Citadel’s Ken Griffin buys a stegosaurus for $45 million in a record auction sale
Billionaire investor Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel, purchased a late-Jurassic stegosaurus skeleton for $44.6 million at Sotheby’s Wednesday, marking the most valuable fossil ever sold at auction. The 150
Citadel’s Ken Griffin buys a stegosaurus for $45 million in a record auction sale
Billionaire investor Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel, purchased a late-Jurassic stegosaurus skeleton for $44.6 million at Sotheby’s Wednesday, marking the most valuable fossil ever sold at auction. The 150
The other issue with Trump’s plan to stuff the government with loyalists
Familiar figures from Donald Trump’s orbit showed up at the Republican convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday. There was his former adviser Peter Navarro, who gave a rip-roaring speech to an enthusiastic audience.
Hundreds gather to honor Corey Comperatore, killed in Trump rally shooting
FREEPORT, Pa. — Friends, neighbors, strangers — they rose early Thursday to line the main drag of Corey Comperatore’s tiny hometown with knee-high American flags. Firetrucks flanked the black van carrying his body
Far-right attacks target J.D. Vance’s wife Usha’s Indian heritage
Extremist supporters of former president Donald Trump are lashing out online against Usha Vance, the wife of Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), launching anti-immigrant attacks because of her Indian heritage. Usha
Black Republicans celebrate unity at RNC amid challenges persuading voters
MILWAUKEE — Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) was visibly amped up as he spoke before a crowd and talked about Black voters joining the Republican Party in recent years at an event celebrating
As Biden fights calls to exit race, Harris rallies supporters in North Carolina
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — As President Biden convalesced from covid and battled the biggest political crisis of his presidency Thursday, Vice President Harris appeared before a roaring crowd of supporters in North Carolina
Vance promised a new dawn for workers — one Trump didn’t bring to pass
One of the advantages that a candidate challenging an incumbent president usually enjoys is that he or she can make sweeping promises of how they’d leverage executive power. Whatever issue is most
What’s playing at the RNC convention? Here’s the unofficial playlist.
MILWAUKEE — There has been extensive reporting on what the Republican National Convention looks like, but what about what the convention sounds like? Our journalists on the ground here have been keeping track
Biden faces fresh wave of Democratic doubt as party’s fissures deepen
Three weeks after the faltering debate performance that rocked his candidacy, President Biden is facing the most concerted effort yet by leading Democrats seeking to force him out of the presidential race