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Los Angeles Gladiators player says “the whole game” is going to change come next season.

A combination of strong demand and weak supply is sending crude toward $80 a barrel. That won’t help those already worried about gas and electricity prices.

A huge gain in U.S. household net worth is stoking consumer spending, but could it also be holding the economy back?

The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers. Some of those named in the data have already lost their jobs.

Chinese regulators have long sought to tamp down risks related to the rise of Bitcoin and its peers. The cryptocurrency ethos runs counter to China’s aggressive centralized control of finance, and China is home to a large concentration of the world’s crypto miners, whose need for massive amounts of power complicates efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Facebook is pushing devices like its Oculus as a part of its ‘metaverse’ strategy.

As thousands of Haitian migrants have crowded the U.S.-Mexico border in recent weeks, the administration of President Joe Biden has relied on his predecessor’s policy from early in the pandemic to detain and deport them back to their home country.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

U.S. experts had a difficult series of decisions to make about boosters based on limited data. But it’s hard to say their final advice is clear, evidence-based or in the best interests of public health.

Deferred prosecution agreement, unveiled at court hearing in Brooklyn, does not include guilty plea.

Vladimir Putin had to scramble to get the result he wanted. His efforts leave Russia a darker place than it has been for decades.