The Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit on Monday against global giant Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. A second lawsuit came the very next day against Coinbase, the largest exchange based in the United States. After years of regulatory turf wars over an industry widely seen as the Wild West, the SEC has planted its flag in the cryptocurrency industry as firmly as ever, hoping that courts will support the agency’s opinion that the vast majority of crypto assets qualify as a type of carefully regulated financial instrument known as securities, and agree that the unregistered crypto platforms that have set up shop in the United States are flagrantly violating the laws that regulate them. Both cases allege that the companies were illegally operating without registering with the SEC, and offered unregistered securities in the form of crypto staking: programs in which customers lock up their crypto tokens in exchange for rewards. Binance is additionally charged with engaging in unregistered securities offerings by issuing BNB, a token that the SEC alleges functions like a share in the Binance company, and BUSD, a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. Unlike in the Coinbase suit, the Binance case also includes complaints aimed directly at the company’s CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Chao.

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The Army lost at least 127 soldiers to fentanyl between 2015 and 2022, more than twice the number of soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan during that period.

Italy's flamboyant former leader, Silvio Berlusconi, has died in Milan after a period of illness, marking the end of an era in Italian politics. Follow here for live updates.

A year after Jalen Randle was fatally shot by a police officer, Tiffany Rachal still has many questions about the circumstances leading to her son's death. Among them, she wonders, would he still be alive if he weren't Black? Black residents make up 22 percent of Houston's population, but they account for 72 percent of people who suffered serious bodily injuries at the hands of police and 63 percent of people who died as a result of police use of force since the beginning of 2020, according to data from the Houston Police Department's transparency hub, a publicly available online database.

JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative settlement with the sex victims of financier Jeffrey Epstein, the bank said Monday, which had accused the bank of being the financial conduit that Epstein used to pay off his victims for several years. According to the lawsuits, JPMorgan provided Epstein loans and regularly allowed him to withdraw large sums of cash from 1998 through August 2013 even though it knew about his sex trafficking practices. The bank said in a statement it now regretted any interaction the bank had with Epstein over the several years that he was a JPMorgan client. The settlement must still be approved by the judge in the case.

Inmates at one of the jails in Atlanta, Georgia, are sleeping on the floor in plastic trays. Cell doors hang off hinges, footage from one local news report shows, and leaked water pools on the floor in some areas. Last September, one person was found dead and covered in bed bugs. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, which runs multiple jails around Atlanta and has been granted more funding to fix the problems, is also in the process of rolling out a new surveillance system that can track inmates to precise levels. Across the region’s jails, hundreds of sensors are being embedded into the walls. Using radio frequencies, these communicate with wristbands issued to inmates. The system, which was created by Georgia-based firm Talitrix, can track an inmate’s heartbeat, determine their location every 30 seconds, and create 3D images showing who comes into contact with whom. Documents WIRED obtained through a public record request, including a legal agreement, statements of work, and internal PowerPoint presentations, describe how the monitoring system operates and provide a glimpse into its inner workings.

A review of answers submitted by the nominees reveals a lack of a nuanced understanding of the core legal issues in competition policy. President Biden has received praise for outpacing previous Republican and Democratic administrations in appointing judges to the federal bench, as well as picking nominees from more diverse backgrounds, including a record number of public defenders. But the withdrawn nomination of Michael Delaney last month was a flashpoint in the limitations of Biden’s judicial appointments, which have far less consistently supported a diversity of worldview when it comes to the issue of corporate power. Delaney’s nomination came under fire from a range of progressive groups for his prior legal work undermining abortion rights and the regulatory state. This coalition argued that Delaney’s record, including his work on the board of a conservative legal foundation, contradicted numerous policy goals set by the administration. But in one key issue area flagged by his critics, Delaney is far from an outlier among other Biden-nominated judges to reach the bench: how to evaluate monopolization cases. “We’ve had concerns with Biden’s judicial selection on corporate power and how their previous legal work may color the way they rule in court on monopolization cases,” said Katie Van Dyck, senior legal counsel for the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP).

A Black 14-year-old was wielding a pellet gun — not a semiautomatic handgun, like police originally said — when he was fatally shot by officers earlier this month, according to authorities in suburban Denver. Police previously said a sergeant in Aurora’s gang unit spotted between five and seven teens wearing masks and hooded sweatshirts around 4:20 p.m. on June 1. Authorities said they had just robbed a convenience store and lifted several vape cartridges. Clips in the bodycam footage show Officer Roch Gruszeczka and Officer James Snapp approaching, prompting the group to flee. Some of them escaped in a vehicle previously reported stolen, while others tried to make a run for it. “They just shoplifted out of there,” Gruszeczka tells his partner. “I’m going to light them up.”

Tricia Cotham’s defection to the Republican Party has deep roots in the right-wing “school choice” movement. So far, little has been disclosed about exactly why North Carolina state Representative Tricia Cotham switched her party affiliation from Democratic to Republican in April 2023. The move changed the balance of power in a purple state by handing Republicans a veto-proof majority in the state legislature. The announcement caught state Democrats by surprise, according to multiplereports, and so startled national media outlets that a matter of state politics suddenly became a national headline. But it’s clear that Cotham’s decision will profoundly affect the political dynamics of a Southern state where the difference between whether election outcomes tilt red or blue often hangs on the tiniest margin of votes. Her flip will also likely affect future outcomes on a range of hot-button issues the legislature is considering, including abortion rights, gun control, civil rights, and the rights of LGBTQ+ communities. What also seems clear is that the faint hope some Democratic faithful had that Cotham would somehow hold true to whatever “principles” were implied or stated in her previous actions and campaign pledges is a rapidly fading mirage. (Her former campaign website was reportedly deleted shortly after her announcement, although it now appears to have been restored.)

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The NYPD cordoned off part of a block in New York’s Times Square to allow beekeepers to contain a large swarm of bees on June 9.Michal Samuni Blank, who recorded and shared this footage to her Instagram account @mickmicknyc, told Storyful that for a brief moment, the swarm was “like a smoke of bees, because they were everywhere, all you saw was bees.”Blank said the large swarm flew around for 15 minutes, adding that “nobody got stung, nobody got hurt, I had bees all over me and none of them were harmful.”Once the bees started gathering together, Blank said she called the NYPD, as she remembered that they handled similar incidents in the past, who promptly arrived and handled the situation.“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Blank said. Credit: @mickmicknyc via Storyful

From a rubber plantation in Southeast Asia to a repair shop in Mississippi, the story of a tire highlights the turmoil of the post-pandemic economy and its uncertain future.

Portions of Interstate 95 have collapsed after a large fire broke out Sunday morning, bringing traffic to a standstill and closing down parts of a major roadway.

The soldiers were wearing woollen tunics and bearskin hats in the nearly 30-degree Celsius London heat.

More women are filing lawsuits against the West Virginia State Police. Wheeling West Virginia Attorney Teresa Toriseva sent a notice of legal action to Interim WVSP Superintendent Colonel Jack Chambers and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on April 21 saying 42 women, including 10 minors, plan to file lawsuits against the West Virginia State Police. The minors attended Junior Trooper Academy. According to a letter sent by Cpl. Joseph Comer, a member of the WV State Police, to state lawmakers, Governor Jim Justice, and the office of the Attorney General on February 16, a hidden camera or cameras were placed and operated inside the female locker room at the State Police Academy. Toriseva says her clients and other female Junior Trooper program attendees accessed and used the female locker room at the Academy during the time the anonymous letter states the cameras were in use. Toriseva also says the taping of the females in the Academy did not end until 2020, the same time the Junior Trooper Program was discontinued in 2020.

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The Toronto Blue Jays cut pitcher Anthony Bass on Friday, one day after the right-handed reliever said he didn’t think an anti-LGBTQ+ social media post he shared last month was hateful.

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