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Katie Zacharia, a Minneapolis City Council member, publicly projected confidence in her position, but within less than an hour she was removed from her role. Separately, Rep. Ilhan Omar is disputing the legality of a search conducted at her home.
A financial planning explainer details how cryptocurrency, legally treated as a digital asset rather than money, can become permanently inaccessible to heirs if owners fail to plan ahead. The piece distinguishes custodial wallets, where a third party like an exchange or bank manages assets and can transfer them more easily after death, from noncustodial wallets, where only the owner holds the passwords needed for access.
Following Dolly Parton's death, announced by her nephew Bryan Seaver, her roughly $450 million estate has become the subject of family disagreement over succession. Seaver, who served for years as Parton's head of security, made the announcement in a prerecorded video.
Two independent research teams have traced orange fur in cats to a small missing DNA segment near a gene called Arhgap36, located on the X chromosome. Stanford geneticist Greg Barsh and colleagues found this 5-kilobase deletion present in every orange cat examined among 188 cats studied, and found orange-producing skin cells expressed 13 times more Arhgap36 RNA than non-orange cells.
A Bloomberg report cited by industry sources estimates that as Baby Boomers pass down roughly $93 trillion in assets over the next two decades, U.S. households collectively hold about $750 billion in unappraised gold jewelry. Startup Unvault's 2026 estimate puts the average household's gold jewelry value at $5,700, a figure that excludes silver, platinum, gemstones and designer premiums. The report also notes boomers hold about $1 trillion in art and $570 billion in collectible cars headed for inheritance.