When my phone rang during my senior year of high school, it was Florida Atlantic University calling. I didn’t know that answering would change the trajectory of my life. I had 48 hours to decide whether to take a chance on an opportunity that seemed too good to be true: the opportunity to graduate debt-free.
I started following Thomas Miller’s political forecasts during the January 2021 Senate races in Georgia. Just a few days before the election, the polls and pundits anticipated a relatively easy win for both Republican candidates. But Miller—a prominent data scientist and professor at Northwestern University—posited a Democratic sweep, and he was right. He also called
After hackers stole more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from the exchange platform Binance on Thursday, crypto executives are racing to help the company while blockchain researchers examine the damage and assign blame. Binance initially said one engineer’s compromised laptop was the gateway to the attack, but the company later revised its assessment, saying the
Keeping Southeast Asia open for business is a geopolitical task as much as a commercial one. Its relationships across geopolitical divides give companies access to competing powers’ markets, capital, and technology. In 2025, ASEAN attracted a record $243.9 billion in foreign direct investment. But conflict, U.S.-China strategic competition, and economic nationalism threaten these opportunities. Sustaining
A massive hack of Binance is sending shockwaves through digital assets and crypto-linked stocks on Friday. Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, said on Friday that a compromised engineer’s laptop may have allowed hackers to gain access to the platform. It said that $6.3 billion of assets were impacted. The news sent crypto prices down
A federal judge said Friday she would open a “formal inquiry” to investigate if attorneys for the Trump administration violated ethical boundaries during a legal dispute about a golf-course project — one in a pair of plans that are revealing the breadth of the president’s attempts to mold parts of the District of Columbia to
