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Bitcoin BTC$111,480.33 jumped to its highest in over two months as the U.S. government shut down operations, likely setting the stage for a positive fiat liquidity impulse. The leading cryptocurrency has risen nearly 4% in the past 24 hours, with prices briefly rising to $119,455 for the first time since mid-August, CoinDesk data show. Other major tokens such as ether …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited at Hsinchu Science Park. Annabelle Chih | Getty Images News | Getty Images Taiwan will not accept Washington’s proposal to locally manufacture half the chips it currently supplies to the U.S., the island’s top trade negotiator said. Speaking to reporters, Cheng Li-chiun, also the country’s vice premier, said on Wednesday that the proposal for a …

One of the main lines of attack the White House and Republican lawmakers have leveled against Democrats amid the government shutdown is the claim that Democratic lawmakers want to give immigrants in the U.S. illegally free healthcare — which Democrats deny.  “Democrats are holding the American government HOSTAGE so they can give FREE health care to ILLEGAL ALIENS,” House Speaker …

NEW YORK (AP) — As uncertainty deepens amid the U.S. government’s first shutdown in almost seven years, the gold frenzy continues to climb to new heights. The going price for New York spot gold hit a record $3,858.45 per troy ounce — the standard for measuring precious metals — as of market close Tuesday, ahead of the shutdown beginning overnight. …

Jane Goodall, the late-trailblazing primatologist and global conservation icon, has repeatedly said she was inspired by the book Tarzan of the Apes series growing up, influencing her profound career. Goodall has said many times during public talks and in print that Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1912 book inspired her anthropological work, saying that “my Tarzan was the Tarzan of my imagination as I read …

An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen who says he was detained twice by immigration agents within just a few weeks has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding an end to Trump administration workplace raids targeting industries with large immigrant workforces. The class-action lawsuit, filed Tuesday by concrete worker Leo Garcia Venegas with the public interest law firm Institute …

U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after  pv magazine USA US added more coal capacity than wind in July: FERC  Utility Dive Why the White House is abandoning solar  The Washington Post Trump’s expansion of federal control hits solar developers  Reuters FERC: Solar + wind made up 90% of new US power generating capacity to July …

Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct.1, 2025. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption toggle caption Gregorio Borgia/AP VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the …

White House pushes back on Pope Leo’s statement that immigrants are subject to ‘inhuman treatment’ in the U.S.  Politico Pope makes rare comments on U.S. politics, military gathering  The Washington Post Chicago archbishop’s decision to honor US senator stirs Catholic abortion debate  AP News Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on the Keep Hope Alive Award  Archdiocese of Chicago Durbin declines …

America just told the world’s governments: stop shipping us your best and brightest. Make your own country great again! President Trump has thrown a grenade into America’s immigration system — and it’s exactly what the country needed. By slapping a $100,000 filing fee on H=1B visas, the White House has declared the days of cheap labor pipelines and visa abuse …