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View More NewsIn recent years, the progressive left has pursued a systematic effort to apply the traditional minimum wage to restaurant workers. The latest battleground for this fight has become Chicago, where the progressive city council recently bowed to economic reality and voted to freeze another pending minimum wage hike for restaurant employees in the city. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, however, has responded by vetoing the measure and is instead doubling down on the Windy City’s pro–minimum wage and anti-tipping regime. At the center of the Chicago fireworks is an ongoing progressive effort to eliminate what’s known as the tipped-wage credit for restaurant and hospitality…
Investment bank Morgan Stanley is seeking to launch its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund at a 0.14% fee, which would make it the cheapest in the US market and potentially force rivals to cut fees to stay competitive.The 0.14% fee, proposed in Morgan Stanley’s latest S-1 registration statement on Friday, would be one basis point below the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF (BTC), currently the cheapest in the US market, and 11 basis points below the BlackRock-issued iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT).“Big move here. They are not messing around,” Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart said, predicting that the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin…
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In the early 2000s, I spent much of my time over the course of several years fighting the incursion of religion into science classes in the United States. At the time, the main target of religious fundamentalists was evolution. Well-funded groups at places like the Discovery Institute were trying to insert the religious concept of Intelligent Design (ID) into high school science classes on an equal footing with biological evolution—in spite of a lack of evidence in favour of the notion that the current complexity in biological species required divine intelligence to arise, and a massive amount of counter-evidence that…
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Negative reactions to cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase using its notifications to push bets on event contracts amid the March Madness basketball tournament range from “annoying”…
In brief ICE has invested another $600 million into Polymarket, fulfilling its commitment made in October. Rival Kalshi recently raised $1 billion at a…
from the more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same dept In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that warrants were needed to obtain cell site location info (CSLI). That decision dealt…
New York, March 27, 2026—Ukrainian authorities must conduct a swift and thorough investigation into recent online harassment against Ukrainian journalist Anna Kalyuzhna and ensure…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) bullish start to the week faced a halt on Wednesday, as BTC dropped 3.4% to $70,900 alongside an overarching sell-off in US…
In brief The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for a second consecutive meeting. The decision was split, with one member of the FOMC…
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In brief Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said the Senate will mark up the Clarity Act in April, with Bernie Moreno (R-OH) warning it must pass…
from the serial-killings dept The boat strike program the Trump administration is engaged in isn’t actually supported by law. Even his own in-house counsel…