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WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe huge amounts of unpaid child support. The department told The Associated Press on Thursday that rescissions would begin on Friday, focusing on people who owe $100,000 or more. This will apply to approximately 2,700 U.S. passport holders,…
For many warm-weather fruit lovers, the prospect of endlessly ripe, rosy peaches is a mouth-watering prospect. For farmers in central California, it’s more of a waking nightmare. To stay afloat, these farmers are now weighing whether to destroy about 3,000 acres, or about 420,000 peach trees, following the closure of the Del Monte Food Cannery…
Coinbase (COIN) shares fell more than 5% in after-hours trading Thursday after the cryptocurrency platform reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter results as falling cryptocurrency prices dampened trading activity in one of the company’s main sources of revenue. The company reported a loss of $1.49 per share, while analysts expected a profit of $0.27 per share. Revenue was…
The Copa Sudamericana matchday made it clear that class wins through goals and composure. match day stars Bragantino suffered a 6-0 defeat against Blooming on Bolivian soil. The Brazilian team’s attack was full of whirlwind, and they showed no mercy to their opponents in the ten-man battle, sending a message directly to their next opponent,…
The second game on day two of the 2026 MW Softball Tournament was a matchup between tournament host No. 3 seed Nevada and their hated in-state rivals, the UNLV Rebels, who just a week earlier had swept the Wolf Pack in Las Vegas. Nevada got its long-awaited revenge against its Southern rivals, defeating the Rebels…
Large companies looking to modernize payments and artificial intelligence agents conducting autonomous transactions are emerging as the two biggest growth drivers for stablecoins, executives from Bridge and Deus X Capital said Thursday at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami. Lindsey Einhaus is responsible for the strategy and operations of stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge, which was…
Large companies looking to modernize payments and artificial intelligence agents conducting autonomous transactions are emerging as the two biggest growth drivers for stablecoins, executives from Bridge and Deus X Capital said Thursday at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami. Lindsey Einhaus is responsible for the strategy and operations of stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge, which was…
May 7 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Russia’s announcement of a limited ceasefire to commemorate World War II exposed its leader’s “bizarre and inappropriate” logic. In a nightly video address in the final hours before Russia’s ceasefire comes into force at midnight (2100 GMT), Zelensky said Moscow wanted to “hold…
A federal judge in New York ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities funding to scholars, authors, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional and that the Department of Government Effectiveness did not have the authority to terminate funding. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with…
Public blockchains make transactions transparent enough to be tracked, audited, and regulated, but this visibility may come at the expense of user privacy. Traditional compliance systems often address liability issues by identifying people, but this could undermine one of the original promises of cryptocurrencies: the ability to transact without revealing a person’s identity by default….