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El Salvador could become the first country to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announced in a video recording shown during the Bitcoin 2021 conference held in Miami. “Next week I will send to congress a bill that will make bitcoin a legal tender,” Bukele said, according to the conference’s organizer,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story Connecticut, USA (WFSB) — As temperatures soared into the 90s and humidity added another layer of oppression, cities and towns opened cooling centers. The steamy weather is expected to last through most of the week. Take a look at the forecast here. NOTE: Some towns are requiring visitors
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GULF SHORES, Alabama (WALA) — Baldwin County Sheriff Huey “Hoss” Mack revealed more details about the water rescue in the Gulf that led to the death of Deputy Bill Smith. The sheriff said Smith died while successfully saving the lives of swimmers in distress and is a true
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story SALEM, OR (KPTV) — Republicans in the Oregon House of Representatives are calling on one of their own, Rep. Mike Nearman to resign, after new video surfaced that suggested he might have planned in advance to allow demonstrators inside the locked and secured capitol building. In the video,
Continue ReadingWill it be a royal house or full house or maybe four of a kind? Maria Konnikova is used to thinking about risk tolerance. The author-turned-professional-poker-player learned how to assess what economic risks are worth taking as research for her recent bestseller, “The Biggest Bluff.” Assessing health risks — especially when you’re risking not only
Continue ReadingA new Senate report reveals previously unknown details about the stunning security breakdowns ahead of the January 6 US Capitol attack, adding an authoritative emphasis to previous evidence that there were massive intelligence failures, critical miscommunications, and unheeded warnings that ultimately led to the chaotic response that day. Sources tell CNN that in order for
Continue ReadingDespite signs of normalcy returning across America, from in-person graduations to maskless Memorial Day celebrations, experts warn the country needs to redouble its efforts to get more people vaccinated by July 4. The US reached its peak of daily vaccinations on April 1, with more than 4.3 million people getting inoculated in one day, according
Continue ReadingA sweeping piece of legislation countering China’s growing economic influence is expected to pass the Senate this week with bipartisan support — a rarity in Washington at the moment. President Joe Biden has expressed support for the bill, which would invest more than $200 billion into American manufacturing, technology, research and development. If the bill
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration is preparing to reunite 29 migrant families who were separated at the US-Mexico border under then-President Donald Trump’s controversial “zero tolerance” immigration policy, according to a newly released report. The highly anticipated report contains few new details on the Trump-era separations known to have occurred between July 2017 and January 2021, many
Continue ReadingVirginia Democrats will help answer a key question about the power of progressives am this timeid a Joe Biden administration on Tuesday when they select their nominee for November’s gubernatorial election against Republican Glenn Youngkin. The governor’s race features five candidates, including former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is vying to be the first person
Continue ReadingRepublicans in New Jersey will choose Tuesday between an establishment-backed candidate for governor who would prefer to avoid the topic of former President Donald Trump and contenders who have forcefully embraced Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. Four candidates are competing in a primary to take on Gov. Phil Murphy, who is unopposed in the
Continue ReadingPolice are investigating whether three teens who were arrested for a shooting that left one person injured were also involved in a deadly shooting outside a hookah bar in Miami-Dade County, officials said Monday. It was one of several shootings across the country over the weekend that left at least 16 people dead and dozens
Continue ReadingUS investigators have recovered millions in cryptocurrency they say was paid in ransom to hackers whose attack prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month, the Justice Department announced Monday. The announcement confirms CNN’s earlier reporting about the FBI-led operation, which was carried out with cooperation from Colonial Pipeline, the company that
Continue ReadingPeople who have been vaccinated against coronavirus, if they do become infected, have milder Covid-19 illness than unvaccinated people, a new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study shows. The study, which looked at more than 3,900 essential workers, shows fully vaccinated people are more than 90% protected against infection. Even partially vaccinated people
Continue ReadingVice President Kamala Harris is facing the first major diplomatic test of her vice presidency as she looks to tackle the root causes of migration toward the US in her full day of meetings in Guatemala. Harris has been eager to burnish her foreign policy credentials after entering office with little experience in that realm.
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department argued in a brief filed Monday that it should be permitted to substitute itself for former President Donald Trump as defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a longtime magazine columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, continuing the argument it had initiated under the previous administration even as the
Continue ReadingThe family of Secoriea Turner, the 8-year-old fatally shot during summer protests in Atlanta last year, is suing the city, alleging the mayor, police chief and a councilwoman permitted the “lawlessness, violence and vigilantism” that led to the girl’s death. The parents briefly spoke Monday to reporters about their little cheerleader and soccer player, who
Continue ReadingFormer Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid pleaded not guilty to a driving while intoxicated charge Monday, months after he was involved in a crash that left a 5-year-old girl with a critical brain injury. The girl, Ariel Young, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions, and subdural hematomas in
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Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th, just 15 days after he is set to resign as CEO of Amazon. Blue Origin said Bezos’ younger brother, Mark Bezos, will
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Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been “cowed into accepting” a series of positions that “would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago,” telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper he is worried about the state of democracy in the United States in an exclusive interview that aired Monday. Obama, in an
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