Officials in 16 states and Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit Friday to block the Trump administration’s investigations into hospitals and doctors who provide transition-related care to minors. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, argues that the administration, by threatening to prosecute providers, is trying to institute a national ban on puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries for transgender minors even though Congress has enacted no such federal ban. “The federal government is running a cruel and targeted harassment campaign against providers who offer lawful, lifesaving care to children,” New York Attorney General Letitia…
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A Massachusetts woman was bitten by nearly $21,000 in medical bills after a bat flew into her mouth during a freak incident while vacationing in Northern Arizona, the unlucky traveler said Friday. Erica Kahn, now 33, had recently lost her job as a biomedical engineer when she traveled to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in last August, she told NBC News. Kahn, whose woman-vs.-animal story was first reported Thursday by KFF News, was snapping pictures of the night sky when a bat approached and got caught in between her camera and face. Then a part of the bat got…
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that introduces a set of new steep tariffs on dozens of countries, as the global economy and alliances face another test from the U.S.’ trade agenda. However, in a minor reprieve that opens the door to further negotiations, the White House said the measures will go into effect in a week for most countries, and not the Friday deadline that the president initially set. Trump’s order issued Thursday night came after a flurry of tariff-related activity in recent days as the White House announced agreements with various nations and blocs before…
Istanbul will host the 152nd Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) next year, Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş announced during a press briefing at the U.N.’s Geneva headquarters. “It will be a great honor for us, as Türkiye, to have these people, the parliamentarians around the world, in Istanbul,” Kurtulmuş said Wednesday, confirming that the hosting agreement had just been signed. The announcement came during an Association of Accredited Correspondents at the United Nations news briefing in Geneva, where Kurtulmuş was attending this week’s Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, organized by the IPU. The IPU’s 151st Assembly will also…
Regulatory clarity means that traditional broker-dealers are no longer on the sidelines, says Aaron Kaplan, Co-CEO and founder of Prometheum. Updated Aug 1, 2025, 4:46 p.m. Published Aug 1, 2025, 4:25 p.m. With the passage of the GENIUS Act and growing momentum behind the CLARITY bills in Congress, regulatory clarity for digital assets is finally within reach—delivering the legal framework the crypto industry long demanded. But as that clarity arrives, are crypto incumbents the real winners? For years, the dominant narrative from the crypto industry was that unclear regulation and enforcement would straitjacket the industry in the world’s largest economy. It did.…
Winklevoss shared “significant concerns” with CoinDesk about Brian Quintenz running the agency, revealing the industry isn’t entirely behind Trump’s nominee.Updated Aug 1, 2025, 6:16 p.m. Published Aug 1, 2025, 4:08 p.m. Tyler Winklevoss, the CEO of crypto exchange Gemini, is at the center of a rift over support of President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the obscure-but-highly-relevant regulatory agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He thinks former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz is a bad choice, and he’s been talking with officials from the Trump administration about it, he told CoinDesk in an interview. That coincides with the White House slamming the brakes…
Stablecoin companies operating in Hong Kong posted double-digit losses on Friday amid local regulatory shifts and a broader market correction. Bright Smart Securities & Commodities Group fell nearly 20% on Friday, according to Google Finance data. Yunfeng Financial Group dropped more than 16% during the trading session, while Guotai Junan International Holdings slid 11% and OSL Group declined 10.5%. These companies are referred to as “Hong Kong stablecoin-concept companies,” with share prices driven by exposure to stablecoin issuance, custody, trading, or related infrastructure. Still, some local experts view the correction as a positive market adjustment. It’s “a healthy correction,” said…
Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Adriana D. Kugler has announced her resignation, stepping down during a particularly sensitive moment for the US central bank as President Donald Trump continues to challenge the long-standing tradition of Fed independence. In a statement released Friday, the Fed said Kugler’s resignation will take effect on Aug. 8. While she did not provide a specific reason for her departure, the central bank noted she plans to return to her academic post at Georgetown University. Her term had been scheduled to end in January. “It has been an honor of a lifetime to serve on…
As Puerto Rico struggles with near-weekly blackouts, the island’s most fragile residents—patients on oxygen, elderly caregivers, and exhausted families—are unraveling in the shadows, their lives dictated by outages that no longer wait for hurricanes to hit. Every Flicker Feels Like a Warning In Mayagüezwhen the refrigerator hum cuts out, Nilda Rivera doesn’t wait to see if it’s a glitch. She bolts. Within seconds, she’s yanking the starter cord on the gasoline generator that powers her 86-year-old mother’s oxygen machine. There’s no margin for error. “She has kidney failure, heart disease, and COPD,” Rivera told EFE over the phone. “Every time…
In the high desert salt flats of northern Chile, where flamingos nest and brine glitters under blinding sun, a new alliance between state and private industry may decide whether the country powers the green future—or becomes a cautionary tale in resource politics. From Fertilizer Giant to Lithium Titan Long before lithium-fueled electric cars, it was fertilizer that made SQM a household name in the Chilean industry. Born in 1968 as a state-owned chemical company aimed at reviving the nitrate wealth of an earlier era, it was transformed under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship when privatizations handed control to politically connected elites. The…