The Julian Assange case is significant due to its implications for news freedom and the potential consequences for journalists, alongside considering WikiLeaks' substantial public contributions.
An international study of around 99 million people confirmed known serious side effects of COVID-19 vaccination. It also identified a possible relationship between the first dose of the Moderna vaccine and a small risk of a neurological condition. Social media posts about the study left out information on the vaccines’ benefits and the rarity of the side effects.
The Arizona 'Fun Bunch' at their Box #3 emergency election day announcement. 62% of voters say it is likely that state and federal officials are ignoring evidence of widespread election fraud.
Michigan Republican Primary Election Results: With 45% counted in the Michigan Republican primary, Trump is beating Haley 67–28%. Haley has also been trending downward; the Needle thinks Trump will win by 45 in the end.
The former president’s daughter-in-law kicked her campaign off on Tuesday. Lara Trump officially announces for RNC co-chair, as Trump tightens grip on GOP.
“If I were the Devil” — American Radio Broadcaster Paul Harvey, explaining what the world would be like if evil were engulfing it. He recorded this in 1965.
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Justin Sun took to X to apparently quell rumors he isn’t consistently using the cryptocurrency exchange HTX, for which he is an advisor. Sun posted a screenshot of his HTX wallet purportedly showing he is holding $1.6 billion worth of crypto.
This is old news.The new facility was developed by Exahertz International, an Afaaq for Advanced Technologies subsidiary, and will be grown to total capacity over time. The data hosting and Bitcoin mining center currently has around 11MW of capacity across 312,000 square meters.
With this amount of power, the facility is supporting more than 2,000 mining machines, with the ministry looking to increase the machines to 15,000 by October.
James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley, acknowledges that while he may not fully grasp Bitcoin's value as a store of wealth, he recognizes its enduring presence and dismisses it as a passing trend. This sentiment underscores Bitcoin's resilience and suggests its significance in the evolving financial landscape.
The latest YouGov/Economist Poll finds 48% percent of Americans strongly or somewhat support a 16-week abortion ban, while 36% strongly or somewhat oppose it and 16% are not sure. However, this support is concentrated among Americans who care less about abortion as an issue than do opponents of a ban.
The South Carolina Republican presidential primary is usually the most important contest of the nominating season. The state’s propensity for picking the eventual GOP nominee is unmatched by any other early-voting state. Since 1980, the only Republican to win the nomination without winning South Carolina was Mitt Romney in 2012.
this seems most likely to refer to a threat made against Yuscil Taveras, which would only make Cannon's order revoking the initial ex parte nature of the submission all the more troubling.
A database coding glitch meant that some Nevada voters saw an inaccurate vote history online — showing their mail ballots as counted even if they did not vote — after the Feb. 6 presidential preference primary.
The Nevada secretary of state said the glitch had nothing to do with vote tabulation and did not affect the election results.
The secretary of state also said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Nevada, now or ever.
On the eve of the South Carolina primary, Donald Trump made a direct appeal to Black voters, not just by touting his record on issues they’ve prioritized but by comparing his own criminal indictments to the decades of legal discrimination they’ve faced.
“A lot of people said that that’s why the Black people like me because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m discriminated against,” Trump claimed.
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