Month: July 2026

The News Blockratize, the firm that launched Polymarket, received a government loan from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program less than two years before federal regulators fined it $1.4 million for operating an unregistered prediction market. The previously unreported $39,727 loan was approved in June 2020 — the same month Polymarket ...

Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is launching the Independent Leadership Council, a new effort to elect independent candidates to Congress that will focus first on competitive seats this election cycle. “We’re trying to build a true independent network,” Manchin told Semafor. “Not a third party, but a movement of ...

Far-right activist Laura Loomer went from criticizing Ukraine to meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a rapid transformation that came as a pleasant surprise to Europe and Ukraine’s backers. The roots of Loomer’s pivot, which she began a month ago by acknowledging on her show that she “fell for Russian ...

Alani Bankhead, the Democratic nominee in Montana’s Senate race, bashed the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee this week for its “absolute lack of support” and said “it’s not too late” for the DSCC to get behind her campaign against Republican Kurt Alme and independent Seth Bodnar. That’s not going to happen. ...

House lawmakers departed Washington on a campaign footing ahead of the five-week-long August recess. House Speaker Mike Johnson is vowing to crisscross the country in support of GOP candidates and incumbents, and he’s framing the midterms as “common sense versus communism” in an effort to hitch Democratic candidates to insurgent ...

Several others seriously injured in attack that residents of Palestinian village say also involved Israeli military Four Palestinians and one Israeli have been killed in a shooting in the northern West Bank, health officials have said, during what residents described as a settler attack also involving the Israeli military. Several ...

Thanks to gen Z resellers and platforms like Depop, thrifting has lost its subcultural roots – and ballooned into a $350bn business Vintage boutique owner Janelle Best has been rummaging in thrift shop bins since the 90s. When she started, she says, there was a stigma about it. “It was ...

The US will no longer hold transportation agencies accountable for unintentional discrimination. That’s devastating for those of us who depend on it As the first congenitally blind member of Congress and a former president of the Bay area Rapid Transit (Bart) Board, I know that the ability to move – ...

The fire has raged in the region for several days with officials now ordering the evacuation of the entire Cap Ferret peninsula. ...

On Thursday, Axel Rudakubana was moved from prison to a secure psychiatric hospital in Berkshire. ...