Month: June 2023

Get all the essential market news and expert opinions in one place with our daily newsletter. Get a full roundup of the day’s top stories straight to your inbox. Register here! (Kitco News) – According to Lyn Alden, founder of Lyn Alden Strategy, Bitcoin is seeing increased political support from both sides of the US and this could have major implications in tight races. “Bitcoin was more quickly embraced by the Republican Party,” Alden said, “but we had one of the top Democratic candidates speak at the Bitcoin conference, and there’s a book out just a few months ago called…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Shunning a default crisis, the House overwhelmingly approved a package of debt ceiling and budget cuts, sending the deal that President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy brokered to the Senate for quick approval in a matter of days, ahead of a fast-approaching deadline. The hard-fought compromise pleased few, but lawmakers said it was better than the alternative: devastating economic upheaval if Congress failed to act. Tensions rose as right-wing Republicans balked at the deal, but Biden and McCarthy assembled a bipartisan coalition to push for passage on a solid 314-117 vote late Wednesday. “We did pretty…

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – North Carolina government personnel laws would prohibit job applicants from being forced to opine on politics and culture in order to get hired and would prohibit employee trainers from promoting certain concepts of Republican legislation heading to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s desk. What you need to know The House voted 72-46 Wednesday to ban state government job applicants from being forced to intervene in politics and culture The Senate, which has approved a more limited version of the measure, must now decide whether to accept the House’s changes. Supporter of Senate bill says some UNC school…

Related: Competition against Donald Trump Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email to receive exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email In a bombshell development in the classified documents case against Donald Trump, a CNN report says federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which the former president acknowledges that he held a classified Pentagon document about a possible attack on Iran. potentially undermining his argument that he declassified everything. The recording indicates Mr Trump understood he was keeping the classified papers after leaving the…

LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail Thursday as his primary challenger for the GOP presidential nomination, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is making his first swing through the states of early voting as an official candidate. Trump returns to Iowa nearly three weeks after canceling his last event, a large rally near Des Moines, because of a tornado warning, reluctantly ceding the spotlight to DeSantis as the governor crisscrossed the state before the launch of your campaign. Trump, who has spent the past few weeks attacking DeSantis on social media and mocking his…

Elon Musk’s company seems to have found its biggest fans in China.Getty Images Elon Musk told officials in Beijing that he is against the United States and China decoupling their economies. On a visit to the country, he described the United States and China as “united twins,” according to a statement from China’s foreign ministry. This comes as relations between the United States and China are under intense strain, raising concerns for companies with business in the country. Elon Musk told officials in Beijing that he opposes the United States and China weakening economic ties, according to the Chinese Foreign…

EXCLUSIVE: Senate Republicans are demanding that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence provide information on the status of security clearances for the 51 former officials who signed a letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Just before the 2020 election, 51 former national security officials wrote a public letter claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had “all the classic hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.” It was signed by former President Obama CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director…

As he wrapped up his address outlining the state of the State University of New York system, Chancellor John King envisioned what the next few decades will bring for the 75-year-old system. “SUNY will be in the next 75 years, as it is now, a home and a refuge,” King said. “I know there’s a place at SUNY for everyone.” The leader of New York’s 64-campus public higher education system said Wednesday that SUNY is ready to tackle a number of challenges it currently faces, from creating a more inclusive environment and increasing registration King described four pillars as SUNY’s…