NCAA to expand March Madness fields to 76 teams

The NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a long-expected move that will drop more games into the first week of the highly popular and lucrative showcase without substantially changing its overall form. The new, 76-team brackets will jam eight extra games — for…

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Fund Managers Boost BTC Exposure as Crypto Sentiment Rebounds: CoinShares

Fund managers are warming back up to digital assets, with Bitcoin continuing to dominate allocation preferences even as broader crypto sentiment improves, according to a new survey by CoinShares. The April survey gathered responses from 26 institutional investors overseeing a combined $1.3 trillion in assets under management. Allocations to digital assets remain relatively modest, at…

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Octavia Spencer Joins Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi for June Fundraiser

Academy Award-winning actress and producer Octavia Spencer will co-host a virtual fundraising event with Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi on June 1, 2026. Clinton made the announcement on her social media account this week. Clinton’s announcement put it plainly: “Academy-Award winning actress and producer Octavia Spencer will join me and @TeamPelosi for our June 1…

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Pirro ‘not surprised’ after DC officers placed on leave amid crime stats probe

More than a dozen Washington, D.C., police officers were placed on leave this week amid an internal investigation into the alleged manipulation of crime statistics, a development U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said on Thursday did not shock her. “I’m not surprised,” Pirro told reporters. “We did an investigation starting in August, before anybody……

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