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Oct 30, 2026
A suspected hack at Binance prompted cryptocurrency firms to freeze about $3 billion in assets, the company said on Thursday. The exchange, which described the situation as a "security issue," has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while it "conducts security checks, freezes funds, and works with law enforcement." It vowed to cover all losses. "It...
Oct 29, 2026
A bipartisan pair of senators are pressing Kalshi and Polymarket over prediction markets tied to the Nov. 3 midterm elections. “We write to express concerns about election-related prediction markets and to request specific information about your companies' efforts to prevent insider trading, market manipulation, and wagers based on material nonpublic information,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)...
Automaker General Motors (GM) agreed to pay $220 million to settle a lawsuit with 35 states and Washington, D.C., which alleged the company sold drivers' data to insurance companies, several attorneys general involved with the settlement announced Thursday. A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general, led by Democrats Dan Rayfield of Oregon and Nick Brown...
Finnish police opened a criminal investigation Thursday into Google’s work on a planned data center in northern Finland after the company cleared hundreds of acres of forest without completing required environmental reviews. The investigation adds to mounting scrutiny of Google’s $1.5 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland, where the company’s expansion plans have...
Enormous waves and record-breaking tides are flooding the Southland's restaurants and bars. Forecasts predict more El Niño-driven storms in the coming months.
Federal prosecutors issued criminal grand jury subpoenas to three L.A. County election officials, demanding they appear in court the day after the election.
The students left the Colorado Mountain College Leadville Campus for the hike on Oct. 23 and were reported missing on Oct. 26 by college staff after they didn’t return to campus.
Nvidia dismissed a new report that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese intelligence asset, stating the diversion allegations were “thoroughly investigated and debunked last year.” The New York Times published a report Thursday finding American spy agencies last year discovered Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore-based data center Megaspeed, funneled information to...
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Cleveland-Cliffs' would be making a "mistake" by not respecting its obligations and commitments after it began laying off workers.
Erik Navarro, 26, was taken into custody by San Bernardino County Sheriff's detectives Monday and booked on suspicion of robbery, causing injury to an elder, assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery and destruction of a wireless communication device.
West Virginia has sued TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, accusing the social media giant of deliberately keeping children hooked on its app while exposing them to sexualized content and potential predators. The lawsuit filed Thursday alleges TikTok violated state consumer protection laws by using addictive features to encourage excessive screen time among children while...
Citing agents' own testimony and body-camera footage, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong found evidence of an unwritten policy targeting people who are Latino or appear to be and are working class.