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Bitcoin Bitcoin$81,505.59 Bitcoin prices topped $81,000 during the Asian session on Tuesday, rising 6.7% for the week, benefiting from broader risk sentiment, with stocks hitting records on receding tensions over Iran and renewed optimism about artificial intelligence, according to CoinDesk market data. Other cryptocurrency majors also participated in the bid. Solana rose 3% to $87.35….
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, declined to respond to a Minnesota committee’s request for more information about her ties to the state’s massive fraud scandal, leading to a failed subpoena vote on Tuesday, but the committee chair said more options exist. The subpoena required a two-thirds vote of the committee to pass, and despite Republicans’ majority…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lone coyote paddled to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, shocking biologists and others. Alcatraz, a former federal prison in San Francisco Bay surrounded by turbulent waters, is notorious for impeding prisoner escapes. At the time, biologists speculated that the coyotes were traveling from San Francisco, a little more than…
Veteran defensive lineman Zacch Pickens was never expected to be the Kansas City Chiefs’ premier pass rusher next season, but most experts believe he has at least a chance to compete for a spot on the team’s 53-man roster in training camp. Instead, Pickens was one of the veterans who found himself on the outside…
XRP is back above $1.42, with traders beginning to focus on the 2025 chart setup as XRP surges 66% in less than two weeks. news background • Analysts note that the XRP chart fractal is repeating from 2025, when a breakout of a multi-week bull flag sparked a rally to all-time highs above $3. •…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Tokenized currencies cannot live up to their promise if they remain siled within individual banks, said Ryan Rugg, head of digital assets for treasury and trade solutions at Citigroup. Speaking at the Consensus conference in Miami, Large corporate customers are looking not for a single banking solution but for systems that…
The Texas A&M baseball team ended midweek action with a 16-7 win over Prairie View A&M as the Aggies head toward another must-win Southeastern Conference series this weekend. The Maroon and White dropped from No. 4 to No. 8 in the College Baseball RPI after the program lost to Auburn in the SEC series for…
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — After years of experimentation, today’s cryptocurrencies have boiled down to two core uses: transactions and payments. Speaking during a fireside chat at Consensus 2026 in Miami, Dan Romero, Tempo’s head of marketing, said the industry is forming a “barbell” between speculative trading such as the Hyperliquid market on the one hand…
A man with multiple aliases used the names of the prominent Astor family to defraud a Mexican billionaire of approximately $450 million through a phony stock-backed loan scheme, according to a newly unsealed U.S. indictment and other court records. Federal prosecutors allege that 63-year-old Vladimir Sklarov, also known as Gregory Mitchell and Mark Simon Bentley,…
Large traditional financial firms need guardrails in the world of blockchain-based assets, especially given that decentralized finance (DeFi) remains so vulnerable to hacks and losses, the head of digital assets at custodial banking giant State Street said on Tuesday at the Consensus conference in Miami. What’s still fresh in people’s minds is that last month…