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View More NewsMiami, March 17, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Haitian authorities to find and ensure the safe return of Haitian journalists Osnel Espérance and Junior Célestin, who were abducted Friday while reporting in the capital city Port-au-Prince, according to Haitian media outlets Le Nouvelliste and VantBef Info. Espérance and Célestin, who work respectively for Uni FM and Megastar, two independent radio stations, were on an assignment near a gang-controlled neighborhood when they were intercepted by armed individuals affiliated with the 5 Second gang, according to news reports. “Violence in Haiti is at an intolerable level, making it nearly impossible for…
In brief The joint committee called crypto donations an “unnecessary and unacceptably high risk” and wants a binding moratorium written into the Representation of the People Bill. The report demands a new national Political Finance Enforcement Unit inside the National Crime Agency and tighter rules on overseas donors. An expert told Decrypt that KYC-based bans would create “a massive honeypot” for adversaries by forcing parties to centralize donor data. A UK parliamentary committee has urged an immediate ban on crypto donations to political parties, but at least one industry expert warns the move could backfire, creating new cybersecurity risks even…
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A Review of Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, 216 pages, Princeton UP (September 2025). The seventeenth-century English poet and playwright Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the first women to make a living from writing. Her life was extraordinary, although many details are obscure. We know she was born in 1640, probably the daughter of a barber in Kent, and was briefly married to a Dutch or German man whose surname she used professionally. She worked as a spy in Antwerp for Charles II following the Stuart Restoration, where she used…
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Robinhood’s (HOOD) newly launched venture fund has added stakes in Stripe and ElevenLabs, marking its first disclosed investments since beginning trading earlier this month.Robinhood…
Crypto e-commerce store Bitrefill has revealed it was the victim of a cybersecurity attack on March 1, with the methods used closely resembling those…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued broad guidance towards the crypto industry on Tuesday, with SEC Chair Paul Atkins declaring that “most crypto…
Vietnamese firms are racing to secure licences for the country’s first domestic cryptocurrency exchanges as Hanoi moves to restrict trading on foreign platforms.A government…
Paul Ehrlich, the leading false prophet of inevitable environmental doom and author of the infamous The Population Bomb, has died at age 93. Why…
T. Rowe Price has filed to hold a broad set of digital assets in its new exchange-traded fund (ETF), including bitcoin, ether, dogecoin, and…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies has accelerated the pace of its Ether purchases in recent weeks, chairman Tom Lee said Monday, following the company’s over-the-counter purchase…
In brief Buterin says running two separate Ethereum clients adds unnecessary complexity for independent validators. The Nimbus team recently merged both clients into a…
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in…
from the bribes-for-the-king dept We’ve discussed at length how Trump’s “fix” for TikTok’s problems basically involved forcing the sale of the platform to his…
The New York Times recently published an article about Chinese women’s usage of AI for romantic purposes and how it fails to align with…
Washington, D.C., March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Monday’s order to release on bond journalist Estefany Rodríguez, whose lawyers said she was…