Author: Leslie Stewart

French Prime Minister François Bailloux will distribute a “survival manual” to all households with instructions on how to prepare for acute threats.A spokesman for the Prime Minister’s Office told NBC News that the first person document currently awaiting official approval is working to prepare for armed conflict, nuclear threats and natural disasters.According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the 20-page booklet is not specifically designed for the current geopolitical climate, but appears to coincide with France’s new defensive stance.In a national speech on March 5th, French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the need to review France’s security stance, saying, “We must better…

CHICAGO — A former Georgia warehouse worker at Augusta National Golf Club was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday for transporting millions of dollars worth of stolen Masters Tournament memorabilia, including one of Arnold Palmer’s iconic green jackets.Richard Glensky, 40, pleaded guilty last year to one count of transporting stolen goods across state boundaries. He appeared in a suit and a red tie at a federal courthouse in Chicago on Wednesday. His parents and wife sat in the courtroom behind him and he apologised for his actions before our district judge Sharon Johnson Coleman served his sentence.”I deeply regret…

Opinion: Georgii verbitskii, founder of Timio Mimecoin has dominated the crypto narrative over the past year, leading to a series of famous events in which most traders lost their money while insiders were making profits. With Libra tokens alone, some estimates have led to public losses of $4.4 billion. Unlike previous crypto cycles where wide market growth rewarded holders, Memecoin’s speculation today created an environment where the average trader’s chances of success are small. How did Memecoins drive the market to a dead end?Speculation or investment?Investment and speculation are fundamentally different games with clear rules. Investing is not about making…

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil says he was “targeted” to defend the Palestinian cause in a new letter from the Louisiana Detention Center, who is being held after being arrested by federal immigration authorities earlier this month.”I will wake up on cold mornings and spend a long time witnessing ongoing quiet injustice against so many people who have been eliminated from law protection,” Halil said in a letter ordered by phone on Monday. The 30-year-old legal resident, who played a major role in the pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University last spring, was arrested by a federal immigration agent in New…

On Tuesday, a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order from banning transgender people from joining or serving in the military. US District Judge Ana Reyes ruled that the ban violates the Equality Protection Clause, as van discriminates based on his transgender status and gender. Reyes said the ban was “immersed in animus.””The language is surprisingly sleazy, its policy accusing trans people of inherently ineligible, and its conclusions have nothing to do with facts,” she wrote.Reyes said, “In fact, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender soldiers have sacrificed putting their lives at risk in order to ensure…

Disclosure: The opinions and opinions expressed here belong to the authors solely and do not represent the views or opinions of the crypto.news editorial. The recent Bybit hack, which led to the theft of $1.5 billion worth of digital assets, is a wake-up call for the entire crypto industry. The attack exploits vulnerabilities in multi-signature approval and UI spoofing tactics, deceiving users to believe they were trading at the correct address when the interface was actually manipulated. Even experienced cryptography experts can overlook such inconsistencies without rigorous scrutiny. In a fast-paced environment of digital asset exchanges, these threats may not…

The biological mother of a Connecticut man who has been captured and said to be starved by his stepmother for over 20 years, says she is “pride in him” by her escape.Police say a 32-year-old Connecticut man broke out a fire on February 17th in a small room allegedly trapped in his family’s Waterbury home.He told officers responding that he was captured by his stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, who was 56 years old since he was 11 and started the fire because he “wanted freedom.” The man’s biological 52-year-old mother told NBC Connecticut on Monday that she had been searching for…

Daniel Island, S.C. — Dozens of people gathered at a South Carolina coastal apartment on Saturday, reminiscing about a longtime resident who passed away the day before.Walter was murdered on property after several complaints last week, management at Daniel Island Village told Charleston’s NBC affiliate WCBD in a statement.Neighbors at an apartment near Charleston said Walter not only had been hanging out in the complex for over a decade, but also had earned a name, as well as gaining a bit of fame.Vigil organizer Rebekah Cole told the TV station that people with pets and children don’t get bothered by…

Disclosure: The opinions and opinions expressed here belong to the authors solely and do not represent the views or opinions of the crypto.news editorial. The collapse of Mount Gox in 2014, when 850,000 Bitcoin (BTC) disappeared, appears to be a “never again” moment for Crypto. The industry was built on the promise of financial sovereignty, but 10 years later, we are still stuck in Square One. Bybit’s recent hack has lost hundreds of millions of people (probably up to $1.5 billion) in user funds, making it one of the biggest crypto security breaches to date. The exchange remains up and…

Conan O’Brien returns to the Oscars stage in 2026. The late-night host and comedian will host the 98th Academy Awards, set on March 15th, the film Academy leadership said Monday.”The only reason I’m hosting Oscars next year is that I want to hear Adrien Brody finish his speech,” O’Brien said in a statement.This year was O’Brien’s first lead in the show. This attracted the largest broadcast audience of five years, despite the relatively small victory film “Anora.” An estimated 19.7 million viewers watched the 97th Academy Awards ceremony earlier this month. According to BroadcasterABC, there was a big lift between…