Last updated: April 19, 2024 18:43 EDT | 5 min read April is recognized as National Financial Capability Month in the U.S. to highlight financial education across the country. While initiatives have been taking place to help educate Americans about the traditional finance sector, opportunities around crypto education are also being presented this month. Crypto Education Becomes Important In The U.S.A recent study from Security.org found that the rate of crypto ownership in the U.S. grew by 10% last year. According to the study, 93 million people hold one or more cryptocurrencies. The upcoming Bitcoin Halving event has also sparked increasing interest in…

-Anti-Israel protests hit Google and Columbia University  -Stocks slip for week, along with oil, but gold keeps shining -Federal Reserve Chairman Powell makes admission about inflation fight  -Mortgage rates spike  -Tesla’s troubles mount ahead of earnings next week -Boeing’s whistleblower delivers chilling warning -Trump’s stock target of market manipulation? -The ladies of the WNBA wow in the most watched draft ever -Happy 60th Birthday to Ford’s MustangANTISEMITISM RAGES: Anti-Israel protesting raged on the campus of Columbia University, while workers at Google staged their own in-office protests resulting in swift firings by corporate brass…continue reading here. ISRAEL-IRAN CONFLICT: LATEST NEWSSTOCKS SLIP: U.S. stocks fell for the week…

Israel early Friday reportedly carried out a military strike on Iran as a part of its promised response to Iran’s unprecedented attack nearly a week ago. But early reports suggest the scope of the offensive was limited and that Iran seemed likely to stand down – a potential sign that the two countries do not want to continue escalating tensions.The commander in chief of Iran’s army said that there has been no damage from the attack on a military base near the city of Isfahan, though experts were still investigating it.War in Israel and Gaza “The explosion this morning in…

Two-time Emmy and two-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth (Cabaret, Chicago, “Cheers”, “Frasier”) will join Grammy, Emmy, and Tony nominee Vanessa Williams (Into the Woods, “Ugly Betty”; upcoming The Devil Wears Prada) as co-host for the 2024 Drama League Awards Nominations announcement on Monday, April 22, 2024 at 10:00AM.The announcement event, held at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (111 Amsterdam Avenue at 64th St), will also be livestreamed by BroadwayWorld at 10:00AM. Neuwirth replaces Jordan Fisher, who is no longer available to participate in the event due to a schedule conflict. Keeping in the tradition of honoring…

It had been 24 days since Dau Mabil vanished while on a walk in Jackson, Mississippi. And in the last few of those days, his family and a growing number of supporters began to think the unthinkable, that a body fished from the Pearl River over the weekend was his. And worse, that he was murdered. On Thursday, they got confirmation of the former, while the latter worry still looms.“He was always my little brother,” Bul Mabil, Mabil’s older brother, told NBC News. “To just think that my brother is no longer here. It’s just very devastating to me. But…

Last updated: April 19, 2024 18:25 EDT | 1 min read A member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) who is emphatically critical of Bitcoin and crypto may lose her spot at the agency’s high table on June 5, government records would suggest.Per the SEC’s website, Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw was sworn into her position alongside Commissioner Hester M. Peirce (aka “Crypto Mom”) on August 17, 2020. Both have terms that are due to expire on June 5 – less than 50 days from today.SEC Commissioner Approaches End Of TermAccording to Fox Business journalist Eleanor Terret, recent White House…

Taylor Swift is once again making headlines following the release of her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” at 12 a.m. Friday. Two hours later, the singer surprised fans with the revelation that “TTPD” is actually a double album, and dropped 15 additional songs, for a total of 122 minutes of new music. With 31 brand new tracks, fans have plenty of lyrics — about relationship trauma, mental health and other themes that fit into the album’s “tortured” theme — to dissect. But while many of the songs also sound melancholy, Swift sneaks some of her saddest sentiments into…

Taylor Swift and Matty Healy Getty Images (2) While Taylor Swift often gets cryptic in her lyrics, she sometimes is more direct than listeners may think. Swift, 34, put her love life under a microscope on her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, making references to exes Joe Alwyn and Matty Healy (and even giving subtle nods to current boyfriend Travis Kelce). On “Fresh Out the Slammer,” Swift seemingly details how she reconnected with Healy, 35, after splitting from Alwyn, 33. “Now, pretty baby / I’m runnin’ back home to you,” she sings. “Fresh out the slammer / I know…

An 18-year-old from Portsmouth, accused of creating hate-motivated graffiti, has turned himself into police on criminal charges, authorities said Friday.SWISS PARLIAMENT APPROVES NAZI SYMBOL DISPLAY BANLoren Faulkner was arrested on Thursday on 31 counts of criminal mischief and hate-motivated criminal mischief for the graffiti spree targeting religious buildings and other communities in February 2023, police said. He was released on bail and will be arraigned in June. It was not immediately known if he is being represented by an attorney. There was no phone number listed in his name. Last year, Attorney General John Formella filed a civil complaint against…

Sometimes, when making difficult political decisions, it’s useful to ask: what would Reagan do? Right now, it seems to be one of those times. House Republicans are faced with foreign aid funding bills that are not popular. On a procedural rule vote in order to bring the funding bills to the floor today, 55 Republicans opposed it. A small handful even want to take down Speaker Mike Johnson.  There are measures in those funding bills that many conservatives don’t like and there are measures that many conservatives believe should’ve been in the bills and aren’t. What would Reagan do? I…

HRH Taylor Swift, the Sagittarius queen of confessional songwriting, sick burns, and exhuming the sins of her exes, is back at it with the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ her 11th studio album. A meditation on her frayed relationship with British sad boy Joe Alwyn, with lyrical forays into her ill-fated affair with Matt Healy, a beef with Kim Kardashian and a few nods to new dude Travis Kelce, the album dropped on an auspicious day, leaving a whimsical, side-eye giving trail of astrological easter eggs. Can you find them all? Read on and see how you did. Mercury…

LOS ANGELES () — The Los Angeles Police Department says the driver involved in a felony hit-and-run last weekend was doing donuts when they lost control of their vehicle, hit at least one pedestrian and fled the scene.A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to the identity, arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the hit-and-run.The LAPD South Traffic Division is also asking for the public’s help to identify a young woman who they believe was seriously hurt. They’re still trying to figure out if she’s alive.No hospitals in the area have reported that…

Jury selection is complete in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president, Donald Trump, who stands accused of falsifying business documents to cover up allegations of extramarital affairs that threatened his 2016 White House campaign.”We have our full panel,” said Judge Juan Merchan after they added the six alternates who will serve alongside the panel of 12 jurors.The moment, which was expected to take up to two weeks but took just four days, paves the way for opening statements to begin Monday.The Best Cartoons on Donald TrumpThe jurors, seven men and five women who will remain anonymous, hail from…

Tune in to see Eddie Redmayne on Good Morning America next week!On Thursday April 25, the Cabaret star will be on GMA to talk the new production, which is currently in previews on Broadway. The program airs 7:00-9:00 a.m. EDT on .In Cabaret, he plays ‘The Emcee’, a role played by Joel Grey in the 1966 and 1987 Broadway productions. He previously played the role on the West End alongside Jessie Buckley. At this time, it is unknown if he will be performing a number from the musical on the morning program.In addition to Redmayne, the production stars Gayle Rankin as ‘Sally Bowles, two-time Tony…

Pro-Palestinian student protesters resumed a third day of demonstrations Friday at Columbia University, saying their resolve has strengthened despite mass suspensions and arrests. “This is the moral thing to do,” said Eliette, 25, who uses they/them pronouns and declined to give their last name out of fear of retaliation from the school.The Columbia graduate student was one of 113 people arrested Thursday after the university asked police to break up a tent encampment students had set up early Wednesday on its south lawn in support of Gaza. Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik said in a memo to police that the protesters had…