FCC to Hold Big 5G Auction, Spend $20 Billion for Rural Internet

DARLENE SUPERVILLE and TALI ARBEL / The Associated Press Apr 12, 2019 The U.S. is in a race to set up the faster and more powerful mobile networks, and it's a contest "America must win," President Trump says. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

George Zimmerman Sells Murder Weapon to Fight Black Lives Matter

Clara Romeo / Truthdig May 19, 2016 To add insult to lethal injury, Zimmerman responded to questions on how Trayvon Martin's family might feel about the gun auction by criticizing their parenting. To add insult to lethal injury, Zimmerman responded to questions on how Trayvon Martin's family might feel about the gun auction by criticizing their parenting. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Poor Losing Homes Over Small Tax Liens to Private ‘Investors’

BLANK Sep 8, 2013 Low-income D.C. residents -- many of them retirees -- have been losing their homes under a program in which tax rights are sold to private investors who add mind-boggling fees and then foreclose when they aren't paid. And it's all legal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Case of the Missing Cuban Internet Cable

Staff / Truthdig May 29, 2012 The promised $70 million project to quicken Cuba's Internet connection speed was never delivered; German voters are on Angela Merkel's side when it comes to the European economy; meanwhile, a vial with Ronald Reagan's blood is being auctioned, along with one of Scarlett Johansson's used tissues. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘The Scream’ to Scare Up $80M at Auction

Staff / Truthdig Feb 23, 2012 It's one of the most widely recognized images in art, and now one of four versions of Edvard Munch's archetypal image of modern angst is going on the block at Sotheby's New York auction house with an expected selling price of $80 million or more. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Queen Victoria’s Undies Sold at Auction

Staff / Truthdig Nov 2, 2011 These are strange times in British culture, what with all the Wills-and-Kate worship set against the backdrop of turmoil over austerity measures and a faltering economy, plus the recent news that the terms of Old Blighty's outworn monarchical system are being updated to pander slightly less blatantly to the old boy's club (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Controversy Over Rosa Parks Account of a ‘Near-Rape’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2011 Rosa Parks, "mother of the civil rights movement," was discovered recently to have written a first-person account of a young black housekeeper being sexually accosted by a white man, but whether she was describing something that happened to her or was writing a work of fiction is uncertain. (An earlier version of this Truthdig item was based on an AP report that changed afterward when new information surfaced.) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 20, 2011 Tim DeChristopher is in prison for standing in the way of the corporate and governmental destruction of the ecosystem. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Picasso Painting Bags $51.2 Million at Auction

Staff / Truthdig Jun 24, 2010 Pablo Picasso's "Portrait d'Angel Fernandez de Soto" sold for a staggering 347 million pounds -- that's $512 million for those of us in the dollar zone -- at a Christie's auction in London on Wednesday (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq Oil Contracts Auctioned

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2009 After a bidding war among 44 oil companies, Shell of the United Kingdom and Petronas of Malaysia have jointly won the right to 10 oil fields in Iraq, in the second such auction since the 2003 invasion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Poe’s Poems Fetch Big Bucks at Auction

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2009 Edgar Allan Poe may have died penniless, but his poems are now worth a heap of money -- $662,500, to be exact. On Friday, an unidentified bidder at a Christie's auction in New York paid just that much for a first-edition collection of poems by the master of the macabre, titled "Tamerlane and Other Poems" and printed under the vague pseudonym of "A Bostonian." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Art Market Gets a Boost from Sotheby’s, Warhol

Staff / Truthdig Nov 13, 2009 Sotheby's enjoyed a windfall Wednesday when the auction house's New York HQ nearly doubled its estimated high of $67.9 million for its contemporary art bid-fest, in which Andy Warhol's works figured prominently among the biggest-selling successes of the evening. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )