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A crypto art piece sold for nearly $70 million on Thursday. NFT buyers say the process can be confusing and include multiple levels of hidden fees. Over the past few months, digital assets known as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have picked up steam as celebrities, artists, and investors generated millions of dollars selling them. But NFT investing is a largely uncharted territory, and while some NFT sellers have made millions of dollars, others have not been so lucky. The process also can include large fees that first-time sellers might not be aware of, which can significantly cut into profit...

cedures and morale in the unit. She was scrutinized at first, but it didn’t take too long for her to develop a great deal of respect for their hard work and she felt the feeling was mutu- al after she left the unit. She was on duty when the football team started hors- a late practice and she blocked, (not locked), the

Beeple is an artist. He makes digital art—pixels on screens depicting bizarre, hilarious, disturbing, and sometimes grotesque images. He smashes together pop culture, technology, and postapocalyptic terror into blistering commentaries on the way we live. A recent frame depicted Donald Trump wearing a leather mask and stripper’s pasties, taking a whip to the coronavirus bug (title: “Trump Dominating Covid”). On the day Jeff Bezos announced he was kicking himself upstairs, Beeple imagined the Amazon founder as a massive, threatening octopus emerging from the ocean as military helicopte...

St. Tammany Parish government will accept Christmas trees through Jan. 29 for recycling and use in cooperative marsh restoration efforts. Bare trees can be brought to the St. Tammany Parish Fairgrounds at 1515 N. Florida St. in Covington and the old Levee Board property at 61134 Military Road in Slidell, during daylight hours. Trees must be stripped of all decorations. Ornaments, lights, tinsel, and tree stands must be removed completely to be eligible for the program. Flocked trees cannot be accepted at all at the drop-off sites because they cannot be used for the project.  New agreement ...