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View More NewsCarla Louise Collins, a Tennessee Department of Human Services employee, was arrested and charged with identity theft and fraudulent use of a credit card involving an electronic benefit transfer. After Joy Martin died from cancer in May 2026, her family noticed strange activity on her EBT card, including a PIN change and purchases, which they reported. Police reviewed surveillance video and store records that linked the transactions to Collins, who was seen manually entering the EBT card number. Under federal regulations, EBT benefits can continue after a recipient dies if agencies aren’t notified. The post Brickbat: Bargain Shopping appeared first on…
From Judge Kenneth Karas (S.D.N.Y.) Friday in Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. v. Legislative Correspondents’ Ass’n: On October 8, 2025, Plaintiff Elena Sassower …, proceeding pro se, along with the Center for Judicial Accountability, Inc. … brought this Action, alleging the 34 Defendant media outlets and journalism-related entities … conspired to commit “journalistic fraud,” “institutional reckless disregard for truth,” and “defraud[ed] purchasers, contributors, [and] taxpayers” in violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. No, said the court; an excerpt: [CJA] claims Defendants’ “violation of First Amendment responsibilities and journalistic codes by the press, including most of the…
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Claire Lehmann sits down with Parnell Palme McGuinness—columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies—to unpack her landmark report, Generation Trapped, on the collapsing life satisfaction of Australians aged 18–34.Parnell identifies six distinct “tribes” among young Australians—from disillusioned Progressive Identitarians to optimistic Strivers—and explains why a sense of control, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness. The conversation ranges across why women are swinging toward One Nation, the East-West divide still shaping German politics, the missing men in the marriage debate, the manosphere and the collapse of dating…
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Hedera-based lending protocol Bonzo Lend lost about $9 million after an attacker manipulated the price of SAUCE used as collateral, allowing the account to…
Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing its best month of July since 2022, but analysis warns that the result could be firmly bearish.Key points:Bitcoin is nearing…
Dollar stablecoins could improve access to foreign currency in economies with fixed or heavily managed exchange rates, but may also amplify currency runs when…
Robinhood said eligible US-based customers will soon be able to connect third-party AI agents to make crypto trades on their behalf, marking the latest…
Mexico City, June 2, 2026—Mexican authorities in the northern state of Sinaloa must swiftly and transparently investigate a Facebook page threatening reporter América Armenta…
The closest thing Canada has to The New York Times is The Globe & Mail, a Toronto-based newspaper that defines—to a rough order of…
The infrastructure supporting global computing is undergoing a massive shift. True computing power no longer belongs to isolated corporate data centers, but to open,…
The United Kingdom should press ahead with stablecoin regulation but avoid rules that make a pound sterling stablecoin market commercially unworkable, a House of…
In brief Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick argues that Strategy’s $2.5 million Bitcoin liquidation marked a turning point for Ethereum. As Bitcoin’s price dropped, Ethereum…
I continue to find one small detail of the Slush Fund affair (Slushfundgate?) of particular interest. As you may recall, our President’s suit against…
A U.K. House of Lords committee said the Bank of England (BOE) should reconsider its proposed limits on consumer stablecoin holdings in a new…
Top Democrats on three House and Senate committees called on the US Labor Department to halt its plans to allow digital assets and “alternative…