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View More NewsLimited stablecoin rewards are favored by the White House, and if bankers sign off, they’ll be in the next draft of the crypto market structure bill, according to two people familiar with the negotiation.At a Thursday working session meant to secure common ground on stablecoin rewards between banks and the crypto industry, the White House made it clear that certain rewards programs were going to stay in the next draft of the crypto market structure bill, the people said. Representatives of Wall Street banks that attended the meeting actively worked on that language, and the White House will put together…
Last February, Hamit Coskun stood outside the Turkish embassy in London and lit a Quran on fire while shouting “Islam is a religion of terrorism” and “fuck Islam.” On Tuesday, his case returned to a U.K. court. According to the BBC, a decision is due to be made “at a later date,” but if things don’t go his way, he might be granted asylum in the United States. Last June, Coskun, a U.K. asylum seeker from Turkey, was convicted of breaching the U.K.’s Public Order Act, which makes it an offense to use “threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or…
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Four years ago, amid the run-up to the 2022 Winter Olympics, an Indigenous-led Canadian group announced it was seeking to bring the 2030 Olympic games to the province of British Columbia. One reason to support the project, the national CTV News network told readers, is that it would help heal the wounds caused by the claimed discovery of 215 “unmarked graves” of Indigenous students on the grounds of a former Kamloops, B.C. residential school in May 2021:“With the recent confirmations of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites… many Canadians are only now confronting the ugly truth of…
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