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8/4/1961: President Barack Obama’s birthday. He would appoint two Justices to the Supreme Court: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. President…
In brief Trezor and Foundation both reported a surge in phishing attempts targeting hardware wallet owners following the Coldcard exploit.…
NA Law students around the country will be starting classes over the next few weeks. Back in 2018, I wrote…
Editor’s note: the following essay discusses Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves in detail and contains spoilers throughout. Tolling…
In brief Five men have been convicted of false imprisonment after ambushing two French crypto millionaires and holding them for…
California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) said last month that Elon Musk had “possibly sentenced to death” 4.5 million children by…
The U.S. State Department apologized after showing a map of Africa at an international AIDS conference in Brazil that mislabeled every…
Iran’s Islamic revolution was not just an Islamic revolution. A diverse set of factions, from Marxist-Leninists to religious nationalists, participated…
August 4, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to end their harassment of journalist Doan Bao Chau…
A Canadian man named Brandon Klayme was wrongfully imprisoned for 18 months after authorities mixed up his Kik username with…
A Canadian man named Brandon Klayme was wrongfully imprisoned for 18 months after authorities mixed up his Kik username with…
From last Monday’s decision by Magistrate Judge Mark Dinsmore (S.D. Ind.) in Kimberlin v. Metro. School Dist. of Wash. Township…