May 16 (UPI) — The European Council on Tuesday formally adopted a pair of rules designed to regulate the cryptocurrency market. The council announced it adopted updated regulations, formalizing the Markets in Crypto-Assets law, or MiCA, which introduces a “harmonized … Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raked in nearly $100 million – including from indicted FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried and Jeffrey Epstein’s former comrade Reid Hoffman – for his latest cryptocurrency project that relies on a creepy eye-scan “Orb” to verify … Read More
One of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations delivered small appliances as Mother’s Day gifts to dozens of women in low-income neighborhoods. The deliveries arrived in various cities in the Mexican state of Michoacan as a way to earn public support. … Read More
The Chinese Communist Party “maintained supreme access” to all data held by TikTok parent ByteDance, including information stored in the US, a former top executive at the company alleged in a bombshell lawsuit in California state court. Yintao “Roger” Yu, … Read More
Organisers say rally shatters taboo about questioning Ireland’s welcome for migrants and refugees Ireland has long prided itself on greeting visitors with warmth, styling itself the land of “a hundred thousand welcomes”, but now there is a new slogan: #IrelandIsFull. … Read More
Moscow statement is first admission that Ukraine is successfully recapturing ground around eastern city Russia’s defence ministry has said some of its troops have fallen back “to more advantageous defensive positions” near a reservoir north-west of the city of Bakhmut … Read More
Starting a family in Italy is becoming a “titanic effort” that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis has warned. Addressing a conference on Italy’s demographic crisis, he said pets were replacing children in many households. Also on stage were … Read More
May 12 (Reuters) – Shares of major U.S. regional lenders were mostly lower on Friday, underscoring continued investor uncertainty about the financial stability of mid-sized banks. Comerica Inc (CMA.N), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB.O) and KeyCorp (KEY.N) fell 3.7%, 1.1% and … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, I bet you thought you’d never see Donald Trump getting interrogated by CNN. Obviously, it was a ratings play that CNN desperately needed. But it didn’t go well for CNN or the girl asking the questions. Watch … Read More
SYDNEY, May 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will sign defence and surveillance agreements with Papua New Guinea, the island nation’s foreign minister said, on a visit that renews the strategic importance of the nation where Biden’s uncle died … Read More