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View More NewsIn one of its first actions since signing a memorandum of understanding with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it would interpret how “non-security crypto assets” fall under federal securities laws.In a Tuesday notice, the SEC said its interpretation of how to address crypto assets would serve as an “important bridge” as lawmakers in the US Congress consider market structure legislation which will codify how financial regulators oversee digital assets. The commission said the interpretation would provide a “coherent token taxonomy for digital commodities, digital collectibles, digital tools, stablecoins, and digital securities,” address…
CPJ signed a joint letter on March 16 with 34 diaspora, human rights, and civil society organizations urging the U.S. Congress to hold markup sessions for the bicameral and bipartisan Transnational Repression Policy Act (H.R. 4829/S.2525). The bill would establish stronger U.S. mechanisms to protect people from foreign government threats and to hold perpetrators accountable. The brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 by Saudi Arabia in Turkey showed the shocking lengths to which some states will go to silence independent journalists and dissidents outside their borders. The erosion of democracy and protections for human rights is also driving…
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A Review of Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, 216 pages, Princeton UP (September 2025). The seventeenth-century English poet and playwright Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the first women to make a living from writing. Her life was extraordinary, although many details are obscure. We know she was born in 1640, probably the daughter of a barber in Kent, and was briefly married to a Dutch or German man whose surname she used professionally. She worked as a spy in Antwerp for Charles II following the Stuart Restoration, where she used…
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Mastercard has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company BVNK in a deal valued at up to $1.8 billion, further expanding into blockchain-based payments.The deal…
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São Paulo, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Brazilian authorities to end the police investigation against journalist Luís Pablo Conceição…
Artificial intelligence-linked cryptocurrencies extended their surge Monday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang laid out the company’s vision for the next phase of AI infrastructure…
T. Rowe Price, the $1.8 trillion asset manager best known for managing mutual funds and retirement accounts, has amended the registration statement for its…
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For nearly a decade, President Donald Trump has been threatening to revoke the broadcast licenses of TV stations that fail to cover him the…
OpenSea co-founder Devin Finzer said Monday that the timeline for the launch of the highly anticipated SEA token is being pushed back, as the…
Key points:Sellers will attempt to halt the recovery at $74,508, but if buyers bulldoze their way through, the rally may reach $84,000. Select major altcoins…