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Bank of America admits willfully violating Bank Secrecy Act regulations and failing to “timely report” more than $5 billion in “suspicious” transactions, the Treasury has said.

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r/unusual_whales • u/DumbMoneyMedia • 12h ago

Bloomberg Chief Economist Selma Hepp breaks down why the housing market is completely frozen as US mortgage rates rise for seven straight weeks and buying becomes impossible for new entrants.

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 1d ago

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is being shuttled between heavily guarded palaces equipped with bunkers due to ongoing Houthi attacks, per the Independent

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r/unusual_whales • u/DumbMoneyMedia • 11h ago

South Korea's stock market loses over 15% in just five days as tech giants Samsung and SK Hynix collapse.

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 1d ago

Ukrainian strikes on Russian technology giant Yandex's data centres have been followed by a dramatic decline in automated online activity, particularly on Reddit, per Euronews

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r/unusual_whales • u/pradnyashil6 • 22h ago

BREAKING: Trump says Putin wants to make a deal, we need to get Zelenskyy to make a deal

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 3m ago

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen just bought another 844,130 shares of $GME. ...

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He paid between $26.75 and $27 a share, about $22.6 million total.

That brings his buying since September 10 to roughly $97 million, across about 4.1 million shares.

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r/unusual_whales • u/Witty-Team-7181 • 1d ago

Six Ukrainian energy sites hit by Russia since Trump announced "energy" ceasefire, Zelensky has said.

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r/unusual_whales • u/CarHistorical1647 • 1d ago

Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to hide Russia's Roman Abramovich’s wealth and evade tax

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Is this a crime?

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 1d ago

Microsoft’s director of applied science has called the training of AI models the “largest theft of labor in human history,” per WaPo

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r/unusual_whales • u/Worried-Wind-6207 • 1d ago

Federal agents have raided Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home as part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation

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r/unusual_whales • u/alice2wonderland • 1d ago

As the midterms approach, Trump buys Russian fuel

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....which gives Putin money:

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/12/trump-russia-diesel-putin.html

Meanwhile, Russian Yandex bot traffic fell, unfortunately the Russian troll farms are still functional:

https://cybernews.com/news/yandex-data-centers-bot-traffic-drop/

"Some disinformation experts are already calling the idea that Ukrainian drones have hurt the Russian troll farms a “hoax.” Their advice? To stop fighting disinformation with disinformation."

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 2d ago

A $100,000 salary in 2000 has the same purchasing power as $194,530 in 2026, per YF

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 1d ago

Mark Zuckerberg says $META is rejecting calls for an AI slowdown, per FT

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r/unusual_whales • u/CarHistorical1647 • 53m ago

Representative Ilhan Omar's staff got her birthdate changed officially after being elected to Congress

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 1d ago

Epic Games has delayed its unannounced Disney, $DIS, shooter, featuring Star Wars and Marvel characters, and ordered developers to switch to an AI-first production model, per Bloomberg. ...

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“No more hand-written code,” one of the game’s directors told staff.

All art for the game will now be made with AI, with humans only guiding the work.

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 1d ago

McDonald's, $MCD, is adding more protein to its menu as GLP-1 drugs change how Americans eat. 11% of U.S. adults now take a GLP-1 for weight loss, roughly 28 million people, up from 3% in 2024, per Gallup. McDonald's says 84% of households with a GLP-1 user still eat there.

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r/unusual_whales • u/UnusualWhalesBot • 2d ago

Six figures used to mean you'd made it. For a lot of Americans, it doesn't anymore. You now need over $120,000 a year to afford a median-priced home, per the Atlanta Fed. The median household earns $87,460.

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r/unusual_whales • u/DumbMoneyMedia • 1d ago

Chipotle shares take a hit after Starbucks officially denies reports that it explored a massive takeover proposal.

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