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View More NewsThe West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals is being asked to decide whether South Charleston can ban beekeeping within city limits. The legal fight began when Alex Urban sought permission to keep bees on his property. South Charleston rejected his request and later adopted a complete ban, arguing that the city has authority to regulate animals and that beehives can create problems in densely populated neighborhoods. A Kanawha County judge ruled in 2025 that the city had exceeded its authority because state law gives the West Virginia Department of Agriculture power over beekeeping and does not define bees as animals for…
from the politics-is-all-about-the-lies dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Political action committees are responsible for nearly two-thirds of all federal election funding, with about US$6.3 billion raised and $4.8 billion spent since January 2025. But their outsized political influence does not just come from their wallets. It’s also generated from their names. Political strategists are adopting PAC names that signal the opposite political goals from what those organizations truly intend. They hope to taint voter perception of the candidates or ballot initiatives to which they donate. And, as our research shows, the strategy is working. The…
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This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by Reason Senior Editor Robby Soave to discuss the national debt hitting $40 trillion and whether decades of fiscal irresponsibility are finally beginning to have consequences. They examine how the debt doubled in less than…
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The gene genie has been out of the bottle for some time. In late 2023, two graduate students working under FBI supervision at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab ordered fragments of a virus from 38 commercial DNA synthesis companies. The virus in question was the 1918 “Spanish flu” variant of influenza—the pathogen responsible for one of history’s most devastating pandemics, which killed an estimated fifty million people worldwide. The orders were placed on behalf of an organisation that conducts no laboratory experiments, and shipping was requested to an address with no laboratory facilities—both details that should have triggered…
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The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) and Blockchain Association (BA) filed a lawsuit against Illinois officials regarding the state’s 0.2% tax on cryptocurrency, expected…
In brief A scheduled unlock will release 14,175,778 Hyperliquid tokens on August 29, worth about $1.2 billion at current prices. The release equals 1.4%…
When government officials threaten to sue and prosecute their constituents over speech, the public should get to see the evidence.Earlier this year, the City…
from the stop-experimenting-blindly dept We’ve been talking for a while now about how the rush (much of it driven by politicians’ obsession with Jonathan…
In brief North Korea-linked hackers were responsible for 60% of all crypto theft losses in 2025, totaling $2.06 billion in attributed losses, according to…
from the censorial-fascist-weirdos dept ABC/Disney, like most major media companies, has spent much of its time during America’s bout with authoritarianism being a feckless…
From yesterday’s decision by Judge David Estudillo (W.D. Wash.) in Arias v. Univ. of Wash. Tacoma: For purposes of the present motion, and resolving…
Index on Censorship last night honoured two women at the British Book Awards in London who showed bravery in standing up to rich and…
CleanSpark (CLSK) stock fell over 9.4% in pre-market trading on Tuesday after the U.S. bitcoin BTC$80,621.04 mining company reported a widening net loss of…
Wells Fargo reported larger positions in Ether exchange-traded funds in the first quarter while reshuffling its Bitcoin ETF holdings across several products, according to…
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