https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/10/1080788584_0:256:3186:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_fa280c17c5a85352c226aa6215d1d0df.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202010161080789093-this-week-in-pictures-10—16-october/ While the world is fighting the pandemic, with countries introducing more and more restrictions to curb the disease, people are continuing to enjoy their everyday lives: numerous political rallies, sporting events, and festivals have been held across the globe. Despite all the restrictions and security measures, people can still gather like at any other time of the year, but […]
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will speak next week as part of a panel on the future of cross-border payments at the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) annual meeting. Source link
Since Covid-19 cases in China are slowing down, 637 million Chinese went on a trip around the country for the eight-day holidays (1 October – the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival). According to the Global Times, domestic tourism revenue was 466.56 billion yuan ($68.6 billion). A professor specialising in tourism studies examines the outcome. Sputnik talked to Jiang Yiyi, professor at the School of Leisure Sports […]
CoinDesk is partnering with DC Fintech Week, one of the world’s premier policy and regulation-focused digital currency conferences, to produce a special edition of CoinDesk Live. The virtual event, which runs Oct. 19-22, brings together marquee names from Switzerland’s FINMA, Sweden’s Riksbank, the Bank for International Settlements, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the International Monetary Fund to discuss stablecoin regulation, central bank digital currencies, the […]
President Trump holds a rally in Sanford, Fla., Monday night, his first trip outside Washington since being released from the hospital. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Trump holds a rally in Sanford, Fla., Monday night, his first trip outside Washington since being released from the hospital. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 9:05 p.m. ET […]
Beset by controversy and lagging in the polls, President Donald Trump this week was handed what his allies described as a gift: an opportunity to recede from the national spotlight while his party scored a win that would rearrange the tectonic plates of government. Trump promptly squandered the opportunity. For weeks, operatives from both political parties have picked up on a defining phenomenon of the presidential […]
Ron Elving joins Scott Simon to discuss the concerns over the president’s recovery from COVID-19, where the U.S Senate stands on the next coronavirus relief bill and more. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Another week of volatile news, and I’m running out of adjectives. President Trump, recovering from COVID, insisted that he wasn’t so sick after all before saying he was really sick. He pulled out of a […]
Andrei Anisimov, whose LInkedIn profile still describes him as a “Senior Software Engineer” at Coinbase, tweeted Saturday that this had been his last week at the cryptocurrency exchange. At press time it wasn’t clear whether Anisimov was one of the 60 people who accepted a severance package that was offered this week. Source link
Tropical Storm Delta will likely become Hurricane Delta as it passes from the Caribbean and heads toward the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters say. National Weather Service hide caption toggle caption National Weather Service Tropical Storm Delta will likely become Hurricane Delta as it passes from the Caribbean and heads toward the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters say. National Weather […]
For those already fed up with the US presidential election, fret not, for there’s another contest you may want to turn your eyes to as netizens attempt to determine the “thickest” bear in one of America’s national parks. Big is definitely beautiful as the public participates in voting for the brown bear carrying the most pounds before hibernation in Alaska’s Katmai National Park with the annual […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/19/1080568593_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_3a57f68ce16243e820fcbf550fb739a3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202009251080569617/ From the presidential inauguration in protest-hit Belarus to demonstrations against Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, from a bodybuilding championship in Russia to an NFL football game in the United States, from floods in India to storms in Greece – this past week can hardly be called uneventful. Embark on a virtual trip around various corners of our planet […]
Denver: Anti-Racist Organizers Released After A Week In Jail September 25, 2020 Denver: Anti-Racist Organizers Released After A Week In Jail2020-09-252020-09-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/denver-2-e1601050609812.jpg200px200px Above photo: Lillian House, Eliza Lucero and Joel Northam were released on Thursday, September 24. PSL. A week after their arrest, the anti-racist organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Denver were finally given a bond hearing and released from jail. Three organizers from […]
Dune Analytics data shows nearly 80% of the current UNI token supply has so far been snapped up by eligible Uniswap wallet addresses. Source link
While so-called “DeFi degens” are busy bidding up the price of food-themed tokens, on the other end of crypto’s DeFi spectrum two teams working on the most popular implementations of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been busy pushing out new features. This week, both Lightning Labs, which maintains the Lightning Network Daemon (LND) implementation of the Lightning Network, and Blockstream, which maintains the c-lightning implementation, updated their tech […]
NEW YORK, September 19 (Sputnik) – The rout on Wall Street continued for a third straight week with the technology-laced Nasdaq Composite index leading losses again amid concerns about overvaluation for big tech companies and worries about economic recovery from the COVID-19. Nasdaq, which lists tech giants such as Facebook, Apple, Apple, Netflix and Google, closed Friday’s trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) down […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/12/1080500987_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_64d7fc6989721c66545ec980531268bf.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202009181080501552-this-week-in-pictures-12—18-september/ The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the globe and many countries are working on a vaccine; meanwhile, life still continues, despite the crisis continuing to grip some parts of the planet. Check out Sputnik’s photo gallery to have a virtual trip around the globe amid these unsteady times, as the world fights the coronavirus pandemic. Check out everything […]
VT: While in other nations, like the UK, second wave deaths are down to nothing, in the US they are climbing and these are younger and healthier victims. CHILD QUARANTINE CAMPS: CDC opens up FEMA camps to hold children who might have been exposed to COVID-19 https://t.co/beqTrCtZ0Q — The D.C. Clothesline (@DCClothesline) September 10, 2020 ABC News: There were 261,204 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in […]
Rebecca Minkoff Rebecca Minkoff had the distinction of being one of the few designers to stage a physical show at New York Fashion Week this season. What in past seasons has been a line so knee deep an attendee would wonder if they were giving out free clothes, was now limited to a select group of editors, buyers, stylists, and influencers who lined up in their […]
New York Men’s Day Online fashion week is very different to IRL fashion week. But one plus is the way in which designers are able create mini-films that push far past the bounds of traditional runway shows—as seen in the special section of the week devoted to men. Wataru Tominaga’s collection was full of cheerful floral, whimsical patterns and gingham. Ka Wa Key made a gorgeous […]
Social Justice Demonstrations Mark First Week Of NFL By Justine Coleman, The Hill. September 14, 2020 Social Justice Demonstrations Mark First Week Of NFL2020-09-142020-09-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/lions.png200px200px Above photo: Nick Antaya/Getty Images. NFL players marked the first full weekend of professional football by participating in social justice demonstrations, with various teams opting to stay in the locker room, link arms or kneel during the national anthem. All eyes were […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0c/1080437327_0:314:3078:2046_1200x675_80_0_0_2f9a2374dd70d60040af0e991779a454.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202009121080439016-this-week-in-pictures-5—11-september/ Sputnik’s weekly photo gallery presents a compilation of photos to show the highlights of the past week, where you can get a glimpse of what has been happening across the globe during this truly extraordinary time. The past week was marked by numerous festivals and events in various countries, including the 77th Venice Film Festival, the Moscow City Day celebrations, […]
As she was putting together her portfolio collection during her last year as a fashion student at Parsons School of Design, Najla A. Burt called her mother for help. She needed to come up with a name for her clothing line. “We had a conversation around why she should not make her label her name,” Cynthia Burt, Najla’s mother, recalled in an interview with The Daily […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Political advertising will disappear from Facebook during the week prior to November 3 elections, one of several steps to ensure the integrity of the upcoming vote, the social media platform’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a press release on Thursday. “We won’t accept new political ads in the week before the election,” Zuckerberg said. The release detailed a number of additional steps that […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107664/36/1076643615_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_782da5b9c1d138abdb639d0e11518c04.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/society/202009021080352088-screen-burn-one-week-of-screen-time-at-work-equivalent-to-25-minutes-in-sun/ Researchers at Unilever, a multinational consumer goods company, have found that sitting in front of a digital screen for six hours a day for five working days is equivalent to spending 25 minutes in the midday sun without any protection. According to the company’s findings, 2 in 3 people are unaware of the effect that blue light emitted by […]
Huobi Futures will offer bitcoin options starting Tuesday, aiming to meet demand from traders for ways to hedge against risks in crypto markets. Source link
A Week Of Mass Layoffs August 29, 2020 A Week Of Mass Layoffs2020-08-292020-08-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/businessesclosedillinois.jpg200px200px Above photo: In this May 21, 2020 file photo, a man looks at signs of a closed store due to COVID-19 in Niles, Ill. U.S. layoffs surged in April revealing the deep economic hole that comes with shuttered offices, restaurants, stores and schools. Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press. MGM Resorts is laying off 18,000 people as […]
Fed Chair Jerome Powell tried to make it seem like the end of an era, but didn’t inspire confidence in the central bank’s ability to lead in the era that comes next. On The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the shifting sands of the global economy. He says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole this week was an argument that an era […]
Sgt. Elder Fernandes was last seen by members of his unit on Aug. 17. U.S. Army via AP hide caption toggle caption U.S. Army via AP Sgt. Elder Fernandes was last seen by members of his unit on Aug. 17. U.S. Army via AP The body of missing Fort Hood soldier Elder Fernandes was found on Tuesday night, more than one week after the 23-year-old sergeant […]
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had been warned that the A-level and GCSE grading algorithms might result in students being given lower-than-anticipated grades, The Times had earlier reported, citing a source within the Department for Education, who revealed that the minister had opted to push ahead with the controversial algorithm regardless. Fresh speculations have been unleashed regarding the future of UK Education Secretary Gavin Williamson after reports […]
BlockFi has raised a Series A, B and C within a 12-month span, an ICO’s investors can’t find the people they’re trying to sue and stablecoin demand may become unbalanced by traders ditching a “market-neutral strategy.” You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. […]
INX Ltd. said it will launch its long-awaited landmark initial public offering (IPO) as soon as Monday, capping a nearly two-year journey for the startup cryptocurrency and security token exchange. The net proceeds would be used to: The instruments on offer are a hybrid of utility and security tokens. INX’s sale would mark a milestone for the blockchain industry. It’s been a long road for the […]
Prices for ren, the token for the RenVM DeFi network, surged by more than 100% over the past week. That’s because the total amount of renBTC, a tokenized bitcoin that is locked in RenVM, broke 10,000 on Monday, according to data collected by DeFi Pulse. Source link