January 17, 2017

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has awarded cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase a formal license to do business in the state.

Though Coinbase has been allowed to serve New York customers under a safe-harbor provision while the application process was being conducted, the formal award of the so-called "BitLicense" solidifies…

January 15, 2017 Leaders of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in rural Oregon were driving to a public meeting a year ago when police shot and killed one of them at a roadblock.

Now, LaVoy Finicum's widow and their children are planning to hold that meeting later this month in the same…

January 10, 2017 The No. 1 UConn women's basketball team matched its own record 90-game winning streak with a 102–37 victory over No. 20 South Florida on Tuesday night.Time_Sports

The operators of the online classified site Backpage.com on Tuesday declined to answer questions from a Senate panel investigating the company’s adult services ads,…

January 4, 2017 It's hard to believe that Donald Trump still has the ability to surprise us, but here we are.

The president-elect sent a pair of breakfast-time tweets that, while…

January 6, 2017 The Hong Kong Center for Health Protection (CHP) reported today on the third imported human H7N9 avian influenza case in as many weeks. The male patient, aged 62 with underlying illnesses, departed Hong Kong since December 15 last year and traveled to Zengcheng, Guangzhou. He has developed fever, cough and shortness of breath since January 1. He was admitted to…

January 5, 2017

A startled guardsmen at Buckingham Palace reportedly almost shot the Queen after she went for an unexpected 3am walk around the gardens.

According to the Times, the soldier was on patrol on the palace perimeter during the early hours of the morning when he spotted a figure in the darkness.

He reportedly challenged the potential intruder by…

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January 5, 2017 Worried that a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump might sink your stocks? There’s an app for that.

Trigger, a smartphone application that tracks movement in financial markets, unveiled Tuesday an update that allows users to set alerts for when Trump tweets about a company in which they hold shares.

“These triggers can help you capture moves or…

December 4, 2017

Bitcoin is going bananas.

The cryptocurrency was 10.1% higher at $1,127.48 per coin just after noon in New York on Wednesday, bringing its 2017 gain to 17.8%.

On its first trading day of the new year, bitcoin crossed above the $1,000 mark for the first time since 2013.

Bitcoin is up 95% since the beginning of September, and it gained…

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Dec. 24, 2016

Despite no known specific, credible threats, the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security have warned law enforcement agencies that sympathizers of jihadist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) could strike holiday events in the US. In a bulletin sent to US law enforcement and private security agencies, the FBI and DHS said individualS loyal to…

Dec. 17, 2016

Shocking revelations earlier this week as US intelligence officials confirmed with “high confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “personally involved” in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.

According to the anonymous sources inside the anonymous US intelligence agency, Putin’s objectives were multifaceted, but the whole thing…

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LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, offered his most detailed and public…

December 6, 2016

The spill is one of the largest in North Dakota history.

A farmer in North Dakota discovered one of the largest crude oil spills ever recorded in the state just “bubbling up out of the ground” while harvesting wheat a few months ago.

Farmer Steve Jensen stated that he smelled the crude oil a few days before his…

Dec. 4, 2016 A North Dakota oil drilling company has agreed to pay a $2.1 million fine imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency for causing air pollution on a Native American reservation.

Slawson Exploration Co, the largest oil producer in the Midwest, was hit with the fine for air pollution arising from 170 oil and gas wells, the majority of which were on the Fort…