A judge who sealed evidence related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes has ties to financial institutions implicated in the disgraced investor’s sex trafficking operation. 
      
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 A bipartisan bill passed unanimously by the House would sell out working-class investors to private equity under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 
      
   Judges appear to be using artificial intelligence to issue rulings — and the errors are adding up. 
      
   Private equity firms owe their investors $1.5 trillion, and the Trump administration is set to offer them your 401(k) to fill the gap. 
      
   After raking in billions in profits and spending big on shareholder payouts, major health insurance companies want to significantly raise premiums. 
      
   As the Trump administration freezes billions of federal funds earmarked for public schools, a startling number of parents say they can’t afford back-to-school shopping this year. 
      
   After donating tens of thousands of dollars to architects of the big beautiful bill this quarter, Verizon’s stock is experiencing its best performance in over a year. 
      
   The rail industry wants to replace human track inspectors with robotic ones, despite data showing most derailments are caused by conditions that are undetectable to computers. 
      
   Businesses linked to Trump’s cabinet stand to benefit from privatizing weather monitoring agencies — leaving Americans to pay for lifesaving weather forecasts themselves. 
      
   The nation’s biggest fossil fuel, technology, and financial firms joined Trump this week as he announced $90 billion of private investment in artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure, including natural gas.