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Congress slams 11-year Modi govt for ‘damaging’ democracy and economy

June 13, 2025

The Congress on Monday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on the occasion of its 11 years in office, accusing it of inflicting a “deep blow” to Indian democracy, economy, and the country’s social fabric. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at the party's 'Samvidhan Bachao’ rally in Ranchi last week. (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged […]

Terraforming Mars Might Actually Work and Scientists Now Have a Plan to Try It

June 13, 2025

Credit: Daein Ballard/Wikimedia Mars is a frozen shadow of its former self. Its riverbeds are dry, its air is thin and chock-full of carbon dioxide, and its soil is soaked with salts hostile to life. Yet beneath the red dust lies planet-sized potential — a planet that once had lakes and skies and, perhaps, the […]

Are You the One? 10 Crucial Questions

June 13, 2025

The quest for true love is often disappointing and disillusioning. In the five decades that I have been working with people who are searching for their one and only, I have heard many tales of hopeless searching. It is not that people don’t try their best. They read books. They listen to the media. They […]

5 insights that put market volatility in perspective

June 13, 2025

You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t fear loss. Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman demonstrated this with his loss-aversion theory, showing that people feel the pain of losing money more than they enjoy gains. As such, investors’ natural instinct is to flee the market when it starts to plummet, just as greed prompts us to […]

Was Jill Biden’s ‘abusive’ aide a Shadow President? White House insiders say Anthony Bernal was more powerful than anyone knew

June 13, 2025

Late in the evening on June 27, 2024, an enfeebled Joe Biden shuffled through a crowded Atlanta Waffle House, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, shaking the hands of well-wishers who watched him debate Donald Trump. Biden's disastrous performance would lead to the abrupt end of his re-election campaign and start a cascade of recriminations that would call […]

Chainlink, JPMorgan, Ondo Finance complete crosschain treasury settlement

June 13, 2025

Chainlink, JPMorgan’s Kinexys and Ondo Finance completed a “first-of-its-kind” crosschain delivery versus payment (DvP) settlement between a permissioned payment network and a public testnet. The test involved Kinexys Digital Payments, a permissioned network operated by JPMorgan and Ondo Chain’s testnet, which is focused on real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, Chainlink said in a Thursday announcement. The […]

SEC Considers Regulatory Exemptions For DeFi Platforms: A Bold Leap Forward Or A Risky Gamble?

June 12, 2025

Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, has stormed onto the financial stage like a disruptive underdog, promising to upend the traditional banking system with its blockchain-based, intermediary-free approach to money management. By enabling peer-to-peer transactions through smart contracts on public decentralized networks, DeFi offers a tantalizing vision of financial empowerment—higher returns, lower fees, and access for all. […]

Regents delay final vote on proposed DEI, CRT policy

June 12, 2025

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — Following campus outcry and accusations it’s violating state code, the Iowa Board of Regents has delayed until next month its final vote on a new policy to bar “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “critical race theory” requirements for […]

Elon Musk vs. Donald Trump: On MAGA Twitter, there was a clear winner.

June 12, 2025

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Thursday’s fight between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated faster than almost anyone on the right was prepared for. In the immediate aftermath of Musk’s highly inflammatory post, most right-wing pundits on social […]

XRPTurbo Set to Launch First AI Agent Launchpad on XRP Ledger Mainnet in Late Q2 2025

June 11, 2025

Trailblazing platform combines AI and DeFi to bring intelligent automation to XRPL TALLINN, Estonia, June 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As XRP regains momentum and investor attention intensifies across the XRP Ledger ecosystem, XRPTurbo is preparing for its most significant milestone yet: the launch of the AI Agent Launchpad on the XRPL mainnet, expected by […]