Oliver Smith 
Block Inc logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Jack Dorsey says that his payments company, Block (formerly Square), is expanding its bitcoin mining ambitions from designing chips to developing a full bitcoin mining system. In a post on Tuesday, the global tech firm announced that it … Read more
A man has died after being found seriously injured wandering along a highway in regional NSW. Police initially conducted a welfare check at a home in Cowra in the state’s Central West region about 10.35pm on Tuesday. A short time later officers found a 43-year-old man with serious injuries to his arm wandering along the … Read more
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Senate on Tuesday advanced a package to provide billions in aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, sending the legislation on a glide … Read more
(NewsNation) — Prosecution and defense attorneys are planning to meet Monday to discuss what’s next after a judge declared a mistrial in the case of an Arizona rancher accused of shooting and killing a Mexican man on his property. Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly walked into court Monday morning confident he would be acquitted in … Read more
A Belgian man was acquitted of a drunk-driving charge on Monday after court officials learned he suffers from a very rare metabolic condition that causes his body to turn certain foods into alcohol. The 40-year-old man, who has not been named publicly, has a condition called auto-brewery syndrome (ABS). He was examined by three separate … Read more
United Nations rights chief Volker Turk is “horrified” by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there, a spokesperson says. Palestinian authorities reported finding bodies in mass graves at a hospital in Khan Younis this week after it was abandoned by … Read more
The U.K. prime minister said Tuesday the country is putting its defence industry on a “war footing” by increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by the end of the decade, and pledged to send arms worth 500 million pounds ($850 million) to Ukraine. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the increase … Read more
The group this week proposed a massive hike in water bills London: Thames Water, the UK’s largest water supplier, has been ravaged since privatisation by soaring debts and chronic underinvestment, sinking into a deep financial crisis which has sparked bailout speculation. So how did Thames Water, serving about 15 million people across London and surrounding … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Preamble Scott will be here shortly. Share Preamble Arsenal can go three points clear at the top of the Premier League tonight, and in doing so, tick off one of the harder matches of their title-race run-in. They’ll fancy their chances … Read more
Schumer says Senate should ‘finish the job’ with foreign aid vote In brief remarks on the Senate floor, the Senate’s Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, called for lawmakers to pass the foreign aid bill “as expeditiously as possible”. “The time has come to finish the job to help our friends abroad once and for all,” the … Read more
