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View More NewsIn one of his day-one acts, President Donald Trump ordered all executive branch agencies to “terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis,” barring individual exemptions. Despite that, a new report found that one department’s office spaces are “significantly underutilized,” and it’s costing taxpayers a fortune. “The Department of Transportation (DOT) and its component agencies areunderutilizing their office space department-wide,” according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies (USE IT) Act, passed in 2023, set a required minimum 60 percent occupancy…
Ether (ETH) fell twice as hard as bitcoin on Friday and hyperliquid’s HYPE fell more than five times as hard, as a selloff in Asian semiconductor shares dragged every major cryptocurrency lower.Ether dropped 4% to $1,850, though it remains up 4% over seven sessions and is the only major still green on the week. HYPE was the worst of them at $60, down 10% on the day and 12% on the week, its steepest stretch since June. Solana slid 2% to $75 and is off 5% for the week. XRP eased 2% to $1.09, BNB fell 2% to $571, TRON…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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Crypto exchanges have increasingly positioned themselves as bridges between digital asset markets and traditional finance. Read the full article here
Free Speech Dispatch covers censorship trends and challenges around the world. If you want to know where free expression is under attack and why it…
Leading stablecoin issuer Tether invested $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá, taking an equity stake in a financial platform with more than 11 million…
Increased activity across Bitcoin’s (BTC) futures markets is playing the dominant role in its short-term price action, which keeps tracing back to where leveraged…
From Judge Mark Kearney (E.D. Pa.) yesterday in Doe v. Trustees of the Univ. of Penn.(for more on the quote in the title of…
Bitcoin BTC$73,565.90 is stabilizing near $73,500, about 10% below its monthly high of $81,000. Data suggests the stall reflects a shortage of new buyers…
Memecoin launch platform DxSale was drained of $7.3 million in funds in a cyberattack that affected around 1,400 liquidity providers (LPs) on the BNB…
I was 10 years old in 1976, when the United States celebrated its bicentennial. I remember fireworks, lots of patriotic bunting, and commemorative packaging…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have now recorded nine consecutive trading days of net outflows, marking the longest withdrawal streak since the products listed in…
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he intended to codify a “future-proof digital asset market structure,” likely referring to the Digital Asset Market…
In brief Paxos Securities Settlement Company has received SEC registration as a clearing agency. The registration allows Paxos to operate as a central securities…
Nearly 30 years have passed since Ragtime first premiered on Broadway, but the musical’s layered story about pluralism, opportunity, and the rule of law seems, if…