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In brief Hyperliquid traders faced widespread liquidations as benchmark oil prices plunged on Wednesday following a U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement. The…

The Minneapolis City Council is considering a proposal to bring back bathhouses where people can have sex. And it’s provoking…

In brief A group of accounts made more than $600,000 on Polymarket on trades related to the U.S./Iran ceasefire. The…

Time and time again, we’ve seen police surveillance suffer from ‘mission creep’—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes…

from the law-is-the-law,-losers dept The courts keep pounding the nails home. What this government is engaged in is illegal, on…

This week, guest host Zach Weissmueller is joined by Jacob Siegel, a journalist and author of The Information State, a…

Amman, April 8, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the killing of Lebanese journalist Ghada Dayekh in an Israeli…

In brief An OCCRP investigation linked the AB network project to individuals later sanctioned over alleged scam operations. World Liberty…

OpenAI’s “New Deal” for the AI age is full of old—and failed—ideas.  On Monday, OpenAI published Industrial Policy for the…

In brief Moo Deng (MOODENG) is up more than 6% in the last 24 hours amid news a man was…

Two weeks to stop the war? After warning earlier this week that a “whole civilization will die” without a deal,…

Washington, D.C., April 8, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by new reports about spear-phishing attacks against…