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Inside America's Hidden Billionaire Village
This tiny mountain enclave in the Blue Ridge Mountains has just 825 residents and at least four of them are billionaires. I'm here in Cashers, North Carolina, which has one of the highest concentrations of wealth in the United States. Most of this wealth sits behind the gates of private golf communities where annual membership can run in the six figures and where you can't join the club unless you own property there.Since 2020, real estate prices in cash have more than doubled as people from the Southeast a ...
Australia Just Banned Teens From Social Media. Here’s What They Think
from December 10. If you're under 16, you're no longer allowed to have a social media account. Spend quality time with your friends and your family face to face.>> I'm Sha. I'm 15 years old. >> I'm Eleanor. I'm about to turn 15.>> I'm a singer songwriter and I advertise my music on social media. >> And I primarily use social media to connect with other people and to promote my social life as well as on my journey in sports. I think some of the good parts of social media is you get to kind of escape from rea ...
How Open Offices Are Converted to Apartments in New York City
How do you convert office buildings into homes. New York City is showing how it's done. Take 753rd, a 35-story office building in Midtown East.The sixth floor looked like your typical open office space with room for desks, cubicles, bathrooms, and elevators. 38 apartments are set to be created on the sixth floor alone for a total of 680 across the whole building under a plan that will be completed in 2029. The bedrooms are designed to be near the windows of each unit in order to bring in sunlight.Bathrooms ...
Why Russia Won’t Agree to Peace Without Ukraine’s ‘Fortress Belt’ | WSJ
- [Narrator] This is the so-called Fortress Belt, one of the most fortified parts of Ukraine. Located in the Eastern Donetsk region, it is among the most coveted pieces of Ukrainian territory that Russia has been trying, but so far, failing to capture since 2014. But a proposed peace plan put forward by the Trump administration would hand control of this territory to Moscow, something that Kyiv has previously said it cannot accept.The Fortress Belt runs for roughly 30 miles along the western part of the Don ...
Why Two Presidents Accused of Drug Trafficking Face Different Fates Under Trump | WSJ
Two presidents, Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras, both accused of stealing elections, both indicted on narot trafficking charges, but only one pardoned by President Trump. >> Can you explain more about why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker. >> Well, I don't know who you're talking about.>> Trump granted Hernandez a pardon while Maduro faces an armada and an allout effort to oust him. It seems enormously hypocritical what Trump is doing in these two cases. >> So w ...
The Drug Boat Attack Controversy, Explained | WSJ News
This boat and the 11 people on it are at the center of a controversy rocking Capitol Hill and the Pentagon. A video released by President Trump only showed one strike against the boat, which he said was full of terrorists trafficking illegal drugs. >> I can say this, I want those boats taken out.>> And the military ended up firing four separate missiles to sink the ship, destroy the drugs, and kill the alleged naroterrorists, according to defense officials. Media reports about the incident sparked allegatio ...
How Russia’s Nuclear Deployment in Belarus Threatens NATO | WSJ Coordinates
This European country is supposed to be a non-nuclear state. Yet over the last 3 years, it's been participating in nuclear exercises, operating dual capable arms like this SU25 fighter jet, and providing Russia with a base to store its non-strategic arms. Moscow says it is deploying its nuclear arms in Bellarus through a sharing agreement with Minsk which could alter the balance of power in Europe and threaten global non-prololiferation efforts.Once part of the Soviet Union, Bellarus used to host strategic ...
Why the Hottest Dating App in China Is a Park
Meet 34year-old Jongqing. She's at a marriage market in Chongqing, China, looking for a match. So, what's a marriage market.Think of it like a real life dating app, except many participants are retirees looking for spouses for their unmarried adult children. Every Friday and Saturday, hundreds gather in this hilltop park with paper resumes that act like dating profiles. They list basics like age, height, job, and requirements for a partner.Some include details that would rarely be seen on US dating profiles ...
Inside the 2025 Gold Boom: How a NYC Gold Exchange Works | WSJ
- Yeah. Good morning. Just pocket change.Singles. My name is Ben Tseytlin, I'm the owner of Bullion Exchanges. The past, like three months has been extremely busy.Gold has skyrocketed. All the metals are trending higher. You got a grand total of $9,723.59%.I need your ID - - [Customer] Sure - and we'll get you a check issued shortly. - [Customer] Okay. Thank you.- There's a huge influx of people in the 65 plus range, trying to sell their scrap jewelry. They've been sitting on this stuff for a long time. It' ...
They Paid Off Their Student Debt in Under a Decade. Here's How.
I talked with three borrowers who paid off their student loan debt in under 10 years. Here's how they did it. First up, Lauren Brily.She graduated in 2017 with around $125,000 in student loan debt. She was able to refinance her loans three times to save about $55,000 in interest. And then she started a career coaching side gig that gained her some extra income.She paid off her loans in 7 years. Next up, Christopher Valarriel. He graduated college in 2016 with about $46,000 worth of student loan debt.During ...