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3 weeks ago
Cryptocurrency

Policymakers, Bitcoin Industry Leaders to Meet in Washington D.C. at Bitcoin Policy Summit

Bipartisan Bitcoin Policy summit in D.C. gathers key figures in Bitcoin ecosystem.
Senator Ted Cruz expresses strong support for Bitcoin.
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www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

DeSantis Amps Up His Retail Campaign in New Hampshire

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida on Friday hinted at how he might try to soften his image as a conservative hard-liner, a strategy that appeared intended to target more moderate voters in the state, which holds a centrist reputation and could be decisive in the Republican primary.During a discussion with state lawmakers outside Manchester, N.H., Mr. DeSantis, who is expected to declare his candidacy for president next week, largely focused on pocketbook and family issues with broader appeal, including school choice, tax cuts, crime and inflation, rather than aspects of the more divisive social agenda he has pushed as governor.
news.bitcoin.com
10 months ago
Cryptocurrency

Upgrade to Bring Bitcoin Cash Smart Contracts, Ted Cruz on BTC, Global De-Dollarization Efforts Week in Review The Weekly Bitcoin News

The Weekly by Bitcoin.comSoftware developer Jason Dreyzehner says smart contracts comparable to Ethereum, but remarkably more efficient will be made possible by the May 15 upgrade coming to the Bitcoin Cash network.In other news, the world's largest regional organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) plans to switch to settlements in national currencies, moving away from the U.S. dollar.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

A big topic on Twitter? Twitter.

After Elon Musk completed his takeover of Twitter, a big topic of debate on Twitter was Twitter itself.Fox News hosts and conservative influencers embraced the buyout as a boon for free speech, claiming that their views were previously censored under Twitter's content moderation policy, which bans hate speech and some misinformation around Covid- Covid-19 vaccines and elections.
Nytimes
1 year ago
US politics

Who won and who lost in Tuesday's elections.

Voters in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and Washington, D.C., weighed in on elections for the Senate, House and other offices on Tuesday.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Education

Opinion | Republicans Want to 'Harden' Schools. That's an Awful Euphemism.

I must admit that, as the armchair sort that I am, I hadn't heard the term "hardening" in relation to school security until lately, in the wake of our current spate of mass shootings.
Bitcoin
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

US Senator Cruz 'Incredibly Bullish' on Bitcoin - Says 'I Have a Weekly Buy'

Senator Ted Cruz 'Incredibly Bullish' on Bitcoin, Crypto
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) discussed bitcoin at the Heritage Foundation's Bitcoin and the American Experiment event Monday.
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www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

Rep. Colin Allred of Texas Will Challenge Ted Cruz for Senate

HOUSTON Representative Colin Allred, a Dallas-area Democrat who defeated an incumbent Republican to gain his seat in 2018, announced on Wednesday that he would challenge Senator Ted Cruz of Texas next year.In a three-minute video, Mr. Allred, 40, a former civil rights lawyer who played as a linebacker in the N.F.L., presented himself as a bipartisan politician whose working-class upbringing would enable him to overcome the long odds: No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since the 1990s.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
US politics

Southwest Airlines Faces Tough Questions From Senators

Senators grilled a top Southwest Airlines executive on Thursday over the company's holiday meltdown, which disrupted flights for as many as two million people during one of the year's busiest periods for air travel.Over several hours, lawmakers on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation peppered Southwest's chief operating officer, Andrew Watterson, with questions about how the airline's operations buckled during the holidays and the steps it was taking to prevent a similar breakdown in the future.
Nytimes
1 year ago
US politics

Group Seeks Disbarment of Ted Cruz Over Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election

A group formed in the hopes of disbarring lawyers who worked on cases in which former President Donald J. Trump tried to subvert the results of the 2020 election filed a complaint with the Texas bar association on Wednesday against Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, for his efforts to keep Mr. Trump in power.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

Biden F.C.C. Nominee Withdraws

One of President Biden's nominees to the Federal Communications Commission, Gigi Sohn, withdrew from consideration for the job on Tuesday, saying she had faced unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks on my character and my career as an advocate for the public interest.Ms. Sohn's announcement came shortly after Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, said he would vote against her nomination, denying her a crucial vote in a closely divided Senate.
the Guardian
2 years ago
World news

Tim Scott, only Black Senate Republican, hints he could be Trump running mate

The only Black Republican in the Senate, Tim Scott of South Carolina, has indicated a willingness to be Donald Trump's running mate should the former president mount another White House campaign.
www.mediaite.com
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Ted Cruz Makes Wild Accusation that Joe Biden Supports Modern Day Slavery' Through His Border Policies

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is branding President Joe Biden as the best thing that has ever happened for the human traffickers and drug traffickers in Mexico.During the Friday edition of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Cruz blamed Biden for being responsible for modern day slavery, because of his open border policies.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles Rams

Commentary: No tailgating at national championship game? Blame the CFP, not SoFi or California

Georgia fans, excited to bring their passionate college football culture to Los Angeles for Monday's College Football Playoff national championship game against Texas Christian, were hit with some bad news this week upon learning that no tailgating would be allowed in the SoFi Stadium parking lots pregame.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

The Best of Late Night This Year

Trish BendixReporting on culture Trish BendixReporting on culture Drew Angerer/Getty Images The hosts had plenty of news to riff on this week, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's joke about the Jan. 6 riot; a report that dozens of G.O.P. lawmakers had texted the former chief of staff Mark Meadows about overturning the 2020 election; and President Donald Trump releasing NFT trading cards of himself as a superhero.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

Cassidy Hutchinson: Five Things - Washingtonian

Cassidy Hutchinson was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the wild last days of the Trump administration.
Nytimes
1 year ago
US politics

Democrats moved quickly to clear the way for votes on legislation to strengthen background checks for gun purchasers.

Within hours of the shooting in Uvalde, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, moved to clear the way to force votes in coming days on legislation that would strengthen background checks for gun purchasers, pushing to revive measures with broad appeal that Republicans have blocked in the past.
the Guardian
2 years ago
World news

US Senate gives final nod to legislation averting government shutdown

The Senate has given final approval to legislation averting a weekend government shutdown, sending Joe Biden a measure designed to give bipartisan bargainers more time to reach an overdue deal that would finance federal agencies until fall.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz in campaign finance case

The Supreme Court's conservative majority sided with Senator Ted Cruz, agreeing that a federal ban on outsiders repaying a candidate's campaign loan to himself violates the guarantee of free speech.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Brooklyn Nets

Kyrie Irving reflects on heavy criticism for refusing the vaccine: 'The life of a martyr'

Surprised by a vaccine mandate that left him unable to play for much of last season, Kyrie Irving described himself as a "martyr" for refusing the COVID-19 shot while facing heavy scrutiny.
Truthout
2 years ago
Left-wing politics

AOC Spent Weekend Campaigning to "Flip Texas" With Cisneros and Casar

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spent the weekend in Texas as she headlined rallies with a pair of progressive candidates vying to join her in Washington, D.C. next year by winning upcoming elections in the Lone Star State.
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