A former bank exec has said he will help “transform” BitMEX, just a week after the crypto derivatives exchange launched a new corporate service. Announced Tuesday, BitMEX owner HDR Global Trading said David Wong – a former deputy CEO at Bank of China, the second-largest bank in Hong Kong – […]
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Chicago School Board Votes To Keep Police Contract — For Now By Nader Issa, Chicago Sun Times. June 26, 2020 Chicago School Board Votes To Keep Police Contract — For Now2020-06-262020-06-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/cps.png200px200px Above photo: Chicago Teachers Union members and hundreds of supporters march through the Loop to call for the Chicago Board […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107928/71/1079287199_0:0:3111:1749_1200x675_80_0_0_64a4cc59f97fec659e5f08b755cbaa54.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202006111079580794-imf-executive-board-decides-to-allocate-594-million-to-help-guatemala-fight-covid-19/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it had satisfied Guatemala’s request for a $594 million financial support amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved Guatemala’s request for emergency financial […]
Nine national board members of the National Organization for Women are calling on the president, Toni Van Pelt, to resign after a Daily Beast investigation revealed a pattern of racism at the storied women rights group. The revolt comes as the organization’s black vice president says she has also been […]
Binance is trying its hand at decentralized stablecoin governance. The exchange joined the distributed oversight team that approves contracts and code changes on Equilibrium, a DeFi outfit behind the EOSDT stablecoin. EOSDT contracts hold nearly $10 million in collateral according to the Equilibrium website. Announced Friday, Binance now has oversight […]
India 11:53 GMT 22.05.2020Get short URL New Delhi (Sputnik): Planes in India are ready to take to the sky again from 25 May, as the airlines have re-opened bookings after getting the green light from the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation. Airports in Hyderabad and Delhi cities have come up […]
Cathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. On May 6, Facebook announced the members of its new oversight board. They include a Nobel Laureate, a former Prime […]
NASA confirmed that actor Tom Cruise and private spaceflight company Space X are considering a feature film shot on board the International Space Station. Cruise is shown above in New York City in June 2017. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images NASA […]
Bronze Age Chieftain’s Remains Found Beneath U.K. Skate Park By Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com Archaeologists have unearthed the millennia-old bones of two men—one of whom who could be a Bronze Age chieftan—beneath a skateboard park near Lechlade in southwest England. Artifacts buried alongside the likely leader suggest he was a high-status member […]