Warren asks SEC to take closer look at cryptocurrency exchanges

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to assess the effect of cryptocurrency exchanges on U.S. | Continue reading


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Wells Fargo closing all personal lines of credit

Wells Fargo has begun informing customers that it will no longer be offering personal credit lines, with all existing lines being shut down in the coming weeks.  | Continue reading


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Nonprofit claims Dallas County reached Covid herd immunity

Dallas County, Texas, has reached herd immunity with 80 percent of its population either being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or having natural immunity as a result of past infections, a nonprofit annou | Continue reading


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Trump files lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google

Former President Trump is leading a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their CEOs, over allegations of censorship after the companies took action to ban and suspend his accounts. | Continue reading


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Trump to Sue Facebook, Twitter CEOs

Former President Trump is reportedly planning to sue the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook after the platforms took action to suspend and ban his accounts over posts he made in response to the Jan. | Continue reading


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CDC: Vaccinated people 'safe' from delta variant, do not need to wear masks

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said Wednesday that fully vaccinated people are "safe" from the current variants and do not need to wear masks, doubling down on CDC guidance as some others call for a return to | Continue reading


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Flying car completes test flight

The AirCar developed by Klein Vision flew on Monday between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava. | Continue reading


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NSA refutes Tucker Carlson spying allegation

The National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday rejected claims made by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the agency was monitoring his electronic communications and seeking to leak them in an effort to take | Continue reading


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Time for scientists to identify the unidentified in Pentagon's UFO report

The report avoids any scientific discussion of the possibility that the unexplained phenomena are extraterrestrial in origin. | Continue reading


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70% of American say government has more information about UAPs than it's telling

An overwhelming majority of voters said the U.S. government has more information about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, than its is currently telling the public, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds. | Continue reading


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Cruise ships eager to set sail after court victory

Cruise ships are preparing to set sail once again after more than a year in port due to coronavirus restrictions. | Continue reading


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Warren Buffett resigning as Gates Foundation trustee

Renowned investor Warren Buffett is resigning as a trustee for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. | Continue reading


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Studies agree: 'Medicare for All' saves money

Whether you call it single-payer or "Medicare for All," it isn’t some socialist pipe dream. It’s a sensible, efficient and effective way to guarantee excellent health insurance to everyone. | Continue reading


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Senators unveil legislation to crack down on cyber criminals

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday unveiled legislation intended to crack down on cyber criminals, who have increasingly posed a threat to critical U.S. organizations.  | Continue reading


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China: Fuel rods damaged at nuclear plant, radiation not leaking

China on Wednesday said there was no leak at the Taishan nuclear power station, following a report from CNN that the French company that owns | Continue reading


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Hydrogen isn't as clean as it seems

How much hydrogen, and where and how we produce and use it are important questions that need to be addressed. | Continue reading


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Big Tech critic Lina Khan named chair of the FTC

Lina Khan, a prominent critic of Big Tech, has been named chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a White House spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. | Continue reading


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US, EU establish trade and technology council to compete with China

The United States and European Union on Tuesday formally established a Trade and Technology Council (TTC) to coordinate on critical technology issues such as the development of semiconductors, research into emerging | Continue reading


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Airbnb blocking landlords from listing properties where tenants were evicted

AirBnb is blocking landlords from listing properties where tenants were evicted for not paying rent during the coronavirus.  | Continue reading


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Federal agents admit to falsely accusing Chinese professor of being a spy

An FBI agent admitted in an ongoing trial to falsely accusing a Chinese-born Tennessee professor of being a Chinese spy, using baseless information to get have him placed on the federal no-fly list and spying on him and his son for two years,  | Continue reading


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Seat on Bezos-backed space flight sells for $28M

Blue Origin, the space flight company founded and owned by Jeff Bezos, is giving a seat on its very first human flight next month to an individual who pledged a winning bid of $28 million at an auction Saturday.&nbs | Continue reading


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'Noah's Ark' now stuck in England in escalating international dispute

“We do have concerns about this vessel and we cannot rely on the grace of God that it can be safely towed to Holland,” officials from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency wrote in documents obtained by the Ipswich Star. | Continue reading


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Fossil fuels are definitively the new tobacco

Whether you're listening to the IEA, climate scientists, activists or only care about economic indicators — the writing is on the wall. | Continue reading


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Drone refuels Navy fighter jet for the first time

An unmanned aircraft has refueled a Navy fighter jet in midair for the first time, the service said Monday. | Continue reading


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Vietnam identifies new, highly transmissible variant of coronavirus

Vietnam has detected a new, highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus, the Vietnamese Health Ministry announced Saturday.  | Continue reading


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Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Cancels Event with Stacey Abrams, John Legend

The Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission on Thursday canceled an event for Memorial Day that was slated to include Stacey Abrams and singer John Legend. | Continue reading


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Extraordinary explanations for UFOs look increasingly plausible

Any revelation that Russia or China has developed technology capable of defying the laws of physics and aerodynamics would amount to the most significant national security development since the dawn of the nuclear age. | Continue reading


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Biden to propose $6T budget, increasing spending to highest level since WWII

President Biden is set to propose a budget totaling $6 trillion in the coming days, The New York Times | Continue reading


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Facebook reverses policy to allow posts speculating that Covid was made in a lab

Facebook has lifted its ban on content speculating about the origins of COVID-19, and theories about its possible lab creation, | Continue reading


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Ivy League scientist says NASA may have accidentally spread life to Mars

A Cornell University geneticist posits that life discovered on the red planet might have actually originated on earth in NASA labs, despite thorough on-site cleaning procedures and spacecraft assembly in specialized rooms. | Continue reading


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No, we don't need 'miracle technologies' to slash emissions. We already have 95%

The key is to deploy, deploy, deploy existing clean, renewable, safe technologies as fast as possible. | Continue reading


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Our cybersecurity 'industry best practices' keep allowing breaches

It seems the only person with a truly holistic view of a corporate network and data resources is the hacker. Unfortunately, hackers tend to not comply with corporate information security policy. | Continue reading


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Biden approves $735M weapons sale to Israel

The Biden administration has approved $735 million worth of precision-guided weapons to be sold to Israel, The Washington Post reported on Monday. | Continue reading


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Permanently Suspend the Debt Limit

While at the New York Fed, I forecasted Treasury’s finances and advised officials on the debt limit. | Continue reading


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Inflation Fears Grow for Whitehouse

Rising prices are putting increasing pressure on President Biden and the Federal Reserve to prevent inflation from derailing the recovery from the coronavirus recession. | Continue reading


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UC system will no longer consider SAT, ACT scores in admissions process

The University of California system on Friday announced in a legal settlement with students and advocacy groups that it will no longer consider SAT and ACT scores when reviewing applications for admission or scholar | Continue reading


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Facebook moderator describes 'awful' content, told to try 'karaoke or painting'

A Facebook content moderator called on Irish lawmakers to regulate the social media giant’s approach to policing its platform during a hearing Wednesday. | Continue reading


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Texas lawmakers approve bill banning 'meat' & 'beef' on plant-based food labels

Texas state lawmakers on Monday approved a bill that will ban plant-based food products and foods that do not contain meat from animals from using the terms "meat" or "beef" to describe the food on labels. | Continue reading


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1k feral cats released onto Chicago streets to tackle rat explosion

The Windy City has ranked number one on pest control company Orkin’s list of the “rattiest cities” in the U.S. for six consecutive years. | Continue reading


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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the only woman in Senate Republicans' elected leadership team, compared efforts to oust Rep. | Continue reading


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Takeaways from Attack on Colonial Pipeline

The Colonial Pipeline, which transports about 45 percent of fuel consumed on the East Coast, shut down over the weekend due to a ransomware attack.It carried out the shutdown to prevent hackers from accessing its operational technology. | Continue reading


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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) on Sunday compared the Republican Party to the Titanic amid an internal battle over Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and the push to oust her from her leadership position. | Continue reading


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Melinda Gates tapped divorce lawyers in 2019 after Epstein links to husband

Melinda Gates, the estranged wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, reportedly met with divorce lawyers in 2019 following reports of links between her husband and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who c | Continue reading


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Is it time to consider emojis a language?

On any given day over 3 billion people speak with emojis — more than use any of the UN’s six official languages. | Continue reading


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Broadband companies funded 'fake' net neutrality comments, investigation finds

American broadband companies funded a campaign that filed millions of fake comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its proposal to repeal net neutrality regulations, an investigation by New York's attorney general found. | Continue reading


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Historic church rises from the waters after being submerged for 40 years

The lost Church of the Virgin of Dolores resurfaces. | Continue reading


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Merkel breaks with Biden on US plan to waive patent protections for C19 vaccines

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration on Thursday broke with President Biden over a proposal to waive patent protections on vaccines, saying it would create “severe complications.” | Continue reading


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Pfizer earned $3.5B on Covid-19 vaccine in first quarter

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine earned the company $3.5 billion in the first three months of this year, representing nearly a quarter of its total revenue, the company announced ahead of its earnings call Tuesday. | Continue reading


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