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View More NewsIn brief American Bitcoin Corp. will execute a 1-for-15 reverse stock split on July 2. The move is intended mainly to boost the per-share price so the company keeps meeting Nasdaq’s minimum bid price rule. ABTC shares fell to a fresh low Wednesday, and were recently down 41% in the last month. American Bitcoin Corp., the Bitcoin mining and accumulation company co-founded by Eric Trump and majority-owned by Hut 8 Corp., is set to consolidate its shares in a 1-for-15 reverse stock split, the company announced Wednesday, in a move aimed at lifting its stock price back above Nasdaq’s minimum…
A review of The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals by various authors; 208 pages; Simon & Schuster (May 2026)As the semiquincentennial of the American founding neared, a number of excellent books on the watershed events of 1776 were loosed upon the world. Titles like Michael Auslin’s National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America, Sarah M.S. Pearsall’s Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution, and H.W. Brands’s American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington filled bookstores while their authors toured the podcast circuit. But one book in this recent glut stood out…
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A review of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours by Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano; 256 pages; Liveright (June 2026)The three essays in this new volume about Thomas Jefferson hope to show that Jefferson remains relevant to our time while they rescue him from trite generalisation. “Across generations,” write historians Onuf and Cogliano, “Americans have reinvented and reimagined Jefferson according to their contemporary needs and concerns, effectively taking him out of history and making them their contemporary.”A historiography follows that illustrates how Jefferson has often been used and misused as a flag of convenience, and…
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Hyun Song Shin, the governor of the Bank of Korea, praised tokenization for its ability to simplify the issuance and management of government bonds.Shin…
In brief Forward Industries added more than 500,000 SOL during its fiscal Q3. The firm now holds around 7.55 million SOL, worth around $573…
Bitcoin BTC$59,642.58 climbed back toward the $60,000 level on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation risks had eased while reaffirming the…
[Update July 1, 2:15 pm UTC: The article has been updated to add comments from CACEIS.]Crédit Agricole, Europe’s third-largest bank by assets, has launched…
These closely related lawsuits are different, at least in degree, from previous lawsuits over allegedly defamatory AI output: Rather than alleging thoroughgoing hallucination, or…
The U.S.-Iran peace deal reached over the weekend provided the stimulus many markets had been waiting for.Oil fell more than 4% on news the…
Bitcoin (BTC) starts the third week of June with a spring in its step as the US-Iran peace deal sends risk assets higher.Key points:Bitcoin…
In brief The BSP has ordered all Virtual Asset Service Providers to build “a robust due diligence and accreditation process” before listing or trading…
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the terrorism threat level is “the highest it’s ever been” as…
Crypto traders will hope the week offers a reprieve to months of geopolitical anxiety that has stifled risk assets following Sunday’s announcement of an…
The borrowing pushed the USD1 pool to 93% utilization, meaning retail depositors who had lent USD1 to the pool expecting to withdraw at will…
Brenda Brooks, a former school bus driver in Ohio, received the maximum sentence of 18 months in jail and five years of probation after…