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View More NewsFederal Appeals Court Strikes Down Florida’s Unconstitutional Classroom Censorship Law MIAMI — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit today struck down the higher education provisions of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act, a classroom censorship law in Florida that severely restricted educators from teaching about race and gender in schools and workplaces. The court ruled the higher education provision of the law was unconstitutional, saying: “Florida’s salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State’s own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry—classrooms where students are trusted to…
In brief The U.S. government moved $288 million in seized Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase Prime on Monday, according to on-chain tracker Arkham. The transfers revived speculation about a possible sale, though Coinbase Prime is the government’s custodian and a deposit there does not confirm one. A 2025 executive order bars selling Bitcoin held in the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, but that rule covers finally forfeited coins, and these appear to come from still-active criminal cases. The U.S. government shifted $288 million in seized Bitcoin and Ethereum onto Coinbase Prime on Monday, on-chain tracker Arkham showed, reviving speculation that Washington could…
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Nearly every war Israel has fought has been reactive and mostly unplanned. It had to fend off armed attack from other states in 1948, 1973, and 1991. It was dragged into conflict initiated by non-state guerrilla actors in 2006 and 2023. It has been engaged in counterinsurgency or counterterrorism of one kind or another too many times to count. Even when its forces did fire the first shot, it was nearly always in wars that Israel did not seek and did not adequately plan for, most notably in 1967. At other times, Israel took advantage of opportunities to degrade and…
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