US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining

US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining

ByNews Polite

A group of 14 United States senators and House representatives have signed a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency extolling what they believe are the benefits of crypto mining. In a Thursday letter, many U.S. lawmakers including pro-Bitcoin Senator Cynthia Lummis and Representative Tom Emmer addressed EPA administrator Michael Regan,…

Live Updates: Putin Mocks U.S. as Declining Power; Europe Recommends E.U. Candidacy for Ukraine
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Live Updates: Putin Mocks U.S. as Declining Power; Europe Recommends E.U. Candidacy for Ukraine

ByNews Polite

Despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s pleas for Ukraine’s admittance into the European Union, the process requires a serious overhaul of a country’s political, judiciary and economic systems.Credit…Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times It was an impassioned plea: As war raged in his country, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked in…

Bradley Beal Teams Up With Hoop For All to Refurbish D.C. Court

Bradley Beal Teams Up With Hoop For All to Refurbish D.C. Court

ByNews Polite

Bradley Beal isn’t just taking this time to heal his injury, he’s also trying to heal a broken neighborhood. A nearby basketball court residing in Columbia Heights at Banneker Community Center was in dire need of a makeover. Being unfamiliar with the courts, Beal noticed the decrepit lines, cracked backboards,…

Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’ — Global Issues

Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’ — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

In his message for the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, commemorated on Sunday, Secretary-General António Guterres also observed that perpetrators rarely face the consequences of their actions. “It is the survivors who carry the burden of stigma and trauma throughout their lives, often doubly brutalized by…

Juan Toscano-Anderson First Player of Mexican Descent to Win Finals / SLAM

Juan Toscano-Anderson First Player of Mexican Descent to Win Finals / SLAM

ByNews Polite

The team of underdogs grows as the basketball gods crowned another champion. The newest inductee to the team is Juan Toscano-Anderson, who became the first NBA player of Mexican descent to win an NBA title. Toscano-Anderson, who played his college basketball at Marquette, contributed to two seasons of the Marquette…

Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’ — Global Issues

‘Surprise’ early heatwave in Europe, harbinger of things to come — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the intense heatwave made its way from North Africa. The UN agency explained that an Atlantic low-pressure system between the Azores and Madeira is fuelling the warm front, pushing it towards western Europe. 10 degrees above normal And although it’s only mid-June, temperatures in…

Sexual violence in conflict ‘terrorizes populations, destroys lives and fractures communities’ — Global Issues

Urgent support needed for 14,000 who fled following Burkina Faso massacre — Global Issues

ByNews Polite

According to an alert from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, almost 16,000 mostly women and children, have been displaced to Dori, after gunmen killed at least 79 people in the town of Seytenga, which is close to the border with Niger. Door-to-door killers “The new arrivals in Dori gave accounts of…