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View More NewsThis week, we’re going to continue exploring political issues within the LGB&T communities, a theme that I’ve touched on lately with guests such as National Post columnist Adam Zivo and New York-based author Ben Appel. This week’s guest is Ronan McCrea, a Professor of Constitutional and European Law at University College London in the UK, whose new book is called The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom.As the title of the book suggests, Professor McCrea believes that the fight for gay rights has, in some ways, overshot the mark in at least two…
A media coalition led by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is urging a federal district court in Tennessee to closely review whether federal authorities arrested and detained a non-citizen journalist this month in retaliation for her coverage of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, arguing that such actions “can serve as a potent means of suppressing newsgathering and reporting.” In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, the Reporters Committee raises serious First Amendment concerns about the March 4 arrest of Estefany Maria Rodriguez Florez, a citizen of Colombia…
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In 2022, James Cameron brought audiences the sequel to his 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar. In Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron continues the story of protagonist Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). In the first film, Sully is a crippled marine living on a dying future Earth. He travels to the alien world of Pandora to help the militaristic Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and corporate overseer Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) move the natives, the Na’vi, off their land so the humans can mine it. But then he falls in love with a native woman, her people, and their world, helps them…
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Bitcoin (BTC) price support could “fail” by the weekly close in a major blow to Bitcoin bulls, analysis warns.Key points:BTC price downside versus local…
In brief The UK’s Companies House has moved to dissolve Zedxion Exchange Ltd over “misleading, false or deceptive” filings. The U.S. sanctioned the exchange…
from the celebrate-with-some-lemon-pound-cake dept As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going…
New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to release journalist Ahmad Mammadli and credibly investigate claims that police severely…
The US Secret Service, UK National Crime Agency, and Canadian authorities have partnered to disrupt fraudulent schemes related to crypto, raise awareness of scams,…
In brief The U.S. Secret Service is working with authorities in the United Kingdom and Canada to stop crypto fraud. Dubbed “Operation Atlantic,” the…
Brendan Carr’s authoritarian warning — that networks risk their broadcasting licenses for Iran war reporting that the government doesn’t like — is outrageous. When…
from the merit-based-hiring? dept Much of last week I had been working on a different article than the one this became. The American Historical…
President Donald Trump believes that journalists “should be brought up on Charges for TREASON for the dissemination of false information.” In a social media…
Istanbul, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the Turkish authorities on Monday not to fight the appeals of veteran journalists Ahmet Altan and Nazlı Ilıcak.…
The Ethereum Foundation’s new mandate — a sweeping document released Friday to clarify the organization’s role and principles — sparked a torrent of reactions,…
Digital asset wealth management platform Abra is going public through a reverse merger with special purpose acquisition company New Providence Acquisition Corp. III, marking…