# NuseReal

Miscellaneous news

Dolly Parton, beloved country music icon, dies at 80 after 'brief battle with cancer' (LINK) — 25 August 2026

— Parton had only recently appeared publicly, albeit virtually, to accept a Country Music Award. She cited health issues as the reason she could not attend in person, but few anticipated just how serious her condition was.

Trump orders flags lowered for 1 week to honour Dolly Parton (LINK)

Musk's SpaceX to build $100bn launch facility in Louisiana (LINK) — 25 August 2026

Las Vegas man convicted of running a $24m crypto ponzi scheme, a decade after earlier $12 pump-and-dump. (LINK) — 25 August 2026

— Brent C. Kovar, who owned a Las Vegas company called Profit Connect, was found guilty on Aug. 25 following a nine-day trial. Kovar was convicted on 11 counts of wire fraud, two counts of mail fraud, and two counts of money laundering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 30 and faces a statutory maximum of 280 years in prison. Profit Connect operated from late 2017 until July 2021. Kovar told investors the company ran AI software on a supercomputer that mined cryptocurrency and verified transactions on other blockchain networks. He promised fixed annual returns of 15% to 30%, a 100% money-back guarantee, and claimed the company held hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto reserves. He also told investors their funds were insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The SEC noted that more than 90% of the company's income came from investors and that none of it was used to trade crypto. In 2009, the SEC had filed a civil injunction against him and his father Glenn over a pump-and-dump scheme run through a company called Skyway Global, which also cost investors $12 million.