SEC drops lawsuit against Binance, a crypto exchange
The dismissal of charges against Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, is the latest Trump administration retreat from crypto enforcement.
Month: May 2025
A Military Spouse Gathers Resources for Rural Veterans, Then Throws a Party to Bring Them All Together
Michelle Lang is the founder of Operation Honor: Rural Salute, a nonprofit with the goal of connecting rural veterans and their families or caregivers with resources they need and a community to support them.
Washington announces new cap on rent hikes
The 10% limit will apply through the end of 2025, and the department will soon release another cap for 2026 based on updated inflation data.
France bans smoking in nearly all outdoor public spaces
The ban extends to parks, bus stops and areas near schools, in a move to ‘denormalize tobacco and limit its attractiveness.’
This new YouTube Shorts feature lets you more easily circle to search videos
Now in beta, the new feature allows you to pull up detailed information in a video without leaving the YouTube app.
Massive Integrity Breach of Google Maps Germany: Fake Stop Signs Stop Highway Traffic
It’s the kind of nightmare scenario we’ve been talking about for over a decade. Google Maps algorithms experienced an integrity breach that shut down German national infrastructure. Confusion reigned on German autobahns and highways at the …
‘To Kill A Tyrant’: Zelensky’s Pick At Book Fair Raises Eyebrows
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife browsed the stalls at a literary fair in Kyiv on Friday and left with some new reading material – a book entitled “To Kill A Tyrant.”
Gaza, “Taco Trump”, Musk ‘overboarded’, Macron’s ‘le slap’
This week saw Israel attempt a new plan to distribute food in Gaza, bypassing the UN and using American private contractors known as the Gaza Humanitarian Fund. The result, it was suspended on day one: after looting, chaos and security measures were o…
Seattle Public Schools: Change ‘ineffectual governance’
Re: “Make Seattle family-friendly again with effective school governance” (May 23, Opinion): Kudos to Donald P. Nielsen’s call for restructuring Seattle Public Schools’ ineffectual governance system. Since the 1960s, major policy quagmires such as dese…
Trump gives Elon Musk an Oval Office sendoff, crediting him with ‘colossal change’
President Donald Trump bid farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office.