Panama to bar First Quantum from mining copper during closure process Panama will bar First Quantum from extracting copper during the closure of the mine it lost the rights to run last year, the country's Trade Minister Jorge Rivera Staff told Reuters, adding that new ... 05/5/2024 - 9:32 pm | View Link
Unbanked households decreasing The FDIC found that racial disparities in access to bank accounts continue: 2.1% of white households are unbanked compared with 11.3% of Black households, 9.3% of Hispanic households, and 6.9% of ... 05/4/2024 - 7:58 pm | View Link
When Failure Is the Only Senate Option Members of the upper chamber are regularly holding votes on amendments that, by design, have no chance whatsoever of passage. 05/3/2024 - 6:06 am | View Link
Ethereum price today: ETH is trading at $2,995.99 The price of ethereum, or 1 ETH, traded at $2,995.99, as of 8 a.m. ET. The highest intraday price that ethereum reached in the past year was $4,088.00 on March 12, 2024. 05/3/2024 - 2:50 am | View Link
EA announces shutdown of these 4 games – with more to come EA continues to consolidate and shut down online servers for games, with four games due to close their doors for good on Friday, May 24. Players of these four mobile games will be able to enjoy them ... 05/3/2024 - 12:03 am | View Link
Government Shutdown: What Services and Benefits Could Be Affected ... “A government shutdown could impact everything from food safety to cancer research to Head Start programs for children,” President Biden said on Saturday. What services would continue? 05/2/2024 - 10:17 pm | View Website
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Government Shutdown: Biden Signs Bill Keeping the Government Open ... Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown on Saturday as the House, in a stunning turnabout, approved a stopgap plan to keep the federal government open until mid-November. After Senate... 05/2/2024 - 1:13 pm | View Website
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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