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[ad_1] New York, New York, the “city that never Sleeps,” has given us two Presidents, Eggs Benedict, potato chips, Robert De Niro, Saturday Night Live, and Scrabble. Two of New York City’s boroughs have also been home to three of the most controversial and infamous criminal defendants in American history: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Though their convictions were handed down decades ago, Hauptmann from the Bronx, and the Rosenbergs from Knickerbocker Village in Manhattan, remain causes célèbres around the globe. With passionate proponents around the world still proclaiming their innocence, a skeptical examination of the evidence for the…

[ad_1] The fund lets institutions earn yield on stablecoins while moving cash onchain with round-the-clock access. What to know: State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management have launched the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), a tokenized cash-management vehicle for large investors. SWEEP lets qualified institutional investors park stablecoins in a yield-generating fund that operates continuously on blockchain infrastructure, starting on Solana and expanding to Ethereum and Stellar. The fund underscores Wall Street’s growing embrace of tokenized versions of traditional instruments, while keeping access limited to institutions as firms test blockchain-based market plumbing. State Street Investment Management…

[ad_1] Ambassador Friedman visit to Sderot “Yeshivat Sderot’s” hesder yeshiva. October 08, 2017 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the International Criminal Court has declared war on Israel by issuing arrest warrants for top officials.  On Tuesday, the Israeli minister said, “Last night I was informed that a request for a secret international arrest warrant had been filed against me by the criminal prosecutor of the Anti-Semitic Tribunal in The Hague.”  Multiple outlets have reported in recent days that the ICC has issued secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials. While the court has not confirmed the reports, on Monday, Middle…

[ad_1] In every state and in the federal criminal justice system, when a crime victim is killed, the law allows a family member or other representative to step into the victim’s shoes and assert the victim’s rights. That framework has become a routine and influential feature of modern criminal justice, embedded in statutes, constitutional provisions, and everyday courtroom practice. Yet despite its centrality, the justifications for this arrangement have received relatively little sustained scholarly attention. That gap has become more apparent following Professor Lee Kovarsky’s recent article, “The Victims’ Rights Mismatch,” which offers a serious and thoughtful challenge to prevailing…

[ad_1] Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.  In this week’s newsletter, I wanted to share a recent feature story I wrote for Reason about the strange world of California’s professional squatter removal services.  For some time in February this year, I was camped out in an Airbnb in Oakland, California, shadowing James Jacobs, founder of ASAP Squatter Removal, as he went about his work of reclaiming properties from squatters with his trusty katana.   Rent Free Newsletter by Christian Britschgi. Get more of Christian’s urban regulation, development, and zoning coverage. It was a fascinating story to report…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump said that he was an hour away from giving the military the order to restart the war before he was convinced to call off the attack.  “We were all set to go … It would have been happening right now,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. The President added that he was “an hour away” from giving the order.  The remarks at the White House followed a Truth Social post on Monday where Trump stated he was convinced to call off the strikes by Gulf Arab countries. “I have been asked by the…

[ad_1] Election in Allentown pits three establishment insiders against a firefighter with a populist message [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Sometimes, you’re on the train or enjoying a bite to eat on a restaurant’s patio and you catch a whiff of an oddly sweet scent. A moment later, you see a puff dissipate around a nearby stranger and realize: You’re smelling a vape pen or an e-cigarette.  So what exactly are you inhaling? A lengthy list of chemicals, it turns out.  And recent Food and Drug Administration decisions have the potential to increase how often you’re exposed to these substances. On May 5, under presidential pressure, the FDA for the first time authorized fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for people ages 21…

[ad_1] From yesterday’s decision by Judge Hector Gonzalez (E.D.N.Y.) in Harr v. City of N.Y.: In 2003, in connection with the invasion of Iraq, the United States Department of Defense developed a deck of playing cards, titled “Iraqi Most Wanted,” to help familiarize troops with members of Saddam Hussein’s government and inner circle. Approximately 20 years later and days after UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, was shot and killed, Plaintiffs James Harr and Comrade Workwear, LLC developed a deck of cards, modeled after the U.S. military’s deck, titled “Most Wanted CEOs.” … Plaintiffs’ cards: featured a well-known corporate executive, their affiliated…

[ad_1] Would you pay 8 dollars for a gallon of gasoline? I know that may sound crazy to many of you, but that is what some residents of Los Angeles are paying right now. Sadly, the west coast is more dependent on oil from the Persian Gulf than anywhere else in the continental United States, and now the last tanker that departed before the war with Iran began has arrived. What this means is that gas prices are going to go even higher on the west coast. In fact, some gas stations may soon need to add another digit on…