Record Number Of Children Infected With COVID-19 November 4, 2020 Record Number Of Children Infected With COVID-192020-11-042020-11-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/texas-e1604510132707.jpg200px200px Above photo: Wearing masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19, elementary school students use hand sanitizer before entering school for classes in Godley, Texas, on Aug. 5, 2020. L. M. Otero/AP. Pediatric cases now account for 11 percent of all cases in the U.S., up from 2 percent in […]
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A tree fell across vehicles at a home in West Des Moines after a severe thunderstorm moved across Iowa on Aug. 10. It was the costliest storm system in modern U.S. history. David Pitt/AP hide caption toggle caption David Pitt/AP A tree fell across vehicles at a home in West Des Moines after a severe thunderstorm moved across Iowa on Aug. 10. It was the costliest […]
Egyptian grandfather Ezzeldin Bahader is officially the world’s oldest professional footballer after the 74-year-old completed his second full match as a pro. Bahader’s achievement was officially recognized by Guinness World Records on Saturday event after he played for his team, “6th October,” in their 3-2 defeat to Al Ayat Sports in Egypt’s third division. Bahader’s achievement was a welcome diversion from his performance as he missed […]
Institutions hold record bullish beets in CME Bitcoin futures as the cryptocurrency shows resilience to negative news. Source link
The latest opinion poll on support for independence has reported its findings on Wednesday and they make grim reading for the dwindling band of British state apologists. Since the beginning of 2020 eleven separate opinion polls in succession have recorded majority support for independence at anywhere between 51% to 55%. Now the twelfth has rocked the shaky Westminster foundations and set off alarm bells throughout unionist […]
Biden initially trailed the president in the money race, who began fundraising for his re-election bid in 2017, but now the former vice president might raise more money than Trump by election day on 3 November. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that his campaign set a fundraising record of $383 million last month. To every person who chipped in a few dollars last month […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US state of Texas has had a record turnout on the first day of early voting this week, the Office of the state’s Secretary of State revealed in data on Wednesday. Texas marked a 31 percent increase on the first day of early voting on Tuesday compared to the first day of early voting in the 2018 midterm election, according to data […]
It was the most expensive divorce battle ever seen on British shores, likened to epic Hollywood movie The War of the Roses about a feuding couple starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. But now it turns out that, for Tatiana Akhmedova, winning a record £453 million ($590 million) settlement in London’s High Court against her husband, Russian oligarch Farkhad Akhmedov, in 2016, may have been the […]
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton equaled Michael Schumacher’s all-time race wins record by claiming his 91st Grand Prix win at the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, Germany. It seemed rather appropriate that Hamilton would equal German legend Schumacher’s tally in Germany, as he crossed the finish line first at the circuit that saw “Schumy” claim five victories in his stellar career. After the race, […]
New data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) show that the process of the shift away from the dollar standard resumed in the second quarter of the year, with the share of the US currency in global reserves falling sharply. According to the IMF, while the greenback’s share increased in the first quarter of 2020 due to safe-haven buying during the early stages of coronavirus, it […]
In recent years, oil-rich Norway has had the most electric cars per capita in the world and sees itself as “world champion”. Not content with that, the Norwegian parliament has decided on a national goal that all new cars sold by 2025 should be zero-emission. Despite months of declines in new car sales, the share of electric cars sold in Norway has hit a new record […]
Derivative exchange BitMEX’s legal issues with U.S. regulators took a toll on bitcoin’s price while DeFi gave Ethereum miners more fee revenue than ever. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,582 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 1% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,427-$10,931 BTC below its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bearish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since […]
President Trump and Judge Amy Coney Barrett walk to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC., on Sept. 26. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images President Trump and Judge Amy Coney Barrett walk to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC., on Sept. 26. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has […]
A penalty for an infringement before the race had even started cost world champion Lewis Hamilton the chance to equal Michael Schumacher’s all-time record for F1 victories as the Brit finished third at the Russian Grand Prix. There was drama before the race had even begun at the Sochi Autodrom on the Black Sea coast when Hamilton was placed under investigation for being in the wrong […]
As Western European countries, such as the UK and France, face a likely second wave of Covid-19, Eastern Europe – less severely hit in spring – may be following in tow. Russia and Ukraine are now seeing an uptick in infections. In Ukraine, doctors over the last 24 hours confirmed 3,833 new cases of Covid-19, a record figure since the beginning of the pandemic. According to […]
Despite retaining India’s credit rating at the lowest investment grade, ratings agency S&P Global warned that the Asian economy will face mounting deficit and debt levels in fiscal 2021 in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis. In its forecast released earlier this week, S&P said it expects India’s debt-to-GDP ratio (the debt levels compared to gross domestic product) to surge over 17 percent from the previous […]
The UK and France have both reported their highest-ever daily total of coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic, confirming that the ‘second wave’ of the deadly virus is well and truly in full swing. The UK recorded some 6,634 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest daily figure yet. The country’s total Covid-19 tally has surpassed 400,000 cases, with nearly 42 thousand deaths. The […]
There is now more than $1 billion worth of bitcoin on Ethereum, record-setting transaction volume is boosting Ethereum miners’ revenue and VeChain joins China’s food safety watchdog to build track and trace capabilities. Top shelf Token reflectionsUniswap’s decision to airdrop its new governance token was less about competing with its genetic clone SushiSwap, and more about building a community, CoinDesk’s Brady Dale reports. “I think it’s genius in […]
A report shared with CoinDesk Japan revealed that bitFlyer users exchanging loyalty points for bitcoin hit a record high in August. Source link
Bitcoin is making gains Monday and Ethereum usage is hitting record highs in September. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,669 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 3.4% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,250-$10,759 BTC above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since September 12. Source: TradingView The price of bitcoin hit as […]
The Creek Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest on Sunday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP hide caption toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP The Creek Fire burns in the Sierra National Forest on Sunday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP At 121 degrees, Los Angeles County hit its highest temperature ever recorded this weekend, as the state swelters in a heat wave that has helped intensify the most devastating wildfire season […]
CryptoCompare’s latest report shows crypto derivative volumes were up 54% in August – likely a result of the rally in bitcoin’s price. Source link
Serena Williams battled back from a set down to defeat Sloane Stephens and keep her hopes alive of capturing a record-equalling 14th Grand Slam title. Williams had a nightmare start in the opening set as she made an uncharacteristic 13 unforced errors as Stephens took the set 6-2. But after a wobbly start, Williams composed herself and turned up the power in the second set to […]
A longtime employee of the Iowa Department of Public Health claims she was forced to resign after responding to routine public records requests about the coronavirus pandemic. In a press conference Thursday after she filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit, former IDPH spokesperson Polly Carver-Kimm claimed the governor’s office chose to use information from her department “in the way that would best serve the governor’s agenda and […]
Bitcoin took a dive Wednesday. Ethereum miners are benefiting from all that DeFi. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,396 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 4.8% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,159-$12,058 BTC above its 10-day moving average but below the 50-day, a sideways signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since August 31.Source: TradingView Read More: Bitcoin Price Drops 4% […]
Ether option contracts listed on Deribit, the largest crypto options exchange, are more popular than ever. Source link
Kamala Harris receives the oath of office from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George during her inauguration on Jan. 8, 2004, as San Francisco’s district attorney. In the center is Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan. George Nikitin/AP hide caption toggle caption George Nikitin/AP Kamala Harris receives the oath of office from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald M. George during her inauguration on Jan. 8, […]
India has reported 78,761 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, marking the biggest-ever daily increase for a nation. The number of coronavirus infections in the world passed the 25 million mark on Sunday. Before Sunday’s update, which pushed the total number of infections in India to more than 2.5 million, the US held the record with 77,638 daily infections reported on July 17. The surge in […]
A pandemic-hit US Open is set to take place in Flushing Meadows, New York on Monday, with Serena Williams’ chase for a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title set to dominate the headlines through the women’s draw. Concerns over safety ahead of the tournament have led to world No. 1 Ash Barty and No. 2 Simona Halep opting out of the prestigious tournament, leading some to suggest […]
Bitcoin bounced back from Thursday’s drop at a time when more of the cryptocurrency is locked in DeFi than ever before. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,511 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 2.2% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,231-$11,552 BTC above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since August 26. Source: […]
The bitcoin market bottomed out around $11,100 before bouncing back; DeFi continues an upward trend, garnering interest from traders and perhaps creating new ones. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,467 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 1.2% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,102-$11,593. BTC above its 10-day moving average but below the 50-day, a sideways-turning-bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on […]
The on-camera shooting of a black man by police officers triggered riots in the Wisconsin city and drew national attention. Some people say the coverage fails to bring the African American man’s criminal record for context. Blake, 29, was shot multiple times in the back while trying to get into a car in front of witnesses, reportedly including his children. The police said the officers were […]
The funds likely boosted short positions to take advantage of attractive “cash and carry” yields. Source link
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Technodinamika holding company, which is part of Russia’s state-owned high-tech conglomerate Rostec, has deployed a 5,000-square-meter Russian flag in the sky over the Moscow region, but the record was not registered in the Guinness Book due to sanctions against Moscow, the company’s press service said on Saturday. The current record belongs to the representatives of the United Arab Emirates who opened in the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/15/1080241076_0:0:3074:1730_1200x675_80_0_0_107e43316555341145b23f4eebfc81bd.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202008211080241021-sevilla-fc-wins-uefa-europe-league-final-for-record-6th-time/ Sevilla FC remains the only team to claim victory in the UEFA Europa League competition a record six times, with previous tournaments won in 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Sevilla FC overcame its final rival, Italian club Inter, with a total score of 3-2, with the game played at the RheinEnergie stadium in the German city of Cologne on Friday night. The first […]
SpaceX is set to break another reuse record on the Starlink v1.0 L10 mission. For the first time, a Falcon 9 first stage will launch a sixth mission, this one carrying three rideshare payloads along with a batch of Starlink satellites. Liftoff of the eleventh overall Starlink mission, and the tenth launch of the Version 1.0 satellites, is scheduled for 10:31 AM EDT (14:31 UTC) on […]
Major Chinese bitcoin mining pools are each seeing daily hash rate drops between 10 to 20 percent following continuous rainstorms in Sichuan. China’s southwestern Sichuan province, a mountainous region that is estimated to have over 50% of Bitcoin network’s total computing power, has been hit by heavy rainstorms since last week, which peaked over the last two days. The heavy rainstorms have caused electricity cut-off in […]
Paul Farhi who wrote the garbage WaPo hit piece about The Gateway Pundit (TGP) this weekend, is one of their leading journalists. He has been with them for 32 years. So it looks like they assigned one of their leading reporters to discredit TGP. Unfortunately, running a quick scan on Farhi shows that he is one of the most dishonest and controversial reporters on the circuit. […]
The listing of the world’s biggest companies saw 133 Chinese firms across the mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong make the roster compared with 121 US businesses. The news comes amid a major surge in foreign investment in Chinese tech firms amid the ongoing US trade war with China. Chinese firms listed on the Fortune Global 500 have surpassed US companies for the first time in history, […]
Bitcoin hit $12,000 but then fell as long derivatives traders were wiped out. Meanwhile, DeFi lending continues to grow. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,884 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 1.8% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $11,468-$12,084 BTC above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since Aug. 8.Source: TradingView Bitcoin was […]
The US dollar has recently been losing value against other currencies, dropping nearly 5% in July, its biggest monthly fall in more than 10 years. This decline is prompting economists worldwide to re-assess the role of the dollar as a global reserve currency, as some countries have resorted to other options in their bilateral transactions. The US dollar’s share of trade between Russia and China fell […]
Above photo: The only known photograph of district judge Vanessa Baraitser — who will rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US — in the public domain. Anonymisation by Declassified. From Instagram. The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Justice is blocking the release of basic information about the judge who is to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US in what appears to be an irregular application […]
The Binance-backed travel agency brought in $400,000 in July, a 100% increase from the month before. Source link
Gold continued its rally amid global pandemic uncertainty, with prices hitting new records to start the week. The price of metal for immediate delivery closed in on $2,000 an ounce. Spot gold rose as much as 0.6 percent on Monday to $1,988.40 an ounce, while most-active futures traded as high as $2,009.50 on the Comex. Bullion had its biggest monthly gain since 2012, soaring 11 percent […]
GDP Shrinks By Record Amount In Second Quarter By Sylvan Lane, The Hill. July 31, 2020 GDP Shrinks By Record Amount In Second Quarter2020-07-312020-07-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/capitalism-harm-good.jpeg200px200px The U.S. economy shrunk at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 32.9 percent during the second quarter of 2020 as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic spurred an economic collapse of record-breaking speed and size, the Commerce Department reported Thursday. Between April […]
The French economy contracted by a record 13.8 percent in the second quarter, data from the national statistics agency INSEE has revealed, highlighting the cost of coronavirus lockdowns. The historic decline marked a third consecutive quarter of negative growth in a worsening recession. France’s economy started shrinking in the last quarter of 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit Europe with full force. It continued to retreat […]
Amazon and Apple have reported major quarterly gains, with the Jeff Bezos brainchild posting its biggest-ever profit while Apple saw strong earnings, even as Covid-19 drives the US economy into its worst contraction on record. The two tech giants announced their second quarter results on Thursday, both topping expectations on Wall Street as online sales and virtual products see a surge amid the ongoing health crisis. […]
Brazil Reports Almost 70,000 New Covid Infections in Record Day by Mario Sergio Lima/Bloomberg Brazil registered a record number of coronavirus cases and deaths after days of reported issues with the transfer of the data from local governments into the national system. The Latin American country added 69,074 cases on Wednesday, pushing the total number of infections to over 2.55 million, according to the Health Ministry. […]
The buildings of the banking district are seen in Frankfurt, Germany. Government statistics show the economy contracted by 10.1% in the second quarter of this year. Michael Probst/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Probst/AP The buildings of the banking district are seen in Frankfurt, Germany. Government statistics show the economy contracted by 10.1% in the second quarter of this year. Michael Probst/AP Economic output in Germany […]
The likelihood of bitcoin challenging 2017’s record high by the end of this year may have just nudged up – but don’t raise your hopes too high just yet. Source link
Anti-China Hysteria Drives Record 2021 US Defense Spending July 26, 2020 Anti-China Hysteria Drives Record 2021 US Defense Spending2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/qiao.png200px200px Under the cover of an imagined ‘China threat,’ Washington continues to devote bottomless funding to endless war and militarization while neglecting its own people. Anti-China hysteria has emerged as the central ‘threat’ designed to justify endless U.S. military spending and adventurism in the Asia-Pacific. The 2021 Department […]
Australia has registered 10 new coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours, marking the deadliest single-day toll for the country since the pandemic began. The latest victims were aged between their 40s and 80s, with seven of the deaths occurring in care homes. The fatalities bring the cumulative death count to 155. All 10 deaths occurred in the state of Victoria, which also recorded 459 new […]
VT think’s DeSantis is the monkey…not Nelson Mandela Daily Beast: Florida has hit a new record for coronavirus hospitalizations with an additional 518 hospital admissions recorded Tuesday. Gov. Ron DeSantis lauded the state’s progress on the same day, stating his belief that the state would soon begin trending downward in new coronavirus cases. “I think the trend is much better today than it was two weeks ago,” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107982/84/1079828468_0:312:3086:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_5860c3ab5a153e0731d398633ad8b744.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202007211079941172-richest-gets-richer-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-adds-13-bln-to-net-worth-in-one-day-sets-record/ New Delhi (Sputnik): Jeff Bezos, the 56-year-old founder and CEO of US-headquartered e-commerce giant Amazon is the richest man on Earth. The business mogul was named the first person in modern history to gather a fortune worth over a whopping $100 billion, but that’s not all. In a single day record, Bezos on Monday lavishly reaped in $13 billion […]
Less than 0.2% of Friday’s daily options trading happened on CME, according to data from Skew. Source link
The price of gold has been rallying in recent weeks, having smashed a decade high of $1,800 this month. Analysts at Citigroup say bullish factors building in the gold market are pushing for another record. According to the analysts, the metal is benefiting from loose monetary policy, low real yields, record inflows into exchange-traded funds and increased asset allocation. They expect the precious metal to climb […]
The US on Thursday set yet another record in daily COVID-19 cases, with more than 75,600 new cases reported, according to a New York Times database. With almost 1,000 deaths reported on Thursday alone across the nation, state and local leaders issued ominous warnings. “If you do the math, it is easy to see why the alarm,” Barbara Ferrer, the public health director in Los Angeles […]
New official data has revealed that knife crime in England and Wales hit a record high before strict lockdown measures were introduced – up six percent on the previous year, with fatal stabbings in London up by over a quarter. A report published on Friday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that in the year to March 2020, there were over 46,000 knife offences – the […]
Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto cut into a White House speech by President Donald Trump on Thursday to once again correct some mischaracterizations the president made, specifically over former President Barack Obama’s economic record, which Cavuto noted was very solid. In what was yet another campaign-type speech on White House grounds, the president blasted regulations put in place by the Obama administration in the wake of […]
President Donald Trump was at his White House Rose Garden speech recently and stated, “Joe Biden’s entire career has been a gift to the Chinese Communist Party and to the calamity of errors that they’ve made.” “Joe Biden supported China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, one of the greatest geopolitical and economic disasters in world history. If you look at China, you look at the […]
The OPEC+ group is easing the record 9.7-million barrels per day production cuts as of August as demand has started to recover, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, said at an OPEC+ meeting on Wednesday. “As we move to the next phase of the agreement the extra supply resulting from the scheduled easing of production cut will be consumed as demand continue on its […]
Cristiano Ronaldo is on the verge of setting another record in his remarkable career, standing one short of the 50-goal mark in Serie A following his previous prolific exploits in Spain’s Liga and the English Premier League. The Juventus ace has his next chance to score his 50th Serie A goal when the league leaders visit eighth-placed Sassuolo tonight, where he will take on a side […]
Two consecutive record quarters for Grayscale mean cumulative capital inflows have doubled in the past six months to $2.6 billion. Source link
Retail interest in Chainlink, which acts as a bridge between cryptocurrency smart contracts and off-chain data feeds, is now at the highest level it has ever been. According to Google Trends, worldwide queries for the word “Chainlink” on the search engine reached a score of 100 in the week ended July 12, more than double what it was the preceding week. A score of 100 indicates […]
The World Health Organization has registered a record increase in coronavirus cases worldwide. The confirmed-cases number has jumped by nearly a quarter million over the past 24 hours. The record increase of 230,370 was registered by the global health watchdog on Sunday, with the largest number of new cases coming from the US, Brazil, India, and South Africa. It is the highest daily spike since the […]
Bitcoin’s one-year correlation to the Standard & Poor’s 500 index hit record highs as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in lockstep with traditional financial markets. The realized correlation, which measures the relationship between two assets, reached 0.367 on Thursday, up from -0.06 on January 1, according to data from Coin Metrics. Bitcoin’s correlation to the benchmark index of U.S. stocks has made new all-time highs […]
Chainlink’s link token jumped to record highs on Monday, far surpassing bitcoin’s returns since the start of 2020. The ever-increasing use of Chainlink’s price oracles in decentralized finance (DeFi) is driving the cryptocurrency higher, according to analysts. The 12th largest cryptocurrency by market value clocked a lifetime high of $5.72 at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. ET) and was last trading at $5.65, representing over 200% gains […]
United States: Record 47.2% Of Working-Age Without Jobs July 7, 2020 United States: Record 47.2% Of Working-Age Without Jobs2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/image-1.jpg200px200px Above photo: A pregnant woman waits in line for groceries with hundreds during a food pantry, sponsored by Healthy Waltham for those in need due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, at St. Mary’s Church in Waltham, Mass. AP Photo/Charles Krupa. According to newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics […]
Russia’s Siberian Arctic has recorded its hottest ever average June temperature, with the region being more than five degrees higher than typical. That’s according to scientists at the European Union’s Copernicus Programme, which observes the Earth and collects data on weather, vegetation, and sea level, amongst others. At the Copernicus Programme, scientists say that the Russian Arctic broke its previous record by more than a degree, […]
The overall numbers are damning for Democrats. President Trump has confirmed 200 judges, including 53 to the critically important appeals court, the most for any president in a single term since Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. President Obama confirmed 55 appeals court judges, two more than Trump and including nine African-Americans, but it took him eight years. Trump has also appointed 143 federal district judges, and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107980/43/1079804365_0:286:2989:1966_1200x675_80_0_0_326a4331db78ed9f71af8d5683bb2f67.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202007061079804394-uk-allocates-record-196bln-support-package-to-cultural-organizations/ LONDON (Sputnik) – The Government of the United Kingdom has announced a record 1.57 billion pound ($1.96 billion) support package for cultural, arts and heritage institutions to curb the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. “The money, which represents the biggest ever one-off investment in UK culture, will provide a lifeline to vital cultural and heritage organisations across the country […]
People visit Jacksonville Beach on Saturday in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Coronavirus cases are spiking in states including Florida, Texas and Arizona. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sam Greenwood/Getty Images People visit Jacksonville Beach on Saturday in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Coronavirus cases are spiking in states including Florida, Texas and Arizona. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images Nearly 130,000 people in the United States have died from the […]
Inundated houses due to heavy rain are shown from above in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture on July 4, 2020. STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images Inundated houses due to heavy rain are shown from above in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture on July 4, 2020. STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images At least 15 people are presumed dead and several more are […]
Ever since its inception, bitcoin has been dubbed “digital gold,” given it is durable, fungible, divisible and scarce like the precious metal. However, while gold has a strong track record of rallying in times of stress in the global equity markets, bitcoin is yet to build a similar reputation as a safe-haven asset. In fact, in recent months, the cryptocurrency has been increasingly correlated with the […]
__________Asia TimesUS virus cases smash daily record Global infections soar as the WHO warned the pandemic is ‘not even close to being over’ New daily coronavirus cases in the United States soared past 50,000 for the first time Wednesday, as the World Health Organization delivered a grave warning that the global pandemic is accelerating. Restaurants, bars and beaches in the world’s worst-hit nation closed from California […]
FOX News cable television set a new record this past quarter. The Tucker Carlson Show set the record for the largest cable news show audience during a single quarter in cable news history. He did this by calling for equal justice under the law and for free speech. These are two issues the Democrats cannot claim and Republicans appear oblivious to. Mike Cernovich tweeted last night […]
A 95-year-old thrill-seeker has admitted to doubts about making it down some of the world’s greatest mountains, but said he is looking forward to descending from a summit at 100 after becoming the world’s oldest heli-skier. Gordon Precious celebrated his 95th birthday by taking a helicopter to the top of the Cariboo Mountains, the northernmost subrange of the Columbia Mountain in British Columbia, before breaking the record he […]
As several states move to reintroduce containment measures, the US has again topped its one-day record for new Covid-19 cases. Tallying more than 45,000 infections, the spike could undo a falling trend in fatalities. Friday saw the US case count jump by 45,242, according to data collected by Reuters, putting the total number of infections in the country at nearly 2.5 million. The spike in cases […]
The US on Wednesday saw its highest number of new COVID-19 cases in a single day, 36,880, since the outbreak began, according to a national tally maintained by the New York Times. The previous record for daily new cases was 36,739, recorded on April 24, the Times reported. Wednesday’s total was also 2,000 cases higher than Tuesday’s daily tally across the US. The World Health Organization […]
Lachlan Morton, pictured in 2014, is the latest person to set a record “Everesting” on a bicycle. Mark Gunter/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Gunter/AFP via Getty Images Lachlan Morton, pictured in 2014, is the latest person to set a record “Everesting” on a bicycle. Mark Gunter/AFP via Getty Images A challenge has been growing more popular in the past few months for […]
The US has broken its own record for the number of coronavirus cases recorded in a single day, with more than 38,000 new patients confirmed in the last 24 hours, topping a high set in April as some states see infections spike. Some 38,672 new cases were reported on Wednesday, according to data collected by the Covid Tracking Project, breaking a previous record set on April […]
Bitcoin’s (BTC) derivatives continue to grow despite light spot trading over the past two months. The cryptocurrency’s options market is on its way to a record $1 billion monthly expiry this Friday. At press time, there are 114,700 option contracts (notional value of over $1 billion) set to expire on June 26 across major exchanges – Deribit, CME, Bakkt, OKEx, LedgerX – according to data provided by […]
Guardian: Seven US states have reported their highest coronavirus patient admissions in the pandemic so far, as cases surge in the US following the easing of restrictions. Arizona, Arkansas, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas –which also confirmed a record daily case increase on Tuesday – each admitted record numbers of infected people to hospital, the Washington Post reported. California saw record infections, too, with more […]
Val Demings, a rising star in the radical Democrat party and a member of the House Impeachment panel, is being called on the carpet by a left-wing outlet in Orlando for her record as Orlando Police Chief. Biden’s consideration of Demings has angered the Black Lives Matter mob, as we reported on last week. Amid all of the calls for police reform, which President Donald Trump […]
About an hour after the nation’s top public health officials denied to Congress that President Trump had ordered a slowdown in COVID-19 testing, news broke that the federal government was winding down support for local testing sites in states like Texas that continue to break daily case records. The Trump administration will end support for 13 sites in five states—including seven in Texas, which has been […]
Robert Lewandowski scored twice for champions Bayern Munich to take his Bundesliga total to 33 this season, but Erling Haaland scored again for runners-up Borussia Dortmund to average scoring a minute more quickly than the Pole. Robert Lewandowski scored twice in 14 minutes to break the record for the most goals by a non-German player in a season in the Bundesliga, although he remains seven shot […]
It’s costing more to use Ethereum and that may be because more users are flocking to the platform than ever before, according to one key on-chain metric. Analysts say the growth of both transactions and the cost to process them is being driven by an increase in stablecoin usage and DeFi applications. The seven-day moving average of the total amount of “gas” used in transactions on […]
Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos was a young, intelligent and beautiful Italian woman when she met George Papadopoulos in 2016. Her life was soon turned upside down. The man she loved was targeted by the Deep State and then the FBI had the audacity to ask young Ms. Mangiante to spy on her husband. When the young Italian started discussing her former boss Joseph Mifsud and his ties […]
The man who shot at police with a taser he stole from the police and then was shot dead by the police may not be the saint the mainstream media is attempting to make him out to be. Not only did Rayshard Brooks get in a struggle with police, steal their taser, run from the police and shoot the taser at the police, he was likely […]
Shares of Canaan Creative, one of the few publicly traded crypto miner manufacturers, plummeted below $2, their lowest after going public in November. The Nasdaq-listed stock has been steadily falling since the bitcoin halving on May 11, according to data from Yahoo Finance. It closed at $1.98 at the end of the trading session Monday, down 3.9%. The China-based crypto miner maker is trying to make […]