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How many centuries will it take to establish equal rights for women?

Since the founding of this nation, women have been fighting for equal protection under the law.

Woman gets six years after posing as injured Marine for benefits, donations: DOJ

A Rhode Island woman who for five years used stolen patient information from the veterans’ hospital where she worked to pretend to be a former Marine with cancer and rake in more than $280,000 was sentenced Tuesday to nearly six years in prison. A U.S. District Court in Providence also ordered Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, 32,...

Authorities take down darknet cryptocurrency ‘mixing’ service

The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that it has dismantled a darknet cryptocurrency mixer known as ChipMixer for enabling cyber criminals to launder more than $3 billion of cryptocurrency. Authorities said they had seized two domains that directed users to the mixing service. According to the DOJ, ChipMixer was also involved in other illegal...

Banking wrap-up: What you need to know about the sector’s turmoil

Markets plummeted Wednesday as the financial sector took a double hit from the continuing fallout from the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse and the worries over the health of Europe’s second largest bank, Credit Suisse, which appealed to the Swiss government for help. The total market capitalization of the six biggest banks in the U.S....

Romney grills Biden official about Social Security in tense exchange

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) grilled Shalanda Young, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), about Social Security during a hearing Wednesday focused on President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal. In a tense line of questioning, Romney pressed Young about whether she knew of any cuts to the program proposed by...

Understanding images is just one way Chat GPT 4 goes beyond its predecessor

The creators behind the increasingly popular ChatGPT tool unveiled a new version of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, known as GPT-4, Tuesday. The updated version of OpenAI’s powerful AI represents the next level of what the company’s technology is capable of — from passing a range of tests with flying colors to accepting prompts...

No Labels is not a third party spoiler: It’s ensuring a viable option for the American public 

What is spoiling American politics today at the federal, state and local levels is the absence of civility, bipartisanship, and respect for equality and democracy. No Labels, which I co-chair with former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, has not and will not be a political spoiler in 2024 as recently...

Filling the hole Silicon Valley Bank left in the climate tech ecosystem

The incentives for banks to get more active in climate tech are now very clear.

Five key takeaways from the Russian jet-US drone incident

Two Russian jets sparked the latest diplomatic crisis between Moscow and Washington on Tuesday when they forced down an unmanned American aircraft into the Black Sea. The White House blasted the incident as unsafe and reckless, while Russia has downplayed the event, even accusing the U.S. of provocative drone flights approaching Russian territory. Charles Kupchan,...

Mormon church to make massive water contribution to Great Salt Lake

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has agreed to part with a massive amount of water to help replenish the dwindling Great Salt Lake. The Salt Lake City-based institution, one of the wealthiest organizations in Utah, will be donating more than 5,700 water shares that it holds in the North Point Consolidated Irrigation...

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