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View More NewsTrump disclosed more than $1 billion in income from his crypto ventures in 2025. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said a vote would come in September, when lawmakers return on Sept. 14 with three weeks to work through a backlog that also includes government funding and a Russia sanctions bill.Spot bitcoin funds took in about $626 million between Aug. 3 and Aug. 5, enough to defend the $63,000 to $64,000 area but not enough to push through resistance between $66,000 and $66,600.Next week brings the U.S. employment report and July inflation data. The Federal Reserve held rates at 3.50% to…
Max Friedman is a rising third-year law student at the University of Memphis. This is the second entry in a series on antisemitism and speech-restrictive policies. See also the first entry about a play about Jewish lesbians.Universities don’t have to choose between protecting Jewish students and championing freedom of speech. In fact, federal law requires them to do both. Yet when my alma mater, Brown University, resolved a federal civil rights investigation in July 2024, the line between protected speech and unprotected conduct was unnecessarily blurred.The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights had been investigating Brown’s handling of alleged antisemitism on campus…
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In what we know as the Middle East, a dramatic jump in the emerging pattern of human violence took place around 5500 BCE, the primary evidence being circumvallation, the construction of walled fortifications around population centres.Circumvallation was not unprecedented. The massive and fabled walls of Jericho appeared around 8000 BCE. Twelve feet high and six feet thick, an estimated 1,800 feet in circumference, the walls were a mute indicator of both the place’s unprecedented wealth—perhaps derived from trading Dead Sea salt—and the need to protect it. But these fortifications stood alone for 2,500 years; and then, rather suddenly, equivalents began…
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Bitcoin (BTC) hit new August highs into Friday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to weaker US jobs numbers.Key points:Crypto and risk assets gained…
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