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Other billionaires have filled the void, including Miriam Adelson, who has donated $30 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, and Stephen Schwarzman, who gave $17 million to the group. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance

Simplified: Miriam Adelson has donated $30 million to the Senate Leadership Fund in the current election cycle.

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Other billionaires have filled the void, including Miriam Adelson, who has donated $30 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, and Stephen Schwarzman, who gave $17 million to the group. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance

Simplified: Stephen Schwarzman has donated $17 million to the Senate Leadership Fund in the current election cycle.

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As of the last financial reports, it had raised nearly $80 million more than its Democratic counterpart. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance

Simplified: As of the last financial reports before September 2026, the Senate Leadership Fund had raised nearly $80 million more than its Democratic counterpart.

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Beginning last year, aides allied with Mr. Thune sought to arrange a sit-down between the majority leader and Mr. Mellon, to no avail, according to two of the people briefed on the relationship. 0.900

👤 two of the people briefed on the relationship 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics

Simplified: According to two people briefed on the relationship, aides for Senator John Thune unsuccessfully sought to arrange a meeting with Timothy Mellon start...

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A spokesman for Mr. Thune did not respond to a request for comment. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Media

Simplified: A spokesperson for Senator John Thune did not respond to The New York Times' request for comment for its September 2026 article.

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In 2020, Mr. Mellon gave $30 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, the party’s main super PAC for Senate candidates. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance

Simplified: In 2020, Timothy Mellon donated $30 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, the Republican party’s main super PAC for Senate candidates.

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In 2022 and 2024, he donated about $30 million combined to other super PACs that focused largely or exclusively on the Senate. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance

Simplified: In 2022 and 2024, Timothy Mellon donated a combined total of about $30 million to super PACs focused on the Senate.

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According to Chapin, who would go on to a long career as an Indigenous land rights advocate, the Guna were different from other groups. Whenever they had an issue with wagas, “they would send delegati... 1.000

👤 Mac Chapin 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: Mac Chapin stated that historically, the Guna people would send delegations to Panama's capital to meet with the president, a practice he claims no ot...

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Last month, the leadership of Wargandí, the inland Guna reserve that includes Mordí, took a significant step toward approval of the project — by voting to enter a critical consultation and consent pha... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Infrastructure , Panama , Indigenous Peoples

Simplified: In August 2026, the leadership of the Wargandí Guna reserve voted to enter a consultation and consent phase with the Panamanian government regarding t...

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The calamity, which had been financed by private investors, helped cause an economic crash and forced Scotland to join the United Kingdom. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History , United Kingdom , Scotland

Simplified: The failure of the Scottish colony in Panama, which was financed by private investors, contributed to an economic crash that forced Scotland to join t...

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He invited the other men to introduce themselves while a technician with a camera started filming — within hours, pictures of the gathering would be all over tribal social media. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Media

Simplified: A technician filmed a February 2026 meeting between the author and a Guna commission, and pictures of it were posted on tribal social media.

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The men belonged to a commission appointed by the Gunayala General Congress, the supreme political authority. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Indigenous Governance

Simplified: The Gunayala General Congress is the supreme political authority of the Guna people and appoints commissions.

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While the lines themselves would snake underwater off the Caribbean coast, the project would require building a giant penetration road with dozens of bridges to haul in construction equipment straight... 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Infrastructure , Energy

Simplified: The 2007 proposal for the Interconexión project included building a large road with dozens of bridges through the Gunayala territory to transport cons...

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The Guna can block the Interconexión — and they have, multiple times, going back more than a decade. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Indigenous Rights

Simplified: For more than a decade prior to 2026, the Guna people have blocked the Interconexión project multiple times.

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In 2007, a Panamanian-Colombian commission approached the Guna with a proposal to build high-voltage transmission lines connecting the two countries’ power grids. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Infrastructure , Energy

Simplified: In 2007, a Panamanian-Colombian commission proposed to the Guna people a project to build high-voltage transmission lines connecting the power grids o...

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The gap presents many natural obstacles to development, including the wettest rainforest on Earth, as well as man-made ones, since Panama, Colombia and the United States have historically preferred th... 0.900

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations , History

Simplified: Historically, Panama, Colombia, and the United States have preferred to keep the Darién Gap undeveloped to deter the spread of disease and unchecked m...

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Since fighting a brief war of independence in 1925, the Guna have enjoyed virtual autonomy, even after pledging nominal allegiance to the Republic of Panama. 1.000

👤 Ben Ryder Howe 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History , Panama , Indigenous People

Simplified: Since a brief war of independence in 1925, the Guna people have had virtual autonomy from the Republic of Panama, to which they have pledged nominal a...

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“I don’t run the MAHA PAC. I have no idea who’s contributing to them.” 1.000

👤 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , People , Organizations

Simplified: At a 2025 Senate hearing, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated, “I don’t run the MAHA PAC. I have no idea who’s contributing to them.”

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Mr. Lyons wears yet another hat as the treasurer of the MAHA PAC, also allied with Mr. Kennedy’s mission, which has raised more than $3 million since January 2025. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Finance , Organizations

Simplified: The MAHA PAC, for which Tony Lyons serves as treasurer, has raised more than $3 million since January 2025.

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At a Senate hearing last year, Mr. Kennedy brushed off criticism from Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, who accused the secretary of being unduly influenced by MAHA PAC donors. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Government , People , Lobbying

Simplified: At a Senate hearing in 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded to accusations from Sen. Christopher S. Murphy that he was unduly influenced by MAHA PAC...

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