Pompeo talks Hong Kong, Israeli settlements in West Bank in press briefing
NEW YORK, Nov 7 (Reuters) – The United States is seeking the forfeiture of more than $1 billion in Bitcoin stolen from the Silk Road online marketplace, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. In the second largest seizure in U.S. Department of Justice history, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents obtained the 50,000 Bitcoin during…
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands of workers marched through the Greek capital Athens on Wednesday as part of a 24-hour general strike called by labor unions to protest the rising cost of living and timed to coincide with the government submitting the 2025 budget to Parliament. Public and private sector workers walked off the job…
BlackRock Inc (NYSE:BLK) and MSCI Inc (NYSE:MSCI) found themselves on the hot seat on Tuesday, under scrutiny from a U.S. Congressional committee. The committee is investigating BlackRock and MSCI for allegedly middle-manning investments to Chinese companies that have been accused of human rights violations or aiding China’s military, the Wall Street Journal reported. The House…
Greetings from Tyler, Today is good Friday. Dad used to ask, “What’s good about it?” The Christian world is set to face the East on account of Easter. If you read the encyclopedia entries on this subject, you’ll realize that the whole thing jumps the bounds of logic. But that’s why you just have…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway lines. Main avenues and streets, as well as major…
Tesla exaggerated the driving range of its EVs for years, an investigation from Reuters has found. The report, which cited a source familiar with an early design of Tesla software, said the EV maker rigged the range-estimating software on the cars’ dashboards. Instead of displaying the true driving range, the software provided a “rosy” projection…