In the early 1980s, Donald Trump saw an opening. He believed that America could support a second professional football league. One that would compete with the NFL. One that would play in the spring...
It took just one tweet. "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured." That message came from the official Twitter account of the Associated Press on April 23, 2013. ...
It happened in 2015. Sanmay Ved, a former Google employee, made a late-night discovery. While casually browsing Google Domains, he noticed something strange: Google.com was available for purchase. ...
On May 22nd, 1856, a sitting Congressman walked into the U.S. Senate chamber and unleashed a brutal assault on a fellow lawmaker. Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the chamber with a ca...
It sounds like fiction. But it isn't. In 1876, a group of counterfeiters tried to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from his tomb in Springfield, Illinois. The goal? Ransom. At the time, the Secre...
It was February 11th, 2006. Vice President Dick Cheney was hunting quail on a ranch in Texas. The group had split up. Visibility was limited. Cheney fired at a bird. Instead, he hit Harry Whitti...
April 23, 1985. Coca-Cola made one of the most infamous marketing decisions in corporate history. They changed the formula. "New Coke" was meant to halt Pepsi's growing market share. Internal te...
Canada just pulled the trigger on its long-threatened Digital Services Tax. It's a 3% levy on gross revenue tied to Canadian users. Not profit - revenue. That includes digital advertising, user dat...
Donald Trump has been back in the White House for months, and one priority is already dominating the agenda: slashing interest rates. On June 27, Trump made it crystal clear: he will only appoint a...
Can crypto help you buy a house? That's no longer a fringe question. It's now federal policy. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been ordered to explore it - officially. The FHFA (Federal Housing F...
Throughout U.S. history, the National Guard has been called in to deal with unrest. Labor uprisings. Race riots. Campus protests. Civil disorder. Each time, the deployment was a signal: something had ...
Can the President of the United States fire the Chairman of the Federal Reserve? Short answer: no. Not easily. Not without a fight. The Federal Reserve Act gives the Chair of the Fed a four-year...
American presidents have a habit of going it alone. They say it's urgent. They say there's no time to wait for Congress. And then the bombs start falling. From Vietnam to Syria, military actions have ...
The Strait of Hormuz has never been shut. Not once. But oil markets don't wait for that. Even the hint of trouble sends prices jumping. Roughly 20% of the world's oil moves through that narro...
George W. Bush holds the highest presidential approval rating ever recorded. Ninety percent. That number is almost unthinkable in today's political climate, where polarization is the norm and ev...