Letter from Google CEO to Employees: 12,000 jobs to be cut

Cory Booker Blasts Party, Says Democrats 'Failed This Moment', And Calls For New Leaders Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) appeared on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday morning and delivered a scathing rebuke of his own party, saying it has “failed this moment.”  Booker was on the show to promote his new book, and host Kristen Welker read a passage from it in which he argues that political coalitions can’t succeed if they exclude people based on “purity tests” or demand total agreement on every issue.  In his book, he wrote, “We cannot cancel...

The US Department of War said on Tuesday that its forces boarded an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean that it tracked from the Caribbean, marking the third such incident. According to The Associated Press, the ship, named the “Bertha,” was one of the tankers that left Venezuela following the January 3 US attack on […]

Bank Lobby Fires Back At White House, Saying Stablecoin Study Ignores Community Bank Threat Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, The American Bankers Association is warning that the White House’s latest stablecoin study is asking the wrong question and underestimating the threat to community banks. On April 8, the Council of Economic Advisers released a 21‑page paper modeling what happens if payment stablecoin issuers are barred from paying yield. The analysis, tied to the 2025 GENIUS Act’s prohibition on interest for payment stablecoins, finds that banning yield would raise bank lending by only about 2.1 billion...