The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged music producer DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. with promoting investments in initial cryptocurrency coin offerings without revealing that they had been paid. The stock market regulatory authority on Thursday said that cryptocurrency coins sold in initial coin offerings (ICO) may be considered securities and subject […]
A new US government report has delivered a dire warning about climate change and its devastating impacts, saying that the economy could lose hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century. The federally mandated study “Fourth National Climate Assessment”, was supposed to come out in December but was released by President Donald […]
US President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to hear a challenge to Trump’s policy that bars most transgender individuals from military service. The policy, first announced by the President in July 2017 via Twitter and later officially released by Secretary of Defence James Mattis, blocks individuals who suffer from a condition known […]
A record number of unaccompanied immigrant children, about 14,000, were currently in US custody, according to a Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesman. The spokesman, Mark Weber, said on Friday that the additional requirements put in place by President Donald Trump’s administration to “reduce risk and increase safety” for immigrant children contributed to the high […]
A US federal judge has stopped President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing asylum to immigrants who cross the country’s southern border illegally. US District Judge Jon S. Tigar issued a temporary restraining order after hearing arguments on Monday night in San Francisco, NBC News reported. The request was made by the American Civil Liberties Union […]
Sri Lanka’s Parliament was disrupted for the second day on Friday with MPs allied to disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa throwing chilli powder at opposing MPs and hurling chairs at police officers even as the Assembly passed another no-confidence motion dismissing his government for the second time this week. The pro-Rajapaksa legislators also threw objects […]
A pair of references to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a major target of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election, in an unrelated court filing reveals the US government efforts to charge him, the media reported on Friday. In a filing unsealed last week, prosecutors for the Eastern District of Virginia included […]
A severe cyclonic storm Gaja battered the Tamil Nadu coast on Friday, leaving at least 13 people and several livestock dead and a trail of destruction in several districts. Authorities said the cyclone crossed the coast between Nagapattinam and Vedaranyam districts between 12.30 a.m. and 2.30 a.m. with wind speeds of about 110-120 kmph. So […]
The Facebook crackdown on accounts engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on its platform and on Instagram continues. “Combined with our takedown last Monday, we have removed 36 Facebook accounts, six Pages and 99 Instagram accounts for coordinated inauthentic behaviour,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, said in a blog post on Wednesday. These accounts were […]
US First Lady Melania Trump has called for a top national security aide to President Donald Trump to be fired, media reports said. “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that Mira Ricardel, the deputy national security adviser, no longer deserves the honour of serving in this White House,” her spokeswoman […]