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The major headline on Wall Street last week was President Donald Trump’s decision to use a drone strike to kill Iran’s top general, Qasem Soleimani. Escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran rattled stocks, but the incident benefited a handful of defense stocks. Since last...

The Daily Beast broke news Sunday that Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for allegedly sex trafficking minors in New York and Florida from 2002 through 2005. What Happened Epstein, a billionaire hedge fund manager, avoided a large jail sentence for past allegations that he molested underage...

Jacob Wohl — the disgraced teenage hedge fund manager, Trump backer and champion of disinformation — has already reportedly begun attempts to distort the 2020 elections. What Happened On Monday, Wohl tried to discredit Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg with...

Columnist and global business editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast Daniel Gross analyzed the current state of the CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) dispute on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning. "I think distribution [Time Warner Cable], which we all thought was king, is in...

In Facebook's ongoing strategy to take over social media, it seems that the website has set its sights on a new target: commenting. The news comes from CNET, which reports that multiple sources have confirmed that Facebook will launch a third-party commenting system. Scheduled to launch in “a...