The spy who wasn’t? New York police officer wants badge back
Angwang, a former U.S. Marine, spent six months in a federal detention center before he was freed on bail while awaiting trial on charges that he fed information about New York’s Tibetan community to officials at the Chinese consulate in New York.
Then, just as suddenly, it was over. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn dropped the charges Jan. 19, saying only that they were acting “in the interest of justice.” They didn’t explain further.
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NFTs and Intellectual Property: What Do You Actually Own?
Copyright law does not give an NFT owner any rights unless the creator takes affirmative steps to make sure that it does.
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Johnson & Johnson faces about 40,000 cancer lawsuits that allege tainted talc in the company's baby powder formula caused cancer for its users. The company has already been forced to pay billions of dollars in damages.
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Military Members and Spouses Could Avoid State Income Taxes Thanks to New Law
The rules governing where -- and, in many cases, if -- military members and their spouses pay state income taxes are changing thanks to a new law signed early this year.
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What Is a Tip Credit and How Do They Work?
Confusion Around Wage and Hour Law Can Be Costly for The Restaurant Owner. Employers can never take any portion of tips paid to employees under any circumstance as tips are the property of the employees exclusively; but “service charges,” which are not tips, can be applied by employers much differently
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The Justice Department is proposing changes to how it runs federal prisoners’ deposit accounts in an effort to make sure victims are paid restitution, including from some high-profile inmates with large balances.
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday to fraud and other charges related to the collapse of his $32 billion crypto empire.
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Only in 1870 did the United States recognize Christmas as a federal holiday.
The practice of erecting public Christmas trees emerged in the U.S. in the 20th century. In 1923, the first one appeared on the White House's South Lawn. During the Great Depression, famous sites such as New York's Rockefeller Center began erecting increasingly larger trees.
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Cannabis is legal in most of America. But federal laws still block businesses from banks.
According to a research report conducted by New Frontier Data, the U.S. cannabis industry is projected to be a $72 billion market by 2030. Imagine that these billions of dollars are being exchanged in the marketplace but never deposited into a single financial or banking institution, because of federal laws that have not kept up.
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