On this day in 2023 - 8/4/2023

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8/4/2023 - On this day in 2023

"Dark Brandon" is driving Biden's campaign merch sales_AXIOS

Pitch Deck Teardown: SquadTrip’s $1.5M pre-seed deck_TECHCRUNCH

Google plans to give you more control over personal info appearing in search results_POPULARSCIENCE

Bud Light shelf space, bar taps are being reallocated for other beers: Molson Coors CEO_NYPOST

Gilgo Beach victim Jane Doe No. 7 identified as Karen Vergata_NYPOST

Professor fired for ‘faking data to prove lynching makes whites want longer sentences for blacks,’ 6 studies retracted_NYPOST

Amazon CEO Jassy’s cost cuts deliver investors biggest profit beat since 2020_CNBC

Coinbase argues it doesn’t trade securities, so the SEC’s lawsuit should be dismissed_VERGE

Cryptocurrency - how can you regulate something that has no underlying value?

Maybe you don’t need to regulate crypto but rather lock up some of the people who you allow to operate systems that allow people to trade bogus currency. Regulate it?

Backpage Founder, Alt-Weekly Entrepreneur, and Free Speech Warrior James Larkin Has Died_REASON

Binance CEO Raises Alarm On Growing Menace Of ‘Mirrored Address’ Crypto Scam_BITCOINIST

Girl Gone Crypto thinks ‘BREAKING’ crypto news tweets are boring: Hall of Flame_COINTELEGRAPH

Streets closing around Atlanta courthouse where Trump may be indicted_THEHILL

Trump calls for Supreme Court to ‘intercede’ against Biden after third indictment_CNBC

EXCLUSIVE-About half of US Republicans could spurn Trump if he is convicted -Reuters/Ipsos poll_REUTERS

House Democrats push for televising Trump trials on classified documents, 2020 charges_WAPO

Exclusive-Trump documents case judge made multiple errors in earlier trial_REUTERS

A cyberattack has disrupted hospitals and health care in several states_AP

Lizzo Record Sales, Streaming, Airplay Collapse in One Day After Harassment Scandal Breaks Wide: Career Crisis_SHOWBIZ411

Two U.S. Navy sailors accused of passing secrets to China_WAPO

Why falling confidence in America’s military is creating ‘a real crisis’_THEHILL

‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ plead guilty in ‘spy novel’-like laundering case_WAPO

LGBTQ advocates sue Texas over state’s drag ban; say new law could also criminalize ballet, karaoke_DAILYNEWS

Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav says Hollywood writer and actors' strikes SAVED the company $100 million_DAILYMAIL

How the Strikes Could Impact Lavish Hollywood CEO Pay_HOLLYWOODREPORTER

A monumental UFO scandal is looming_THEHILL

UFOs had their day in Congress. One strange sighting came at this California launch site_LATIMES

https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2023/07/saudi-arabia-capitalsim-buying-world

Apple Faces Longest Sales Drop in Decades as iPhone Slumps_BLOOMBERG

Arsenic contamination of food and water causing global concerns – How does it cause cancer?_STUDYFINDS

Austrian leader proposes enshrining the use of cash in his country’s constitution_AP

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Horror moment wedding yacht party witnesses propeller death of Bloomsbury USA president Adrienne Vaughan after she was thrown from speedboat captained by 'drunk' skipper on Amalfi coast_DAILYMAIL

Jenna Dewan, 42, shows off her toned figure in a green string bikini while enjoying a beach day... after hitting a Taylor Swift performance_DAILYMAIL

NBC and Bravo reality show stars accuse network of 'covering up sexual violence, condoning revenge porn, exploiting minors and denying mental health treatment' in bombshell legal letter_DAILYMAIL

Parkland school shooting will be re-enacted with live gunfire today as part of civil lawsuit against 'coward of Broward' sheriff's deputy who was found not guilty at trial for remaining outside during the massacre_DAILYMAIL

MEGHAN MCCAIN: I never liked Lizzo's progressive shtick to begin with - but if she really DID fat-shame her own dancers then here's why she'll be toast_DAILYMAIL

Rudy Giuliani suggests Pence's wife had him by a LEASH and - and using the bathroom is the only thing she lets him do alone - in VERY personal response to ex-VP calling him a ‘crackpot'_DAILYMAIL

Mark Zuckerberg's 'Twitter killer' Threads struggles to retain active users - with daily user count down a staggering 81% and just eight million people logging on daily_DAILYMAIL

EXCLUSIVE: Migrants kept in CAGES in 113 degrees in Arizona as border crossings surge again_DAILYMAIL

Outrageous moment woman rings doorbell and threatens to 'BLOW UP' home after quizzing man about being a Republican because he has Fourth of July decorations on his lawn_DAILYMAIL

'God is in my wife': Dennis Quaid credits his fourth wife for helping him turn his life around as he reflects on getting clean from cocaine in his new gospel album_DAILYMAIL

Actor Mark Margolis—Breaking Bad’s Hector Salamanca—Dead At 83: Here Are The Biggest Celebrity Deaths Of 2023_FORBES

Kai Cenant's giveaway gone wrong in New York City's Union Square

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‘The Five’ reacts to ‘shocking’ takedown of 7-Eleven robber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K_bIbOQT6g

Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?_WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-shutdown-manipur-burning-in-the-dark/

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