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The price of Bitcoin has remained mostly unchanged during the Asian session, settling in a narrow range of $16,750 to $16,950. Similarly, Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, fell back into the $1,250 trading range after failing to hold above $1,260.The global crypto market cap fell 0.32% to $817.65 billion on the previous day, sending major cryptocurrencies into the red early on January 6. Over the last 24 hours, overall crypto market volume surged 22.94% to $27.22 billion.DeFi’s total volume is currently $1.90 billion, accounting for 7% of the overall crypto market 24-hour volume. The overall volume of all stablecoins is now…

A Beijing hospital has run out of beds, forcing patients to rest on stretchers or lay on the hallway floors as COVID-19 infections run rampant in the country and stretch thin the public health sectors’ resources.”We have no beds, we have no oxygen, and we have a room full of sick people waiting,” a health care worker in Beijing Chaoyang Hospital’s emergency room told the Financial Times ahead of Christmas.China has watched as cases of COVID-19 spiked following the rollback of the country’s “zero-COVID” policy as the abrupt shift occurred without any increase in vaccinations. Instead, officials tried to simply…

AUSTIN, Texas – Americans in the Lone Star state said they don’t expect to see much out of President Biden in 2023, with several indicating little confidence in his ability to improve the economy.”I just expect him to be the same as he’s always been and not really do much for our country,” Eleanor, a Dallas resident, told Fox News.  WATCH BELOW TO HEAR AMERICANS’ EXPECTATIONS OF BIDEN FOR 2023:WATCH MORE FOX NEWS DIGITAL ORIGINALS HEREA man from Brownsville, a Texas border town, said he expects “nothing” from Biden in 2023.”I don’t think he’s a good leader,” he said.Several people…

After 11 votes in three days that went nowhere, signs emerged Thursday night that Kevin McCarthy may finally have a viable path to becoming the next House speaker.It won’t be easy, automatic or immediate, according to House lawmakers who themselves were processing the information in real time as details of the deal emerged. But a written framework for rules in the 118th Congress was released on Thursday that McCarthy’s allies hope will allow many of the GOP lawmakers who have been voting against McCarthy all week to eventually support him.Lawmakers said the framework gives members of the House Freedom Caucus…

Eugene Polley is not the most popular man on the planet. But perhaps he should be. He left a legacy of leisure that billions of people lean upon each and every day.Polley, a self-taught mechanical engineer from Chicago, invented the television remote control in 1955. He envisioned a future in which we never had to leave the couch or twitch any muscle more than a finger.MEET THE AMERICAN WHO SAVED THE CHAMPAGNE INDUSTRY: MISSOURI SCIENTIST CHARLES VALENTINE RILEYEugene Polley changed our lives for the easier. Polley worked for Zenith Electronics for 47 years, climbing his way up from stock boy to groundbreaking inventor.…

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President Joe Biden will visit the besieged southern border on Sunday, but it is not clear if he will meet with Border Patrol agents or if he will address or apologize for a false claim he made in 2021 when he accused agents of having “strapped” Haitian migrants.Biden said on Thursday that he will visit El Paso, Texas, where he will assess border enforcement operations and meet with local elected officials and community leaders. He made the announcement during a White House speech *in which he unveiled a slew of measures, including an expanded parole program and a plan to…

Yet in the neglected rural town of Xin’an, the sparsely equipped local hospital was operating at well below full capacity. In a poorly heated room near reception, around half a dozen elderly people huddled in thick overcoats, drips protruding from their arms. But most of the seats were unoccupied, and the pressure on staff appeared far lower than their municipal counterparts. LACK OF PROGRESS “What we are seeing in rural China epitomises the lack of progress in China’s healthcare reform,” said Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council of Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan US think tank. “People…

Happy new year to everyone. This is Kenji from Hong Kong, where the scheduled reopening of the border with mainland China on Sunday has been dominating headlines lately.The return of mainland visitors for the first time in three years is expected to give the stagnant local economy a boost, but there is also cause for concern — the reopening coincides with a sharp surge in infections in China following the country’s abrupt departure from its stringent zero-Covid policy.The tech industry has already seen how a rapid easing of restrictions can be a double-edged sword. At first, manufacturers welcomed Beijing’s policy…

The Wall Street Journal is demanding answers from the Phoenix Police Department after an officer detained and handcuffed one of its reporters outside a Chase Bank — an incident that press freedom advocates say raises First Amendment concerns and mirrors a larger, growing hostility from local law enforcement toward journalists across the country. The incident between The Journal reporter Dion Rabouin and the Phoenix officer occurred in late November, but just became public his week after ABC affiliate KNXV reported on the matter. In a statement, The Journal said that it is “deeply concerned” with how its reporter was treated…