The behavior unveiled in the cascade of criminal and civil charges against Sam Bankman-Fried would seem hard to rationalize — but the accused crypto crook was clearly ready to spew more nonsensical excuses in testimony he was scheduled to give to the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday.
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Sam Bankman-Fried has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with leading a scheme meant to defraud investors who funded cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
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GOP backing for former President Donald Trump’s third consecutive White House bid has fallen apart over the past several months, with most Republican voters saying they’d prefer another candidate to carry on his policies in 2024, according to a poll released Tuesday.
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The U.S. Supreme Court finally heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper last week. The case involves a mundane constitutional issue concerning the definition of “legislature” as used in the elections clause. Read More.
Whatever happened to “All the news that’s fit to print,” and “Democracy dies in darkness,” the respective mottos of the two most influential newspapers in the country, The New York Times and The Washington Post?
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Senator-Elect John Fetterman (D-PA) made it into Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale’s newest film — all because the actor met him and determined that he had a face that would fit into the movie’s 1830s setting. Read More.
There are no easy solutions to the problem of our republican decline. Some have proposed a “fortify or die” approach just to guarantee Republicans the ability to compete in elections with the increasingly despotic Democrat Party. Read More.
“1984” author George Orwell warned that “if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” That line has never been more relevant than in the aftermath of the second release of Twitter documents this week. Read More.
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is reportedly gathering with some of his top donors this month as he plots out the course of his political future following his blowout victory in last month’s midterm elections. Read More.
Former WNBA star Brittney Griner was reportedly released by Russia in a prisoner swap for a notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, according to a US official. Read More.
Over the December 3 weekend, new Twitter CEO Elon Musk gave a slew of documents to writer Matt Taibbi regarding internal discussions at the company on how to handle the New York Post story on Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election. Read More.
Lawmakers in Texas scheduled a hearing for next week with asset management companies over alleged mismanagement of taxpayer dollars driven by ideological motives. Read More.
Now that the U.S. Senate run-off in Georgia between Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock is behind us, the final results of the 2022 midterm elections are in. Read More.
