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[ad_1] More than a third of US crypto traders report cutting daily expenses and delaying major purchases as unrealized losses weigh on household finances. The recent crypto market downturn has forced more than one in three crypto traders to cut everyday spending, according to a new survey by CEX.IO. The survey, conducted among 1,100 US-based active CEX.IO users, shows the current market slump is straining household finances, though it remains less severe than 2022, when Bitcoin fell by roughly 75% from its peak. Bitcoin is still about 40% below its October 2025 high, leaving many retail investors sitting on unrealised losses.…

[ad_1] The Department of Justice this week filed two Second Amendment lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, challenging that state’s ban on “large capacity” magazines and Denver’s ban on “assault weapons.” Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the department’s Civil Rights Division, argues that both laws are unconstitutional for the same reason: They ban arms in common use for lawful purposes, which the Supreme Court has said are covered by the Second Amendment, and there is no “historical tradition” that would justify such a policy, as required by the Court’s 2022 ruling…

[ad_1] The United Kingdom, which has been cracking down on speech for years, dealt free speech another blow on Thursday when a district judge found Clive Johnston, a retired Northern Irish pastor, guilty of preaching John 3:16 in public. The 78-year-old was convicted of two charges under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zone) Act (Northern Ireland) for holding an open-air service near Causeway Hospital in Coleraine in 2024. This law makes it a crime to do anything that could be seen as “influencing” or “preventing or impeding” people seeking abortion services within 100 meters of a clinic. Eight of these…

[ad_1] In November, I attended the oral argument in the tariff case. I wrote a lengthy post about how I perceived the case. Ultimately, my bottom-line prediction was wrong. Trump would not get to five votes, let alone four votes. But I did have the occasion to reflect on the advocacy in the case. Here is how I described Neal Katyal’s performance: [S]everal Justices seemed skeptical, and even frustrated by Neal Katyal’s presentation. He was polished, but wooden. Far too often, it seemed like he was giving rehearsed answers, which were not entirely responsive to the questions that were asked.…

[ad_1] The first-of-its-kind, state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades may soon be closed, a federal official told The New York Times on Thursday. Although the facility has been able to remain operational despite accusations of inhumane conditions, environmental law violations, and breaches of due process, the detention center may not be able to survive without federal funding that has yet to materialize.  Talks between Florida officials and the Trump administration are in the preliminary stages, but “officials at the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] have concluded that it is too expensive to keep operating…Alligator Alcatraz,” which has cost…

[ad_1]   Property once owned by Marilyn Monroe in Los Angeles. (Pacific Legal Foundation/Latham & Watkins)   In Milstein v. City of Los Angeles, an important case currently before a federal court in California, property owners are challenging the use of a historic preservation to block virtually all development on their land. The Pacific Legal Foundation – a public interest law firm that works extensively on constitutional property rights issues – is representing the owners, and has a helpful description of the case (PLF is also my wife’s employer, but she is not involved in this case): In April 2026, Pacific…

[ad_1] Alarm broke out as online posts warned that California has only six weeks of oil left. “According to testimony by experts during the State Energy Commission hearing today at the Capitol in Sacramento, California only has ‘enough’ oil and gas supply to meet demand for the next six weeks,” said one May 6 X post. “There is no plan in place to supply more oil to California if the Straight of Hormuz (sic) does not re-open in the time, allowing oil tankers to deliver to #California, and therefore prices are expected to spike even higher.” Some news outlets also…

[ad_1] NA Today, the US Court of International Trade issued an important ruling striking down Donald Trump’s massive Section 122 tariffs, imposing 10% tariffs on a vast range of imports from countries around the world. The ruling is a crucial decision protecting the constitutional separation of powers and blocking an extremely harmful policy. The ruling addressed two consolidated lawsuits challenging the tariffs – one  filed by the Liberty Justice Center  (the same public interest group that I worked with on the earlier case that led to the invalidation of Trump’s  IEEPA tariffs by the Supreme Court) on behalf of two…

[ad_1] Story at-a-glance Nearly 38% of cardiovascular deaths in Canada are linked to ultraprocessed foods. These products contribute to 96,000 new heart disease cases and 17,400 deaths each year Eating just one additional daily serving of ultraprocessed food raises your risk of obesity by 7%, abdominal fat by 5%, and Type 2 diabetes by 12% Ultraprocessed foods increase cognitive decline risk by 16% and stroke risk by 8%, with the strongest effects seen in Black participants Processed meat products like hot dogs and deli meats are linked to a 43% higher risk of death from neurodegenerative diseases and a 13%…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s tariffs have been ruled illegal—again. A three-judge panel at the U.S Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled Thursday evening that Trump’s 10 percent “global tariff” is unlawful. The president imposed those tariffs in February, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Trump’s attempt to use emergency powers to impose a sweeping set of tariffs on most imports. The new tariffs were implemented under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which allows presidents to impose temporary tariffs in response to “large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits.” As Reason and other observers pointed out at…