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Mark Cuban’s War on Drug Prices: ‘How Much Fucking Money Do I Need?’
54 years, 11 months ago

Mark Cuban’s War on Drug Prices: ‘How Much Fucking Money Do I Need?’

Wired  

When Mark Cuban is feeling spicy, he’ll always let you know. The billionaire businessman, basketball owner, and Shark Tank impresario lit up WIRED’s The Big Interview event on Tuesday, dropping hot takes about Elon Musk, the pharmaceutical industry, and why he thinks “couch fucking” and Gary Gensler’s crypto policy cost Kamala Harris the election. “We’ve lowered the price of every …

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Top 3 lessons to learn from Mark Cuban making a loss on Shark Tank startups
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Top 3 lessons to learn from Mark Cuban making a loss on Shark Tank startups

Hindustan Times  

Billionaire investor and Shark Tank host Mark Cuban revealed on the ‘Full Send Podcast’ that his overall investments from the show have resulted in a net loss, admitting, "I’ve gotten beat." Billionaire and investor Mark Cuban speaks with local business leaders during a town hall meeting advocating for Vice President Kamala Harris's economic plans, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, at the …

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Presidents have used immigration ‘parole’ since the 1950s. Now it could disappear under Trump
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Presidents have used immigration ‘parole’ since the 1950s. Now it could disappear under Trump

Associated Press  

MIAMI — Cuba’s at one of its lowest points since the 1959 revolution, with nationwide scarcity fueling massive emigration, occasional protests and government crackdowns. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print FILE - Venezuelan migrant Alvaro Calderini carries his niece across a river near Bajo Chiquito, …

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Entire island of Cuba without power after passage of Hurricane Rafael
Top News
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Entire island of Cuba without power after passage of Hurricane Rafael

Al Jazeera  

Cubans are having a bad sense of deja vu after the second major hurricane and islandwide power outage in two weeks. The entire island of Cuba has been left without power for the second time in two weeks after Hurricane Rafael tore across its western farmlands with raging winds, destroying crops and knocking down trees and power lines. Information was …

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Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm
2 months ago

Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm

The Independent  

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Cuba Power Resumes Slowly After Blackout, but Concerns Remain
2 months ago

Cuba Power Resumes Slowly After Blackout, but Concerns Remain

Al Jazeera  

Electricity is slowly returning to Havana, Cuba after a nationwide blackout plunged the country of 10 million into total darkness on Friday. The power grid collapsed due to a heavy police presence and a recent outage sparked an outburst of unprecedented public anger in 2021. The island is in the midst of its worst economic crisis since the collapse of …

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US Homeland Security halts immigration permits from 4 countries amid concern about sponsorship fraud
4 months, 3 weeks ago

US Homeland Security halts immigration permits from 4 countries amid concern about sponsorship fraud

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration has temporarily suspended permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the United States and stay up to two years amid concerns about fraud by their financial sponsors, officials said Friday. Nearly 500,000 people from the four countries arrived through June under presidential authority after applying online with financial sponsors in the United …

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Mark Cuban's Gmail account hacked after false call from Google. Netizens say ‘you just got phished’
6 months ago

Mark Cuban's Gmail account hacked after false call from Google. Netizens say ‘you just got phished’

Live Mint  

American businessman and Shark Tank US judge Mark Cuban revealed on Sunday that his Gmail account has been hacked after a person named ‘noah’ spoofed Google's recovery methods. Netizens react to Mark Cuban's email account getting hacked: One user on X, while replying to Cuban's post, suggested that the incident may have occurred due to a spoofed sim, which was …

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Cuba: Russian ships arrive as Cold War allies strengthen their ties
6 months, 1 week ago

Cuba: Russian ships arrive as Cold War allies strengthen their ties

CNN  

CNN — A group of Russian Navy ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, arrived in Cuba on Wednesday morning in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Cold War allies. The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and the class frigate Admiral Gorshkov, part of the Russian naval detachment visiting Cuba, arrive at Havana's harbour, June 12, 2024. Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images US …

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Cuba: Russian ships arrive as Cold War allies strengthen their ties
6 months, 1 week ago

Cuba: Russian ships arrive as Cold War allies strengthen their ties

CNN  

CNN — A group of Russian Navy ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, arrived in Cuba on Wednesday morning in a sign of strengthening ties between the two Cold War allies. The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kazan and the class frigate Admiral Gorshkov, part of the Russian naval detachment visiting Cuba, arrive at Havana's harbour, June 12, 2024. Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images US …

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On the brink of nuclear war: Fidel Castro's BBC interview
7 months, 2 weeks ago

On the brink of nuclear war: Fidel Castro's BBC interview

BBC  

On the brink of nuclear war: Fidel Castro's BBC interview Getty Images Fidel Castro makes a statement of victory following the revolution that overthrew Fulgencio Batista In 1961, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro talked to the BBC about his land reform – passed this week in 1959 – and how he wanted peace. On 26 June 1961 in a …

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Cuban mercenary fighting in the Russian army issues chilling warning
8 months ago

Cuban mercenary fighting in the Russian army issues chilling warning

Daily Mail  

A Cuban mercenary has issued a warning to his fellow countrymen against fighting for Russia in Ukraine. From her home in Havana last September, she said her son and other Cubans traveled at the end of July to Russia after being promised work in a construction job. Cuban seamstress Yamidely Cervantes told Reuters her 49-year-old husband Enrique Gonzalez, a struggling …

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Republicans Share Misinformation On Biden Migrant Parole Program
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Republicans Share Misinformation On Biden Migrant Parole Program

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING While most of the debate over immigration focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of President Joe Biden’s most effective policies so far has occurred elsewhere ― at airports. The White House announced the policy as part of a package explicitly meant to “increase security at the border and reduce the number of individuals crossing unlawfully between ports …

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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

Associated Press  

HAVANA — Like millions of other Cubans, María de los Ángeles Pozo thinks back fondly to when a government ration book fed her family everything from hamburgers, fish and milk to chocolate and beer. The “libreta,” as Cubans know it, was launched in July 1963 and became one of the pillars of the island’s socialist system, helping people through crises …

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Cubans in eastern city of Santiago protest blackouts and food shortages
9 months ago

Cubans in eastern city of Santiago protest blackouts and food shortages

Associated Press  

HAVANA — Small groups of protesters took to the streets in the eastern city of Santiago on Sunday, decrying power outages lasting up to eight hours and food shortages across Cuba. In reporting on events in Santiago, the government-linked news organization El Necio said, “Due to the long hours of power outages from lack of fuel and other situations arising …

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Cubans stage rare protests amid blackouts, persisting economic crisis
9 months ago

Cubans stage rare protests amid blackouts, persisting economic crisis

Al Jazeera  

President points finger at US after hundreds of people demonstrate against food shortages and blackouts. President Miguel Diaz-Canel called for calm on Monday after hundreds of people gathered in Santiago, Cuba’s second largest city, to demonstrate against power blackouts and food shortages a day prior. Social media videos showed crowds in the communist-governed country chanting, “Power and food.” Diaz-Canel blamed …

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Fact Focus: Claims Biden administration is secretly flying migrants into the country are unfounded
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Fact Focus: Claims Biden administration is secretly flying migrants into the country are unfounded

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — In his Super Tuesday victory speech, former President Donald Trump elevated false information that had gone viral on social media, claiming the Biden administration secretly flew hundreds of thousands of migrants into the United States. It said the administration refused to list individual airports where people arrived under a Biden “parole” program that allows Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans …

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Bayer makes a deal on popular contraceptive with Mark Cuban's online pharmacy
10 months ago

Bayer makes a deal on popular contraceptive with Mark Cuban's online pharmacy

NPR  

Bayer makes a deal on popular contraceptive with Mark Cuban's online pharmacy Enlarge this image toggle caption studiostockart/Getty Images studiostockart/Getty Images Bayer is the latest name-brand drugmaker to dip its toe into the world of Mark Cuban's online pharmacy, Cost Plus Drugs. Yaz birth control pills and Climara, a hormone patch for menopause, will both now be available for a …

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How Russia Recruits Soldiers From Cuba to Fight in Ukraine
10 months, 1 week ago

How Russia Recruits Soldiers From Cuba to Fight in Ukraine

Live Mint  

On a blazing hot day in November, Raibel Palacio and three neighborhood friends boarded a flight at Cuba’s Varadero beach resort, taking selfies and chattering in excitement. “After five months, they were going to give him a Russian passport and citizenship for me, his mother and our two daughters," said Melisa Flores, Palacio’s wife. “A few hundred Cubans won’t make …

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NBA approves Mark Cuban’s sale of Mavericks’ majority stake to casino mogul Miriam Adelson
11 months, 3 weeks ago

NBA approves Mark Cuban’s sale of Mavericks’ majority stake to casino mogul Miriam Adelson

The Hindu  

The NBA Board of Governors approved Mark Cuban’s sale of the controlling interest in the Dallas Mavericks to casino mogul Miriam Adelson and her family. Patrick Dumont, Adelson’s son-in-law and the president and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., will serve as the Mavericks’ governor. Forbes’ most recent NBA franchise valuations pegged the Mavericks as being worth $4.5 billion, the …

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NBA approves Mark Cuban’s sale of Mavericks majority stake to Adelson, Dumont families
11 months, 3 weeks ago

NBA approves Mark Cuban’s sale of Mavericks majority stake to Adelson, Dumont families

New York Times  

The NBA board of governors approved Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban’s sale of a majority stake of the franchise to casino mogul Miriam Adelson and her family, the league said Wednesday. I very much look forward to bringing that same commitment to Dallas and the greater DFW area.” Patrick Dumont, Adelson’s son-in-law and the president and chief operating officer of …

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Luka Dončić’s sky hook, Mark Cuban’s unique sale and an eventful night for the Mavericks
1 year ago

Luka Dončić’s sky hook, Mark Cuban’s unique sale and an eventful night for the Mavericks

New York Times  

DALLAS — Luka Dončić beat the social media allegations and the shot clock with an improvised sky hook. 🏀 NBA In-Season Tournament on the NBA App 📱 https://t.co/YK9ZmfkUPb pic.twitter.com/svCxve36rm — NBA November 29, 2023 As Dončić said afterward, he shot it because he knew he was “going to make it.” He pointed out that he’s now 2-for-2 on hook shots …

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No, migrants do not receive $2,200 each month from the federal government
54 years, 11 months ago

No, migrants do not receive $2,200 each month from the federal government

Associated Press  

CLAIM: The Biden administration is giving people who enter the U.S illegally payments of $2,200 per month. Certain groups, such as refugees and people granted asylum, do receive cash assistance from the federal government, though at much lower levels than those being claimed online. “They can mostly only access emergency, in-kind things like shelter and food during a hurricane or …

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Cubans! Cocaine! Pfeiffer!: How Scarface survived its nightmarish production… but only just
1 year, 2 months ago

Cubans! Cocaine! Pfeiffer!: How Scarface survived its nightmarish production… but only just

The Independent  

Brian De Palma knew how to sell his wares. Influential New Yorker critic Pauline Kael dismissed the film as “crude, ritualised melodrama” and complained that Pacino’s performance showed a “star whose imagination seems impaired”. In the Muni Scarface, Tony dies terrified and distraught “like a yellow rat” as he whimpers “don’t shoot, don’t shoot” at the cops who’ve already killed …

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