Forget Solana, XRP may flip Ethereum first amid 5-year high

XRP (XRP) price versus Ether (ETH) reached its highest level in five years over the weekend, extending its recovery. On March 15, the XRP/ETH pair touched 0.00128 ETH for the first time since April 2020. That amounts to a 925% rebound when measured from its all-time low of 0.00013 ETH…

Houthis Vow Retaliation After U.S. Strikes in Yemen

The Houthi militia in Yemen vowed to retaliate after President Trump ordered large-scale military strikes on targets controlled by the group that it said killed at least 31 people. The Iran-backed group said women and children were among those killed in the strikes on Saturday, the most significant U.S. military…

Takeaways ​From ​The Times Interview ​With Chuck Schumer About the Federal Spending Bill

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing the biggest revolt from Democrats in years, but in a conversation with The Interview after his crucial vote supporting a Republican federal spending bill this past week, he tried to brush off questions about whether he should step aside. Democratic officials appeared stunned…

East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia

Feith Shimila Murunga says her boss groped, beat and raped her. Mary Wanjiru Nyambura says she was thrown from a balcony. Winfridah Kwamboka never even made it back home. East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers. By Abdi Latif…

The C.F.P.B. Remains Alive as the Trump Administration Tries to Shut it Down

At the headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, faint shadows above the entrance are all that remain of the letters that once spelled the agency’s name. In the Trump administration’s broad dismantling of the federal government, the consumer bureau was one of the first agencies to fall, its offices…

Fierce Storms Spawning Tornadoes Kill at Least 18

The storms that killed at least 18 people across Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri on Friday and Saturday continued to pummel a vast section of the South, leveling homes, taking down power lines and turning communities into debris fields. Before the intense and long-lasting tornadoes arrived, forecasters said that their level…