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• The price of bitcoin, the red-hot digital currency, topped its previous all-time high set Friday, according to data from Markets Insider.
• Bitcoin was trading up more than 14% against the US dollar on Monday at a record $17,346, less than a day after the launch of Cboe's bitcoin futures market.
• The price picked up just after Coinbase's cryptocurrency exchange, GDAX, went back online after a very brief crash.
• Bitcoin is up more than 1,500% year-to-date. Читать дальше...

The Liberals are tapping a long-time public servant to be the new ethics watchdog for the House of Commons.

CARL JUNCTION, Mo. — A southwest Missouri man is charged in the death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter. Twenty-two-year-old Jalen Vaden was charged Thursday with second-degree murder and felony child abuse in the death of Jayda Kyle, of Carl Junction. The Joplin Globe reports a probable cause affidavit said Vaden became angry Nov. 27 when...

Want your voice heard on the stadium issue? Public session starts at 7:00 p.m.

President Donald Trump is officially directing NASA to send astronauts back to the Moon, as a pit stop to eventually send people to Mars. The move is part of a new order, Space Policy Directive-1, which Trump signed today during a very brief ceremony at the White House. The directive is meant to reorient NASA’s focus from the Red Planet to the Moon, at least in the short term, shifting away from the priorities set forth by the Obama administration.

Mario Batali, the chef and restaurant owner, is stepping away from the daily operations of his businesses and the daytime program he co-hosts on ABC, “The Chew,” after reports of alleged sexual misconduct. A report published Monday on Eater, the food website, said four women have alleged that Batali touched them inappropriately in a pattern of behavior that appears to span at least two decades. Three of the women worked for Batali in some capacity during their careers, and the fourth worked in the restaurant industry... Читать дальше...

A worker at a city-contracted job site in Milwaukee is now jobless after his cooler with “offensive” Ku Klux Klan and Confederate flag stickers was spotted, city officials said. The unidentified worker was fired three days after a photograph surfaced on social media of the cooler at a job site at North 25th Street and...

The world’s most venomous spider has been spotted in a house in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia — and it could be in yours, too. Bec Sheedy was at home when her mom spotted a black creature with fangs on a wall towards the back of her house and quickly recognized it to be...

VAN BUREN (KFSM) — An inmate has pleaded guilty to slaying a man with an axe handle, according to the Crawford County Prosecutor’s Office. Randall Jordan, 36, of Van Buren pleaded guilty to first-degree murder shortly before 2 p.m. Monday (Dec. 11).  A jury trial for Jordan was set to begin tomorrow (Dec. 11), according to the Prosecutor’s Office. Jordan was sentenced to life in prison. Police said Jordan invaded a home June 10, 2016, and bludgeoned Larry Jones, 59,  in […]

Accra (dpa) - Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier ist zum Beginn seiner viertägigen Reise nach Westafrika in der ghanaischen Hauptsstadt Accra eingetroffen. Rund 20 Unternehmer und Wirtschaftsministerin Brigitte Zypries (SPD) begleiten ihn bei dem Staatsbesuch. Neben dem Ausbau der wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen steht auch die Bekämpfung von Fluchtursachen im Vordergrund der Gespräche. Am Mittwoch fliegt Steinmeier nach Gambia weiter.In Accra wird der Bundespräsident am Dienstag von Präsident Nana Akufo-Addo mit militärischen Ehren begrüßt. Читать дальше...

Teams that have broken long championship curses in recent years have tended to do so in dramatic fashion. When the Red Sox finally won the World Series in 2004, it was only after becoming the first MLB team to rally from a 3-0 playoff deficit, which they did after winning four straight in the ALCS over the Yankees. When the Cavaliers delivered Cleveland its first major men’s championship in more than a half-century in 2016, they did so by overcoming a 3-1 series deficit against the greatest regular-season team in NBA history, the 73-9 Warriors.

A seven-building, 15.42-acre office complex in Bentonville changed hands Thursday (Dec. 8) for $28.3 million, according to Arkansas Talk Business & Politics. Sachs Investing Co. of New York purchased the properties just off Walton Boulevard at Rainbow Curve. The physical locations are on Southeast Macy Road, Southeast C Street and Southeast 34th Street. The seven buildings are fully leased to a roster of Fortune 500 tenants. They range in size from 9,281 square feet to 45,485 square feet, and... Читать дальше...

Kyiv’s Pechersk Court on Dec. 11 released ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili from custody, rejecting prosecutors’ motion to place him under house arrest. Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the court to support Saakashvili. After Saakashvili was released, he marched with his supporters to his house on Kostyolna Street near Maidan Nezalezhnosti. Prosecutor General Yuriy […]

A Lagos lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, also described the ruling by the appeal court sitting in Lagos as saddening just as the EFCC said it is a dangerous precedent.

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• Author Cole Schafer didn't discover real success until he stopped trying to do everything and just focused on becoming really good at one thing.
• Everyone goes through the process of learning, working, succeeding and failing.
• Trying to master this process and minimize the failures for three or four things is too distracting.
• If you can commit to learning, working, succeeding, and failing at one thing, you'll start to succeed more... Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a former Oklahoma City mayor and member of the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents who is being criticized for comparing gay people to pedophiles (all times local): 2:25 p.m. The University of Oklahoma's student body president is chastising a Board of Regents member who compared gay people to pedophiles. Student government President J.D. Baker released an open letter Sunday urging the campus to voice its opinion about comments Kirk Humphreys made on a local TV public affairs show over the weekend. Читать дальше...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a former Oklahoma City mayor and member of the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents who is being criticized for comparing gay people to pedophiles (all times local): 2:25 p.m. The University of Oklahoma's student body president is chastising a Board of Regents member who compared gay people to pedophiles. Student government President J.D. Baker released an open letter Sunday urging the campus to voice its opinion about comments Kirk Humphreys made on a local TV public affairs show over the weekend. Читать дальше...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Think of the energy Joe Morgan expended last month when he encouraged Hall of Fame voters to keep out players associated with illegal performance-enhancing drugs. The time. The brain space. Pitching the idea to the Hall of Fame and coordinating its release. Now imagine if Morgan had channeled toward the...

The winter holidays are a great time to catch up on your prestige TV and your Oscar-bait movies, but let's get our priorities straight: The primary entertainment function of December is trashy Christmas movies. 

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The attempted terrorist attack in New York City shows the need for enhanced immigration policies so as to prevent terrorists from entering the United States, White House spokesperson Sarah Sanders said during a press briefing on Monday.

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