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View More NewsMexico City, July 17, 2026—Mexican authorities must swiftly and credibly investigate the killing of 39-year-old Josué Martínez Contreras, who is the fourth Mexican journalist to be killed in the country in just over a month, said the Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday. Martínez, the founder and general director of the Facebook-based news site Noticias San Martín Texmelucan, was shot dead near his residence around 8 a.m. on Thursday by unidentified motorcyclists in the town of San Martín Texmelucan, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, according to news reports and a brief statement released by the Puebla state prosecutor’s…
More than $1 out of every $10 of the world’s tokenized US Treasuries is issued by a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. That places the small Caribbean territory behind only the United States as a key jurisdiction for the rapidly growing asset class, according to BVI Finance.BVI Finance’s Destination Digital report in June found that BVI entities accounted for approximately $1.5 billion of the $14.98 billion global market for tokenized US Treasuries as of June 1.A growing list of digital asset firms now call the British Virgin Islands home, including Kraken’s parent company, Payward, Bitstamp (recently acquired by…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character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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Bitcoin fell to about $63,000 on Friday, down 1.7% over 24 hours and 2.2% on the week, as a deepening selloff in chipmakers dragged…
The United Kingdom National Crime Agency (NCA) and City of London Police said two men associated with the “Scattered Spider” hacking group were sentenced…
In brief Bitcoin is trading near $63,000, down around 2% on the day and roughly 47% below its October record, as investors retreat from…
The crypto market fell Friday, with bitcoin BTC$63,097.25 recovering from a drop below $63,000 to trade down 1.2% since midnight UTC and ether (ETH)…
Bitcoin’s drop below $73,000 on Wednesday marks a short-term turning point for the market, as multiple BTC distribution signals point toward rising sell-side pressure. While…
In brief KAIKAKU.AI published Epicure, a family of three ingredient AI models trained on 4.14 million multilingual recipes. The model doesn’t store recipes—it stores…
from the baby-steps dept I’ve written quite a bit about the Stop Killing Games movement, in no small part because I think it’s way…
I am happy to pass along this hiring notice from my friends at ADF: Alliance Defending Freedom is seeking Senior Counsel with 10+ years…
Ethereum core developers may soon get a new source of funding: a blockchain lottery.Decentralized lottery protocol Megapot said Thursday it is teaming up with…
Bit Digital purchased $20 million worth of Ether earlier this month, increasing its holdings to roughly 158,462 ETH. The Nasdaq-listed company said Thursday it…
In brief Supporters say the Clarity Act would make the U.S. the global leader in crypto regulation and influence policy abroad. Critics like Sen.…
From Doe v. U.S. Dep’t of State, decided yesterday by Chief Judge James Boasberg (D.D.C.): Plaintiffs are 49 U.S. visa applicants. Their applications were…