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Apr 07 2026FINANCE

Banks face faster change as digital tokens take over old money rules

Big banks like JPMorgan can't keep treating blockchain tech like a side project anymore. Jamie Dimon says his own company needs to speed up, or lose ground to smaller rivals using tokens and smart contracts to handle money differently. Tokenization is turning real things—like government bonds or sh

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Apr 07 2026POLITICS

More hands join to manage housing help in Richmond

Richmond is testing a new plan to hand out housing aid money without going through usual city channels. Instead of using government workers, private groups will decide who gets the funds. Officials hope this will speed things up and reach people faster. The move raises questions. Why switch to outs

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Apr 07 2026ENVIRONMENT

Heavy rains ravage Afghanistan, leaving 117 missing or dead

Afghanistan faces yet another brutal spell of extreme weather, with floods and landslides now linked to 110 deaths and 11 more people unaccounted for. Over two weeks, relentless rain has turned streets into rivers, buried homes under mud, and cut off entire towns. Just in the last day, floods took 1

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Apr 07 2026RELIGION

Easter mornings get local folks outside on the Treasure Coast

Across three coastal towns, Easter Sunday started earlier than usual for hundreds of people. Instead of sleeping in, they woke up before dawn to gather at beaches and parks. The weather gave them a gentle nudge—warm air, a few clouds, and temps stuck in the 80s. Vero Beach, Fort Pierce, and Stuart e

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Apr 07 2026CRIME

Hitman Hired? More Like a Trap Set

In a strange twist, a man tried to pay someone to kill his business partner and the partner’s girlfriend. The catch? The "hitman" was actually working with the ATF. For about seven days, this man, Xin Guang Guo, followed through with plans that included handing over details about the targets, like t

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Apr 07 2026BUSINESS

Starting smart beats rushing in for new business owners

Many new owners rush to launch without planning, believing speed beats strategy. The push to "just start" comes from the idea that hesitation kills momentum. Yet without clear direction, these businesses end up chasing every passing trend instead of building something meaningful. Their marketing zig

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Apr 07 2026EDUCATION

A college board chair faces questions over truth in hiring process

A teachers' group at Mott Community College has filed a complaint saying the board chair gave conflicting statements about how the college hired its next president. The union claims the chair’s sworn testimony in December didn’t match what the board officially recorded months earlier. Official notes

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Apr 07 2026SPORTS

Better swings ahead? How VR trains racket players

Racket players often spend hours perfecting their strokes on the court or against a wall. Most training focusses on physical repetition under real-world conditions. But a growing number of coaches now add headsets and virtual environments to the drill sheet. New research gathers all controlled tr

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Apr 07 2026BUSINESS

Sports Betting Gets a Legal Twist: Who Really Controls the Game?

A recent court decision flipped the script on how sports betting might be regulated in the future. A federal appeals court ruled that prediction markets—where people bet on sports outcomes—don’t fall under state gambling laws. Instead, they’re treated like financial contracts, overseen by a federal

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Apr 07 2026SPORTS

One ticket cost $17, 000 to watch the big basketball showdown

A single ticket for Monday night’s NCAA championship game just sold for over seventeen grand. That’s a lot to pay for a seat—even for a game this big. The buyer used SeatGeek, one of the biggest ticket platforms out there. Last year’s game drew big crowds too, but prices this time jumped about twent

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