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View More NewsFrom the Kurdish frontline facing the Islamic State, I watched through binoculars as fighters stood in pickup trucks rigged with stripped-down autocannons, bellowing war cries. They were exposed in ways that no conventional military would tolerate. Days earlier, at the nearby village of Kudilah, my research team and I had chronicled a battle in which ISIS fighters held off US-trained Sunni Arab militia and Iraqi army units. The Kurdish Peshmerga eventually intervened and pushed ISIS back. But then they withdrew, leaving the village in ISIS hands. Kurdish commanders were unwilling to lose more men to hold an Arab village that…
The US crypto industry’s momentum won’t be derailed in the long term even if the much-anticipated CLARITY Act, aimed at bringing more regulatory clarity to the crypto industry, doesn’t make it through Congress, according to 250 Digital Asset Management CEO Chris Perkins.“If not, we’re going to be just fine,” Perkins said on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast on Friday, emphasizing that the two major financial regulators are already building workable frameworks.Perkins pointed to ongoing efforts by US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins and Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Michael Selig, following the agencies’ joint interpretation released…
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In April 2020, I published an essay in these pages investigating attempts to boost minority (specifically black) enrolment in America’s medical schools. These attempts consisted mostly of subtle bookkeeping gimmickry that under-counted grade point averages and Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores while giving greater weight to “non-cognitive skills.” A month after that essay appeared, in Minneapolis, a white cop knelt on a black man’s neck for nine minutes and sparked one of the greatest moral panics in modern American history.Declining Med School Standards in a Time of PandemicThe language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements…
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Prediction markets are shifting from one-off bets tied to major events into platforms driven by daily user engagement, according to a new report from…
In brief Apple CEO Tim Cook warned that Mac mini and Mac Studio could remain in short supply for “several months” after AI-driven demand…
Riot Platforms posted $167.2 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2026, with its newly launched data center business contributing $33.2 million.The data…
The Ethereum Foundation has completed a third over-the-counter (OTC) sale of ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies, offloading another 10,000 ETH at an average price…
The fastest-growing branch of Al Qaeda today is in West Africa. Earlier this week, former rock star Iyad Ag Ghali and his followers, known…
Latest developments: ETF inflows are signaling renewed confidence from traditional investors.Spot Bitcoin ETFs have absorbed almost $2 billion year-to-date, 21Shares CIO Adrian Fritz said…
KuCoin EU has appointed a new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) chief and expanded its compliance team in Vienna, weeks after Austrian regulators barred the exchange…
In brief Polymarket has reportedly approached the CFTC to lift the four-year ban on its main on-chain exchange. The agency’s only sitting commissioner, Chair…
Former Fauci aide charged. Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that they’d charged David Morens, a former adviser to Anthony Fauci, with…
NEW YORK — When Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan show up at a crypto conference not just as speakers but also as sponsors, something has…
Andre Cronje says much of decentralized finance is “no longer DeFi” in the strict sense, as builders debate whether circuit breakers and other emergency…
In brief Bitcoin’s recovery rally is capped between $80,400 to $82,000 due to a confluence of massive sell orders, CME gap, and key technical…