The U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet has announced that the LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords returned to its homeport of Naval Base San Diego, January 31. The Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) returned to its homeport of Naval Base San Diego following a 17-month rotational deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet and U.S. 4th Fleet areas of operation. “I am incredibly proud of the Gabrielle Giffords […]
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On 6 December, the U.S. Air Force has confirmed that supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers returned to the Indo-Pacific region for a Bomber Task Force deployment, conducting operations out of Andersen Air Base, Guam. The 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, deployed bombers from the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, in order to support Pacific Air Forces’ training efforts with allies, partners and joint forces; and strategic […]
The U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command has announced on Friday that the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11) returned from a deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations. USS Sioux City returned to Mayport, Fla., Dec. 4, following its deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations, according to a recent news release. On Friday, the service press release said […]
General Motors Returns To Oshawa By Tony Leah and Rebecca Keetch, Labor Notes. November 28, 2020 General Motors Returns To Oshawa2020-11-282020-11-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/oshawa.png200px200px Above photo: Oshawa workers remember the last time, and the time before. The company is making no long-term commitments. Meme courtesy of the authors. But Offers Only Second-Tier Jobs in a ‘Pop-Up’ Plant. Canada – Unifor President Jerry Dias called it “a home run.” The […]
The United States Space Force has announced that after nearly nine months of extreme restoration, one of only seven Pershing II surface to surface missiles in existence returned to its new home in Hangar C at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. According to a recent service news release, the Pershing II, a mobile intermediate-range ballistic missile, was transported into Hanger C on Cape Canaveral Air Force […]
Thirty-three years ago this week, a baby was left alone in the yard in Midland, Texas, for just a moment as her mother ran inside to answer a ringing phone. In the minutes she was gone, the baby crawled into an 8-inch well that was partially covered by grass and leaves, and tumbled, 22 feet below the earth. Her rescue, coming over the next three days, […]
Pantera Capital, a cryptocurrency investment firm known for its blockbuster bitcoin returns, has been on the upside when investing in startups, though the returns have been falling below or closer to other types of equity investors. The venture funds Pantera Capital raised in August 2013 and August 2014 have returned 46.5% and 15.9% from their inception to September 2019, respectively, according to firm data obtained by […]
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Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, the comedic sketch shows Spitting Image brought politics to a general audience through its often crass and pull-no-punches style of humour. The celebrated British satirical show ‘Spitting Image’ known for its mimicking of politicians and celebrities using distorted puppets returns to screens on Saturday after a more than 20-year break, this time taking aim at modern pop figures such as Donald […]
That was the story in cryptocurrency markets in September as prices tumbled for digital tokens from “decentralized finance” (DeFi), the fast-evolving arena of blockchain-based lending and trading platforms. Chainlink, which supplies data feeds to DeFi systems, saw its LINK token fall 42% month to date, the worst return among digital assets in the CoinDesk 20. The DeFi market correction came at a time when traditional markets also were hit […]
US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden have had an intense first presidential debate in Cleveland on Tuesday. During the debate, Trump and Biden were constantly interrupting and sniping at each other, making it hard for moderator Chris Wallace to follow the time limits set for each speaker. He even had to raise his voice when the debaters interrupted each other or diverged from the topics they […]
President Donald Trump denied a New York Times report suggesting he paid almost no federal income taxes over the past two decades, saying the truth will be revealed when an Internal Revenue Service audit of his returns is over. “It’s totally fake news – made-up, fake,” Trump told reporters Sunday in a White House briefing, noting that he had to deal with similar questions when the […]
A boom in decentralized finance (DeFi) has turbo-charged returns for Pantera Capital’s bitcoin and mixed cryptocurrency hedge funds this year. From Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, Pantera’s bitcoin (BTC) fund gained 61%, its digital asset fund 168%, its initial coin offering (ICO) fund 323% and its long-term ICO fund 270%, thanks in large part to Yearn Finance’s YFI, Terra’s LUNA, Polkadot’s DOT, Flexa’s AMP and Ampleforth’s […]
SushiSwap creator “Chef Nomi” has returned all $14 million in ether, apologizing to the DeFi project’s community for suddenly liquidating his holdings. Source link
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken will operate in Japan for the first time in two years. The company said Tuesday its Japanese subsidiary, Payward Asia Ltd., completed the regulatory registration process and has been granted a permit to operate as a crypto asset exchange business in the country. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Nair N.B.. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/india/202009081080396963-amidst-border-tension-indian-army-returns-13-chinese-yaks-strayed-into-its-territory/ In a latest development, India and China on Tuesday accused each other of firing in the air during a new confrontation on their border in the western Ladakh region, in a further escalation of tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Amidst accusations of provocative actions by India and China in their western border, the Indian Army has returned […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/06/1080379699_0:104:3073:1832_1200x675_80_0_0_8e8b1bb1ed8943c0a8ad4f6b94516a1d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202009061080379754-chinas-reusable-experimental-spaceship-successfully-returns-to-earth—reports/ BEIJING (Sputnik) – The Chinese reusable experimental spaceship has successfully returned to Earth having spent two days in the orbit, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The reusable spaceship was launched this past Friday on a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert. While little has so far been known […]
Koch Academic Influence Returns To Massachusetts With New Tufts University Think Tank By Dana Drugmand, DeSmog Blog. August 25, 2020 Koch Academic Influence Returns To Massachusetts With New Tufts University Think Tank2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/tufts-university-e1598364445281.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tufts University by Pete Jelliffe (CC BY–ND 2.0). When a new Massachusetts think tank housed at Tufts University launched earlier this year, Boston-based media described it as a “CBO-like center” (referring to the Congressional Budget Office) that would offer an “independent […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107832/70/1078327070_0:106:1280:826_1200x675_80_0_0_a9190a8930dd27a9c90c773f04c68fd9.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202008251080276652-right-on-time-mysterious-repeating-stellar-radio-burst-returns-according-to-predictions/ A mysterious fast radio burst (FRB) recently found to repeat itself on a 161-day cycle has begun emitting its radio flares again, right at the time scientists predicted it would once again surface. In June, scientists at the University of Manchester confirmed a fast radio burst called FRB 121102 was repeating on a 161-day cycle, predicting it would “wake […]
Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero on Thursday rejected President Trump’s second attempt to quash an investigation by abusive New York prosecutors seeking his tax returns and financial documents. Recall, Judge Marrero previously denied Trump’s first attempt to block a subpoena from crooked Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance. The Supreme Court also ruled last month that a US president is not immune from a grand jury subpoena […]
The president of the United States, who is facing growing internal and foreign crises, visited his brother just before his death in New York over the weekend, finds himself in a fight for his political future in the run-up to the November election. Donald Trump was met with large applause from a crowd of supporters upon his return from Washington, DC, after the death of his younger […]
A young nurse became a national hero in Lebanon after rescuing three newborn babies from an ICU and carrying them to safety following the massive Beirut port explosion. Now she has returned to the hospital to tell her story. St. George Hospital University Medical Center is one of the oldest and most advanced in Beirut. But on Tuesday, it became a nightmarish scene when the blast […]
Seven US states have banded together to establish a coordinated COVID-19 testing strategy and purchase 3.5 million antigen tests, a move that highlights the US’ lack of a national testing plan, Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, an assistant professor of viral pathogenesis at the University of Manitoba, told Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Wednesday. ‘An Unbelievable Amount of Sense’ The governors of Virginia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio […]
Greece recently welcomed back 12 stolen Greek Orthodox icons from the United Kingdom. The priceless religious art pieces were stolen in 2005 from the Monastery of the Dormition of the Visokos Virgin, which is located near the village of Kalouta in the Zagori municipality of Epirus. They were returned by the UK last month, the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports announced on Tuesday, reported the […]
Crypto traders didn’t need to work too hard to make money last month. They just had to be in the market. Every digital asset in the CoinDesk 20 ended the month in the black. Bitcoin benefited from bets against the U.S. dollar while ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain, gained from speculation over the future of “decentralized finance,” known as DeFi. Source: CoinDesk/Coin Metrics […]
This creepy video of Bill Gates is making the rounds again today. Bill Gates told The Financial Times, “You don’t have a choice… Normalcy only returns when we largely vaccinate the entire population.” Advertisement – story continues below For the coronavirus flu. Bill Gates says getting VAXXed is NOT your choice. pic.twitter.com/T3rImfiNFY — Bruce Adams (@agvBruceAdams) August 2, 2020 TRENDING: Federal Government and Yale Are Holding […]
The Committee to Defend the President, a super PAC supporting President Trump’s 2020 reelection bid, returned a donation from Earl Holt III, a white nationalist whose racist writings were linked to the perpetrator of the 2015 shooting of nine Black parishioners at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP The Committee to Defend the President, a super PAC […]
The U.S. Navy has announced on Monday that it has returned a broken E/A-18G Growler carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft back to the fleet. “Originally this aircraft suffered a hot air leak in its engine bay that resulted in damage to the side of the aircraft,” said F/A-18 Class Desk Inventory Manager Bob Alley, who retired in 2009 as a Master Chief Avionics Technician. The E/A-18G Growler […]
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A week after the Supreme Court ruled President Donald Trump is not immune from turning over his tax returns and other financial records to the Manhattan district attorney, the president’s legal team said in a Thursday hearing they intended to keep fighting the “wildly over-broad subpoena”—an argument slammed by prosecutors as a back-door attempt to create temporary “absolute immunity.” Federal Judge Victor Marrero—who originally presided over […]
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For years, Donald Trump has been claiming that he can’t release his tax returns because at least some of them are still under audit by the IRS. As recently as this past Thursday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeated that reasoning to reporters, saying, “The media’s been asking this question for four years, and for four years, the president has said the same thing, his […]
On Thursday the Supreme Court ruled a grand jury in Manhattan can subpoena President Trump’s tax returns in their ongoing witch hunt against the president. Mark Levin blasted the decision and warned the SCOTUS judges that Congress can now subpoena their tax returns! 2. I can see a situation in which the House or the Senate decides that it must have access to all of the […]
President Donald Trump must release his tax returns and other financial records to the Manhattan district attorney, the Supreme Court has ordered. In a 7-2 vote, the court sided with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance who requested eight years’ worth of Trump’s business and personal tax records to help investigate whether Trump and his company violated state laws in connection with hush-money payments to several women […]
Cramped in dusty chambers tucked in the labyrinth of the Bronx County Courthouse—one of those grand, Art Deco monoliths of marble seemingly made for filming movies and TV—Search Party creators Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers are taking a break from shooting and talking about a red dress. As in, the red dress. In the season two finale of Search Party, the show’s lead, Alia Shawkat’s Dory, […]
Bitcoin’s price is rallying and traders also increasingly see investment opportunities on the Ethereum network. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,563 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining 2.5% over the previous 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC on Monday (8:00 p.m. Sunday ET), bitcoin was changing hands around $9,298 on spot exchanges such as Coinbase. It began making gains around that time, appreciating 3% to […]
The U.S. Navy has announced that the Nimitz-class carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) returned home June 16, marking the end of their deployment after operating in the U.S. 2nd, 5th and 6th Fleets. Following a return from deployment in March after operating in the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet, Truman remained underway in the Western Atlantic during their sustainment phase of the OFRP cycle […]
Lockdown Measures Return To Beijing As Testing Reveals Cluster At Major Food Market By Emily Feng and Amy Cheng/npr.org Updated 1:15 a.m. Monday China’s capital of Beijing has discovered 79 symptomatic new cases of the coronavirus since Thursday, leading city authorities to resurrect lockdown measures and elevating fears of a second wave of infections. All the new cases were linked to the sprawling Xinfadi wholesale food market in […]
On Monday, the Moscow City Court sentenced American Paul Whelan to 16 years in a high-security prison on espionage charges. Whelan insists he is innocent and said he would file an appeal against the sentence. US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien in a statement on Monday criticized a decision by a Russian court to sentence US citizen Paul Whelan to 16 years’ imprisonment on espionage charges, […]
In a redux of trading from the early days of the coronavirus crisis in March, bitcoin tumbled Thursday in tandem with a sell-off on Wall Street – rekindling an ongoing debate over the cryptocurrency’s use as a store of value. Prices for bitcoin fell 6.37% to about $9,100, as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of large U.S. stocks lost 5.7%. You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily […]
India 10:27 GMT 30.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107946/48/1079464806_0:108:3030:1812_1200x675_80_0_0_7b0047b5e5219e2cfb899231e600c8ed.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/india/202005301079464675-AirIndiaFlightFromDelhiToMoscowRetractedMidwayAfterAirlinesFindPilotCOVID-19Positive/ New Delhi (Sputnik): India halted all flight operations after imposing a nation-wide lockdown in light of the coronavirus pandemic. However, under the government’s Vande Bharat Mission, national carrier Air India has been operating flights to bring back Indians stranded abroad. An Air India Airbus plane, that was flying from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi […]
BlockTower Capital, a digital asset hedge fund, managed to more than double its lifetime return in the first four months of 2020, according to investors and documents reviewed by CoinDesk. This news comes a day after Goldman Sachs denounced cryptocurrencies as an investment. Meanwhile, Samsung and Minecraft have rolled out new blockchain integrations and Russia is mulling appending mortgage documents to its national distributed ledger. Here’s […]
If mixed martial arts has a few too many rules for your tastes, perhaps it is time to cast a glance towards the new Polish fight league Wotore – a bizarre, violent hybrid of MMA, bareknuckle boxing and, yes, sumo wrestling. Wotore bouts couldn’t be much more different when compared to its MMA cousin. For one, there are no time limits. There aren’t even any rounds. […]
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) returned to sea after a coronavirus outbreak sidelined the massive warship for nearly two months after more than 1,000 sailors tested positive, Navy officials said Tuesday. “The ship left Naval Base Guam and entered the Philippine Sea May 21 to conduct carrier qualification flights for the embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11,” said in a statement. Theodore Roosevelt […]
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic is getting back in the swing of things as he sharpens his skills on the clay courts of Marbella, Spain. And this time he’s not breaking the COVID-19 regulations! Djokovic had previously found himself in hot water after posting video of himself training on court before the Spanish government’s regulations regarding public courts had relaxed. Also on rt.com Life’s a beach: […]
The U.S. Navy released a statement on Wednesday saying that the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN 741) officially returned to strategic service. Maine’s keel was laid July 3, 1990, she was christened July 16, 1994, and was commissioned in Groton, Connecticut July 25, 1995. The USS Ohio completed three years of engineered refueling overhaul, estimated to extend the life of the ship by 20 years, […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking third-party contractors to help it assess whether certain U.S. taxpayers have properly paid taxes on their crypto holdings. According to an email posted online by CryptoTrader.Tax and verified by CoinDesk, IRS Assistant Deputy Commissioner John Cardone said the agency is looking for contractors to “assist our Revenue Agents in calculating taxpayers’ gains or losses as a result of their […]
It’s been nearly two months since the last UFC show, but now the biggest MMA promotion is back with a stacked card and a world title double-header at the top of the bill. Follow our live updates throughout the night. It’s been a rocky road to get here, but we finally have live fights back on our screens as the UFC stages the first sports event […]
China’s new generation crew capsule successfully returned to Earth in the early hours of Thursday. Returning under three red and white parachutes, the capsule landed safely under the cushion of airbags at 05:49 UTC on the dry Dongfeng landing zone, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Designated in the Chinese press as Xinyidai Zairen Feichuan – Shiyan Chuan, the capsule was launched on the maiden flight of the […]
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced on Friday that the first column with Russian military personnel and special equipment performing tasks to assist in the fight against the spread of coronavirus infection in Italy marches from the point of temporary deployment of the Orio-al-Serio airfield in Bergamo to the Villafranca airfield in Verona. “Upon arrival at the airfield, personnel and equipment will be […]
With the right management strategy, bitcoin almost always boosts the value of a mixed portfolio, according to Bitwise research – even if bought at the all-time high. Based on a test portfolio using historical data, the San Francisco-based asset manager found investors who allocated a small percentage of bitcoin to a portfolio made up of stocks and bonds would have made a notable increase to cumulative returns, even in […]