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Covid Live Updates: C.D.C. Panel Advises Pfizer Boosters for Children Ages 12 and Older
A street party in Rio ahead of the Carnival in 2020.Credit...Carl De Souza/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesRIO DE JANEIRO — While Rio de Janeiro’s renowned Carnival parade will go on, the city will cancel its street parties, which…
Local Testing Facilities Struggle With Staffing, Supply Shortages As Demand For COVID-19
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – As Los Angeles County continues to reach new all-time highs for daily COVID-19 cases and lines at local testing sites only getting longer, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he’s activated the California National…
America is running out of candy canes
"We have had to turn away business this year. I wouldn't say that it is 30% of the overall business, but we certain probably had to turn away 10% of the business," said Schuman, chief executive officer of Hammond's, based in Denver,…
Tesla Owner Mines Up To $800 A Month In Crypto With His Car
CNBC has shared the story of Siraj Raval, an owner of a Tesla Model 3 who has tried various ways of mining cryptocurrencies. His setup includes free bitcoin mining software on his Mac mini M1, which is powered by plugging an inverter…
Visa reports meteoric rise in crypto-linked payments, volumes cross $2.5 billion
Visa recently released its stellar quarterly results. With that, it is also the first quarter after the financial services company amped up its crypto offerings.
In its recent earnings call, Visa noted that its customers made $2.5…
Lucid Motors drops as luxury electric vehicle maker receives SEC subpoena
Lucid MotorsLucid Group shares dropped Monday to a one-month low after the company said it received a subpoena from the SEC.
The SEC's investigation appears focused on the tie-up between Lucid and Atieva.
Atieva was founded as…
Sharing on Facebook seems harmless. But leaked documents show how it may help spread
A video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seeming to slur her speech at an event tore through the internet, gaining steam on Facebook. Share after share, it spread to the point of going viral. The altered video from May 2019 was a…
Treasury Yields & Mortgage Rates Spike: Markets Begin to Grapple with Quantitative
This is now moving fast.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
The two-year Treasury yield started rising in late September, from about 0.23%, and ended the year at 0.73%. In the five trading days since then, it jumped to 0.87%, the…
Stacked raises $35M to bring passive investing tools to retail crypto traders –
Stacked, a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research, a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder…
DirecTV loss could cripple rightwing One America News
Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks to a reporter from One America News Network (OANN) from a bus window after a tour around a section of the U.S.-Mexico border on a Texas Highway Patrol vessel in Mission, Texas, U.S., March 26,…