‼️ JUST IN | Democrat Mary Peltola defeats former Gov. Sarah Palin in Alaska’s House special election
Peltola’s win in the Last Frontier State effectively makes her the first Alaska Native to serve in the US Congress, as well as the first Democrat to hold the congressional House seat in decades.
Peltola’s win in the Last Frontier State effectively makes her the first Alaska Native to serve in the US Congress, as well as the first Democrat to hold the congressional House seat in decades.
💩14👍4
🔋 The shift to electric vehicles is about to overwhelm meager US mining operations
EVs need batteries, and batteries need minerals like nickel, cobalt, and lithium. The US has some of these minerals underground, and it wants to dig them up, expeditiously, so that it doesn’t have to rely as much on other countries.
The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), says the current mining laws do not reflect the urgency to ramp up the domestic supply of minerals: “If EVs were to represent 100 percent of new car sales (17 million annually), current lithium carbonate equivalent production would only meet 0.05 percent of total domestic EV battery pack demand.”
New mine in the US can take 7 to 10 years to complete all the permitting and paperwork before going online. In Canada and Australia, that process only takes 2 to 3 years. The US currently has one operating nickel mine, in Michigan. Its resources are expected to be exhausted by 2026.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
EVs need batteries, and batteries need minerals like nickel, cobalt, and lithium. The US has some of these minerals underground, and it wants to dig them up, expeditiously, so that it doesn’t have to rely as much on other countries.
The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), says the current mining laws do not reflect the urgency to ramp up the domestic supply of minerals: “If EVs were to represent 100 percent of new car sales (17 million annually), current lithium carbonate equivalent production would only meet 0.05 percent of total domestic EV battery pack demand.”
New mine in the US can take 7 to 10 years to complete all the permitting and paperwork before going online. In Canada and Australia, that process only takes 2 to 3 years. The US currently has one operating nickel mine, in Michigan. Its resources are expected to be exhausted by 2026.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍17💩10
🪙 Congress presses big crypto exchanges for details on how they’re fighting scams
The committee is asking FTX, Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, and Kraken to provide documentation related to their efforts to prevent scams, perform audits, investigate fraudulent listings, and more. The companies must submit the documents by September 12th, 2022. In addition to the exchanges, the committee also asked the Department of the Treasury, the FTC, the CFTC, and the SEC how they plan to address scams.
The committee’s letters cite data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicating that over 46,000 people in the US lost a combined $1 billion due to crypto scams since the start of 2021, with individuals losing $2,600 on average. Investment and romance scams have been particularly lucrative for bad actors, who collected about $575 million and $185 million from either scheme, respectively.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The committee is asking FTX, Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, and Kraken to provide documentation related to their efforts to prevent scams, perform audits, investigate fraudulent listings, and more. The companies must submit the documents by September 12th, 2022. In addition to the exchanges, the committee also asked the Department of the Treasury, the FTC, the CFTC, and the SEC how they plan to address scams.
The committee’s letters cite data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicating that over 46,000 people in the US lost a combined $1 billion due to crypto scams since the start of 2021, with individuals losing $2,600 on average. Investment and romance scams have been particularly lucrative for bad actors, who collected about $575 million and $185 million from either scheme, respectively.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍12👎1
🇯🇵 Japan's Yen hits lowest against US Dollar since September 1998
The yen on Thursday morning fell to a new low since September 1998, trading at over 139.5 yen per US dollar, according to trading data.
As of 9.25 a.m. local time (00:25 GMT), the US dollar was trading at 139.55-139.56 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Investors are assessing the difference in monetary policy rates between the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan, which keeps the interest rate at -0.1% while the US carries out a tight monetary policy.
In particular, US Central Bank chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday that the Federal Reserve will keep at "forceful" interest rate hikes to bring inflation back down to the central bank’s annual 2% goal.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The yen on Thursday morning fell to a new low since September 1998, trading at over 139.5 yen per US dollar, according to trading data.
As of 9.25 a.m. local time (00:25 GMT), the US dollar was trading at 139.55-139.56 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Investors are assessing the difference in monetary policy rates between the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan, which keeps the interest rate at -0.1% while the US carries out a tight monetary policy.
In particular, US Central Bank chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday that the Federal Reserve will keep at "forceful" interest rate hikes to bring inflation back down to the central bank’s annual 2% goal.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍18😁10💩3
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🚨 Driver attacks a 78 year old woman in Brooklyn and hits witness
An Access-A-Ride driver allegedly assaulted and robbed a 78-year-old woman in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon before he struck a good Samaritan who was recording the incident.
The woman had hired the driver to take her to a physical therapy appointment, police says. Before a good Samaritan who was filming the scene intervened, the driver allegedly attacked her outside the car and snatched her phone, as seen in the video.
He then handed the phone to the good Samaritan and then got back in the car, striking the man before fleeing. Cops said they took the good Samaritan and the woman to area hospitals.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
An Access-A-Ride driver allegedly assaulted and robbed a 78-year-old woman in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon before he struck a good Samaritan who was recording the incident.
The woman had hired the driver to take her to a physical therapy appointment, police says. Before a good Samaritan who was filming the scene intervened, the driver allegedly attacked her outside the car and snatched her phone, as seen in the video.
He then handed the phone to the good Samaritan and then got back in the car, striking the man before fleeing. Cops said they took the good Samaritan and the woman to area hospitals.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👍19💩8👎6🤔3
Sputnik International
‼️ Pentagon: 'We are not running out of aid' for Ukraine ➡️ LIVE UPDATES
⚡️ Russia's Emergencies Ministry delivers 3,900 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Donbass in week
The Russian Emergencies Ministry said it has delivered 3,900 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) and liberated territories of Ukraine in the past week, whereas about 75,000 tonnes has been delivered to the area since the start of the humanitarian mission.
"Since the start of the humanitarian mission, almost 75,000 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes has been delivered to Donbass by Russian Emergencies Ministry convoys," the ministry said. "Over the past week (since August 24), rescuers have delivered bottled water, food, medicines and essentials with a total weight of about 3,900 tonnes to the DPR, LPR and Ukraine," it said.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
The Russian Emergencies Ministry said it has delivered 3,900 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR) and liberated territories of Ukraine in the past week, whereas about 75,000 tonnes has been delivered to the area since the start of the humanitarian mission.
"Since the start of the humanitarian mission, almost 75,000 tonnes of humanitarian cargoes has been delivered to Donbass by Russian Emergencies Ministry convoys," the ministry said. "Over the past week (since August 24), rescuers have delivered bottled water, food, medicines and essentials with a total weight of about 3,900 tonnes to the DPR, LPR and Ukraine," it said.
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
❤38👍7
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
"My daughter was shot dead by the Ukrainian Army": A woman from Rubezhnoye, LPR spoke about her tragic loss during the exhumation of bodies from a makeshift grave.
❤21👎12
⚡️Social networks users have shared footage of the aftermath of this morning’s shelling of Energodar by Ukrainian forces
👎30
⚡️ Ukrainian forces have landed in the area of Energodar, the head of the city told Sputnik
🤔21👎9💩2
Sputnik International
⚡️ Ukrainian forces have landed in the area of Energodar, the head of the city told Sputnik
Meanwhile the IAEA mission sets off for Zaporozhye NPP, which is located in Energodar
🤔14👍7
⚡️ The IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says that there is "increased military activity" in the area of Energodar, but the IAEA mission doesn't stop, Reuters reported
👍23
⚡️ The authorities of the Zaporozhye region confirmed that the IAEA mission left Zaporozhye in the direction of the NPP and Energodar
👍21
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
A 73-year-old neighbor of this woman from Volnovakha, DPR was burned alive in her apartment during Ukrainian shelling because the door jammed. At the time, neither DPR nor Russian troops were in the city.
👎37👍2
⚡️ Ukrainian troops continue to strike at Energodar, Sputnik correspondent says
💩43👎6😁1
⚡️⚡️ Landed Ukrainian troops attempted to capture the Zaporozhye NPP, Russia's MoD says
💩42👎5😁5
📌 Russia's MoD issued a statement on the Ukrainian provocation in the vicinity of Energodar:
▪️This provocation is aimed at disrupting the arrival of the IAEA mission at the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP);
▪️At 3am (GMT) two Ukrainian sabotage troops of up to 60 people landed on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir three kilometers north-east of the ZNPP and tried to capture the power plant;
▪️From 5am (GMT), Ukrainian forces started to shell the place the IAEA mission was due to meet, near the Vasilyevka settlement and the ZNPP;
▪️Four shells exploded at a distance of 400 meters from the first power unit of the ZNPP
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
▪️This provocation is aimed at disrupting the arrival of the IAEA mission at the Zaporozhye NPP (ZNPP);
▪️At 3am (GMT) two Ukrainian sabotage troops of up to 60 people landed on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir three kilometers north-east of the ZNPP and tried to capture the power plant;
▪️From 5am (GMT), Ukrainian forces started to shell the place the IAEA mission was due to meet, near the Vasilyevka settlement and the ZNPP;
▪️Four shells exploded at a distance of 400 meters from the first power unit of the ZNPP
Subscribe to @SputnikInt
👎27👍4💩4
⚡️ ZNPP 5th power unit could have been switched off after Ukrainian shelling - official
💩19👎3
⚡️ Russian forces destroyed two self-propelled barges with Ukrainian tactical troops, Russia's MoD says
❤43👍18😁3