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      <description><![CDATA[The super PAC shared a list of more than 30 incumbent candidates it's backing, with about a million dollars going to three names from each party.
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      <description><![CDATA[The planned 24/7 venue will offer dozens of tokenized U.S. stocks, with trades conducted against stablecoins through blockchain-based liquidity pools rather than a traditional order book.]]></description>
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