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View More NewsUpdate (July 30, 11:25 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a statement from the White House.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation to create a new US government agency focused entirely on addressing corruption at the federal level, noting President Donald Trump’s gains from “various, and extremely lucrative, cryptocurrency ventures.”In a Thursday notice, Schumer said that he had introduced a bill called the Anti-Corruption Bureau Creation Act, which, if passed, would have the authority to “investigate, enforce, and prevent executive branch corruption.” The text of the bill addressed Congress’ findings that Trump had disclosed earning more than…
UMass Dartmouth recently rescinded the student newspaper adviser’s contract, and student journalists suspect the decision is part of a broader effort to quell their coverage. When student journalists publish work that makes administrators uncomfortable, their advisers increasingly seem to pay the price. Just weeks ago, a Colorado high school reassigned a student newspaper adviser after students published controversial content. And last year, Indiana University was at the center of a student press firestorm when it fired longtime adviser Jim Rodenbush after allegedly ordering him to censor his own students. At public institutions, student press law protections aren’t only important for student journalists. They are integral…
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A review of A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women by Steve Stewart-Williams; 362 pages; Forum, London (June 2026) “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off!”—Gloria Steinem, 2019 In January 2005, at a private conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard President Lawrence Summers violated a central taboo of liberal discourse. In a discussion of why men were overrepresented in tenured science and engineering positions at top universities, he suggested that one possible cause was genetic differences between the sexes.Summers offered this as…
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Some of the world’s biggest banks have completed real cross-border payments using tokenized money in a test led by the Bank for International Settlements…
Canadians’ ownership of cryptocurrencies increased to 25% in 2026 from 10% in 2023, new data from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) shows. In the…
In brief IBM says it demonstrated “trusted quantum advantage” using 70 logical qubits and a new error-correction method. The experiment completed a computation beyond…
from the one-eyed-jack-asses dept The on-again, off-again, new forever war we’ve been cursed with because Donald Trump felt people just weren’t paying attention to…
Key points:Bitcoin is under pressure as net outflows from the BTC ETFs highlight a shift in institutional investor sentiment.Most major altcoins look weak, suggesting…
In brief DeepSeek made its 75% V4-Pro discount permanent on May 22, locking in output at $0.87 per million tokens. Xiaomi cut MiMo-V2.5 prices…
Anti-tech extremists are beginning to worry federal law enforcement authorities. Wired obtained “more than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security,…
Jefferies said it expects a new wave of crypto and blockchain-related public listings as institutional adoption of digital asset infrastructure accelerates across Wall Street…
Mastercard’s US transaction services unit has received a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), allowing the payments giant to…
In brief Cash App has introduced fee-free USDC stablecoin transactions across Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, and Arbitrum. Unlike Venmo, Cash App automatically converts incoming stablecoins…
from the a-well-ranked-idea dept Even if you don’t live in California you’ve probably heard about the California primary coming up on June 2 (although…
To read some of the press coverage, one would think the biggest winner of yesterday’s Texas Republican primary runoff is James Talarico, the Democratic…