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He was a wealthy cryptocurrency executive with a shiny white Porsche and a luxury condo in the Bahamas. She was a crypto policy expert with political ambitions, advocating for the industry in Washington. A romance blossomed after they were brought together by an unlikely matchmaker: Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of …

Dr. Frances Conley made national headlines in 1991 when she resigned from her position at Stanford University School of Medicine, saying that sexism had made her job untenable. At the time, she was a tenured professor and one of the country’s only female neurosurgeons. For decades she had played along …

Oregon officials have added the state’s largest natural gas utility as a defendant in their $50 billion lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their contribution to climate change. The suit — the first to make climate-related deception claims against a utility, experts said — alleges that the company, NW Natural, …