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In brief Bitcoin fell about 0.9% to roughly $83,600 on Friday, retracing part of a rally that pushed it to an intraday high near $87,000, Technical indicators on the charts still read bullish, though the Fed’s next move could reshape the outlook. Meanwhile, XRP (+15.45% over seven days) and Solana (+9.33% over seven days) are outperforming the broader crypto market. Bitcoin slipped to around $83,600 on Friday, a pullback of roughly 1% from the prior close, as the week’s rally took a breather. The dip follows an intraday high near $87,000—territory Bitcoin hadn’t touched in months—after it broke out of…

If you happen to be swimming in the Salish Sea at night and imagine tiny hairy legs creeping up your body, there is now at least one unsettling reason that image feels plausible. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have identified two previously unknown species of sea spider, including one with hairy legs and striking red eyes. The discoveries mark the first new sea spider species formally described from the Salish Sea in nearly 100 years. Published in Organisms Diversity & Evolution, the study combines detailed physical observations with genetic analysis to help fill major gaps in scientists’ understanding…

Reading Time: 3 minutes A report filed with federal regulators estimates an August gas leak on Enbridge’s Line 5 oil and gas pipeline in northern Wisconsin will cost at least $15.1 million.An accident report filed by Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership Thursday with the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration shows emergency response makes up the bulk of the costs, estimated at nearly $9.9 million.The company estimated public and private property damage and repairs at about $5 million. Environmental remediation and lost product account for the remainder of the estimated expenses.Enbridge has said the leak occurred after a subcontractor’s unoccupied…

In Sinapore, Xiang spoke of the recognition young people seek in today’s China, where they often look to systems for approval – from competitive exams to secure jobs – and how that approval becomes a measure of self-worth, which can be exhausting and damaging. It is healthier, he suggested, to seek meaning and understanding from others and use that to understand ourselves better.These are hardly quick fixes. But in a country where discontent can be politically sensitive and heavily censored, he is a rare public figure who addresses what he calls the “pain point of the times”.”Everyone knows where the…

“Does anybody think this is a good idea? No right-minded person would make this decision,” said O’Neill, who expressed bewilderment over the Parades Commission’s U-turn. “Why, after 28 years of determinations to block a march down this road, did the Parades Commission think this is the right idea today to bring this mess back on to this community?” But Northern Ireland’s main pro-British party, the Democratic Unionists, stood alongside the blocked Orangemen as they waited in hope that the police would enforce the commission’s ruling by pushing the Catholics out of the road. The last time this happened, in 1997,…

Tony Blair can, apparently, sound slightly wistful when he describes how he once had a cloak-and-dagger meeting with Andy Burnham, who wanted to talk to him about standing for the party leadership. Before anyone gets too excited, however, this wasn’t in the past few months, during which Burnham succeeded in landing the job. The story dates back to 2010. That was when he was a callow member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet and understandably wary of his boss discovering not only his ambition to take over if Labour lost the looming general election, but also from whom he wanted advice.Much has…

Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two long-unsolved messages encoded by Enigma machines using LLMs built by OpenAI and Anthropic. While Turing and his team of cryptanalysts built an early computer, dubbed the Bombe, that allowed the United Kingdom to translate Enigma messages during the war, a handful of archival messages remain unbroken —…

Dear Reader, It has been many months since I last wrote you. Part of the reason for that is because I spent most of June and part of July in transit from FPC Morgantown to FCI McKean – a four hour drive away. For most of that time I had no access to pen, paper, stamps, or the rudimentary email system that I use to send these letters out.  The other part of the reason why I haven’t written in so long is that once I did finally arrive I was so shell shocked from the entire ordeal that I…

On a clean summer swell, the wave at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach arrives from the south, wraps around a cobblestone point and unspools toward the pier in a long, shimmering wave that can carry a surfer for hundreds of feet. It breaks slowly, forgivingly, over rounded stones that were delivered by Malibu Creek across millennia. The beach plays an outsized role in American and surf culture, inspiring the films “Gidget” and “The Endless Summer” and the songs of the Beach Boys. The point produced the longboarding style that still bears the place’s name: In Australia, longboards are called “Malibus.”  Kassia Meador…

Home Americas From Pope Leo XIV’s historic first visit to France to US President Donald Trump meeting China’s President Xi Jinping to flooded streets in Bangkok, FRANCE 24 looks back at the week’s most striking pictures. Issued on: 27/09/2026 – 12:05 2 min Reading time US President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping after watching a military demonstration from a balcony of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 24, 2026. © Evan Vucci, Reuters Pope Leo XIV leads a prayer with worshippers in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary at the Grotto…