March 28, 2024
GOP scrambles to organize early and mail voting despite Trump’s attacks
In December, Donald Trump called for the end of mail-in voting in presidential elections. In February, he told Michigan voters that “mail-in voting is totally corrupt.” He later told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that “if you have mail-in balloting, you automatically have fraud.” “The ballots are a disaster,” he said earlier this month to […]
March 28, 2024
Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.
After an anti-corruption crusader unexpectedly won last year’s presidential election in Guatemala, democracy teetered on the edge in the Central American country. Amid law enforcement raids on election offices and threats of violence, the Biden administration worked feverishly to lay the groundwork for a peaceful transfer of power. But not Richard Grenell, a former diplomat […]
March 28, 2024
Galan Increases Total Mineral Resource by 18% to 8.6Mt LCE @ 859mg/L Lithium
Galan Lithium Limited (ASX:GLN) (Galan or the Company) is pleased to announce a further consolidating increase to its JORC (2012) reported Mineral Resource estimate for the Hombre Muerto West Project (HMW Project) located in Catamarca Province, Argentina. The revised Mineral Resource estimate was completed by a team of leading independent geological consultants, WSP Chile (WSP). […]
March 28, 2024
Edison Lithium: Transitioning to Sodium-ion Battery Technology
Edison Lithium (TSXV:EDDY) is pivoting towards sodium-ion battery technology while maintaining interests in lithium assets in Argentina. The company is divesting its cobalt projects in Canada via a spin-off into a new publicly listed company, Edison Cobalt. After the spin-off, Edison Lithium will comprise two divisions: Edison Saskatchewan and Edison Lithium. Edison Saskatchewan will focus […]
March 28, 2024
Cyber Insurance Industry to Experience Above Trend Sector Growth
(TheNewswire) Vancouver, British Columbia TheNewswire March 27, 2024 – Integrated Cyber Solutions Inc. (CSE:ICS) (FSE:Y4G). Since 2018, the global cyber insurance market has experienced remarkable growth beyond the industry average, with coverage volumes tripling over that time frame. Today, this insurance domain has generated approximately US$13 billion in gross direct premiums by 2022 and is […]
March 28, 2024
Successful Completion of A$12 Million Share Placement
Brightstar Resources Limited (Brightstar or the Company) (ASX: BTR) is pleased to report that it has received firm commitments for a placement of new fully paid ordinary shares in the Company (Shares) at A$0.014 per Share to raise A$12 million (before costs) (Placement). Highlights: Firm commitments received to raise A$12 million through a strongly supported […]
March 28, 2024
FREEGOLD ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF $10 MILLION BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT FINANCING
Freegold Ventures Limited (TSX: FVL) (‘ Freegold ‘ or the ‘ Company ‘), is pleased to announce that further to its news release of March 8, 2024 the Company has closed its upsized brokered private placement offering for aggregate gross proceeds of $10,000,000 ). Paradigm Capital acted as sole agent (the ‘ Agent ‘) on […]
March 28, 2024
Goldman Sachs Bullish on Commodities, Shares 2024 Price Calls for Gold and Copper
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is maintaining its bullish stance on commodities as they continue to enjoy strong cyclical and structural support, and as the US and Europe move closer to cutting interest rates. The American investment bank said it sees raw materials potentially returning 15 percent in 2024. “We find that US rate cuts in non-recessionary […]
March 28, 2024
A day after bridge collapse, Republicans are blaming Dems, floating unfounded and sometimes racist theories
Following Tuesday’s deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some Republican officials, candidates and right-wing pundits attempted to connect the tragedy to some of their most frequent political targets: diversity initiatives, illegal immigration, covid lockdowns and the Biden administration. And early reaction to the incident also provided fresh ground for unfounded theories […]
March 28, 2024
Speaker Johnson’s only path to legislative salvation: House Democrats
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces a unique dilemma as he considers how to handle the proposed security package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Johnson doesn’t need to find a way to the normal majority in the House — currently 216 out of the 431 members — but instead he needs to pull together legislation […]
March 28, 2024
Montana Supreme Court strikes down voting restrictions
Montana’s highest court on Wednesday struck down four laws that the state’s Republican-led legislature passed in 2021 to restrict voting. The Montana Supreme Court declared the laws unconstitutional, siding with a district court judge who ruled against them in 2022. The laws “violate the fundamental right to vote provided to all citizens by the Montana […]
March 28, 2024
Republicans are more pessimistic about democracy than Democrats
There’s little question that Republican candidates on the ballot in November believe that immigration is the most useful issue for them to highlight. Fox News went from mentioning the border (or migrants or immigration) about 1,400 times in July to more than 9,200 times in February and over 9,600 times last month. This wasn’t obviously […]