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U.S. regulator moves to withdraw million penalty against Winklevoss’ crypto exchange

U.S. regulator moves to withdraw $5 million penalty against Winklevoss’ crypto exchange

Published by Sam Flores

Gemini Co-founders Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss attend the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City, U.S., Sept. 12, 2025. Jeenah Moon | Reuters The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked a judge on Wednesday to vacate the agency’s $5 million penalty against a cryptocurrency exchange founded by twin brothers who donated to President Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2024. The CFTC said regulators should never have accused Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ Gemini Trust Company of making false statements in connection with its bitcoin futures business. Gemini settled the CFTC charges in January 2025 during the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration, paying a $5 million penalty and agreeing to an injunction that would prevent the company from making any false or misleading statements to the CFTC. But Gemini and the CFTC have now agreed that the settlement should be vacated, citing the CFTC’s changed policy on crypto enforcement under Trump. The Winklevoss brothers each donated $1 million in bitcoin to his election campaign in 2024. The CFTC and Gemini said in jointly filed court papers that the settlement should be rescinded and the CFTC had “resorted to inappropriate tactics” to bring a lawsuit and “extract …

DOJ seeking death penalty for suspect in fatal shootings of 2 Israeli Embassy staffers

DOJ seeking death penalty for suspect in fatal shootings of 2 Israeli Embassy staffers

Published by Sam Flores

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against the man accused of shooting and killing two Israeli Embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, the Department of Justice informed a federal judge Friday.  Justice Department leaders had long signaled they were considering it. The new filing marks the formal notification from U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro’s office. … Source link

Why Jewish values oppose Israel’s unequal death penalty law

Why Jewish values oppose Israel’s unequal death penalty law

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Judaism is a religion that values all human life equally. The foundation is written in Genesis 1:27, which states that humans were all created in the image of God. And while all the religions that hold Genesis in their canon of sacred texts differ in interpretation, Judaism is clear that every human life is a world unto itself, a line well known from the Mishnah (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5) quoted in the movie “Schindler’s List.”  So how can it be that lawmakers in Israel — a country that purportedly bases itself on Jewish teachings and values — approved a death penalty law and tribunal that only apply to one class of people? As part of a congregation that lost 11 members in a violent antisemitic attack against our synagogue and two others in Pittsburgh in 2018, I know the pain of loss through terror. But perhaps the best rationale against the death penalty is that given by the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in a speech at Wesleyan University …

Israeli lawmakers set up a special tribunal and allow for death penalty for Hamas-led 2023 attackers

Israeli lawmakers set up a special tribunal and allow for death penalty for Hamas-led 2023 attackers

Published by Sam Flores

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers approved a bill on Monday setting up a special tribunal that would try and have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza. The measure passed 93-0 in the 120-seat Knesset, or parliament, reflecting widespread support for punishing those found responsible for what was the deadliest attack in Israel’s history. The remaining 27 lawmakers were absent or abstained from voting. Rights groups have criticized the measure, saying it makes the death penalty too easy to impose while also doing away with procedures safeguarding the right to a fair trial. Defendants can appeal their sentences but the appeals have to be heard by a separate, special appeals court rather than regular appeals courts. Because the bill empowers a panel of judges to hand down the death penalty by a majority vote — and requires the trials to be conducted in a livestreamed Jerusalem courtroom — it has drawn comparisons to the 1962 trial of Nazi war criminal …

Women who out-earn their partners through education face a smaller child penalty

Women who out-earn their partners through education face a smaller child penalty

Published by José Betancourt

When couples have their first child, women generally experience a long-term drop in their income compared to their male partners. A new analysis shows that this combined loss of relative earnings is noticeably smaller for women who possess more formal education than their partners. The research was published recently in the journal Social Science Research. Parenthood operates as a sudden fork in the road for the career trajectories of men and women. Mothers routinely undergo a large and persistent reduction in their labor market income after the birth of a first child. Fathers generally see their earnings continue untouched. Economists and sociologists refer to this divergence as the child penalty. The child penalty remains a primary factor driving the persistent wage gap between men and women in the modern workforce. To understand how this dynamic plays out across different types of households, researchers look at how partners match up before having children. In the past, people predominantly married within their own educational bracket, a pattern known as homogamy. Another common historic structure was hypergamy, where …

Israel approves law on death penalty for October 7 detainees | Death Penalty

Israel approves law on death penalty for October 7 detainees | Death Penalty

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NewsFeed A new death penalty bill was approved by the Israeli Knesset to establish a special tribunal that can sentence Palestinians said to be linked to the Hamas-led October 7 attacks to death. Rights groups say it would weaken fair trial protections and make executions easier. Published On 12 May 202612 May 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Source link

Bayern scrape win despite Kane penalty miss after Champions League exit

Bayern scrape win despite Kane penalty miss after Champions League exit

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WOLFSBURG, Germany, May 9 : Bayern Munich’s Harry Kane missed a penalty as the Bundesliga champions failed to hit top form but still edged strugglers VfL Wolfsburg 1-0 on Saturday with a Michael Olise goal after their midweek Champions League semi-final exit to Paris St Germain. Bayern suffered a 6-5 aggregate loss to holders Paris St Germain after their 1-1 draw in Munich on Wednesday, narrowly missing out on what would have been their first Champions League final in six years after they beat PSG in the 2020 showpiece. The frustration was evident at the start on Saturday as the Bavarians, with six changes, lacked their usual attacking spark despite having top scorer Kane in the starting 11. Kane then squandered a 36th minute penalty, slipping slightly before missing the target, for his first missed Bundesliga spot kick after 24 successful ones. Video replays later showed a Wolfsburg player repeatedly stepping on the penalty spot before Kane took his spot kick. Coach Vincent Kompany said had that been the case on Wednesday, Bayern’s players would have been …

How not to choke under pressure, for penalty kicks and more

How not to choke under pressure, for penalty kicks and more

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Power Words More About Power Words anxiety: A nervous reaction to events causing excessive uneasiness and apprehension. People with anxiety may even develop panic attacks. behavior: The way something (often a person or other organism) conducts itself or acts towards others. distraction: Any event or situation that draws someone’s attention away from whatever had been his or her main focus. Distractions can be external events, such as sounds or sights; or they can be internal events, such as thoughts or emotions. psychology: (adj. psychological ) The study of the human mind, especially in relation to actions and behavior. To do this, some perform research using animals. Scientists and mental-health professionals who work in this field are known as psychologists. ratchet: (noun) A tool that a uses a set of angled teeth that allows the device to move in only one direction (such as clockwise versus counter-clockwise, or forward but not backward). (verb) Something that moves in one direction in incremental steps under the constraints, such as that of a ratchet. stress: (in psychology) A mental, …

Anger as couple using Birmingham Airport meet & greet parking service charged £100 penalty

Anger as couple using Birmingham Airport meet & greet parking service charged £100 penalty

Published by Sam Flores

A couple who used a meet and greet parking service at Birmingham Airport received a £100 penalty charge a week after returning home for parking in a hotel car park. Becky and David Whitworth headed to Ireland over Easter and used what they thought was an official parking service. They dropped their Kia Sportage car off at the valet area at BHX at around 1pm on Thursday, April 2 having booked through ‘Birmingham Airport Parking’ at the website: birminghamcarparking.co.uk, which at the time they did not realise was not an official BHX provider. Read more: Jet2, Ryanair, Easyjet, TUI, BA jet fuel update for June, July, August flights The booking reference said the car parking was with ‘Birmingham Airport Valet Service’ and was ‘serviced by AK Meet and Greet Limited’. While the ‘Birmingham Airport Parking’ website also states the company name as Saro Parking Limited. Of note, AK Meet & Greet Limited, has an address of 68 Houldsworth Crescent, Coventry, CV6 4HJ as does Saro Parking and also AK Meet & Greet Bham Airport Ltd. …