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The post SerlingFest Hails Rod Serling With ‘The X-Files’ Alum Frank Spotnitz appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. LOS ANGELES – DECEMBER 23: Rod Serling at home with his Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California. Image dated December 23, 1964. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) CBS via Getty Images The residents of upstate New York will enter the fifth dimension — otherwise known as that eerie plane of sight, sound, and mind — this weekend with the eighth annual SerlingFest. As its name suggests, the yearly event serves as an all-out celebration of the one and only Rod Serling, who grew up in the city of Binghamton (where SerlingFest has been held since 2017) prior to changing the very face of television with The Twilight Zone. “Rod Serling is the patron saint of television to me,” this year’s keynote speaker, Frank Spotnitz (a former writer on The X-Files and creator of Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle series), tells me over Zoom. “He’s singular. I can’t think of anybody else that occupies a place even remotely close to his … For any TV writer, this is the guy.” While he can’t give too much of his speech away, Spotnitz teases a rumination on the enduring legacy of the groundbreaking anthology known for its weighty themes, plane-wrecking gremlins, alien cookbooks, and patented twist endings. “Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone are things that remain forever relevant,” he says. “It’s kind of astonishing how a show that premiered 1959 still works [in 2025]. It’s still part of the cultural conversation. I want to talk about that. I also want to not just look back, but look forward … because I think that’s the real achievement of the show, is that it is timeless. “It rose above the level of politics. It’s not red or blue, as we would say today. It’s human, and it speaks to everyone. That’s…

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The post House Judiciary Rejects Vote To Subpoena Banks CEOs For Epstein Case appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Topline House Judiciary Committee Republicans blocked a Democrat effort Wednesday to subpoena a group of major banks as part of a renewed investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties. Congressman Jim Jordan, R-OH, is the chairman of the committee. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) Anadolu via Getty Images Key Facts A near party-line vote squashed the effort to vote on a subpoena, with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who is leading a separate effort to force the Justice Department to release more Epstein case materials, voting alongside Democrats. The vote, if successful, would have resulted in the issuing of subpoenas to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing and Bank of New York Mellon CEO Robin Vince. The subpoenas would have specifically looked into multiple reports that claimed the four banks flagged $1.5 billion in suspicious transactions linked to Epstein. The failed effort from Democrats followed an FBI oversight hearing in which agency director Kash Patel misleadingly claimed the FBI cannot release many of the files it has on Epstein. Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts: We’re launching text message alerts so you’ll always know the biggest stories shaping the day’s headlines. Text “Alerts” to (201) 335-0739 or sign up here. Crucial Quote Dimon, who attended a lunch with Senate Republicans before the vote, according to Politico, told reporters, “We regret any association with that man at all. And, of course, if it’s a legal requirement, we would conform to it. We have no issue with that.” Chief Critic “Republicans had the chance to subpoena the CEOs of JPMorgan, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of New York Mellon to expose Epstein’s money trail,” the House Judiciary Democrats said in a tweet. “Instead, they tried to bury…