Dressed in ball gowns, tuxedos and “Make Bitcoin Great Again” baseball caps, a crowd of some of the country’s most powerful cryptocurrency executives gathered a few blocks from the White House for a lavish party three days before President Trump’s inauguration, toasting an incoming administration that had vowed to promote the industry’s interests.Even Snoop Dogg joined the festivities, offering a rendition of “Don’t Stop Believin.’”But the crypto millionaires and billionaires were caught off guard by what happened next.At 9 p.m. on Jan. 17, with the festivities in full swing, Mr. Trump announced on social media that he was launching a…
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This article is an on-site version of our The Week Ahead newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Sunday. Explore all of our newsletters hereHello and welcome to the working week.The next seven days will start in sombre mood. Monday’s international Holocaust commemoration will be both significant and difficult for many people. World leaders are gathering in Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Allied forces in the second world war. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will be among those for the event at the gate to…
“Deportation flights have begun” – White House on X Military aircraft began transporting illegal aliens back to their country of origin last week, with Tucson, Arizona, being a hub for deportees. The White House announced “Deportation flights have begun” in an X post Friday, just four days after President Trump’s inauguration. Just as he promised, President Trump is sending a strong message to the world: those who enter the United States illegally will face serious consequences. pic.twitter.com/yqgtF1RX6K — The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 24, 2025 Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared more photos: Deportation flights have begun. President Trump is sending…
Bill Gates recently got candid about his divorce from his wife, Melinda Gates, calling it the mistake he regrets the most.The pair, who had been married for over 27 years, went their separate ways in 2021 in a billion-dollar divorce.Since their separation, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates have remained amicable and have moved on with new partners.Article continues below advertisementBill Gates Calls Divorce From Melinda His Greatest RegretMEGAIn an interview with The Sunday Times, Bill reflected on his 27-year marriage to Melinda Gates and their divorce, calling it “the mistake I regret the most in my life.”While the 69-year-old Microsoft…
GAZA IS A ‘DEMOLITION SITE’ “It’s literally a demolition site, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” Trump said. Smotrich, who said only “out-of-the-box thinking” could achieve peace, said Trump’s plan would give Palestinians “the opportunity to build new and better lives elsewhere”. “With God’s help, I will work with the prime minister and cabinet to develop an operational plan to implement this as soon as possible,” he said. In…
It’s been a week since a ceasefire was declared in Gaza. For the first time in 15 months, the relentless sound of explosions has been replaced by silence. But this silence is not peace. It is a silence that screams loss, devastation, and grief – a pause in the destruction, not its end. It feels like standing amid the ashes of a home, searching for something, anything, that survived. The images coming out of Gaza are haunting. Children with hollow eyes stand in the rubble of what was once their home. Parents hold onto the remains of toys, photographs, and…
Every era of sports history has its generation-defining stars, and right now it looks like this era of the NFL will go down in history as “Allen vs. Mahomes.” The pair will meet for the ninth total time, with Allen dominating the regular season meetings at 4-1 but Mahomes triumphing in all three postseason meetings. Statistically, Allen is having a better season that Mahomes this year and the Bills beat Kansas City 30-21 back in Week 11 in Buffalo. Which brings us to today’s quiz. This edition of the rivalry will be played at Arrowhead and, if history tells us anything,…
“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”Benjamin Cremer, a Wesleyan pastor and writer who is based in Idaho, posted that thought last year. I saw it last week and immediately forwarded it to some of my close friends with a note that said that this sentence captures our political moment. It helps describe America’s moral divide.Over the last decade, I’ve watched many of my friends and neighbors make a remarkable transformation. They’ve gone from supporting Donald Trump in spite of his hatefulness to reveling in his aggression.This isn’t a new observation. In fact, it’s so obvious…
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Strange continent-sized structures (in red) lurk beneath the surface of the planetEdward Garnero; S. W. French, B. A. Romanowicz, Geophys. J. Int. 199, 1303, 2014. Two huge masses deep within Earth may have remained stable for billions of years, surviving the powerful churn of the interior, according to an analysis of seismic waves ringing throughout the planet. “When there is a big earthquake, the whole Earth will expand and contract like a bell,” says Arwen Deuss at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. “Earth becomes a musical instrument.” Decades ago, measurements of such seismic waves identified two strange continent-sized structures, one…