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View More NewsJason Rogers, who taught in Minnesota’s Underwood School District, was sentenced to two years of probation and permanently gave up his teaching license after pleading guilty to three counts of malicious punishment of a child. During a school lockdown drill in 2025, Rogers, who weighed more than 350 pounds, stepped on three students’ backs while they were lying on the floor because he believed they were not taking the drill seriously. One student suffered severe back pain and was walking “like an 80-year-old” and “sobbing in agony” afterward, according to court documents. As part of his sentence, Rogers must complete…
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A review of Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling by Frank Miller; 224 pages; Canongate (July 2026)Even outside of comic book circles, Frank Miller is known as a gifted artist and writer who made comics grown up and gritty. From his damaged version of Bruce Wayne to Marv in Sin City (whom Miller pithily describes as “Conan the Barbarian in a trenchcoat”), Miller has created stories that resemble a strikingly original blend of film noir and dark Wagnerian opera. But the Miller who emerges from this memoir—part autobiography, part primer for aspiring graphic novelists—is…
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Token deployments across the chain’s launchpads have fallen from roughly 35,000 per day in mid-July to about 10,000, according to data. Noxa still holds…
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In brief President Vladimir Putin signed Russia’s first law giving comprehensive rules to crypto exchanges, custodians, brokers, and mining. Only firms on a state…
from the dead-site-walking dept As perhaps a few Elon Musk fans may remember, he got really annoyed at Wikipedia last year and tasked his…
Smaller Bitcoin treasury firms added 602.6 BTC worth about $46 million last week, even as the largest corporate holders appeared to pause their acquisitions.The…
A lucky trader bought $341 of a World Cup-themed Solana meme coin in mid-May, when it had a market capitalization of less than $40,000.…
from the this-is-why-we-can’t-have-nice-things dept NPR is imposing a new round of buyouts and layoffs as it tries to survive the brutal Trump GOP attacks…
Some excerpts from the long opinion in Mullen v. Giordano, decided Thursday by Judge Susan Brnovich (D. Ariz.): The Ninth Circuit has distilled Pickering…
Disclosure: The author of this story owns shares in Strategy (MSTR).Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin BTC$77,166.67, repurchased $1.5 billion of…
Crypto exchange Binance is partnering with fintech company BlockShoals Technologies in what the platform described as its first formal market-entry approach in the Philippines,…
In brief Bitcoin ETFs saw $105 million in outflows on Monday, while Ethereum ETFs shed $6.7 million as risk-off sentiment intensified amid Iran tensions.…
There is one Ayn Rand-themed establishment in Turkey. It isn’t in Istanbul, the financial heart of the country, but Ankara, its political capital, home…