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Andrew Paterson | Photographer’s Choice RF | Getty Images Cryptocurrency payments to suspected human trafficking syndicates surged 85% in 2025, with hundreds of millions of transactions traced on public blockchains, according to a new report by Chainalysis. The U.S.-based blockchain analytics firm said most of the activity was linked to an expanding criminal ecosystem in […]
The unemployment rate rose more than expected in November and previous jobs figures were revised downward as the first full report after months of a data fog revealed a weakening labor market. Hiring remained steady as US employers added 64,000 jobs in November, above expectations of a 50,000 increase, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said […]
Rithm Capital’s prospective purchase of Paramount Group is a stroke of faith in the strength of the Manhattan office market, which is where most of Paramount’s holdings are concentrated. The deal would give Rithm, a major force in commercial and residential credit and asset management, a significant, 13.1 million square-feet, bricks-and-mortar stake for the first […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fewer Americans Are Reading for Fun Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey, researchers at University […]
A passenger passes a giant American flag as they make their way to and from their gates during the Memorial Day weekend getaway at John Wayne Airport Orange County in John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana, CA on Thursday, May 26, 2022. Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Canadian travel dropped sharply […]
CANNES — Wall Street’s new plumbing is being built on Ethereum and this week its architects took over the same French Riviera villas and red carpet venues that host the Cannes Film Festival in May. The Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, took over the beachside town that was swarming with crypto founders, developers, and some […]
The supply of homes for sale across the nation always rises ahead of the busy spring market, but the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area is seeing an outsized increase, according to Realtor.com. Inventory gains in the region, which includes the District as well as Maryland and Virginia suburbs, began to accelerate in January and February, up […]
PEN America has released a new analysis of book bans, Cover to Cover, and it really makes clear the purpose of book banning—which, surprise surprise, is not what book banners say it is. For one, in the more than 10,000 book ban instances that PEN America looked at—which span across genres, fictional and nonfictional books, […]
When a small Chinese company called DeepSeek revealed that it had created an A.I. system that could match leading A.I. products made in the United States, the news was greeted in many circles as a warning that China was closing the gap in the global race to build artificial intelligence. DeepSeek also said it built […]
There was something telling in the latest example of idiotic and woke corporate virtue signaling that came courtesy of high-end car manufacturer Jaguar. In addition to the spectacle of an odd-looking man running around in an ill-fitting dress without a car in sight, there was the equally bizarre rationalization of it. Rawdon Glover, an official […]
