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View More NewsAn excerpt from today’s long decision in Democracy Partners, LLC v. O’Keefe by D.C. Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, joined by Judge Harry Edwards (read this post for more on the facts and on a separate fraud claim): Creamer [the target of a Project Veritas undercover investigation] brought those claims under the provisions of the federal and D.C. wiretapping laws that make it unlawful to secretly record a conversation with another “for the purpose of committing any crim[e] or tor[t].” The jury agreed with Creamer that Maass [a Project Veritas employee who, under false pretenses, applied for and got an…
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from the because-of-course-they-did dept This news will come as no surprise to anyone. Those who have been following police misconduct revelations for years have…
Dakar, August 21, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) calls on Togolese authorities to drop the charges against French journalists Sebastian Perez Pezzani and Gaël Mocaër,…
ENA is rallying on a $1 billion FalconX deal, while HYPE tests its record, though flat dominance shows this is no broad alt season.…
Digital Asset, the creator of the Canton Network, and former US House Speaker Paul Ryan’s American Idea Foundation plan to pilot a blockchain-based system…
France’s central bank deputy governor called Tuesday for the “mobilization of all relevant European players, public and private,” to develop tokenized money.Beau’s comments are…
Key takeaways:ETH derivatives metrics show professional traders are holding steady and haven’t flipped bearish despite recent DeFi exploits.Ethereum’s 53% Total Value Locked market share…
In brief A malicious Hugging Face repository impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter model reached #1 trending on the platform. The malware registered approximately 244,000 downloads…
An Alabama construction worker who is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after he was arrested twice last year, despite being a U.S.…
Core consumer prices — which would have stripped out what everyone already knew were surging energy costs — rose 0.4% in April, double March’s…
The government of Bermuda announced that it will begin moving payment and financial-services activities to the Stellar network as part of its plans to…
In brief Exodus (EXOD) is expanding into the full payments stack with its Exodus Pay platform and new stablecoin. The firm completed two acquisitions…
from the found-the-vote-fraud dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons,…