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The bitcoin price dropped to the $118,000s range today after President Trump announced plans to raise tariffs on Chinese goods in response to China’s export controls on rare earth metals.  Bitcoin price is down roughly 2.3% in the past 24 hours and about 6% since reaching a record high above $126,000 just four days ago. President Trump threatened a “massive” increase in tariffs on Chinese goods, signaling a sharp escalation in the U.S.-China trade tensions and casting doubt on a planned APEC meeting with President Xi. This came after China imposed new limits on rare earth and related technology trade. …

Colin PatersonEntertainment correspondentNetflixZoey, Rumi and Mira are Huntr/x – the Kpop trio who also try and save the world from evil Maggie Kang, the creator and co-director of Kpop Demon Hunters, has said she is “excited for the potential for more stories” involving animated girl group Huntr/x.Speaking to the BBC during a visit to Europe, Kang explained that while there was “nothing official we can talk about”, she and co-director Chris Appelhans believe “there’s definitely more we can do with these characters in this world”.”And whatever it will be, it will be a story that deserves to be a sequel,…

Sara Tendulkar shared reshared several birthday wishes from friends and well wishers on her birthday (Screengrabs) Sara Tendulkar, daughter of legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, turned 28 on Sunday, October 12, and her birthday celebrations were shared widely on social media by family and friends. Among the posts that caught fans’ attention were those from her brother Arjun Tendulkar and his fiancée Saaniya Chandhok.Saaniya, who got engaged to Arjun in August this year, shared a picture of herself hugging Sara tightly and captioned it, “Happy birthday to my favourite.” The post quickly went viral, drawing fans’ attention for its warmth…

Maximise Your Earnings: Top College Majors for Financial Success in 2025-26 (Image: iStock) College remains an investment but its payoff depends heavily on what you study. The Pew Research Center’s recent analyses of labour-market trends and the monetary value of degrees make one thing clear that the fields that teach technical, quantitative and healthcare skills continue to produce the strongest earnings and labour-market resilience in 2025. Choosing the right college major remains one of the most consequential decisions for students today, especially in a changing economy with shifting employment landscapes. New research from the Pew Research Center sheds light on…

Binance said it will compensate a group of users affected by Friday’s extreme market swings that caused three major tokens to lose their peg and trigger forced liquidations. The exchange confirmed on Saturday, Oct. 11, that users who held Ethena’s USDe, BNSOL, or WBETH as collateral on its platform between 21:36 and 22:16 UTC on Oct. 10 will receive compensation.  During that 40-minute window, prices for those assets briefly diverged from their benchmarks, prompting automatic liquidations. What Triggered the $19 Billion Liquidation Across Global Exchanges? Market Cap 24h 7d 30d 1y All Time Binance said the incident was linked to…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! On October 9, Monero XMR $308.87 introduced a new version of its client software named “Fluorine Fermi”. According to an announcement on X, this update is designed to limit exposure to malicious activity from what the community refers to as “spy nodes”.These so-called spy nodes are harmful systems or groups of systems that try to associate IP addresses with blockchain transactions. Their purpose is to weaken the anonymity of Monero users. Did you know? Want to get smarter & wealthier with crypto? Subscribe – We publish new crypto explainer videos every week!…

Key takeaways The big banks dominate the reporting docket this week. 35 S&P 500 members in total are expected to report. Q3 earnings are currently expected to grow 5.7% YoY on 6.1% higher revenues. The Q3 earnings season gets going in earnest this week, with almost 80 companies on deck to report results, including 35 S&P 500 members. The big banks dominate this week’s reporting docket, but we also have several bellwethers from other sectors reporting, including Johnson & Johnson, United Air Lines, CSX Corp., and others. Regular readers of our earnings commentary are familiar with the notably positive estimate…

When it was announced that SARS-CoV­‑2, the virus at the cen­ter of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, had evolved into an even more con­ta­gious vari­ant called Omi­cron, pub­lic reac­tions var­ied. For those of us with long mem­o­ries of com­put­er and video gam­ing, it brought to mind a title we had­n’t thought about in quite some time: Omikron: The Nomad Soul, released for Win­dows in 1999 and the Sega Dream­cast in 2000. More than a few gamers know it as the debut of con­tro­ver­sial design­er David Cage, whose stu­dio Quan­tic Dream has gone on to pro­duce var­i­ous games of con­sid­er­able cin­e­mat­ic and emo­tion­al ambit…

Drew Barrymore’s wild act in front of a live studio audience has left fans shocked.The actress, 50, whipped out her bare toes and had her co-stars smell them on her talk show, The Drew Barrymore Show.During a segment on foot health, her co-panellist Sunny Anderson brought up a story about how often experts recommend we wash our feet, commenting that when she smelled Barrymore’s feet last year they smelled “divine”.Watch the video aboveThe actress whipped out her toes behind the news desk. (YouTube/The Drew Barrymore Show)Before Anderson could continue, Barrymore had already taken her heel off and brought her foot…

Basic training in the United States Marine Corps is a lonely business. So lonely, in fact, that 18-year-old Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer, “13 Reasons Why”), the central protagonist of Netflix’s new series “Boots,” frequently has conversations with his hidden queer self. Though dressed alike, Cope’s concealed persona is blunt, witty, and encouraging, while the Cameron the outside world sees is scared, a little slow to react, and genuinely thought the Marine Corps would be like summer camp. “When we said we needed a change,” inner-Cam tells outer-Cam wryly, as they sit on their bunk bed, trying to catch their breath…