Pelosi Says She Would Accept Stock Ban for Lawmakers and Judges

She also called for stricter penalties on lawmakers who flout existing rules on reporting stock ownership and trading under a 2012 law called the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. “What we’re trying to build is consensus,” she said.

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Join Curve Finance’s Michael Egorov at the DeFi and the Future of Programmable Money Summit

Whether you’re already a conquering whale, about to dip your toes into a stablecoin pool or merely crypto-curious, DeFi and the Future of Programmable Money is the place to be on March 30, 2022. During this day-long virtual summit, you’ll

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The Whiteboard: Winners and losers from NBA’s pre-deadline trade madness

The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. Four teams got a jumpstart on the NBA Trade Deadline with a pair of

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Benavidez Sr. talks about the differences between Canelo and Morrell

David Benavidez is one of the fighters who remains at the top of the super middleweight division and is looking to become a world champion again. Although right now he has a fight coming up against David Lemieux, he is

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4-player Co-op Shooter ‘Gambit!’ Coming to Quest 2 & SteamVR This Year

XREAL Games, the Budapest-based studio behind Zero Caliber VR (2018), announced that its upcoming co-op shooter Gambit! is set to release on Quest 2 and PC VR headsets this year. Gambit! was first revealed around a year and half ago, promising a campaign-driven adventure

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Scotney faces Guanini on Saturday for WBA-Intercontinental belt

British Ellie Scotney will get her first professional title shot when she faces experienced Argentinean Jorgelina Guanini next Saturday for the World Boxing Association (WBA) Intercontinental super bantamweight belt at the Alexandra Palace in London, England. The fight will be

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Apple source code references ‘realityOS’ for potential VR/AR headsets

The operating system powering Apple’s rumored virtual or augmented reality headset may be called realityOS, MacRumors has reported. The term was spotted by multiple sources in recent GitHub open source code and App Store upload logs. “What is Apple’s realityOS

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SpaceX loses 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm

Almost all of the Starlink internet satellites that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried beyond the atmosphere on February 3rd won’t reach their intended orbit. SpaceX has revealed that a geomagnetic storm that took place a day after the liftoff

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Vicarius raises $24M to build out its vulnerability remediation platform

Vicarius, a New York-based startup that has developed an autonomous vulnerability remediation platform, has raised $24 million in Series A funding to protect organizations from the next major supply-chain attack. The current vulnerability remediation situation isn’t working, Vicarius tells TechCrunch.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Protests Threaten Border Trade Between U.S., Canada

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian lawmakers expressed increasing worry Tuesday about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations after the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Canada became partially blocked by truckers protesting vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions. The

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BasiGo secures $4.3 million in seed funding to accelerate mass transit EV adoption in Kenya

Kenya-based EV startup BasiGo has closed $4.3 million in seed funding, three months after setting up operations in East Africa’s biggest economy, to provide clean-energy mass transit vehicles in a country that is heavily-reliant on fossil-fuel buses. The startup said

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Lyft’s revenue growth masks active riders slippage

U.S. ride-hailing company Lyft dropped its fourth-quarter financial results Tuesday, a report that showed a mixed bag of growth — that in the area of active riders failed to meet analysts’ expectations. The public company had Q4 2021 revenues of

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