million, with several outlets citing about $3 million in 2025—based on Senate financial disc...
Estimates of Pete Hegseth’s net worth in 2025 vary widely across outlets: several reputable business outlets (Forbes, Investopedia, Hollywood Life, TheStreet) report roughly $3 million combined with h...