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[CNN] What you need to know now Hurricane Ida: Ida has made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, as an extremely dangerous, Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Track the storm: You can follow Ida’s path here. Are you in Ida’s path? By Fernando Alfonso III, Mike […]
(CNN) President Joe Biden’s approval rating is at its lowest point in his presidency. In the average of polls, he stands at about 47%. That’s a steady decline from the beginning of this month (51%), last month (52%) and beginning of June (54%). It would be easy to assign Biden’s decline to […]
[CNBC, Getty] A small section of the $1 trillion infrastructure bill that would place new tax reporting requirements on the cryptocurrency industry has generated a wave of lobbying. Calls from constituents supporting the industry have grabbed lawmakers’ attention. The crypto industry and allies hope to still change the law before […]
[CNBC, Getty Images] The City of Chicago filed two sweeping lawsuits against DoorDash and Grubhub for allegedly deceiving customers and using unfair business practices. The suits echo longstanding claims from restaurants on the platforms. The DoorDash complaint also alleges deceptive tipping practices previously charged and settled by the D.C. attorney […]
[Decrypt] Despite a late fix to Ethereum client Geth on Tuesday, most users did not update to the latest version, causing a fork on the network. A bug on the Ethereum blockchain’s most popular software client, Geth, has created a fork in the network. This means that the Ethereum blockchain is currently processing two chains simultaneously, […]
[Boston Globe] Why the boom? “People were home, cleaning out their attics, or messing around on eBay out of boredom,” one collector said. The last sports card show I attended until recently happened in Augusta, Maine, around 30 years ago. I don’t remember the exact year. I do remember that […]
[New York Post, Benyamin Ahmed] A 12-year-old whiz kid from London who doesn’t even have a bank account is reportedly set to rake in about $400,000 in just two months from creating and selling NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. Benyamin Ahmed told CNBC that he launched his second collection of NFTs, called Weird Whales, in […]
[The Motley Fool, Getty] Analysts’ high-water price targets foresee these fast-growing stocks doubling or tripling in value. Patience has paid off handsomely for investors in 2021. It’s been over nine months since the benchmark S&P 500 underwent even a 5% correction. Panning out a bit further, the widely followed index has doubled […]
[CNBC, Getty Images] Most Americans expect to look for a new job as the pandemic continues. Some 55% of people in the workforce, meaning that they’re currently working or actively looking for employment, said they are likely to look for a new job in the next 12 months, according to […]
[The Guardian] Experts say dangerous injuries can occur as videos of people falling off precariously stacked crates go viral on social media The latest challenge to take the internet by storm involves milk crates, balance and some painful falls. In the milk crate challenge, which recently started on TikTok, participants take […]