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Pepe coin price is pumping 33% at $0.000001644, as the weekend market flashes green, especially where meme coins are concerned, as with $SPONGE and AiDoge.com also climbing.Only a month old Pepe has delivered a 2,777% return for its early investors. A swooning bitcoin price has impacted sentiment and prices over the past couple of days, but anyone zooming out from the near-term noise will have noticed that the leading crypto is still up 61% and above its all-important 200-day moving average.Meme coins are of course far more erratic than bitcoin due to the red hot speculative price action that surrounds the…

A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control pill available without a prescription outweigh the risks, a significant step in the decades-long push to make oral contraception obtainable over the counter in the United States.If the F.D.A. approves nonprescription sales of the medication, called Opill, this summer, it could significantly expand access to contraception, especially for young women and those who have difficulty dealing with the time, costs or logistical hurdles involved in visiting a doctor, reproductive health experts say.“I think Opill has the potential to…

LONDON — The Bank of England on Thursday hiked interest rates by 25 basis points and revised its economic projections to now exclude the possibility of a U.K. recession this year.The Monetary Policy Committee voted 7-2 in favor of the quarter-point increase to take the main bank rate from 4.25% to 4.5%, as the bank reiterated its commitment to taming stubbornly high inflation.related investing newsThe headline consumer price index rose by an annual 10.1% in March, driven by persistently high food and energy bills. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food, energy, alcohol and tobacco prices, increased by 5.7% over the 12…

CHICAGO — Moments before 10 a.m., a security guard thanked the crowd for being cooperative.When the clock struck the hour, it became clear why: The doors of the Marriott Chicago O’Hare conference center opened, and hundreds of attendees, a majority of whom were over the age of 60, bee-lined as fast as they could to the booths.Many had studied the color-coded map ahead of time listing each booth’s location and came prepared with a shopping plan — a scene that could easily be mistaken for a Black Friday sale. Instead, it was the Chicago International Miniatures Show.Despite the gathering touting…

Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible” co-star, Vanessa Kirby, is sharing details about the actor filming his own stunts.Kirby, who stars as White Widow in “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” recalled witnessing Cruise parachute off a motorcycle while going off a cliff in Iceland with “no fear.””He did it many times in one day,” Kirby told Variety. “He did it consecutively … and repeatedly so he could capture all the different angles and sides of it.”If Cruise ever gets nervous, he sure doesn’t show it.TOM CRUISE PARACHUTES OFF A MOUNTAIN WHILE FILMING ‘MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8’ Vanessa Kirby recalled Tom Cruise…

Logan Sargeant, the only American driver in Formula 1, is zipping around the narrow streets of Baku, Azerbaijan, at roughly 200 miles an hour. His head bounces inside the cockpit as a wheel shudders over a rumble strip. It’s hard to hear over the banshee shriek of his V6 engine, carrying three times the horsepower of a run-of-the-mill Porsche Carrera.Then the noise stops, and Baku vanishes. We’re inside a low-slung brick building nestled in the Oxfordshire countryside. The track, projected onto a CinemaScope-sized wraparound screen, was a mirage, part of a sophisticated training simulator. (F1 rules prohibit driving the real…

Elon Musk is in talks to hire Linda Yaccarino, the chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, as chief executive of Twitter, two people with knowledge of the matter said.The talks are at an advanced stage, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the conversations are confidential. Ms. Yaccarino has been in discussions with Mr. Musk for weeks, they said. Last month, Ms. Yaccarino interviewed Mr. Musk onstage at an advertising event in Miami.Mr. Musk had said earlier on Thursday that he had selected a chief executive for Twitter but did not identify the executive.…

As hungry Italians at the Festival for the Fava Bean lined up in a field in the Roman countryside to order fava and pecorino cheese, fava and porchetta, cream of fava on top of pasta or simply brown bags loaded with fresh fava, the manager of an adjacent garden spoke of the witch-fingered legume with dread.“We search for them and rip them out,” said Francesco Urso, 72, pointing at a sign that read “The planting of Fava is banned.” The leathery green pod bulging with indented oval beans may be delicious, great for the soil and a cherished Roman springtime…

“I’m fine, but you must be freezing,” she said, as she draped a blanket over his shoulders. “It’s been raining for days.”He shrugged. “My teeth are clattering like piano keys, but we’ve been through worse,” he said.Abdul had come to rely on their weekly visits as his only semblance of stability during a time in which living on the street in San Diego had become what he called “a daily game of Russian roulette.” His longtime partner, Phasia McKee, had died in November of a suspected fentanyl overdose at 46 years old. Three of his friends had been run over…

Canadian airports and airlines are bracing for a hot summer travel season ahead as they attempt to bounce back from the chaos of long lines and delays that were seen across the country last year. Travellers might have a smoother ride this time around as the air travel sector rolls out a series of measures, from hiring more staff to technological advancements.There’s also increased pressure on accountability as strengthened air passenger rights measures proposed by the federal government loom.With COVID-19 restrictions completely lifted, improvements at airports and better staffing, “we’re in far better shape than we were before,” said one…