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Dept. of Ed: Title IX Applies for NIL Payments, Must Be Proportional for All Athletes | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

Sean Rayford/Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education published a memo on Thursday providing guidance regarding name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation and its compliance under Title IX law, via ESPN’s Paula Lavigne and Dan Murphy. “When a school provides athletic financial assistance in forms other than scholarships or grants, including compensation for the use […]

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Business & Finance

Latin American Stripe rival dLocal acquires UK payments license

DLocal is one of Latin America’s most prominent payment players. It specializes in cross-border payments for emerging markets such as Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and its home country, Uruguay. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — Uruguayan payments firm dLocal has secured a U.K. payment institution license, adding to the company’s growing portfolio of […]

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Business & Finance

Your Crypto Wallet As Your Bank: Realizing Bitcoin’s Original Vision

Buying Coffee with Crypto: A Simple Act Upending the Banking System. getty Imagine buying your morning coffee or shopping online with cryptocurrency—no banks involved, and your funds safely deposited on the blockchain that has replaced your bank deposit. This isn’t a distant dream; it’s happening now. Crypto wallets let you store and control your money […]

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Politics

Inside the Gaetz ethics report, a trove of new details alleging payments for sex and drug use

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee’s long-awaited report on Matt Gaetz documents a trove of salacious allegationsincluding sex with an underage girl, that tanked the Florida Republican’s bid to lead the Justice Department. Citing text messages, travel receipts, online payments and testimony, the bipartisan committee paints a picture of a lifestyle in which Gaetz and […]

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Politics

Higher monthly payments loom for many student loan borrowers

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week should bring some clarity to Americans with student loans, but probably not in the way they’d hoped. A flurry of Biden administration initiatives and court rulings against them have left millions of borrowers uncertain about their future payments. Many federal student loans, in fact, are stuck in a period […]

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Politics

Philadelphia DA Sues Elon Musk, Super PAC Over Voter Payments

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner sued Monday to stop Elon Musk and his political action committee from awarding $1 million to registered voters in Pennsylvania, calling it an illegal lottery. “America PAC and Musk must be stopped, immediately, before the upcoming Presidential Election on Nov. 5,” reads Krasner’s lawsuit, filed in the Philadelphia Common Pleas […]

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