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To protect lobstermen, spending bill may speed whales’ extinction, activists say INTIMATE PHOTOS BY ROOMBA VACUUMS LEAKED ONLINE The cryptocurrency-trading platform FTX billed itself to customers and investors as a bold break with the past, but, when it came to securing influence in Washington, the company followed the familiar playbook of donating extensively to lawmakers in both parties. The result, as John Cassidy explores in his latest column, was a proposed regulation structure for crypto co-sponsored by Democrats and Republicans that aligned closely with the industry’s preferences, and which some experts have argued would leave consumers at risk. “In a properly functioning political system,” Cassidy writes, “the collapse of FTX would generate a reckoning and a full-scale reconsideration of crypto policy.” But the lobby in D.C. for digital currency remains strong, even as the risks that crypto poses to the wider economy have never been clearer. “One vital imperative is to prevent future crypto disasters from spreading to the biggest banks and non-bank financial institutions,” he writes. “So far, we’ve been lucky.” 2022 in Review The Climate Changed Fast This Year, and Institutions Responded

 

9/11 health fund spending for ill responders left out of Congress budget deal as Schumer blames McConnell

Satellite images show Russia is growing its Arctic military bases, including ones near Europe, report says