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View More NewsThe US Department of Labor has proposed a rule change seeking to expand investment options in 401(k) retirement plans, including crypto, moving the country one step closer to implementing US President Donald Trump’s executive order in August.A notice for the Labor Department’s proposal, titled “Fiduciary Duties In Selecting Designated Investment Alternatives,” appeared on the Federal Register on Monday, with a pre-publish version of the document detailing the factors that retirement managers should consider when incorporating crypto and other alternative investments into client portfolios.The draft defined digital assets as “a new form of investing that includes a wide variety of assets…
In brief The Blockchain Leadership Fund launched Monday with Anchorage Digital and Chainlink Labs as founding contributors. BLF is structured as a hybrid PAC, allowing both direct candidate contributions and independent expenditures. The new PAC enters a field already dominated by Fairshake, which has amassed $116 million for the 2026 midterms. The Blockchain Leadership Fund, a new political action committee focused on digital asset policy, launched Monday.The new PAC adds another player to a crypto lobbying landscape already flush with cash heading into the 2026 midterms.The Blockchain Leadership Fund, a hybrid PAC formed by members of The Digital Chamber, announced…
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Last year, Luc Besson’s Dracula: A Love Tale arrived in cinemas wrapped in claims of fidelity to Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. In an interview with the Red River Horror website, Besson explained that he wanted to recapture something about Stoker’s story that other adaptations had missed:When we asked Besson how he wanted to put his own spin on a story that’s been retold more times than a campfire ghost tale, his answer was disarmingly blunt. He didn’t want to compete with other Draculas. He didn’t even watch them. Instead, he went back to the novel and fixated on one thing:…
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A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to provide a documentary film company with a recording of Elon Musk’s 2018…
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I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez—the famous UC Berkeley economist who’s considered an architect of California’s proposed billionaire…
Kampala, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda to declare criminal defamation unconstitutional, the latest…
Bitcoin BTC$70,426.40 drifted toward $69,000 on Thursday as the deepening conflict in Iran is spiraling across the Middle East, hitting energy infrastructure and spilling…
Bitcoin (BTC) price support could “fail” by the weekly close in a major blow to Bitcoin bulls, analysis warns.Key points:BTC price downside versus local…
In brief The UK’s Companies House has moved to dissolve Zedxion Exchange Ltd over “misleading, false or deceptive” filings. The U.S. sanctioned the exchange…
from the celebrate-with-some-lemon-pound-cake dept As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going…
An Ohio jury on Wednesday found the rapper Afroman not liable for defaming the sheriff’s deputies who raided his house nearly four years ago.…