The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.

In May, the crypto industry won big as the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Clarity Act. It passed largely along party lines, but two Democrats with crypto-friendly records, Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), broke with their colleagues to support the bill. Last September, Alsobrooks and Gallego partnered with 10 other Senate Democrats to articulate their wishlist for the Clarity Act; their demands are more permissive than the hardline anti-crypto politics of Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and the party’s progressive wing. However, they did pay lip service to consumer protection, strong regulatory agencies, and a provision to limit the Trump family’s crypto-powered corruption. Unfortunately, the Clarity Act will not achieve these goals. Instead, as Senator Warren observed, “Nothing made it into this bill that wasn’t approved by the crypto industry.” The legislation would hand regulation of most digital assets to a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) captured by private interests. The CFTC spent 2025 dropping cases against crypto companies at the behest of acting chair Caroline Pham. Then, in December, Pham left to become Chief Legal Officer of the crypto firm MoonPay. Now, the Commission’s board, which was designed to have a bipartisan membership of five, is currently chaired by one Trump loyalist who slashed a fifth of its already paltry staff. It’s this office which would have to manage a workload that one former CFTC lawyer has claimed would be equivalent to handling the behemoth Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law. Even the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is better equipped to police the industry, has fared poorly over the past 18 months amidst an onslaught of Trump admin crypto policy.

With wife Mildred, Rodney Taylor of Atlanta was moved to activism after his detention led to deteriorating health

Police Commissioner Kevn Bethel said officers had responded "to a growing number of public safety concerns."

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered,” McAfee acknowledged before my visit. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer. And I’m going against the grain here. I’m climbing a mountain they say you can’t climb.”

A woman who tricked a family that took her in into believing she was a child maintained the charade for more than a year, police in Brazil say. Officers in the southern Santa Catarina state announced an arrest last week in a disturbing case alleged to have involved a 37-year-old woman now facing charges related to fraud and false identity. It’s alleged that the woman, who was not named by police, was pretending to be a 12-year-old girl named “Gabriele.” She lied about having autism and other medical conditions “to gain the family’s trust,” police claimed in a Portuguese news release translated to English. She also claimed she’d been subjected to forced hormone treatment in her childhood, in an effort to justify why she physically appeared as an adult, police said.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

Will the trade war leave a new bridge just sitting over an international waterway?

The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.

An American flag torn down from the World Wrestling Entertainment headquarters by Saturday's storm flew onto power lines in Stamford, causing thousands of outages in the area, officials said Sunday. As of 6 p.m. Sunday, Eversource's outage map reported 4,222 outages in Greenwich and 2,717 in Stamford. About 45 minutes later, that number had dropped to 190 and 210, respectively, according to Eversource.

Karen Read filed a lawsuit alleging a string of obscene and racist texts between a former Massachusetts State Police trooper and Canton police reveals a “culture of bias and corruption that they built, tolerated, and hid from the public.”

Scott Furgeson “regrets” his “choice of words.”

Carey Means, who voiced Frylock on the Adult Swim series, shared a GoFundMe campaign after his wife was injured in a car accident.

Actor James Handy has been identified as the victim of a fatal stabbing in Los Angeles on Wednesday, police said.

Bear believed to have unlatched and opened a locked window, and was seen turning on and drinking from a tap

A New Jersey police sergeant has been charged with stealing $10,000 worth of camera equipment from a photojournalist.

Fish capable of terrestrial walking tend to use a similar gait, even if they are morphologically disparate and not closely phylogenetically related. Here the authors investigate the “undulating tripod gait” by building a simulation model from kinematics of the grey bichir and building a walking fish robot.

A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York’s vast, subterranean sewer system in recent days has the whole city wondering what exactly is going on.

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence

The Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine could be charming, women said in interviews, but some found his actions intimidating and disturbing.