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Imane Khelif, who won Paris Olympics boxing gold amid a gender-eligibility row, is determined to defend her title at the 2028 Los Angeles Games and says she will not be intimidated by US President Donald Trump. Trump signed an executive order banning transgender women from female sports in the United States last month and called Khelif “a male boxer” in his speech after signing the order. “I will give you a straightforward answer, I am not transgender,” she told ITV in an interview. “This does not concern me, and it does not intimidate me.” The International Olympic Committee’s executive board…

The headquarters of the Department of Education on March 12, 2025 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesThe American Federation of Teachers is suing the U.S. Department of Education for shutting down access to affordable repayment plans for millions of student loan borrowers.The AFT, one of the country’s biggest labor unions, filed the lawsuit in district court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday over the Trump administration’s decision to take down the applications for income-driven repayment plans.”By effectively freezing the nation’s student loan system, the new administration seems intent on making life harder for working people, including for millions of borrowers who…

The recent security breach for around $1.5 billion at Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, sent ripples through the digital asset community. With $20 billion in customer assets under custody, Bybit faced a significant challenge when an attacker exploited security controls during a routine transfer from an offline “cold” wallet to a “warm” wallet used for daily trading. Initial reports suggest the vulnerability involved a home-grown Web3 implementation using Gnosis Safe — a multi-signature wallet that uses off-chain scaling techniques, contains a centralized upgradable architecture, and a user interface for signing. Malicious code deployed using the upgradable…

An uninspired, fairly directionless cryptocurrency market was draining value from a wide range of altcoins on Tuesday. This wasn’t quite a rout, but still, the general gloom hanging over various types of investments shaved the prices of quite a few of the less popular cryptos. Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB), whose logo is a jolly dog, wasn’t in a good mood with its nearly 5% decline from 4 p.m. ET. Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) wasn’t faring much better with a more than 4% drop, while Litecoin’s (CRYPTO: LTC) almost 6% loss was feeling heavy for investors. This really isn’t the fault of…

PARIS: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday sought to impose unity on his government as a top minister threa­tened to resign over whether women should be allowed to wear the headscarf in sports competitions. Currently, it is up to individual sports federations in France to decide whether women can wear the hijab in competition. But legislation is going through parliament to ban it completely in professional and amateur competition, in a move backers say will shore up France’s strictly secular modern republic. Cabinet unity in Bayrou’s minority government, which tilts to the right but also has some figures from…

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 14, 2025, at the opening bell. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty ImagesUncertainty isn’t in short supply these days — and investors have taken notice.See-sawing policy from the White House has given investors whiplash on many fronts — with tariffs being among the biggest question marks, market experts say.Coupled with uncertainty around federal job cuts, negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and other issues, the combination has been “disorienting to market sentiment,” Paul Christopher, head of global investment strategy at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, wrote Wednesday.Stocks…

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood is worried about recession that she thinks could arise out of President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. Wood shared her concern while speaking virtually at the Digital Asset Summit in New York on March 18. While the Treasury secretary Scott Bessent isn’t worried about recession, Wood claimed, the industry is worried about it. “We think the velocity of money is slowing down dramatically,” she said. The velocity of money refers to the rate of capital movement in the market. A slower velocity means that capital is moving at a slower pace which is an indication of…

MELBOURNE: Engl­a­nd and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive Richard Gould said they would not support a proposed global Twenty20 league bankrolled by Saudi Arabia as there was not enough room in the calendar for it. A Sydney Morning Herald report on Saturday said the event would be backed by the sports arm of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and feature eight teams playing in four different locations. “With the busy international calendar, a host of established franchise leagues around the world, and existing concerns about player workloads, there is no scope or demand for such an idea,” Gould told…

Washington CNN  —  Late last year, it seemed like the Federal Reserve had pulled off the unlikely — tamping down the highest inflation in four decades without triggering a recession, an outcome known as a “soft landing.” Now, two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, that historic win could be reversed as a global trade war looms. Since Trump took office in January, his administration has overhauled trade policy, slashed the federal workforce, clamped down on immigration and reconfigured America’s relationship with its allies — structural changes that have put American consumers, businesses and investors on edge. During that…

A crypto whale who opened more than 300 heavily leveraged short positions on Bitcoin, amounting to $521 million, closed these trades on Tuesday, taking home a total profit of $3.9 million. The trade, which was completed on the Hyperliquid decentralized perpetuals exchange, met resistance from traders who tried to pump Bitcoin above the whale’s $83,898 short entry. Short trades make money when an asset’s price drops, but when using 40x leverage, a 2% move to the upside of Bitcoin at $85,591 would have liquidated the position. In response, the pseudonymous trader Cbb0fe rallied a group to put $10 million into…