House Democrats ask inspector general to investigate Trump’s directive aimed at the Smithsonian.
Over 70 House Democrats have urged the Smithsonian’s inspectors to look into President Trump’s executive order that targets the Smithsonian Museum. A total of 71 Democrats, spearheaded by Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts and Paul Tonko from New York, have expressed their discontent with Trump’s executive order issued on March 27. In a letter sent on […]
Trump takes action to end DEI at Smithsonian
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, aimed at reinventing the Smithsonian facility, protecting national monuments, and restoring what he calls “truth and sanity” in American history by countering divisive ideology in public institutions. Trump's orders Vice President Vance to tackle “inappropriate, division, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Museum, Research Centers and […]
Trump order targets 'divisive narratives' in Smithsonian museums
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday calling for more control over what is on display at the Smithsonian Museum and federal sites, citing what the White House called, called “schizophrenia tales” promoted by certain museums. Presidential Order The Smithsonian Association, which operates numerous museums in the country's capital, claimed that it was “under […]
Smithsonian to display IRS laptop that tracked Bitfinex’s 120K stolen Bitcoin – Cointelegraph
The MacBook Pro belonging to an Internal Revenue Service employee who tracked down and seized 120,000 bitcoins stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 is now in the collection of the world-famous Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. “Laptops are central to criminal cases that demonstrate the evolution of our understanding of cryptocurrencies,” said Ellen Feingold, […]
Laptop Used to Trace Bitcoin Stolen From Bitfinex Headed to Smithsonian – Decrypt
The 2019 MacBook Pro used by the IRS to track and seize $3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is now in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. At the time, the Department of Justice press release It touted the recovery of stolen BTC as the “largest financial seizure in […]
Mariska Hargitay’s ‘SVU’ costume donated to the Smithsonian
Captain Olivia Benson has made no secret of this. An outfit worn by actress Mariska Hargitay's character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is now part of the collection at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Hargitay and SVU creator and executive producer Dick Wolf presented the donation, which included a blue […]