The New York police officer who was killed when a gunman opened fire in a midtown Manhattan building Monday evening was a dedicated father and civil servant who was working a second job as a security guard, officials said. Didarul Islam, 36, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was the first person to be shot in the attack at 345 Park Ave., which left four other people dead, including the gunman, authorities said. Islam, who had been with the police department for about four years, leaves behind two young sons and a wife who is pregnant, the police department said. “He was…
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Opinion by: Aaron Basi, head of product at IoTeX With the recent passage of the GENIUS Act, the United States has taken its first real step toward regulating crypto nationally. The bill focuses on stablecoins, establishing reserve rules, audits and authorized issuers. This is a milestone for the industry. If lawmakers want to support the next wave of innovation, they cannot stop here. One of the fastest-growing sectors, decentralized physical infrastructure networks, or DePINs, still lacks a legal framework . DePIN is not about speculation or NFTs. It involves building real-world infrastructure through community-owned hardware. People contribute antennas, sensors or hard…
Why did India launch an investigation into Binance? India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) is investigating the global cryptocurrency exchange Binance, focusing on potential loopholes in cross-border digital asset transfers. The investigation is driven by concerns about unregulated wallet transactions linked to accounts from Pakistan. Authorities are particularly worried about activities near sensitive areas like Jammu and Kashmir, where such transfers could be used for illegal funding or money laundering. They are also investigating the funds sent from India to addresses located outside the country. Although no direct criminal connection has been found yet, a lack of transparency in crypto wallets…
At least five people, including a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer, the suspected attacker, and the CEO of a firm, are dead after a shooting inside a Midtown Manhattan office block that houses major financial institutions and the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL), police said. The shooting, which took place at about 6pm local time (22:00 GMT) on Monday at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, is still under “active investigation”, New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters at a news conference late on Monday. “What we know so far,” said Tisch, is that “surveillance…
A police department in a Maine resort town said that a reserve officer who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week received approval from the federal government to work for the department in May. ICE accused the police department of “knowingly” hiring an immigrant who is in the country illegally, which the police chief denies. ICE arrested Jon Luke Evans, a summer reserve officer with the Old Orchard Beach Police Department, on Friday, according to a statement from the agency released Monday. The agency said that Evans had unlawfully attempted to purchase a firearm, triggering an alert with…
UCLA announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement in a discrimination lawsuit brought by Jewish students and a faculty member, agreeing to pay more than $6 million. The plaintiffs, who brought the lawsuit in June 2024, accused the university of failing to take action when pro-Palestinian protesters set up encampments last spring. They claimed that the protest areas were inaccessible to Jewish students and amounted to what plaintiffs referred to as “Jew exclusion zones.” While UCLA has denied any wrongdoing, it agreed to settle fully, with $50,000 payments to each of the plaintiffs in addition to $2.33 million in…
Photographer: Shawn Brackbill Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing. By SusanBerfield, MargiMurphy andJasonLeopold July 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT Before he was called a patriot and a traitor for following Elon Musk to Washington to join DOGE; before he was hired by the US government despite a résumé that would have been previously rejected; before he was granted extensive access to sensitive data and invited to brief the country’s vice president; before…
Key points: Failure to reclaim $120,000 could spell trouble for Bitcoin bulls. Whales appear to be offloading at local highs, creating further hurdles to price upside. Short-term holder cost bases feature as local support lines of interest. Bitcoin (BTC) gave up attempts to crack $120,000 at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as traders stayed split on market strength. BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewBitcoin price weakness sparks sub-$110,000 targetsData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD returning below $117,500, now under its daily open. The pair had managed to reach $119,000 earlier in the day, despite signs of fresh BTC sales…
Key takeaways: Bitcoin must take out resistance at $120,000 to trigger a rally to new all-time highs. Spot volume and trading activity must recover for BTC price to break out. Bitcoin’s rally to its all-time highs near $123,000 appears to be cooling off, but traders believe BTC remains on track with “massive pump incoming” toward higher targets in 2025. Several analysts explain what must happen to increase Bitcoin’s potential to break into price discovery in the following days or weeks. Bitcoin must crack $120,000 resistanceBitcoin (BTC) price has been oscillating between $120,000 and $115,000, where it has found support, per…
00:00As we mentioned, you’ve turned into this oncology powerhouse where you’re increasingly relying on the US market, where you see a lot of growth, the fastest growth and about 40 something percent of your revenue. You’ve also pledged $50 billion in spending in the US investment in 20 by 2030 on R & D. Can you give us some sense of how you plan to deploy that? That’s a lot of money over the next five years. It is. It’s definitely a big, big commitment to the US. So last year, in May of last year, we actually set a…