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When I jumped on a WhatsApp call with 41-year old Didi Taihuttu, he was a few days away from joining his family on CoinBank’s annual Mediterranean “Blockchain Cruise” — a combination vacation getaway and crypto symposium at which all the movers and shakers in the decentralized finance arena get...

President Trump’s plan to impose a 5 percent tax on all Mexican imports was canceled over the weekend, in a natural end to a process that centers on a president who loves drama while disdaining policy details. The New York Times reported this weekend that Trump dropped the tariffs … Read...

President Donald Trump seemed to spend a lot of time Saturday morning on Twitter, retweeting Islamophobic content, as well as sharing tweets defending far-right activists recently banned from Facebook. The president retweeted a video from Deep State Exposed, an alt-right account that contains...

It’s been three weeks since a fierce tropical cyclone tore through Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, killing hundreds and leaving 600,000 people displaced. Now, as cholera begins to spread among the victims of Cyclone Idai, relief workers are worried a “second disaster” is on the horizon...

Less than two minutes into President Donald Trump’s speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he lied about special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report. “The collusion delusion is over,” Trump said on Thursday night, in his first speech since... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2JNlVe0 Get more...

Why do many working-class white Americans support politicians whose policies are literally killing them? This is the question sociologist and psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl tries to answer in his new book.... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2ufMqy1 Get more World News

Tensions between two nuclear-armed countries, India and Pakistan, are at one of the highest points in decades — and could escalate further. On Tuesday morning, India launched an airstrike on Pakistani territory, reportedly targeting a militant training facility.... Read more via Vox –...

President Donald Trump just issued an ultimatum to Venezuela’s military: Either join with the US-led effort to depose Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, or suffer immense consequences.... Read more via Vox – http://bit.ly/2BHNFKB Get more World News

It appears as though President Donald Trump will have at least one challenger for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2020: former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld.... Read more via Vox – http://bit.ly/2N8xCtN Get more World News

Bill and Melinda Gates are odd billionaires. The Gateses, who released their foundation’s annual letter this week, are not cartoonishly out-of-touch would-be aesthetes like.... Read more via Vox – http://bit.ly/2Ef2DcO Get more World News

The trailer for Avengers 4 — now officially titled Avengers: Endgame — arrived on Friday morning, offering a first look at the final chapter of the Avengers cinematic saga and raising a couple big questions in the process. Unlike Avengers trailers of the past, the Avengers: Endgame trailer...

Disney’s follow-up to its wonderful 2012 animated film Wreck-It Ralph is as gleefully self-aware as its … Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2FzviMe Get More Nigeria Metro News

Last Tuesday, a well-known Saudi Arabian journalist and columnist for the Washington Post walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. No one has seen him since..... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2IQFfmj Get more World News

If you thought the weirdest celebrity political news you’d read this week was Taylor Swift endorsing Democratic candidates and possibly causing a sudden dramatic spike in voter registration, Kanye West saying.... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2ywjPGw Get more World News

It’s one of the mysteries that has puzzled cancer epidemiologists: Why are younger and younger people becoming sick with colorectal cancer? In 2017, researchers at the.... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2QEzn2i Get more World News

If you thought President Donald Trump was serious about punishing Saudi Arabia for the shocking disappearance — and potential murder — of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi last week, think again..... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2A4w0MA Get more World News

Leon Lederman won a Nobel Prize in 1988 for his pioneering physics research. But in 2015, the physicist, who passed away Wednesday, sold his Nobel Prize medal for $765,000 to pay his mounting medical bills. The University of Chicago professor began to suffer from memory loss in 2011, and …...

Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar is facing attacks from an atypical group in his reelection bid: his own family. Six of Gosar’s nine brothers and sisters have endorsed his Democratic opponent, Dr. David Brill, and appeared in Brill’s campaign videos discussing their brother. One … Read...

We just heard what may be the five most frightening words for President Trump yet: “He’s agreed to fully cooperate.” That’s what Kevin Downing, the lead lawyer for... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2MwuINi Get more World News

The white supremacists marching at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year were not ashamed when they... Read more via Vox – https://ift.tt/2KKANFc Get more World News