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Court convicts members of Last Defense Wave

A Hamburg court convicted and sentenced seven members and one supporter of the right-wing extremist group Last Defense Wave on charges including…

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Bitwise CIO says crypto can survive Clarity Act failure

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said he gave the Clarity Act about a 50-50 chance of passage, while noting Polymarket odds later fell to…

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BlackRock to tokenize money market fund shares with JPMorgan

BlackRock will offer tokenized versions of select European money market funds using JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain infrastructure, covering pound…

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South Korea arrests scam ring operating in Kazakhstan

South Korean investigators, working with Kazakh authorities, arrested 14 members of a South Korean scam ring in Almaty on July 23 and five others in…

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FBI forges law enforcement ties with China and Russia

FBI director Kash Patel said the bureau has created personnel exchanges and joint operations with Chinese and Russian law enforcement over the past…

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Texas report shows 85,000 families join private school voucher program

A Texas comptroller report released during the program's first year shows 85,344 families had accepted education savings accounts as of July 29, with…

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US and UK coordinate digital asset regulation

US and UK regulators met as part of the 13th Financial Regulatory Working Group in London on July 8 and later issued a joint statement on Aug. 4…

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Nigeria arrests alleged leader of QNET/IGNITE trafficking syndicate

Nigeria Immigration Service says it dismantled a transnational organised crime syndicate linked to the QNET/IGNITE network after intelligence-led…

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Permian teacher named to Texas Classroom Commission

Permian High School teacher Dawnna Talley was named to Gov. Greg Abbott's Texas Classroom Commission, a 21-member panel chaired by Courtney Boswell…

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Russia enacts first comprehensive crypto regulation

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that for the first time provides comprehensive rules for the circulation of digital currencies and…

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Yellow Card shutters retail app to focus on stablecoin infrastructure

Yellow Card, an African cryptocurrency company founded in 2016, will end nearly a decade of retail trading services and stop serving retail customers…

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Bitdeer signs colocation lease for Norway ai data center

Bitdeer Technologies Group has executed a colocation lease at its Tydal facility in Norway to host what is expected to be the country's largest ai…

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Senate bill authorizes HBCU sports media grant program

A section of the Protect College Sports Act called the Ignite HBCUs Sports and Media Act would authorize a competitive federal grant program to help…

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Supreme Court orders coordinated response to digital arrest scams

The Supreme Court ordered a coordinated nationwide response to digital arrest scams, directing banks, financial intermediaries, regulators and law…

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Wingate offers admissions and $24,000 scholarships to high schoolers

Wingate University told thousands of high school students they were already accepted into the class of 2030 and that they would receive $24,000 in…

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Pell Grant program faces growing funding shortfall

Bipartisan changes to the FAFSA increased Pell Grant eligibility and awards, producing measurable gains—about 570,000 more students became eligible…

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Nigeria embraces cryptocurrencies as regulators unify oversight

Nigeria announced a coordinated regulatory shift that fully recognises cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and virtual assets, with the central bank…

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Lagos police uncover suspected counterfeit drug distribution network

Lagos state police say operatives of the Violent Crime Response Unit arrested two men after intelligence led to raids on warehouses where suspected…

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Kenya puts academic records on blockchain for verification

Kenya's National Examinations Council and Avalanche have launched a blockchain-based verification platform that places over 30 million academic…

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Brown president Christina Paxson to step down in June 2027

Christina H. Paxson, Brown University's 19th president and the longest-serving Ivy League president, will leave in June 2027, a year earlier than her…

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FalconX cuts 10% of global staff

Digital assets brokerage FalconX has cut about 10% of its global workforce as it braces for a prolonged downturn in cryptocurrency markets, according…

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ICE expands DNA collection, adds hundreds of thousands to FBI database

Internal documents, ICE training slides, FBI index counts, and a Georgetown Law analysis show a sharp expansion of DNA collection from people held…

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Hyperscale Data borrows $30 million using bitcoin-backed loan

Hyperscale Data said it implemented a bitcoin-backed decentralized finance lending strategy through the Morpho Protocol and had approximately $30…

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Hackers steal data from Liechtenstein beneficial owners register

Liechtenstein authorities say an unknown attacker gained unauthorized digital access to the register of beneficial owners during the night of July…

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