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McAfee antivirus software creator dead in Spanish prison

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MADRID (AP) — John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the United States to face tax charges punishable by decades in prison, authorities said. The eccentric cryptocurrency promoter and tax opponent whose history of legal troubles spanned from Tennessee to Central America to the Caribbean was discovered at the Brians 2 penitentiary in northeastern Spain. Read More...

Opinion | Want to fix immigration? Hold employers accountable, too.

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Fewer than a dozen. That’s how many employers were prosecuted in fiscal year 2023 for hiring immigrants who did not have proper documentation, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. That fact gets at a frustrating aspect of our immigration debate: While legislators on both sides are focused on trying to stop the record number of people illegally crossing the U.S. border, almost no one is talking about the economic incentives drawing them here. Read More...

Rahimi gun-rights case asks Supreme Court to reexamine Bruen decision

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Supreme Court cases often come with sympathetic protagonists: longtime devoted partners who want to celebrate their love with marriage, or devout people of faith who say government policies keep them from living out their beliefs. But in a major Second Amendment case that comes before the Supreme Court Tuesday, the Biden administration presents an almost textbook antihero in defending a federal law that bars people who are under domestic-violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Read More...