Silicon Valley needs to stop laying off workers and start firing CEOs

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Tech CEOs shouldn't be making $280 million a year or even $1 a year — they should be fired for poorly managing some of the largest companies in the world.

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Now laid-off employees are paying the price

A Texas 'Dreamer' found out during an immigration meeting that his dad wasn't his biological father. Now he could be trapped in Mexico for a decade.

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The Phoenix housing bubble spectacularly popped in 2008. Countless signs point towards a similar struggle now. Here's how bad it really is.

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a house in a bubble floating precariously close to a spiky cactus

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George Santos' first House race took days to call in 2020. So he came to DC for new member orientation and had a blast before finding out he lost.

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George Santos walking in front of capitol buildings

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I settled the gas stove debate with a $69.99 induction cooktop from Ikea

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Indiana's Senate race will show the depths of the fault lines within the GOP. Early signs show it's still Trump's party.

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Eric Holcomb, Jim Banks, Mitch Daniels, and Victoria Spartz collaged together with a map of Indiana

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Orca whales were discovered with a toilet paper chemical in their livers and skeletal muscles. It's just the 'tip of the iceberg' for one of the most contaminated marine mammals in the world.

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The head of an orca is shown protruding from the center of a toilet paper roll, where it appears stuck.

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The US promised the Cherokee Nation a seat in Congress in a treaty that fueled the Trail of Tears. 188 years later, the Cherokee say lawmakers may finally fulfill that promise.

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Kim Teehee has been proposed to serve as the Cherokee Nation's first congressional delegate.

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Confessions of 20-somethings who live at home and splash out on cars, designer handbags, and nightclubs instead

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Four young adults living at home broke down how they spend the money they save on rent.
Four young adults living at home broke down how they spend the money they save on rent.

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I'm a 17-year-old trans kid in Utah, and I'm uprooting my life because of a law that bans gender-affirming care

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