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Bitcoin logos are displayed at the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show on April 7, 2014, in New York. Bitcoin has topped the $100,000 mark. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) **FILE**

Bitcoin tops $100,000 as big rally sparked by Trump election win rolls on

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Bitcoin logos are displayed at the Inside Bitcoins conference and trade show on April 7, 2014, in New York. Bitcoin has topped the $100,000 mark. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Bitcoin tops $100,000 mark as big rally sparked by Trump election win rolls on

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FILE - A United Parcel Service truck is parked on a street, in New York, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

UPS to pay $45M to U.S. settle charges that it improperly valued its freight division

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on oversight of the SEC, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who led U.S. crackdown on cryptocurrencies, to step down

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN and STAN CHOE - Associated Press

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump listens at a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Elon Musk tests the role of money in U.S. politics with multimillion-dollar effort to back Trump

By Brian Slodysko, Thomas Beaumont and Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk listens to a question as he speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Musk scheduled for SEC questions over Twitter purchase after missing September interview

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Elon Musk arrives at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on April 13, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

SEC aims to punish Elon Musk for avoiding Twitter takeover testimony

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

The seal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seen at SEC headquarters, June 19, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Supreme Court rules that jury trial is required when SEC seeks civil penalties

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on oversight of the SEC, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two lawsuits filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, have reopened tensions between the government and a volatile industry that has been marred by scandals and market meltdowns. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

SEC’s aggressive prosecutions appear to run afoul of ethics and the law itself

By Justin Bis

Tesla CEO Elon Musk waves as he leaves the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars after a visit in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, March 13, 2024. After reporting dismal first-quarter sales, Tesla is planning to lay off about a tenth of its workforce as it tries to cut costs, multiple media outlets reported Monday. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Judge: Musk must testify in SEC Twitter probe

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

The seal of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is seen at SEC headquarters, June 19, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

SEC charges Trump Media’s newly hired auditing firm with ‘massive fraud’

By David Hamilton - Associated Press

The SEC should not be America’s climate regulator

By Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla.

The sun sets behind an idle pump jack near Karnes City, Texas, April 8, 2020. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission paused on Thursday, April 4, 2024, the implementation of its new climate disclosure rule while it defends the regulation in court. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Senators launch offensive to overturn SEC’s climate change rule

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaves the Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars after a visit in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Power has been restored to electric car manufacturer Tesla's factory near Berlin about a week after an outage believed to have been caused by arson, a network operator says. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

SEC accuses Musk of stalling investigation

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the climate regulator illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The SEC wants to be a climate regulator

By Rep. Frank Lucas

SEC clears Rumble after reports of investigation

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Sept. 3, 2022. Shareholders of a business looking to merge with the social media company that houses Trump’s Truth Social have voted to extend a deadline to give more time to complete the deal. Digital World Acquisition Corp. said Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023 that its stockholders voted to give up to a one-year extension to finish the deal. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Trump’s Truth Social gets closer to Wall Street after SEC approves merger

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk speaks during an interview with Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association's conference, in Krakow, Poland, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. A judge has ordered Musk Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024, to testify as part of the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, now called X, in 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Judge orders Elon Musk to testify in SEC probe of his $44 billion Twitter takeover

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

SEC shows dangerous commitment to ESG agenda

By Carla Sands

FILE - An advertisement for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin displayed on a tram, May 12, 2021, in Hong Kong. U.S. regulators are soon expected to decide whether to approve the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund, a development that could thrust the once niche and nerdy corner of the internet even further into the financial mainstream. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Regulators OK new bitcoin funds in move that could spur more investment in the digital currency

By Ken Sweet - Associated Press