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Loading… Loading… Major cryptocurrency surged on Thursday evening, despite hawkish comments from Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.CryptocurrencyGains +/-Price (Recorded 12:00 a.m. EDT)Bitcoin BTC/USD +3.39%$67,836Ethereum ETH/USD +0.57%$3,298Dogecoin DOGE/USD +1.42%$0.17 What Happened: Bitcoin, which dropped to as low as $65,000 overnight, surged during much of the U.S. day, reaching a high point of over $69,000 at one

Share Tweet By Billy Hallowell Editor April 2, 2024 As presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump continues to face various legal battles, an appeals court recently granted him at least a temporary reprieve from a $454 million fine. Listen to them on the latest episode of Quick Start ? With Trump and co-defendents up against a

Apple is reportedly laying off 614 workers after cancelling its decade-long effort to build a self-driving electric car in its first round of job cuts since the pandemic. The Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker notified employees of the layoffs on March 28, with changes to take effect on May 27, according to The Wall Stret Journal,

Share Tweet By Tr Goins-Phillips Editor April 1, 2024 A now-former Starbucks employee is claiming the Seattle-based coffee caf fired her after she openly objected to the company’s Pride month display. Taylor Trice opened up about her ouster in a viral TikTok video, explaining she was cut from the Starbucks store in Apex, North Carolina,

Share Tweet By Billy Hallowell Editor April 2, 2024 Hollywood actress Jen Lilley recently delivered a series of Gospel-themed videos explaining the true meaning of Easter and why she sees transformative power in the biblical narrative. Listen to them on the latest episode of Quick Start ? “Easter means everything to me,” Lilley said in the first

Boeing has paid Alaska Airlines roughly $160 million as an “initial payment” for “financial damages” resulting from the flight that experienced a midair door blowout at 16,000 feet earlier this year. Alaska Airlines, which was operating the Boeing plane at the time the fuselage blew off, said in a regulatory filing that it lost “approximately

In Ukraine, Russian drones hit multiple apartment buildings in Kharkiv early this morning, killing at least four people, including rescue workers. This is a 77-year-old survivor of the attack.

Boeing has paid Alaska Airlines roughly $160 million as an “initial payment” for “financial damages” resulting from the flight that experienced a midair door blowout at 16,000 feet earlier this year. Alaska Airlines, which was operating the Boeing plane at the time the fuselage blew off, said in a regulatory filing that it lost “approximately

Californias new $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers wont just impact consumers who have to pay higher prices for menu items, but it could also make it more difficult for some public schools to retain low-paid cafeteria staffers. Cash-strapped school districts in the Golden State could be forced to compete with billion-dollar corporations such

In Britain, pressure is growing on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to suspend arms sales to Israel. Three former British Supreme Court justices have joined hundreds of lawyers, legal academics and retired judges to warn that continued arms sales could make Britain complicit in genocide. This is David Lammy, foreign policy chief of the opposition Labour

Concerns about free speech undermining the equality and dignity of women helped usher in the now-fashionable equation between speech and violence, says famed civil liberties lawyer Nadine Strossen. Feminists have gone from arguing “that there is a causal connection” between discriminatory expression (a category in which many would include pornography) and violence to “denying that

Beth Widner is a mother who lives in Canton, a middle-class suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. She has four kids, whom she homeschools while her husband, Glenn, telecommutes. In August of 2018, the Widner kidsthen ages 13, 11, nine, and sevenwere members of a swim team at their local YMCA, which was about two blocks from

In the grand circus of politics, where elephants and donkeys alike perform under the big top, there’s one act that never fails to draw a crowd: the venerable “job creation” routine. Putting people back to work, especially those without college degrees and in the manufacturing world, is in the center ring. Unfortunately, when you look

A young man from Baltimore miraculously escaped the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge by just three minutes. According to Faithwire, Jayden Woof, 20, had traveled back-and-forth from the bridge after having an argument with his girlfriend who lives on the north side of the river. His mother, Jen Woof, told The Telegraph

Apple has reportedly launched a hush-hush project to develop a personal robot as the iPhone maker seeks to find “the next big thing” after its failed foray into manufacturing an autonomous electric car. The mobile robot would be able to follow people around the home, according to Bloomberg News. The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant is

Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America , edited by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, W.W. Norton, 384 pages, $28.99 The debate about what fascism isand whether America is standing on its precipiceis not merely an academic argument. It guides how many people vote, and even how they think about their neighbors. This debate has been

It’s a tale of two Wall Streets. Hundreds of thousands of junior bankers are cutting back after their bonuses were a bust this year. But the very top of the 1% is living large thanks to the stock market surging and Bitcoin soaring meaning their inflation-beaten bonuses didn’t affect their wealth. Official figures show that