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A Philedelphia man admitted in federal court that he was involved in the killing masterminded by longtime New Jersey political operative Sean Caddle.

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Transparency International, a global movement working towards ridding business, governments, civil society and ordinary people of corruption, on Tuesday released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) report. The CPI measures the levels of perceived corruption in the public sectors of 18...

A New Jersey political operative admitted to masterminding a 2014 murder-for-hire plot that left a Jersey City man dead.

MADISON — Wisconsin could see a messy and expensive Republican primary in the governor’s race this fall, something that party leadership and political experts say would be a liability in what’s certain to be a close race. On Monday, heavyweight political donor Dick Uihlein put out a statement encouraging failed Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson to formally get into the race...

What really happened to the ‘millions’ in gold that Paul Kruger was believed to have spirited out of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek? Two authors have investigated the matter, with the help of a hitherto unseen Boer War memoir.

/ The GuardianAn army of Western social media influencers, each with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, Instagram or Twitch, is set to spread positive stories about China throughout next month’s Winter Olympic Games.

An army of Western social media influencers, each with hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok, Instagram or Twitch, is set to spread positive stories about China throughout next month’s Winter Olympic Games. Concerned about the international backlash against the Beijing Games amid a wave of diplomatic boycotts, Beijing has hired Western public relations professionals to spread an alternative narrative through social media. In November last year, as US President Joe Biden contemplated a d...

The US and several other countries announced a diplomatic boycott of the games in December over the country's human rights abuses.

Influencers told to extol country’s virtues on social media despite diplomatic boycotts of Beijing Games over human rights record