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- Toys for Tots reaches new avenues this year with cryptocurrency https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/toys-for-tots-reaches-new-avenues-this-year-with-cryptocurrency-elf-token-12-3-2021 2 comments cryptocurrency
- The USA Freedom Act is being hyped as a prohibition of the N.S.A.’s controversial mass surveillance practices, but it actually extends the PATRIOT Act for years and opens up new avenues for more invasive forms of government spying. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/242736-no-congress-did-not-just-vote-to-end-nsa-spying 335 comments technology
- Trump ‘greeted by single supporter’ as he returns to New York for first time since presidency: Queens-born septuagenarian arrives back at former Fifth Avenue residence following four year absence https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tower-return-new-york-b1813877.html 50 comments politics
- Iran's secret NYC skyscraper seized by US government: The Iranian government has secretly owned and controlled an office building in the middle of New York City for years. Set on Fifth Avenue and close to the Rockefeller Center, the 36-story skyscraper houses a number of businesses. http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4743590/iran-secretly-owned-a-new-york-office-building 4 comments worldnews