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First up, blockchain tracking firm Arkham has identified a wallet apparently linked to Trump Media making a transfer of three hundred forty two million dollars in bitcoin to the exchange Crypto dot com. The move raises immediate questions about the scale of the organization's crypto holdings and what, if any, regulatory scrutiny follows a transaction of this size connected to a sitting president's media company.
Shifting from digital assets to a deeply human story, researchers believe they may have identified a single gene that helps explain why autism is diagnosed in boys roughly three to four times more often than in girls. The gene doesn't live exclusively on sex chromosomes, which is precisely what makes the finding so significant — it suggests the difference may come down to how that gene is expressed differently across sexes, potentially reshaping how clinicians approach diagnosis and support.
And from Hong Kong, pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been sentenced to ten years in prison under the city's national security law. Wong, who is thirty years old, became one of the most recognizable faces of the two thousand nineteen protest movement. His sentencing is the latest in a sweeping crackdown that has seen hundreds of activists and lawmakers detained.
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