Bitcoin Is a Long Con Aimed at Those Least Able to Affort It
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s a fairly typical email I got in response to my post last night about Bitcoin: You write reckless articles without dd , s recent international survey shows bitcoin mining is 60% mined with renewables on top of that your foolish article is reckless because…
Future Judiciary Committee Chair Just Said Prosecutors Outlined “Impeachable Offenses” Against Trump
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The incoming Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee made his point loud and clear on Sunday: If the allegations that President Donald Trump directed illegal hush-money payments to women during his campaign are true, it would be an “impeachable offense.” “Certainly they’d be impeachable offenses,”…
This Cross-Border Town Has Faced Toxic Pollution for Years. Now Its Residents Are Fighting Back.
Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last September, Paloma Aguirre spent the day collecting bits of trash and tires in the Tijuana River Valley, which straddles the US-Mexico border south of San…
The Bitcoin Con May Soon Be Over
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bitcoin continues to plummet in value: Putting aside the fact that the Bitcoin crash is teaching idiots a lesson, there really is a reason you should care about this. John Quiggin explains: The good news is that a lower Bitcoin price makes the energy-wasting process…
The New York Times Just Released an Eye-Opening Report on Jared Kushner’s Ongoing Chats With the Saudi Crown Prince
Kevin Dietsch/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East advisor, has been having informal, private conversations in recent months with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman while simultaneously defending the prince against charges that he ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to a…
We Now Know What James Comey Told Congress Last Week. Read the Transcript.
Cheriss May/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The House Judiciary and Oversight committees have released a transcript from Friday’s closed-door hearing of former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey. The hearing was part of a Republican-led investigation into the FBI’s actions during the 2016 presidential election, which included investigations…