Crypto oversight in US tightens as CFTC and FDIC leadership near confirmation

Mike Selig is positioned to replace Acting Chair Caroline Pham at the CFTC if confirmed. The CFTC has already expanded crypto oversight through collateral approvals and spot trading permissions. Travis Hill’s confirmation would formalise his interim role at the FDIC and continue crypto-friendly banking policies. Crypto regulation in the United States is entering a moreContinue Reading

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‘We were sitting in the house and it just … Everything shook. Stuff fell off the walls, and when we looked at the camera, it was like watching a war video,’ Brittany Maldonado, a resident, told ABC7 News. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/user/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 Her doorbell camera capturedContinue Reading

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Exclusives Ukraine’s $240,000 drones are bleeding Russia’s oil fleet dry. Five tankers hit in two weeks—and insurance costs have tripled. Can exhausted Ukrainian territorials save Huliaipole?. Huliaipole anchors Ukrainian defenses in eastern Zaporizhzhia. But there aren’t enough Ukrainian troops to hold it. Borscht gets cheaper, butter eases—Ukraine beats inflation forecastContinue Reading

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It’s no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, law enforcement officers—including U.S. Border Patrol agents—were quietly watching those same streets through different lenses: Flock Safety automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that tracked every passing car.  Through an analysis ofContinue Reading

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While Gov. Newsom touted the state’s environmental efforts at the UN climate summit, toxic spills and a new law speeding drilling tarnished its reputation at home. By Liza Gross Thousands of gallons of oil and toxic wastewater poured out of a pipe running through a Monterey County oil field onContinue Reading

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Almost two years after reintroduction began, wolves are nearing the state’s southern and western borders. The post Colorado wolves are on the move appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading

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President Traitor 47, former President Bill Clinton, and other prominent figures appear in the photos Published December 12, 2025 2:25PM (EST) An undated photograph of the Traitor 47 and Jeffrey Epstein (Democrats on the House Oversight Committee) Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released nineteen new photos from the estateContinue Reading