Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin is back from his fractured left fibula and remains red hot in his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goal record. Ovechkin, 39, had missed 16 games after absorbing a leg-on-leg collision during a Nov. 18 game against the Utah Hockey Club. He returned on Dec. 28 and has scored goals in four of his first five games back. ...
The defending champion United States can reach the final in back-to-back years for the first time in its history at the world junior hockey championship. But first it will need to get past the team that prevented it from getting a medal in 2022. Saturday’s semifinals opponent is Czechia, which defeated the USA in the quarterfinals three years ago. Since ...
Pro-crypto lawyer John Deaton is taking a frontline role with the quest to probe the Operation Chokepoint 2.0 of the digital currency ecosystem. In a recent post on X, the XRP holders’ lawyer said he is volunteering to lead the Federal investigation into Chokepoint 2.0. Notably, the pro-crypto attorney comes off as one of the first industry personalities to call ...
RLUSD, the stablecoin floated by American blockchain payments firm Ripple Labs is growing at a fast pace, currently flipping its core rivals in 24 hour trading volume. Despite the stablecoin’s young age, it has printed a sustained growth track to beat Paypal’s PYUSD and Circle’s EURC tokens. This milestone comes despite Ripple USD showcasing a much smaller market capitalization than ...
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson took to the X platform recently to inform members of the ADA community of what the future holds for Lace Wallet. He hinted at the numerous upgrades planned out for the Cardano-based light wallet platform this year. The Potential Lace Wallet Upgrades In his X post, Hoskinson suggested that Lace would make a debut on multiple ...
Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on December 29 at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan. Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese ...
Thousands without heating in Moldova’s breakaway Transnistria region, after Russian gas supplies cut
The head of Moldova’s breakaway region Transnistria has urged residents to burn firewood for heating and warned that blackouts cannot be avoided, after Moscow stopped supplying gas via Ukraine. Vadim Krasnoselskyi, the president of the Russian-backed separatist slither on Moldova’s eastern flank, said in a message on Telegram on Friday that “1,500 multi-story apartment buildings have no heating and hot ...
Mexico opened the possibility Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other nationalities directly to their countries of origin. President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her daily press briefing that in cases where the US would not return migrants to their countries “we can collaborate through different ...
In this video, Mary Ellen analyzes the divergence between the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq while highlighting some of the areas driving Growth stocks. She also talks about the continuation rally in Energy and Utility stocks and shares which stocks are driving these areas higher. This video originally premiered January 3, 2025. You can watch it on our dedicated page for Mary ...
The Russell 2000 ETF managed a double-digit gain in 2024, but did it the hard way with several deep pullbacks. Pullbacks within uptrends are opportunities and we can find such opportunities using %B. The chart below shows the Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) with the Zigzag(8) indicator. This indicator changes direction when there is a move greater than 8%, which means ...
Texas football will return a key part of its program for the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Cotton Bowl. And no, it’s not a player or coach. Texas’ live mascot, Bevo, will make his first appearance at a CFP game this season as he was previously barred from attending the Longhorns’ Peach Bowl game against Arizona State, as Mercedes-Benz ...
Colorado coach Jared Bednar was upset that the Buffalo Sabres were allowed to score while Avalanche goalie Scott Wedgewood was lying injured in the net, calling the decision ‘insanity.’ Colorado’s Parker Kelly had tangled with Buffalo’s Zach Benson, who fell onto the back of Wedgewood’s leg in Thursday’s game. The Sabres retrieved the loose puck and Benson scored on a ...