Coalition of U.S. Senators Press President Biden for a Fourth Round of Stimulus Checks

While Americans are still getting their third stimulus payments, discussions of tacking on a fourth round of direct payments to Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal have started trending. Just recently, a coalition led by Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden and over a dozen Democratic leaders wrote a letter to President Biden asking to get “much-needed relief to American families.”

Forest elephants are now critically endangered

A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and working closely with experts from the Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux du Gabon (ANPN) compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African savannah elephants. The study is part of a larger initiative in partnership with Vulcan Inc. to provide the first nationwide census in Gabon for more than 30 years. The results of the census are expected later this year.

So Why Did Bitcoin Crash?

Sunday’s Bitcoin crash wiped around 16% off the price of the number one cryptocurrency, bringing with it the whole of the altcoin market. Why did the crash happen? Was it the Xinjiang power outage, or was it the rumour of the US treasury about to bring money laundering charges to unspecified crypto institutions? Or was it just that the overextended crypto market just experienced a nice, healthy correction?

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