Last updated: April 24, 2024 16:42 EDT | 3 min read XRP Price Prediction as Daily Trading Volume Surges Past $1 Billion – Is Ripple Making a Comeback? The XRP (XRP) Price has been falling back over the past two sessions, despite daily trading volumes surging above $1 billion for a third successive session.Yahoo Finance put Wednesday’s trading volume at $1.5 billion, after clocking $1.35 billion and $1.67 billion on Tuesday and Monday.XRP faced resistance in the $0.5650-57 area on Monday and sell pressure has been elevated ever since. The presence of the 21DMA at $0.55 likely also hasn’t helped.The…

Tokyo/Hong Kong    Mitsuko Tottori admits Japan has much more to do to get people like her into the chief executive seat. Tottori was named as the first female president and chief executive of Japan Airlines (JAL) in January, crowning a career that began nearly 40 years ago when she joined the airline as a flight attendant. Her rise is a rare feat in a nation where women still face major hurdles to promotion. “Japan is still in a place of establishing the initial goal to increase (the number of) female managers,” she told in an interview at the airline’s…

TikTok’s chief executive said on Wednesday the social media company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban its popular short video app used by 170 million Americans. “Rest assured – we aren’t going anywhere,” CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a video posted moments after Biden signed the bill that gives China-based ByteDance 270 days to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets or face a ban. “The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to prevail again.” Biden’s signing sets a Jan. 19 deadline…

It just added fuel to the fire.The decision by Columbia University’s president, Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, to call in the New York Police Department to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the campus last week appears to have sparked the spate of increasingly strident demonstrations that have erupted at universities in New York City and across the country in recent days, students and faculty members said. Since Thursday, when police arrested 108 Columbia University demonstrators, including Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, similar protests have erupted on campuses across the country, from New York University and Yale University to the University of Illinois…

Last updated: April 24, 2024 19:30 EDT | 2 min read The South Korean city of Busan’s plans to launch a city-run, blockchain-powered digital assets exchange may be in peril, a report claimed on April 24.Per Naeil Shinmun, the project is “showing signs of trouble” after effectively delaying its official launch.Busan Digital Exchange Hit With Launch DelayBusan’s digital asset exchange plans have been in the pipelines for some time, but have already been beset with issues.The city initially wanted to become the first in the world to launch a crypto exchange. However, this plan hinged heavily on promised changes to…

A growing number of international bodies are demanding an independent probe into mass graves recently discovered at multiple Gaza hospitals that were raided by Israeli troops ― revealing hundreds more Palestinian deaths as Israel’s military offensive in the besieged enclave surpasses 200 days.As of Wednesday, Gaza health officials said that Palestinian medics have uncovered more than 300 bodies at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, which Israeli troops occupied until their April 7 withdrawal. The U.N. Human Rights Council said Tuesday that medics found even more bodies in several mass graves on the grounds of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital,…

Courteney Cox, Johnny McDaid. Getty Imges (2) Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid once walked into therapy as a couple — then left the session broken up. “So three years in, we broke up, and it was really intense. We broke up in therapy,” Cox, 59, recalled on the Wednesday, April 24, episode of the “Minnie Questions With Minnie Driver” podcast. “I didn’t know it was coming.” Cox explained that she and McDaid, who have dated off and on since 2013, sought out help for their “boundaries” about what they could and couldn’t accept in their relationship. However, McDaid called it…

An Oklahoma man, alongside his girlfriend, “bludgeoned” his girlfriend’s relative with a brick, before dumping the victim’s remains in a wildlife refuge, federal authorities said.According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Oklahoma, Tevin Terrell Semien, 29, and co-defendant Nicole Leigh Logsdon, 24, were indicted for the May 2023 murder of 68-year-old Karon “Dinkers” Conneywerdy Smith.Semien admitted to officers that he “agreed” to kill Smith and went to her home and “bludgeoned” Smith to death “with a brick, put her body in the trunk of her vehicle, and disposed of her body in the Wichita Mountains…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the agency’s ban on noncompete agreements. In the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Tyler, Texas, the Chamber argues that the FTC lacked the constitutional and statutory authority to advance the sweeping regulation. The Chamber said after the FTC’s 3-2 vote, which advanced with the support of the agency’s majority Democratic commissioners, that there are already legal frameworks for determining whether a given noncompete should be upheld or dismissed, and would undermine American businesses’ competitiveness. The FTC on Tuesday released its final…

   The Gateway Pundit, the notorious far-right blog and prolific publisher of conspiracy theories, said Wednesday that it had filed for bankruptcy protection as it grapples with litigation related to its coverage of the 2020 election. The move comes as the staunchly pro-Donald Trump website, which promoted the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen by President Joe Biden and his allies, faces multiple lawsuits over its bogus claims. One of the lawsuits, filed by two former Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, accuses The Gateway Pundit of publishing stories that falsely accused them of election fraud, which the pair said prompted a wave of harassment and threats…

By7.com staff Thursday, April 25, 2024 1:44AMThe two barbers spotted the little girl running past their shop toward a busy intersection and immediately jumped into action.EAST HARTFORD, Conn. () — Dramatic video shows two barbers in Connecticut save a toddler from running into traffic in the nick of time.Video shows the little girl running past the Look Sharp Barbershop, heading toward a busy intersection in East Hartford.The two drop their scissors and immediately run out the door, chasing after the girl and scooping her up just before she reaches the main road.”I was right in the middle of the haircut,”…

Academy Award-winner Steve Carell makes his Broadway debut in Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA opening tonight at The Lincoln Center Theater.The new translation of the piece is written by Tony-nominee Heidi Schreck and directed by Lila Neugebauer. UNCLE VANYA features Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Jonathan Hadary, Jayne Houdyshell, Spencer Donovan Jones, Mia Katigbak, Alfred Molina, Alison Pill, and Anika Noni Rose. The production has sets by Mimi Lien, costumes by Kaye Voyce, lighting by Lap Chi Chu and Elizabeth Harper, and sound by Mikhail Fiksel and Beth Lake. Charles M. Turner III is the stage manager.  Jesse Green, The New York Times: That it does…

Authorities are searching for a man and his dog after they went missing at the Grand Canyon National Park while possibly trying to travel the Colorado River on a homemade wooden raft.Thomas Lee Robison, 58, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, “may have attempted to go down the Colorado River with his dog, who is a Welsh corgi, on a self made raft” the National Park Service said in a statement and in a missing person flyer Wednesday.Thomas Lee Robison with his Welsh corgi.Courtesy NPSRobison’s dog was described as a 25-pound corgi that is 11 years old.The park service included a…

Last updated: April 24, 2024 19:30 EDT | 1 min read Source: Dalle-3 Crypto custodian Fireblocks announced on Wednesday that it has launched its dApp Protection and Transaction Simulation products, which will help protect institutions from run-ins with scammers in decentralized finance (DeFi).Fireblocks’ DeFi Protection ToolsBoth products have undergone beta testing with Galaxy and FlowDesk since December of last year. They are now available to safety check decentralized applications (dApps) across over 40 blockchains using Fireblocks’ APIs, including WalletConnect and MetaMask Institutional.“As the DeFi sector experiences unprecedented growth, the need for proactive security measures has never been more critical,” wrote…

Body camera footage obtained by HuffPost shows a police dog viciously attacking an unarmed Black man in front of his 9-year-old son during a traffic stop in Denison, Texas, last year. Derrick Dunlap, 54, was pulled over by Denison police on May 25, 2023, while his son was with him. Dunlap’s attorneys say police reported that he was stopped because the light over his license plate was too dim. Footage shows an officer, identified by attorneys as Tyler Buchanan, get out of the police car and say “Here, here, here” to the dog as Dunlap’s child is heard screaming in…