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View More NewsHappy Tax Day, if such a thing can exist. Today marks the last day that most Americans can file their taxes with Uncle Sam or else face financial consequences. For most people, tax filing is stressful and messy. And even though average refunds are expected to significantly jump thanks to the GOP’s sprawling tax bill from last year, nearly 60 percent of Americans say taxes are still too high, according to a new Gallup poll. But the burden of paying taxes is more than monetary. Here are four other reasons to loathe tax season. In addition to spending about…
Chicago-based crypto exchange Bitnomial has launched monthly futures contracts tied to Injective, marking the first US-regulated derivatives product for the Web3 financial ecosystem’s native token.According to Wednesday’s announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the contracts settle in INJ (INJ) with monthly expiries, allowing traders to gain price exposure without holding the underlying asset, and can be margined in crypto or US dollars through Bitnomial’s clearinghouse.The listing also starts a six-month track record that could support a spot exchange-traded fund under US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) listing rules. In July, Canary Capital filed for a staked INJ ETF, with Cboe BZX Exchange…
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On 12 September 1962, John F. Kennedy famously proclaimed space to be the “new frontier.” JFK did not actually care that much about space—he launched the Moon race in May 1961 because he wanted to conduct a high-profile exercise that would enable him to beat the Soviet Union and distract public attention from the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion that had taken place a few weeks earlier. The “new frontier” rhetoric only emerged later. Then JFK was assassinated, and his successors lost the plot. After a few “flags and footprints” Moon missions, we turned our back on the new frontier,…
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In brief Janet Mills must decide whether to sign or veto a first-in-the-nation ban on large AI data centers. The moratorium, passed by Maine…
While the Trump administration’s extremely aggressive, thoroughly bigoted attempts to eliminate as many non-white people from this country as possible have resulted in some…
The crypto’s industry emerging political action committee, Fellowship PAC, rushed out of the gate this month with $11 million in backing, and it’s so…
CoreWeave, a publicly traded AI cloud infrastructure company, announced on Wednesday a $6 billion deal with quantitative trading firm Jane Street, in which the…
In brief eToro acquired self-custodial wallet provider Zengo, reportedly for $70 million. Zengo’s keyless wallet technology uses multi-party computation (MPC) cryptography and serves over…
from the domestic-surveillance-is-fine-if-we-do-it dept It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Three years…
New York, April 15, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 28 other civil society organizations in a joint letter urging the United States to…
This is an edited version of an article first appeared in the Spring 2026 issue of Index on Censorship, The monster unleashed: How Hungary’s…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week:Tricia Gallagher on how the fix for broken digital identity systems will need to…
Bitcoin (BTC) circled $74,000 at Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US stocks edged higher on news that the US and Iran may be open…
In brief Shares in High Roller Technologies (ROLR) have surged since the firm announced it will launch a predictions market product. The firm entered…
EFF calls on the Kuwaiti government to immediately release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. An award-winning journalist and television host who worked for Al Jazeera for…