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View More NewsThis week, Nick Gillespie sits down at the U.S. Supreme Court with Justice Neil Gorsuch to discuss his new children’s book, Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, co-authored with Janie Nitze. Gorsuch and Gillespie examine why the United States is a creedal nation built on shared ideas rather than ethnicity or religion, and why those ideas require constant effort and courage to sustain. They discuss originalism, equal justice under law, the risks of government overreach, and the growing complexity of federal and state regulation. Finally, Gorsuch considers what it will take for the American experiment to…
Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week in fighting form as $80,000 returns after a three-month absence.Bitcoin finally taps the $80,000 mark for the first time since late January, as a trader brings $88,000 and higher back into focus.The Bitcoin bear flag construction is in the spotlight, while some still see a new macro breakdown coming.Dissent at the Federal Reserve contrasts with record highs for the S&P 500, but analysis warns that stocks are not safe.Oil is done and the overall supply overhang will drive a comedown, new research says in a potential risk-asset tailwind.Bitcoin’s MVRV ratio metric is now at…
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From 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…
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Fintech and stablecoin firms should consider looking outside of the US-to-Mexico corridor to win the $174 billion Latin America remittance market, according to a…
Morgan Stanley expects bitcoin to reach U.S. bank balance sheets, though key hurdles remain, according to Amy Oldenburg, the bank’s head of digital asset…
Strategy, the world’s biggest public Bitcoin holder, is taking a break from crypto purchases as the company readies its first quarter earnings report, slated…
In brief Beyond the high-profile $290 million Kelp DAO hack, Wall Street firms are concerned about their fiduciary responsibility to prevent state-sponsored bad actors…
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled by the ten-year prison sentence handed down to Bahraini photographer Sayed…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) was “bent, not broken” after a $292 million exploit on April 18 exposed systemic risks, according to investment bank Standard Chartered.The…
The vulnerability that led to ZetaChain’s recent exploit had been flagged through its bug bounty program before the attack, but was dismissed as intended…
In brief An Ethereum ICO whale whose 10,000 ETH rose in value from $3,100 to $23 million has moved the entire holding for the…
from the sad,-pathetic-men dept Anonymous insiders tell the access journalists at Semafor that Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr is cooking up a “review” of…
Arizona criminal harassment law provides, in relevant part: A person commits harassment [a class 1 misdemeanor] if the person knowingly and repeatedly commits an…
A small group of traders may be driving prediction markets, but an even smaller group is taking most of the money.A new report from…
South Korea’s Hana Financial Group, POSCO International and Dunamu, the operator of the crypto exchange Upbit, have signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU)…