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WASHINGTON — Congress opted to tread water on legislation that would clarify the agency in charge of the cryptocurrency industry, leaving lawmakers now without a regulator to blame for missing the signs of the FTX collapse this month and facing deep skepticism about some proposals.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s prominence on Capitol Hill is said to have tainted bills deemed too favorable to the cryptocurrency industry.

The Senate voted 69-27 Wednesday to approve the Kigali Amendment, a treaty that would limit highly potent greenhouse gases.

Of all servicemembers, 8.4 percent of women and 1.5 percent of men said they had been assaulted or that someone had tried to assault them.

The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he’d inhaled from the 10-acre burn pit at Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq.

Last year, the contest got away from Congress’ rookie-heavy softball squad, but this time will be different, players say. 

’Shouldn’t have been this hard,’ comedian and advocate Jon Stewart tells The Independent after the vote

Legislation expanding health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans is nearing passage in Congress

As Democrats despair over President Joe Biden's unpopularity and cast about for an alternative, many overlook the obvious front-runner to succeed him as party leader: