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Coinbase apps are “recovering” after some customers opened their digital accounts to find them showing zero balances, CEO Brian Armstrong said Wednesday afternoon. The cryptocurrency exchangeacknowledgedthe issue earlier Wednesday after users reported difficulties making trades and that their accounts were empty. “Apps are now recovering,” Armstrong said on X (formerly known as Twitter). “We had modeled a ~10x surge in …

Idaho on Wednesday delayed the execution of convicted serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, one of the nation’s longest-serving death row inmates, after a failed attempt at lethal injection. Creech, who has been convicted of five murders, was sentenced to die for the killing of a fellow prisoner with a battery-filled sock in 1981. “The medical team could not establish an …

Johannesburg —Ghana’s parliament approved a highly controversial anti-LGBTQ bill on Wednesday after months of debate. The Human Sexual Rights and Family Values bill is one of the toughest pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation in Africa. Homosexuality is already illegal in Ghana and punishable by up to three years in prison. Under the new law, that maximum sentence will increase to five …

UPDATE (2/29/2024): Former President Donald Trump has appealed a Cook County judge’s ruling to remove him from the ballot in Illinois’ primary election. CHICAGO (CBS) — A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered the Illinois Board of Elections to remove former President Donald Trump from the Illinois primary ballot – but also put the order on hold, pending a likely …

BOSTON – An American Airlines flight bound for Spain was forced to divert to Logan Airport in Boston Wednesday night because of a cracked windshield, according to Massachusetts State Police. American Airlines flight 94 American Airlines Flight 94 took off from JFK Airport in New York City and was headed to Madrid, Spain when it was diverted to Boston because …

In the Texas Panhandle, the Smokehouse Creek Fire that broke out earlier this week has since extended to nearly 1.1 million acres, firefighters said Thursday, quickly becoming the “largest and most destructive” in state history. The historic blaze has now merged with another wildfire to stretch across a huge swath of the Panhandle. As of Friday, the fire located in …

Ziyad Al-Alyis chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist atWashington University in St. Louis. From the very early days of the pandemic, brain fog emerged as a significant health condition that many experience after COVID-19. Brain fog is a colloquial term that describes a state of mental sluggishness or lack of …

A New York appellate judge on Wednesday refused to halt collection of Donald Trump’s $454 million civil fraud penalty while he appeals, rejecting the former president’s request that he be allowed to post a bond covering just a fraction of what he owes. Judge Anil Singh of the state’s mid-level appeals court ruled that Trump must post a bond covering …

The start of a new month marks an opportune time to reevaluate your personal financial situation — and improve it where possible. With a new inflation report slated to be released on March 12 and another Federal Reserve meeting scheduled for March 19 and March 20, there is bound to be some financial news that affects your money. Elevated inflation …

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is putting heat on the internet company’s engineers to fix its Gemini AI app pronto, calling some of the tool’s responses “completely unacceptable.” The new search tool, which the company hastoutedas revolutionary, came under fire after some users asked it to generate images of people drawn from history, such as German soldiers during World War 2, …