Six states — California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota and New Mexico — hold elections on Tuesday. Here are key races to follow. (Image credit: Mario Tama)
Six states — California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota and New Mexico — hold elections on Tuesday. Here are key races to follow. (Image credit: Mario Tama)
Iraq war veteran John Follmer leads vet volunteers who are rehabbing a neglected Japanese garden on the West LA Veterans Affairs Campus. (Image credit: Stella Kalinina for NPR)
Iraq war veteran John Follmer leads vet volunteers who are rehabbing a neglected Japanese garden on the West LA Veterans Affairs Campus. (Image credit: Stella Kalinina for NPR)
Crypto finance conglomerate Galaxy Digital Inc. has launched a trading desk to offer large investors better access to prediction markets via over-the-counter derivatives similar to those used in markets from interest rates to commodities. Galaxy Derivatives, the company’s swap dealer arm, entered into a $10 million wager in May with crypto hedge fund Arca on whether or not the Digital Asset Market...
Crypto finance conglomerate Galaxy Digital Inc. has launched a trading desk to offer large investors better access to prediction markets via over-the-counter derivatives similar to those used in markets from interest rates to commodities. Galaxy Derivatives, the company’s swap dealer arm, entered into a $10 million wager in May with crypto hedge fund Arca on whether or not the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 will pass through Congress, executives at the company confirmed in an interview. The parties used an over-the-counter (OTC) event swap, a bilateral version of contracts that are already common on prediction markets like Kalshi or Polymarket. Arca sought to hedge the risk that the act won’t become law, which would likely deal a blow to the firm’s crypto holdings. Under the terms of the swap, Galaxy gets paid by Arca if the bill passes before 2027, while Arca collects if it doesn’t. One advantage of using an OTC swap in this case was the ability to trade larger size. The most liquid contracts on these exchanges relate to sports, with contracts on political or economic events typically less liquid. A similar Kalshi-listed contract on when the crypto market structure bill will become law has only seen $2.2 million in volume during its existence, just a fifth of the value of the Galaxy-Arca OTC contract. “This isn’t a gambling thing - this is a hedging mechanism,” Jason Urban , global co-head of Digital Assets at Galaxy, said in a phone interview. Galaxy is betting that thin liquidity and wide bid-ask spreads on political and economic event contracts will make doing business over the counter more enticing for hedge funds, family offices and other institutional investors. Another concern for investors is that they might not want the trade seen by other market participants, even anonymously. “The benefits of OTC trading include discretion,” said Gilbert Wassermann, head of prediction markets at Galaxy. “If a client has a block trade on Polymarket, there is the...
The creator of the Evolution of Distribution™ and author of The Blonde, the Ferrari, and the Kwan reveals the strategy behind placing health and wellness brands in Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, Costco, Walgreens, CVS, GNC, 7-Eleven, and Amazon ...
The creator of the Evolution of Distribution™ and author of The Blonde, the Ferrari, and the Kwan reveals the strategy behind placing health and wellness brands in Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, Costco, Walgreens, CVS, GNC, 7-Eleven, and Amazon ...
Britain's White 'George Floyd' Moment? Update : Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23, received a life sentence with a 21-year minimum on Monday for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak . Judge William Mousley describes Nowak as a “much-loved, kind, hard-working and ambitious young man, devoted to his family and with a bright future.” Mousley includes agonizing testimony from Nowak’s family: Nowak’s death has ...
Britain's White 'George Floyd' Moment? Update : Vickrum Singh Digwa, 23, received a life sentence with a 21-year minimum on Monday for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak . Judge William Mousley describes Nowak as a “much-loved, kind, hard-working and ambitious young man, devoted to his family and with a bright future.” Mousley includes agonizing testimony from Nowak’s family: Nowak’s death has caused his sister’s world to “fall apart,” she said; Nowak’s father describes his son’s death as a “life sentence” for the family. The judge then details the extensive lies he believes Digwa told to evade responsibility for the murder . 'His murderer was afforded decency. He was believed' Henry Nowak's father says the 'contrast' in the police's treatment of his son and his murderer is 'unbearable' in a statement after Nowak's killer was sentenced to 21 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/9w8A35hpMp — GB News (@GBNEWS) June 1, 2026 As Daily Caller noted , Mousley more or less excused the actions of the responding police officers , writing they “honestly believed that there were reasonable grounds for suspecting Henry had committed an offence and arrested him.” * * * As Bruce Oliver Newsome detailed earlier via American Greatness, this had all the ingredients (except inverted) to become Britain's white 'George Floyd' moment. If police see racism before they see a man bleeding out, something has gone profoundly wrong with justice. Police handcuffed and arrested an 18-year-old while he was bleeding out from multiple stabbings because the stabber, a Sikh, accused the victim, a white man, of racism. The stabber showed no signs of being the victim of violence. He said the man lying in his own blood on the ground had knocked off his turban in a drunken racist attack. And for that, the police arrested and handcuffed the victim. The victim had been stabbed once in the face, twice in the legs while trying to escape over a fence, and once in the lung. But somehow the police claim not to h...
Nick Thomas-Symonds says messages between Pat McFadden and Peter Mandelson are ‘embarrassing’ UK politics live – latest updates Labour MPs are not looking to raise taxes to fund more benefits, the cabinet minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said. In messages between the work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, and Peter Mandelson released on Monday, McFadden wrote: “Every meeting I have is: ‘Who ca...
Nick Thomas-Symonds says messages between Pat McFadden and Peter Mandelson are ‘embarrassing’ UK politics live – latest updates Labour MPs are not looking to raise taxes to fund more benefits, the cabinet minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said. In messages between the work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, and Peter Mandelson released on Monday, McFadden wrote: “Every meeting I have is: ‘Who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others?’ They’re asking the wrong questions.” Continue reading...
Russia’s Federal Security Service said it uncovered a large-scale operation by foreign intelligence agencies to implant spyware on senior officials’ mobile phones. “Foreign intelligence operatives carried out the covert, unauthorized extraction of various types of information from the devices of the cyberattack targets,” the FSB said in a statement Tuesday, adding it had opened a criminal case to ...
Russia’s Federal Security Service said it uncovered a large-scale operation by foreign intelligence agencies to implant spyware on senior officials’ mobile phones. “Foreign intelligence operatives carried out the covert, unauthorized extraction of various types of information from the devices of the cyberattack targets,” the FSB said in a statement Tuesday, adding it had opened a criminal case to investigate the matter. The FSB didn’t name specific countries behind the operation, but said intelligence services had used the “technical capabilities of large international IT corporations and mobile communications,” according to the statement. An FSB spokesman separately said that surveilled individuals wind up on US and European Union sanctions lists, according to the Interfax news service. The agency said the spyware unearthed in the operation can steal data, eavesdrop on conversations and monitor the environment near the affected devices to obtain sensitive information. The claim highlights Moscow’s longstanding concerns that sensitive information is vulnerable to foreign espionage, even as the Kremlin has been accused by Western governments of sponsoring hacking operations abroad. Russian authorities have increasingly portrayed software and communication tools as national-security risks. Those concerns were sharpened after Western officials publicly disclosed intelligence assessments that President Vladimir Putin was preparing to attack Ukraine months before the February 2022 full-scale invasion. In 2023, the FSB accused a US intelligence agency of hacking several thousand iPhones. Those attacks were linked to SIM cards registered with Russia-based diplomats for NATO countries, Israel and China, the security service said at the time. Read More: What Is Hybrid Warfare? How Is Russia Employing It?: QuickTake Still, Moscow has been accused of masterminding its own cyber operations. In April, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre warned that hackers associated with Ru...
Interest in joining the English top flight is strong, but how non-professional players are treated remains a key obstacle Several clubs including Bath have registered their interest in joining England’s Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR). The expansion of the top flight has no concrete timeline, but the possibility of the league growing has thrown up different discussion points. How will non-professi...
Interest in joining the English top flight is strong, but how non-professional players are treated remains a key obstacle Several clubs including Bath have registered their interest in joining England’s Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR). The expansion of the top flight has no concrete timeline, but the possibility of the league growing has thrown up different discussion points. How will non-professional players deal with travel if a club from another home nation is introduced? Will the expansion aid international competition? And how do players feel about it? Before those questions are answered, let’s deal with the PWR expansion plans. The expression of interest phase was just an “exploratory” process and not a formal application to join the league. The move is part of the PWR’s 10-year plan to grow a sustainable and competitive league. The top flight is widely renowned as the best women’s club rugby competition in the world with international talent such as Ireland’s Aoife Wafer, New Zealand’s Alana Borland and Canada’s Sophie de Goede involved. However, the league has just nine teams after Worcester Warriors’ demise in 2023. This is an extract from our weekly rugby union email, the Breakdown. To subscribe just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...