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gas

Gas station owners have found a use case for AI, lawsuit says: colluding to fix prices

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressJune 25, 2026

‘I didn’t want a refund, I didn’t want my money back’: meet a grandma who paid $485 for World Cup tickets and never got them

Travel & Leisure

‘I didn’t want a refund, I didn’t want my money back’: meet a grandma who paid $485 for World Cup tickets and never got them

By R.J. Rico, Emilie Megnien and The Associated PressJune 20, 2026

FIFA ‘just priced everyone out’: Soccer fans are skipping the World Cup over extreme prices

Travel & Leisure

FIFA ‘just priced everyone out’: Soccer fans are skipping the World Cup over extreme prices

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressJune 5, 2026

turner

Before Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones, there was Ted Turner, the larger-than-life billionaire owner who changed sports

By R.J. Rico, Tim Reynolds and The Associated PressMay 6, 2026

tiger

‘I was just talking to the president’: Tiger Woods bodycam video hints at Trump role

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressApril 3, 2026

triceratops

Billionaires’ latest luxury asset class is dinosaur bones, boosted by Pharrell’s new auction platform

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressMarch 3, 2026

vance

America has actually tried to acquire Greenland 3 other times, as early as 1867

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressJanuary 8, 2026

RealPage, a rent pricing software, helps landlords charge the highest possible rent by accessing confidential data, critics argue.

Deal emerges from antitrust lawsuit that alleged landlords used pricing software for ‘algorithmic collusion’ to drive up rent

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressNovember 25, 2025

Jewelry on site

Louvre jewels mystery deepens: Experts warn what could happen to the $100 million in missing artifacts now

By The Associated Press, Wyatte Grantham-Philips and R.J. RicoOctober 30, 2025

Landlords

America’s landlords settle claim they used rent-setting algorithms to gouge consumers nationwide for $141 million

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressOctober 3, 2025

ICE

ICE wants landlords to turn over leases and other info as it ramps up mass-deportation efforts

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressJuly 15, 2025

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump

Trump allies want to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—but some economists warn it would make mortgages pricier

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressOctober 25, 2024

U.S. cities are using shipping containers to build gated micro-communities like Atlanta’s ‘The Melody’ for homeless people

U.S. cities are using shipping containers to build gated micro-communities like Atlanta’s ‘The Melody’ for homeless people

By R.J. Rico, Jesse Bedayn and The Associated PressJune 14, 2024

A Vietnam War-era veteran stands in front of a United States Army emblem displayed on the wall behind him

The government has cut the homeless veteran population by over 50% in a decade, but 33,000 are still on the streets

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressNovember 13, 2023

Man plays a guitar outside his apartment

Marvel Studios and ‘Stranger Things’ made Atlanta into ‘Hollywood of the South.’ Now it’s back to mowing lawns and teaching guitar

By R.J. Rico and The Associated PressOctober 27, 2023

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