A Chinese gaming billionaire now ranks as one of the top landowners in the US

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Chen Tianqiao, Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, a Nasdaq-listed leading operator of online games, attends an economy elites award ceremony on February 28, 2005 in Shanghai, China.
Tianqiao Chen in 2005, the year after he took Shanda Interactive Entertainment public.

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'Where's the damn paper?' An Oregon newspaper said it's laying off staff after an employee embezzled thousands of dollars

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Up to 10 hospital patients in Oregon died from tap water injections instead of fentanyl: report

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Syringes of the opioid painkiller fentanyl in an inpatient pharmacy.

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A Gen Xer who moved to a small city in North Georgia from Portland, Oregon said she 'couldn't live there anymore' amid rising costs

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T. D. Larson moved to Canton, a city almost an hour north of Atlanta, Georgia.

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People are moving to Canada dreaming of a utopia with free healthcare and more tolerance. But the reality is Canada has its own set of problems.

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Nearly 79,000 Americans moved to Canada from 2015 to 2023.

Dave Chan

I moved to Houston and regretted it. I stuck out at work and it was impossible to save.

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Jules Rogers and her husband, Marshall, in Goose Hollow, Portland.

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Rock climber plotted to kill people at popular mountaineering event in Oregon, police say

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Smith Rock State Park in Oregon.

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Don't make any major life decisions based on the assumption you'll work from home forever

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Michael Samuel.

Michael Samuel

It costs up to $3,400 to experience magic mushrooms at the first legal psilocybin center – and thousands want to take a trip

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Psilocybin mushrooms being prepared in Oregon.

Craig Mitchelldyer

I moved my family to Japan on an ancestry visa. The paperwork was daunting, but our healthcare is better and cheaper.

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Veronica Hanson and her daughters petting a deer in Nara, Japan.

Veronica Hanson

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