With its largest shareholder about to be president, experts doubt the SEC is up to the job of investigating Trump Media.
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In today's newsletter: Will the SEC regulate Trump Media? Plus, measuring how much formaldehyde is in our homes; the gun industry’s secret database; and more from our newsroom.

Donald Trump Controls a Publicly Traded Company. Now He Will Pick Its Regulator.

There have been internal concerns that Trump Media could be misleading investors, a source said. But with its largest shareholder about to be president, experts doubt the SEC is up to the job of investigating Truth Social’s parent company.

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“It is everywhere, it is in everything.”

 

— Nicholas Shapiro, a University of California, Los Angeles researcher, on the formaldehyde found in our homes. Our reporters traveled around New York City and New Jersey with equipment to measure concentrations of the carcinogen in the air inside cars, kitchens and furniture stores. The results proved concerning.

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The man who brought climate change into today's anti-immigrant rhetoric

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over customers’ names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

The gun industry launched this project ahead of the 2000 election. Within three years, the database — filled with warranty card information and supplemented with names from voter rolls and hunting licenses — contained at least 5.5 million people.

Privacy laws shield the names of firearm purchasers from public view, but the data collected by gun-makers gave industry lobbyists a unique ability to identify and contact large numbers of gun owners and shooting sports enthusiasts.

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