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It’s worth taking a glance at the numerous figures, especially Democrats, who buddied up to the former crypto tycoon over the years. ... Not that long ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was on top of the world. Sporting a net worth of approximately $15.6 billion, Bankman-Fried was the CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange platform launched in 2019 that had accumulated more than a million consumers by 2022. At 30 years old, he was extremely successful — that is, until last week when he was exposed as a con artist. After a Nov. 2 article from the digital currency news site Coindesk...

SIOUX FALLS - The South Dakota GOP's only candidate for U.S. House of Representatives is touring the state to make his bid formal. Bruce Whalen of Pine Ridge, an American Indian who is chairman of the Shannon County Republican Party, will challenge incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth on Nov. 7. Whalen grew up in Pine Ridge but moved to Utah as a teenager. He returned to South Dakota in 1999 to raise his family. He for the Oglala Sioux Tribe as coordinator of its judiciary committee. He lost a bid in 2002 for tribal council and was unsuccessful in...