Bitcoin should rip higher under President-elect Donald Trump, according to BlackRock’s ETF chief.Samara Cohen, the firm’s ETF and index instruments chief investment officer, thinks cryptocurrency deregulation will “absolutely” propel bitcoin to another historic year.”There will be progress made on… FIT21 [“Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act.] There will be progress made on stable coins. There will be progress made just on definitions in taxonomy,” she told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week.Cohen is behind the firm’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) – which is up 114% since its January 2024 debut and up almost 8% year to date. It comes as…
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Realme Buds Wireless 5 ANC was launched in India Thursday alongside the Realme 14 Pro series of smartphones. The neckband-style wireless headset is equipped with a 13.6mm dynamic driver unit, supports up to 50dB of hybrid noise cancellation and is said to offer a battery life of up to 38 hours on a single charge. The newly launched headset supports a quick charging feature as well as dual-device connectivity, and is compatible with the Realme Link app. The earphones will go on sale in the country later this month.Realme Buds Wireless 5 ANC Price in India, AvailabilityThe pricing for Realme…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Couple Next Door, Season 1 Episode 1, “Welcome to Suburbia.”] The Couple Next Door has finally arrived on Starz and it feels as though a ticking time bomb is about to go off in suburbia as couple Danny (Sam Heughan) and Becka (Jessica De Gouw) meet newest neighbors, Evie (Eleanor Tomlinson) and Pete (Alfred Enoch). Danny is a traffic cop and Becka’s a yoga instructor, but they’ve got quite a progressive view when it comes to marriage, agreeing to have an open relationship as long as their extracurricular activities are a group…
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump said his inaugural ceremony Monday will be moved indoors due to the extreme cold set to grip Washington, D.C.”There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” Trump said in a Truth Social post on Friday.”Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda,” he wrote.Trump’s post included screenshots from the National Weather Service forecasting…
(Far Left) Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger’s ‘Conclave’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Philippe Antonello/Focus Features ©2024 All Rights Reserved. (Center Left) Zoe Saldaña as Emilia Pérez in ‘Emilia Pérez’. Photo: Netflix. (Center Right) Adrien Brody in ‘The Brutalist’. Photo: A24. (Far Right) Cynthia Erivo is Elphaba in ‘Wicked’, directed by Jon M. Chu. Photo: Universal Pictures.Now that the Golden Globes are over, the official Oscar race is about to begin!It will start on January 23rd when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announce the Oscar nominees, with the 97th Oscars Ceremony scheduled for March…
On March 20, Los Angeles label Temporal Drift will reissue the late Japanese composer Hiroshi Yoshimura’s album Flora. The reissue was done in full cooperation with Yoshimura’s estate, and the new editions feature liner notes from the writer and professor Junichi Konuma. The album was remastered by engineer John Baldwin. Below, listen to the album’s opening song, “Over the Clover.”Yoshimura recorded Flora in 1987, following his 1986 works Green and Surround. The album, however, did not see the light of day until a CD release in 2006. Temporal Drift’s reissue marks the first time that Flora will be available widely…
Unrivaled 3-on-3 women’s basketball leagueCourtesy: UnrivaledUnrivaled, a new 3-on-3 women’s professional basketball league, launches Friday, presenting both a major test and opportunity for women’s sports to boost its growing profile in the United States.The league, co-founded by WNBA superstars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, has already announced deals with a dozen sponsors and raised $35 million in funding. Collier told CNBC that the league has already shown it has “immense” potential and opportunity.”When you invest into the players and invest into women’s sports, I think we’re seeing the return already,” she said. “This is just the beginning for us. It’s…
In an aerial view, a customer enters a Walgreens store on Jan.4, 2024 in San Pablo, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesThe Department of Justice said Friday that it sued pharmacy giant Walgreens for allegedly dispensing millions of unlawful prescriptions.The DOJ said that Walgreens from August 2012 until the present “knowingly” filled those prescriptions, which “lacked a legitimate medical purpose, were not valid, and/or were not issued in the usual course of professional practice.” “This lawsuit seeks to hold Walgreens accountable for the many years that it failed to meet its obligations when dispensing dangerous opioids and other drugs,” said Principal Deputy…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Fact-Checking Chicken Soup for the SoulReaders who grew up in the ’90s and early 2000s will likely remember the ubiquity of Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Each installment of the series, originally created and curated by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, was packed short, inspirational, almost universally dubious anecdotes. And there was an installment for (almost) everyone; a Quartz piece…
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Smoke rises during a fire at Vistra Energy’s Moss Landing battery storage facility in California on 17 JanuaryBloomberg / Getty Images A fire at the world’s largest battery storage plant in California destroyed 300 megawatts of energy storage, forced 1200 area residents to evacuate and released smoke plumes that could pose a health threat to humans and wildlife. The incident knocked out 2 per cent of California’s energy storage capacity, which the state relies on as part of its transition to use more renewable power and less fossil fuels. The fire started the afternoon of 16 January, burning through a…
What happened to Franny Blackman? Franny is now Liza Kasner, and is hiding in Chatham on Cape Cod. This newly minted blonde escaped from suburban New Jersey with her cat in the middle of the night. As she settles into the off-season beach resort, people from her hometown keep appearing. Can she lie well enough to keep her abusive husband, Barry, off her trail? The longer Liza stays in Chatham, the more she falls in love with the place. Jeff, a promising romantic interest, is determined to do anything to make Liza happy, even finding the perfect bagel for her.…
Amazon Great Republic Day Sale 2025 currently offers several discounts for customers looking to upgrade their smartphones. The sale event will end on January 19, which means buyers only have a couple of days to maximise their savings. We have already covered the best offers on several consumer electronics devices in recent days. In case you missed those early deals, still you can take advantage of the ongoing to pick up smartphones across all price ranges. You can also avail of bank offers to further sweeten the purchases. Amazon Great Republic Day 2025 Sale: Credit Card and Cashback OffersDuring the ongoing…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesU.S. senators on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he’s attempting to “cozy up to the incoming Trump administration” with the aim of avoiding regulation and limiting scrutiny.In a letter signed by Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Michael Bennet of Colorado, the lawmakers said that in the two months since the election, large tech companies have made “million-dollar gifts to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund…
Boz and Kyle are headed for a face off on RHOBH. Pic credit: Bravo The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 14 has been on fire! However, RHOBH fans haven’t seen anything yet as the fallout of Kyle Richards’ text messages to Paul “PK” Kemsley rip the group apart. The latest preview video for the Bravo show teases Bozoma Saint John’s Serenity Soiree event will be anything but healing. Dorit Kemsley is already not interested in having a mediation day with “these” women before she gets some news from Boz. Before the event, Boz decides it would be the perfect…
Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined Equifax $15 million over errors tied to consumer credit reports, alleging the company failed to conduct proper investigations of disputed information, the federal watchdog announced Friday.Equifax is one of three major credit reporting agencies in the U.S., a group that also includes Experian and TransUnion.”Equifax ignored consumer documents and evidence submitted with disputes, allowed previously deleted inaccuracies to be reinserted into credit reports, provided confusing and conflicting letters to consumers about the results of its investigations, and used flawed software code which led to inaccurate consumer credit scores,” according to…
Here’s what the media is not telling you about the new Israel-Hamas peace deal. On Sunday, January 19th the new cease-fire will hopefully go into effect. The media is euphoric. A hostage deal, they say, has been reached between Israel and Hamas after 467 days of fighting and 459 days of negotiating. Peace is on the way. But Hamas disagrees. It says in a statement that the “deal marks a crucial turning point” in its “struggle against the enemy.” In other words, the cease fire deal is a weapon of war. And the war will go on. What in the world does a peace deal that’s a weapon…
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is under investigation after accepting free tickets to a Taylor Swift concert. Khan, who has held the high-profile position in the British capital for nine years now, reportedly accepted £3000 (around $3,600) worth of Swift gig tickets when she was in London on her Eras Tour last August. A member of the Labour Party, Khan will be investigated by a governing body called the Greater London Authority (GLA), which has been called in at the request of the Tories to probe a potential breach of the rules (ones relating to politicians accepting gifts, often…