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View More NewsThe first murder I witnessed was at age 3, on September 11, 2001. Although I was too young to fully grasp what the burning towers across the Hudson River meant, I soon came to understand that many families around us had lost someone forever. (I later learned that, like many other New Yorkers, my aunt barely missed becoming one of the victims by being late to work.) And I heard that a stranger from a strange land named “Osama bin Laden” was responsible. A little under a decade later, the U.S. government announced that it had killed bin Laden, to…
When President Donald Trump announced a takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last year, he claimed to be fighting a specific sort of cultural rot at the Washington, D.C., institution. “We don’t need woke at the Kennedy Center,” he said in February 2025. “So I’ll be there until such time as it gets to be running right.” The president abandoned that in May 2026, after a federal judge ruled that the center was illegally renamed after Trump. Trump’s remedy for a “woke” Kennedy Center was to replace one alleged strain of political capture with another. The center operates in…
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It was nearly ten years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory—hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction. And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who…
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More than four decades after Bulgarian dissident and writer Georgi Markov was assassinated in London, governments and their proxies continue to reach across borders…
Bitcoin Suisse plans to shift up to half of its Swiss jobs abroad as the crypto financial services firm expands its international operations.Founded in…
If the U.S. wins the AI race against China, it might have South Korea to thank. On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that…
It has been just over a year since 31 journalists were killed by a single bomb in the Yemen capital of Sanaa. The Italian…
Anchorage Digital has partnered with stablecoin protocol Frgmnt to give institutional clients access to its fUSD and sfUSD tokens through Anchorage’s custody platform.The integration…
In brief Bitwise is liquidating its Dogecoin ETF less than a year after its November 2025 debut. BWOW held about $722,000 in net assets…
Rahinah Ibrahim was on her way to a conference in Hawaii when her world was thrown into chaos. The Malaysian citizen was a doctoral…
Traders could look past an expected Fed hike and weigh what higher rates are signaling about the economy. Read the full article here
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In brief August CPI rose 3.4% year over year and 0.4% month over month, both matching consensus, per Bureau of Labor Statistics data released…
Former senior policy adviser to President Donald Trump Stephen Moore and the Cato Institute’s Scott Lincicome debate the resolution, “As a means of gaining…
Dakar, September 11, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Togolese authorities to investigate the seizure and assault of journalist Roland Yaovi Kodjo, prosecute…