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Business in Brief

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Vice President JD Vance praised the cryptocurrency industry Wednesday and urged it to remain active in U.S. politics and policymaking, highlighting the Trump administration’s close ties to a deep-pocketed industry that’s become a powerful force in Washington. Speaking at a bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, Vance urged the crypto executives and enthusiasts to keep pressure on Congress to pass pro-crypto legislation supported by the White House.
Weirdness in Brief

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral after dropping an impromptu beatbox and dance session during a Catholic television program. Sisters Marizele Cassiano and Marisa de Paula, members of the “Copiosa Redenção” congregation, were talking about a vocational retreat on Brazil’s Pai Eterno — Eternal Father — TV channel when they brought up a song about being called to the religious life. The duo stood up and launched into a routine complete with singing, beatbox and dance moves.
News in Brief

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

COVID-19 cases are rising again as a new variant begins to circulate in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization said Wednesday the rise in cases is primarily in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific. Airport screening in the United States has detected the new variant in travelers arriving from those regions to places in California, Washington state, Virginia and New York.
World in Brief

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse Wednesday in Gaza in a desperate attempt to get something to eat, shouting and shoving each other and even ripping off pieces of the building to get inside. Four people died in the chaos, hospital officials said.
Jackson Hole Daily Letters to the Editor

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Party is not ‘just peanuts’So ... have we all heard? Donald Trump has ordered a huge military parade on his birthday! His vision includes tanks, planes, weapons, troops, marching bands and fireworks. When asked about the multimillion-dollar price tag — ultimately passed on to taxpayers — he replied, “That’s just peanuts!”If it’s just peanuts, why doesn’t billionaire Trump pay for the party himself? Anyone agree? My parents were both war veterans. We are patriotic, yet frugal.
Business in Brief

1 week ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

The U.S. Energy Department ordered a Michigan coal-fired power plant to remain open, at least until late August, citing possible electricity shortfalls in the central U.S.State regulators immediately fired back, saying it’s unnecessary to keep Consumers Energy’s J.H. Campbell plant open. It it supposed to close Saturday. “We currently produce more energy in Michigan than needed.
Business in Brief

2 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Google on Tuesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence technology to accelerate a yearlong makeover of its search engine that is changing the way people get information and curtailing the flow of internet traffic to websites.
World in Brief

2 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Israel pressed ahead Tuesday with its new military offensive in Gaza despite mounting international criticism, launching airstrikes that health officials said killed at least 85 Palestinians. Israeli officials said they also allowed in dozens more trucks carrying aid. Two days after aid began entering Gaza, the desperately needed new supplies have not yet reached people in Gaza, which has been under an Israeli blockade for nearly three months, according to the United Nations.
People in Brief

2 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Former FBI director James Comey says that he’s still a bit bewildered over how a seemingly innocent Instagram shot of seashells arranged in the sand led to allegations by Donald Trump and others that he was calling for the president’s assassination. “It’s been a bit of a distraction, honestly,” Comey said with a weary laugh Monday night during an appearance at a Barnes & Noble bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He was promoting “FDR Drive,” his crime novel coming out this week.
Washington in Brief

2 weeks ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Pamela Periconi

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered another review of the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, and of the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed American troops and Afghans.