The Securities and Exchange Commission opened a new route Thursday for tokenized stock trading,
just two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and stalled Congress’s sweeping effort to rewrite federal rules for cryptocurrency markets.
The SEC’s five-year “Innovation Exemption” allows qualifying platforms to facilitate trading in tokenized versions of publicly traded stocks without registering as national securities exchanges.
Certain liquidity providers can also rec…
Joey Porter Jr. cleared of back injury; Steelers have not received any trade offers for CB
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/joey-porter-jr-cleared-of-back-…
Sources: Alibaba names senior AI researcher Dayiheng Liu as the head of its Qwen project, bringing clarity after multiple reorganization rounds earlier in 2026 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-appoints-new-head-qwe…
Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades,
and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the river can’t agree on a fair way to divide up what’s left.
Negotiations are going nowhere despite more than six months of ongoing talks, plus cajoling by the Trump administration, which twice gathered governors in hopes of a breakthrough that never came.
States are already sniping at aspects of a water-use plan the federal Bure…
With the CLARITY Act, Washington is cashing in on the crypto industry.
Americans are paying the price
Defeating Donald Trump’s authoritarian movement requires taking on the largest industry financing it: #cryptocurrency.
We know most people’s eyes glaze over at the mere mention of the word “crypto.”
The industry’s lobbyists depend on that;
they win when the public …
How the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/cry
NFL rookies returning to college? Some are looking into it amid NCAA eligibility ruling in Colorado
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An employee of a company that runs an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Colorado is under arrest
after shooting and injuring a woman on Thursday evening.
The incident happened after the woman participated in a protest in front of the facility earlier that day,
according to the Aurora police department.
When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found the woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body.
She had a friend with her, who was …