Bitcoin is spiking to a record after CME Group Inc. said it’s planning to launch bitcoin futures as the move could open the floodgates of investors who have been standing on the sidelines as bitcoin soared over 500 percent this year.The cryptocurrency jumped as much as 5.2 percent to $6,416.39 after the CME said it…
Two major Saudi oil refineries were set ablaze after a drone strike that was reportedly orchestrated by Yemen's Houthi rebel group. The extent of the damage was unclear, which could be critical to the state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco's plans for what could be the largest initial public offering of stock in the world. A…
Yet the government’s social media manipulation tracks with crackdowns in recent years in other authoritarian states, said Alexei Abrahams, a research fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Even for conversations involving millions of tweets, a few hundred or a few thousand influential accounts drive the discussion, he said, citing new research. The…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday formally proposed a ban on bump stocks, the firearms accessory that allows semi-automatic guns to fire more quickly, similar to a fully automatic weapon.The proposal seeks to fulfill a promise made by President Donald Trump after the Feb. 14 massacre at a Florida high school and comes a day…
Melinda Katz wins the Democratic nomination by 55 votes after a recount erases her opponent’s slim election night lead. ImageTiffany Cabán concedes at a party for volunteers and supporters in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday night.CreditCreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York TimesAug 6, 2019The pitched six-week battle for the Democratic nomination for Queens district attorney finally ended…
The New York Times just reported an explosive piece about President Donald Trump's history with Deutsche Bank, saying the German bank lent the real-estate mogul about $2 billion during their relationship. The president's association with the struggling German lender was born in the late 1990s, when major Wall Street firms stopped loaning Trump money after…
Elon Musk. Larry Busacca/Getty Images for The New York Times Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced late Friday night that he is no longer seeking to take his electric-car company private. This concludes what had been weeks of speculation and hand-wringing around the go-private proposal Musk first floated in a tweet on August 7. In a…
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In the final months of Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, Russian agents escalated a yearlong effort to hack and harass his Democratic opponents, culminating in the release of thousands of emails stolen from prominent Democrats and party officials. Facebook had said nothing publicly about any problems on its own platform. But in the spring of 2016,…
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