The House Armed Services Committee is questioning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine on Wednesday morning amid the Iran war as it hits 60 days with no imminent conclusion. It’s their first of two days of hearings. Hegseth railed against the long wars pursued by past administrations as……
Israel is preparing to sell a stake of as much as 30% in its two largest defense companies this year to help fund the nation’s expanding military spending. Source link
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Crypto payments platform MoonPay is launching an institutional unit after acquiring Sodot, an Israeli crypto security infrastructure provider. MoonPay on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Sodot, using Sodot’s key management technology as the core infrastructure layer of its new business serving financial institutions, asset managers, trading firms and exchanges entering digital asset markets. “We built…
The decision will make it more difficult to successfully challenge legislative maps for diluting the voting power of racial minorities. Source link
Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk has taken his fight against a Football Association drugs ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Ukraine international, 25, has not played for nearly 18 months after an “adverse finding in a routine urine test” led to his provisional suspension in December 2024. The FA charged Mudryk in June…
Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk has taken his fight against a Football Association drugs ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Ukraine international, 25, has not played for nearly 18 months after an “adverse finding in a routine urine test” led to his provisional suspension in December 2024. The FA charged Mudryk in June…
A revival of “Evita,” starring Rachel Zegler as the Argentinian first lady Eva Perón, is transferring to Broadway in the spring of 2027. Director Jamie Lloyd’s new take on the musical, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, was a massive hit last year in London. “Performing Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s brilliant show in London was a…
In brief Polymarket has reportedly approached the CFTC to lift the four-year ban on its main on-chain exchange. The agency’s only sitting commissioner, Chair Michael Selig, is positioned to decide on it alone. Observers say the move could pull on-chain markets into U.S. finance but risks setting a fragile precedent. Polymarket, one of the largest…
The man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump last weekend took a mirror selfie just before the shooting, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Wednesday. The photo was included in a memorandum supporting pretrial detention filed by the DOJ, which said that suspect Cole Allen took the photo roughly a half hour before……