Bitcoin and other crypto assets sink in flight from risk

Bitcoin and ether slumped to multi-month lows on Friday, with cryptocurrencies swept up in a broader flight from riskier assets as investors worried about lofty tech valuations and bets on near-term U.S. interest rate cuts faded. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, fell 5.5% to a seven-month low of $81,668. Ether slid more than 6% to […]Read More

Stock market sinks as AI and interest rate worries grip

What began as a banner day for stocks turned into a major rout, as investors signaled ongoing skepticism about the longevity of the artificial intelligence boom and trimmed hopes of support from the Federal Reserve. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2%, and the broad S&P 500 index dropped by more than 1.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial […]Read More

Bargain hunters drive Walmart sales and outlook higher

Shoppers are still flocking to Walmart. The company raised its full-year earnings and sales outlook Thursday, heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Walmart also offered fresh signs that it is shedding its original identity as a strictly down-market brick-and-mortar operation by growing its e-commerce business and increasing its market share of higher-income shoppers. Walmart’s […]Read More

Argentina Lithium and Energy Exhibiting at Booth 2924, PDAC 2025

Visit Argentina Lithium and Energy (TSXV: LIT) (OTCQB: LILIF) at Booth #2924 at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) Convention at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) from Sunday, March 2 to Wednesday, March 5, 2025. About Argentina Lithium and Energy Argentina Lithium & Energy Corp is focused on acquiring high quality lithium […]Read More

Trump’s exaggerated claim that Pennsylvania has 500,000 fracking jobs

“And there’s very few states that benefit like you do from fracking. I mean, you have 500,000 jobs.” — Former president Donald Trump, remarks at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Sept. 29 “Kamala has said repeatedly, she wants to ban fracking, which would kill over 500,000 jobs in Pennsylvania alone.” This post appeared first on […]Read More

Tucker Carlson says father Trump will give ‘spanking’ at rowdy

DULUTH, Ga. — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Wednesday night with a dark metaphor, bashing Vice President Kamala Harris and declaring that “dad” was coming home to mete out discipline. “He’s pissed!” Carlson said to extended cheers. “Dad is pissed. … And when dad gets […]Read More

A GOP operative accused a monastery of voter fraud. Nuns

Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night. The day before, a Republican operative in the battleground state falsely suggested to his nearly 58,000 followers on X that no one lived at the monastery and that mail ballots cast from […]Read More

American creating deepfakes targeting Harris works with Russian intel, documents

A former deputy Palm Beach County sheriff who fled to Moscow and became one of the Kremlin’s most prolific propagandists is working directly with Russian military intelligence to pump out deepfakes and circulate misinformation that targets Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, according to Russian documents obtained by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The […]Read More

Early voting in Wisconsin slowed by label printing problems

MADISON, Wis. — Early voting kicked off in this battleground state this week with computer delays and long lines. Voters waited as long as three hours Tuesday to cast ballots in West Bend, a city of about 32,000, city clerk Jilline Dobratz said. State computer issues reared up again Wednesday, and by midafternoon, voters had […]Read More

Donald Trump fixates on Harris aide Ian Sams, who goads

In the final three weeks of the presidential race, former president Donald Trump and his advisers have attacked one particular foe more than three dozen times: a little-known Kamala Harris aide named Ian Sams. The feud with Sams, a bespectacled 35-year-old longtime foot soldier in Democratic politics, started when Sams did what few Democrats are […]Read More