Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Monday (March 10) as of 9:00 p.m. UTC. Bitcoin and Ethereum price update Bitcoin (BTC) is currently trading at US$78,955.60, reflecting a 4.5 percent decrease over the past 24 hours. The day’s trading range has seen a high of US$82,763.28 and a low of US$77,494.60. Ethereum […]Read More
Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO,NYSE:RIO,LSE:RIO) made headlines after two announcements on March 6. The mining giant said it will invest US$1.8 billion to develop the Brockman Syncline 1 mine project (BS1), a move that will extend the life of the Brockman region in West Pilbara, Western Australia. BS1 now holds all necessary government approvals. It has been […]Read More
A new House GOP bill would block federal funding for hospitals that perform sex-change surgeries on minors. The legislation, led by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and backed by interest groups Do No Harm and Genspect, specifically targets funding that medical centers receive through a program aimed at fostering new children’s physicians. ‘We’re standing for basic […]Read More
The directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) spoke by phone for the first time in more than two years, reports say. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin on Tuesday and ‘discussed the issues of interaction of both intelligence agencies in areas of common interest and […]Read More
Iran, Russia and China are set to hold high-level talks in Beijing Friday to discuss Tehran’s near-nuclear capabilities. Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, informed reporters about the meeting on Wednesday. The trio of nations has friendly relations, and all are parties to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. […]Read More
As the Trump administration seeks to mediate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., announced that he plans to propose ‘bone-breaking sanctions and tariffs’ this week in a bid to goad Russia into making peace. The U.S. and Ukraine declared in a joint statement on Tuesday that Ukraine would be willing to […]Read More
The Environmental Protection Agency announced the ‘most consequential day of deregulation’ in U.S. history Wednesday, as it put the Biden administration’s Clean Power Plan 2.0 — which cracked down on fossil fuel power plants — on the chopping block. ‘President Trump promised to kill the Clean Power Plan in his first term, and we continue […]Read More
The Federal Trade Commission asked a judge in Seattle to delay the start of its trial accusing Amazon of duping consumers into signing up for its Prime program, citing resource constraints. Attorneys for the FTC made the request during a status hearing on Wednesday before Judge John Chun in the U.S. District Court for the Western District […]Read More
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the detention and possible deportation of former Columbia University protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil, as critics claim it goes against the First Amendment. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday at Shannon Airport in Ireland, Rubio said that the issue is ‘not about free speech.’ Rubio discussed the situation during a refueling […]Read More
The White House dismissed concerns that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is instructing employees to destroy classified documents amid efforts by the Trump administration to shutter the agency. USAID’s acting Executive Secretary Erica Carr instructed employees to begin shredding and burning documents, according to a motion that government labor unions filed in a […]Read More
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