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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a crypto licensing bill on Friday, set to take effect in July 2025. Considered California's answer to New York's "BitLicense," the Digital Financial Assets Law faced heavy industry criticism but was passed by the U.S. state's Assembly in September 2022. The law requires California's Department of Financial Protection (DFPI) and Innovation to create a regulatory framework for crypto. The framework includes a licensing regime and gives the department enforcement and rulemaking authority over the sector. The DFPI also gets an 18-month implementation period to ensure "the adopted regulatory framework can be thoughtfully tailored to address...

On February 25, 2023, Indian River County, Florida sheriff's deputies responded to a local big box store in Vero Beach, Florida for a report of a shoplifting in progress. Asset Protection employees had been monitoring three females as they loaded up a shopping cart. When one of the undercover Walmart team members was made, the three female suspects ditched the cart, but still exited the store with two stolen bags, sunglasses, and deodorant. While identifying the suspect, deputies learned they were habitual shoplifters and placed an ICE hold on all three. Video is 15 minutes long

The escapees got out through a damaged window, cut a fence and fled in a blue Dodge Challenger, the Bibb County Sheriff's Office said.Four inmates, including a man accused of murder, escaped from a Georgia jail early Monday, authorities said. The inmates made their way out of the Bibb County Detention Center through a damaged window and a cut fence, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. They escaped about 3 a.m. in a blue Dodge Challenger that had pulled up to the location, the sheriff’s office said. The escaped inmates are Joey Fournier, 52, who was jailed...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin put a significant number of U.S. troops on stand-by to "be ready to deploy," over the weekend, though officials say the U.S. role would not be for combat. A U.S. official confirmed with Fox News that Austin issued orders to troops that they should be ready to be deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean within 24-hours of receiving an order. Specifically, top officials say troops would be sent to advise and provide medical support to Israeli forces. The order is less of a deterrence posture like what has been seen with the mobilization of the...

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron accused each other of taking extreme stands on abortion policy Monday night as they wrangled over an issue that's become a flashpoint in their hotly contested campaign for governor in Kentucky. During an hourlong debate at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky, the rivals fielded questions over education, taxes, public safety and the monthlong strike by autoworkers, which has spread to Ford's highly profitable Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville. The candidates tried to one-up the other in their support for public education. Some of their sharpest exchanges during the...

Reducing overall calorie intake may rejuvenate your muscles and activate biological pathways important for good health. Decreasing calories without depriving the body of essential vitamins and minerals, known as calorie restriction, has long been known to delay the progression of age-related diseases in animal models. This study suggests the same biological mechanisms may also apply to humans. Researchers analyzed data from participants in the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-Term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (CALERIE), a study that examined whether moderate calorie restriction conveys the same health benefits seen in animal studies. During a two-year span, the goal for participants...

The US Supreme Court ordering compliance with "ghost gun" regulations imposed by the Biden Administration... The Iranian Foreign Minister speaking of "Some Pre-Emptive Actions" in the coming hours... Joe Biden will visit Israel Wednesday...Biden then going to Jordan to meet... Two Swedes killed in a terrorist attack in Brussels this evening... The federal judge in the Biden Administration case against President Trump over his challenge to the 2020 Election Results imposing a gag order on Mr. Trump... President Trump seeking to sue Christopher Steele in a British court over the infamous "Steele Dossier" used against him in what is commonly...

The first flight under Gov. Ron DeSantis’ executive order to rescue Americans from Israel arrived Sunday night, bringing with it around 300 Americans. The flight arrived in Tampa around 8 p.m. ET. “There was a devoid of leadership, so we stepped up and led,” DeSantis said in a video at the airport. DeSantis thanked Project Dynamo for helping rescue the citizens from the war-ridden region after Hamas launched brutal terror attacks on Israel. Project Dynamo says it conducts operations “where the U.S. government lacks access or a presence” to rescue “vulnerable populations.” It is a Veteran-led nonprofit. DeSantis signed the...

A security guard who protected Taylor Swift during her Eras Tour this summer is now back home in Israel to fight for his country against Hamas. Variety has confirmed that the security guard, who wishes to keep his name anonymous, made the choice to leave the United States to join the IDF reserves as he saw the deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli citizens. Eran Swisa, an Israeli journalist from “Israel Today,” broke the news that the security guard who worked with Swift had left America to fight in the IDF. Swisa tells Variety that he was born at a...

Romney claims in a new biography that Winfrey called and asked him to join her on a 2020 presidential ticket. Winfrey says that isn't so.Oprah Winfrey is pushing back on a claim made by Sen. Mitt Romney in a new biography. A spokesperson for Winfrey tells The Hollywood Reporter that, despite a claim in a new book, Winfrey was never considering a run for president in 2020 and did not ask Romney to join her on a ticket. “In November 2019, Ms. Winfrey called Senator Romney to encourage him to run on an Independent ticket,” the spokesperson says. “She was...

The suspect in the shooting of a beloved father-of-four in Portland is a futures fund manager with a weighty arrest history - who also jets around the country giving blockchain lectures at conventions. Geoffrey Edward Hammond, 46, runs Aequantium LLC, claims to be of Australian descent, and also comes from a family of entrepreneurs with a $125million fortune. For unknown reasons, Hammond also changed his named from Jeffrey Edward Mandalis in recent years, court records show. He was driving a black Mercedes Benz and stopped in front of the Moxy Hotel in Portland, blocking traffic, last week. After getting into...

Once-bustling American malls are going bust as shoppers flock to online retailers instead of sprawling, brick-and-mortar locations. Ten years from now, there will be approximately 150 malls left in the US, Nick Egelanian, president of retail consulting firm SiteWorks, told The Wall Street Journal. That's down from around 2,500 locations in the 1980s and 700 today, Egelanian said.

Tom Homan goes off on a lot more than just KJP. Man...this guy is P.O'd and he's wants everyone to know why.

"Four House Republicans walked away from conversations with House GOP speaker nominee Jim Jordan under the impression he'll allow a floor vote on linking Ukraine funding with Israel funding if he wins the gavel, Axios has learned."

On Monday, MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said on “Deadline,” that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) would not last long if he’s voted into the House Speaker’s position this week. Discussing Jordan, McCaskill said, “If he gets these votes, and I am now closer to saying that he will than I certainly was 24 hours ago. You know what he’s done? He has cut a deal with Rogers on Defense and he’s cut a deal with Defense Appropriations. Those two members were absolutely anti-Jordan until he made them promises. Now, how are those promises going to play out with this crazy caucus?...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that the whole reason America gives vast amounts of military aid is so that “when the chips are down, when a crisis is in our midst, that Egypt will ally with us, will side with us. And right now, we’re having a really hard time getting Egypt to just do the basics of opening up that crossing.” And stated that if Egypt won’t do so, there should be “consequences for our relationship with Egypt in the future.”

Following a devastating terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, and amid ongoing battles between Hamas and Israel, it is important for educators and families to understand the context and potential impacts of these events on students and the wider school community. This is of particular importance given the recent documented rise in acts of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia within California

A professor at Louisiana State University has resigned after he claimed the newly-elected Republican governor of the state already asked the university to fire him. Robert Mann, who is the chair of Journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication at the university, has spent his career serving in press roles for regional Democrat politicians. He took to his X account on Sunday to announce that he had told the dean he would step down from his position at the end of the school year. “The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me....

Scientists are calling for stage 3 clinical trials of an Alzheimer's drug to be scrapped after a report highlighted serious doubts about the legitimacy of research that helped the medicine reach that stage. A long-awaited report by the City University of New York (CUNY) accused one of its faculty members, neuroscientist Hoau-Yan Wang, of egregious misconduct concerning 20 research papers — defined as workplace behavior so outrageous, dangerous, or illegal that an employer cannot reasonably expect to correct it through progressive discipline. According to the 50-page document obtained by Science, Mr Wang could not provide original data to disprove allegations...

Liddy was convicted on Feb. 5, 2020, for possessing child pornography. He was arrested in July 2017 and was found to have “sexually explicit images of prepubescent minors” on his personal devices. He was sentenced to five years of probation following his conviction. Notably, Liddy is also the son of former FBI agent and key Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy... Long Beach lawyer Jackie P. Ferrari...was convicted on felony drug charges related to the distribution of oxycodone. She was convicted in June 2019 after pleading guilty to one count of distribution. Ferrari was the subject of an investigation following the...