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View More NewsEther (ETH) led crypto majors into Monday as bitcoin held above $63,000, steadying after a week that pulled it off its lows and back to its highest in more than a month.Bitcoin traded around $63,207, little changed on the day but up 5.5% over seven days, per CoinDesk data. Ether was the stronger performer over the week, up 12.4% to about $1,777, while BNB and dogecoin each gained around 5.5%. Solana held near $80.77 with an 11.2% weekly rise and Hyperliquid’s HYPE led the majors, up 14.6% on the week. XRP traded at $1.14, up 9.4% over seven days.The gains…
In a lawsuit filed last week, the Justice Department argues that Virginia’s recently enacted “assault weapon” ban violates the Second Amendment, raising the same issue that the Supreme Court recently agreed to address in cases involving similar laws. Also last week, the Justice Department challenged California restrictions that make it illegal to sell handguns commonly sold in other states, including Glock pistols. Virginia’s law, which Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed on April 13, makes it a crime to manufacture, import, sell, purchase, or transfer “assault firearms.” It defines that category to include semiautomatic center-fire rifles that accept detachable magazines and have…
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This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by reporter Reem Ibrahim to discuss America’s declining sense of patriotism and whether it’s possible to distrust the government while still loving the country. The panel examines why fewer Americans say they are…
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I brought a 510-million-year-old trilobite I’d split out of Cambrian shale four hours north of Las Vegas to show a class of eighth graders. I passed it around the room and explained what it was: an ancient arthropod called Bristolia, from the same branch of the tree of life as every insect and crab alive today, that lived in a warm shallow sea that used to cover Nevada. It predated the dinosaurs by 250 million years. It was older than plants on land. It had what was probably the first real compound eyes that ever evolved on Earth—and when I…
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from the three-years-too-late dept Trump-appointed Louisiana federal judge Terry Doughty has spent years bending over backwards trying to help some MAGA faithful manufacture nonsense…
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Today, Lawfare published my article “Callais Doesn’t Justify Court-Packing.” Here is an excerpt summarizing key points: The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v.…
Brussels, June 11, 2026—Ahead of a meeting with Hungarian officials on June 16, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges European Union member states to…
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