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Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons' Rare Parenting Quotes About Sons

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Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons have been a Hollywood power couple since they started dating in 2016 — and now they have their own family together. Us Weekly previously broke the news in December 2017 that the Bring It On star and the Friday Night Lights alum, who secretly wed in July 2022, were expecting their first child. Dunst subsequently debuted her baby bump during a photoshoot for Rodarte’s Fall-Winter 2018 lookbook. The pair’s firstborn son, Ennis, arrived in May 2018. Read More...

How the SEC Got in Bed with the Madoffs. Literally.

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Since the story of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme broke, a recurring theme has been shock over how Wall Street’s top cop—the Securities and Exchange Commission—missed so many red flags. Knowing more about who did the SEC’s investigations makes it all less surprising. In 1999 and then again in 2004, Eric Swanson, an assistant director in the inspections division of the SEC, was part of the team that examined Madoff’s brokerage firm. Read More...

How Charlottesville forced Reddit to clean up its act

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The ObserverRedditThe use by white supremacists of Reddit to organise last year’s violent rally in Virginia was a catalyst for change at the digital giant. In an extract from her new book We Are the Nerds, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin looks at how the site has tried to detoxify itself As the clock ticked up to 9pm on Friday 11 August 2017, more than 200 men snaked down a dark, long expanse of grass in Charlottesville, Virginia, called Nameless Field. Read More...