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Crypto Events That Reshaped the Industry in 2025
February: The Bybit theft recenters the market on operational risk On Feb. 24, the crypto industry faced a renewed security reckoning after about $1.4 billion was stolen from Bybit, making it one of the largest exchange-related thefts on record. US authorities publicly attributed the attack to actors linked to North Korea and warned that the stolen assets would likely be…
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The Middle East is on the brink of a new crisis. Here’s where it could start.
Bottom lines up front As a turbulent year comes to a close, the Middle East is entering another period of acute strategic tension. There is a complex web of players involved: Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen, alongside armed nonstate actors including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and multiple factions within Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces. No one should confuse the patchwork…
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Melodee Buzzard’s mother fatally shot her in the head, police say
Missing California girl Melodee Buzzard, 9, was found dead in a rural part of Utah’s Wayne County from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said. Her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of murder. Cartridge cases found at the Utah crime scene in December were linked to a cartridge case that was found at Buzzard’s Vandenberg Village…
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Stolen medication
As journalists, we measure success not just in clicks or conversions, but in what happens after a story makes its way into the world. Impact isn’t always immediate or easily quantified. It can surface quietly — in an email from a listener, a shift in public understanding, or a decision made differently because someone finally has the information they need.…
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Capsule Reviews – New York Theater
Several movies are opening today, a traditional day of moviegoing, including “Marty Supreme,” “Song Sung Blue,” “The Testament of Ann Lee,” The Choral” and ‘No Other Choice.” Below are my quick takes on these and several other feature films currently available in cinemas. A surprising number of these new movies are related to live theater in some way – as direct…
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Why Britain has a deer problem
NJ Convery BBC Ben Martill often gazes out of his window to watch the deer roaming below. “In the past few years there have been loads of them,” he says. Yet Ben doesn’t live in rural woodland but in a block of flats on a fairly busy road in the market town of Horsham in West Sussex. He often sees…
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HC asks Centre to file reply on plea to reduce GST on air purifiers in Delhi
Delhi HC New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Centre to file a detailed response to a petition seeking lowering of goods and services tax on air purifiers in view of worsening air quality in the national capital. A vacation bench of Justices Vikas Mahajan and Vinod Kumar granted 10 days’ time to the central government to…
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Protests at Delhi HC over accused’s jail term suspension
New Delhi: A protest was held outside the Delhi High Court here on Friday against the suspension of the sentence of Kuldeep Sengar, who was convicted in the Unnao rape case. The protesters, holding placards, raised slogans such as “Balatkariyo ko sanrakshan dena band kro” (stop protecting rapists) in support of the Unnao rape survivor. Women activists from the All…
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Christmas brings respite from heaviest rain, flooding risks persist
Misty Cheng described what happened as the “nightmare before Christmas” — when tons of water, mud and rock flowed through her Wrightwood home Wednesday. Her experience was among the worst caused by a winter storm that drenched Southern California and also underscored risks faced across the region, especially for those who, like her, live below the burn scar of a…
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She goes to police calls in a Prius. It’s part of a new approach to mental health emergencies
Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same distressed caller over a single weekend this month. She knew the voice. It was her client, saying that a celebrity has been hacking her phone, that she needed help moving into a different apartment and why was the process taking so…
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