Supporters of President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wave flags prior to Biden’s arrival for a townhall in Miami, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Supporters of President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wave flags prior to Biden’s arrival for a townhall in Miami, Florida. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images More than $1 billion has now been spent on TV ads for the 2020 presidential election in just 13 states, an NPR analysis of the latest ad spending data from the tracking firm Advertising Analytics finds. Most of […]
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Optimism for the prospects for a U.S. stimulus package rose after the White House boosted its offer to Democrats on a pandemic relief package Friday. Source link
Bitcoin is making gains Friday while ether options traders on the Deribit exchange love $400 strikes. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,050 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 1.4% over the previous 24 hours. Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,834-$11,111 BTC above its 10-day and 50-day moving averages, a bullish signal for market technicians. Bitcoin trading on Coinbase since Oct. 7.Source: TradingView Bitcoin’s price is making gains Friday, rising as high as $11,111 on spot exchanges such as Coinbase before settling to $10,050 as of press time. David Lifchitz, chief investment officer for quant trading firm ExoAlpha, says another rally could occur […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106612/98/1066129808_0:88:1992:1208_1200x675_80_0_0_e4441e0ba27a938937d13c66880d2328.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Max Gorbachev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/sport/202009301080623878-football-star-neymar-tops-the-list-of-spains-tax-debtors/ This is not the first time that the Brazilian forward, whom Forbes Magazine ranked third in the list of highest paid football players, is accused of violating tax laws. In 2016, he was found guilty of tax evasion by a Brazilian court and was ordered to pay fines; however, he later appealed the case and was cleared of criminal charges. Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar is in the news again, but this time not because of his performance on the pitch. The 28-year-old has made it into the list of Spain’s […]
The coronavirus has claimed more than 1 million lives around the globe, the latest dark ‘milestone’ for the worldwide pandemic first detected some 10 months ago, which continues to spread across several hotspots. Infecting more than 33 million since first emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan last December, the global Covid-19 death toll surpassed the 1 million mark on Monday night, according to data gathered by Johns Hopkins University. The news was met with a mournful statement from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which deemed the pandemic “one of the largest humanitarian catastrophes in […]
To the surprise of many, bitcoin (BTC) has been a breakout star in Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) moment. Taking the form of wrapped or tokenized bitcoin, the digital asset takes the best of both blockchains – bitcoin’s price value and brand along with Ethereum’s programmability – into one highly in-demand token. Last week alone, the supply of BitGo’s wrapped bitcoins (WBTC) topped 76,000 after setting an all-time record of nearly 21,000 wrapped bitcoins minted within one week. The week before held the previous record of over 12,200 tokens minted in a single week, according to Dune Analytics. Overall, investors have made […]
Jeff Sessions talks with the media after voting in Alabama’s primary election, on March 3 in Mobile, Ala. Vasha Hunt/AP hide caption toggle caption Vasha Hunt/AP Jeff Sessions talks with the media after voting in Alabama’s primary election, on March 3 in Mobile, Ala. Vasha Hunt/AP Jeff Sessions will not regain his old Alabama U.S. Senate seat this year. The former U.S. attorney general has lost to Tommy Tuberville, a first-time political candidate and former college football coach, in the state’s Republican runoff election for the seat, The Associated Press projects. Tuberville — who was endorsed by President Trump in the […]
The number of officially confirmed deaths linked to Covid-19 across the globe has crossed half a million, with roughly a quarter of them recorded in the United States, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The global pandemic of the coronavirus, which was first recorded in Wuhan, China in December, has so far infected over 10 million people. While the nations around the globe rushed to impose harsh lockdowns and quarantines – many of them have since begun to gradually lift the isolation measures. Also on rt.com ‘Covid-19 suddenly turned woke?’ Packed Pride & BLM rally in Chicago draws […]
Compound overtook MakerDAO Saturday as the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with the most value locked. As of June 20, Compound has $484 million in cryptocurrency locked, while MakerDAO has $481 million, according to DeFi Pulse. The COMP token is trading at $220.25 as of this writing, according to CoinGecko. It’s all time high price has been $231. On June 15, Compound users began earning the application’s new governance token, COMP, for all cryptocurrency lent to others on the app and also for all borrowed. Users rushed to get the first disbursements of COMP because the liquid supply on the market is […]
World 01:56 GMT 08.06.2020(updated 02:10 GMT 08.06.2020) Get short URL According to the Johns Hopkins University data, the countries that are most affected by COVID-19 are the United States with over 1,9 million cases, Brazil with more than 600,000 and Russia with around 460,000. Johns Hopkins University data shows that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases confirmed globally has passed the 7 million mark, with the death toll now exceeding 402,000. As of 4.50 Moscow time (1:50 GMT), the number of registered coronavirus cases around the world was 7,006,436. The total number of deaths was 402,120, while 3,133,664 people recovered from […]
This veterinary lab is the linchpin in one state’s coronavirus testing approach by Karen Brulliard/The Washington Post Akhilesh Ramachandran emailed Oklahoma’s public health laboratory just days after the novel coronavirus hit the state in March. As a manager of a veterinary school diagnostic lab, he knew lots about rapid, high-volume testing for viruses — in animals. He offered his facility as a “backup” for human testing, he said, figuring officials “might say, ‘You guys do 100 samples, and we’ll do the rest.’ ” But within weeks, the Oklahoma State University lab — which typically tests for diseases such as rabies in dogs and […]
The global death toll in the Covid-19 pandemic has crossed 300,000, hitting another dark milestone as the United Nations voiced concerns that lockdown measures are being lifted too quickly, warning of a “second wave” of the virus. Surpassing a total of 300,000 fatalities and nearing 4.5 million cases globally on Thursday, according to data gathered by Johns Hopkins University, the worldwide viral outbreak continues to expand across some 188 nations, infecting tens of thousands every day. The latest figures came on the heels of a new warning from the UN’s Human Rights High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, who said countries that repeal […]
Bitcoin has flippened USD on Square’s Cash App, sort of. As reported in the publicly traded fintech company’s first-quarter earnings Wednesday, Cash App brought in $222 million on all its other fiat-powered services in Q1. Meanwhile, revenue from bitcoin was $306 million, the first quarter in which bitcoin revenue surpassed all other revenue on the app. “In the first quarter, Cash App gross profit grew 115% year over year,” the shareholder letter reported. Gross profit on Cash App, however, remains to be found primarily outside of crypto. Of Square’s $222 million in non-bitcoin revenue, $178 million of that was profit. The […]