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NYC’s mayor hopes the city will be “the center of the cryptocurrency industry.” But his recent effort to prove it—taking his paycheck in crypto, if it can even be called that—ended less than ideally.

In a rare press conference that stretched on for two hours, the president kept a doggedly optimistic tone—and made plenty of news.

The vice president has finally emerged from her media bunker, but the jury is still out on whether more interviews equals higher favorability.

Ben Smith’s abrupt exit has sparked a newsroom guessing game for his successor—Katie Rosman? Wesley Lowery?—though, as one insider put it, the ‘Times,’ which is already replenishing its media desk, has an opportunity “for rethinking the focus” of its signature column.

Yes, the guy who’s publicly lied about the insurrection to make Trump look better has refused to talk to congressional investigators.

The ex-president’s son is out there trying to defend his dad, and it’s not going well.