house next week, they will hold the administration accountable on this issue. he is here in moments as is jonathan turley with his analysis. first to aishah hasnie who is live for us in washington. aishah, good afternoon. good afternoon to you, trace. as the white house continues to blame republicans in congress for not passing immigration reform, democrat congressman henry cuellar of texas tells mes that an unfair assessment since the administration has the power to change policy today if it wanted to. without due respect to the administration, i agree, we need to do immigration reform. but they can change the policy by having order at the border where they can say they did it for the venezuelans. honestly, i think the homeland security department is struggling with some of the more progressive white house staffers. i hope homeland wins this particular fight. cuellar is responding to republican criticism that there was lack of border funding in that 1.7 trillion omnibu
Pleaded guilty to one count of violating the banks secrecy act, Resolving A Multi Investigation by the Us Government into the well s largest cryptocurrency exchange, binance. As part of that agreement he also stepped down as ceo. The founder apologised to the court in seattle, saying his company had now put in place anti Money Laundering controls. It was watched by his mother and sister who were in court as he learned his fate. The sentence was considerably shorter than the three years prosecutors were demanding and less than the 1218 were demanding and less than the 12 18 months recommended underfederal the 12 18 months recommended under federal guidelines. The 12 18 months recommended underfederal guidelines. Once under federal guidelines. Once considered the underfederal guidelines. Once considered the most powerful person in the crypto industry, he is the second major crypto boss to be sentenced to prison. In march, sam bankman fried received 25 years behind bars for stealing 8 bil
It would also allow for displaced families to return to northern gaza. Its also reported to involve new wording on restoring calm to gaza, designed to satisfy hamas s demand for a permanent ceasefire. Benjamin netanyahu meanwhile said that israel will carry out an operation in rafah, regardless of whether a Ceasefire Deal is reached with hamas. The israeli Prime Minister was speaking at a meeting with the families of hostages where he reiterated that israel would eliminate hamas, and achieve total victory. Translation we will enter rafah because i we have no other choice. We will destroy the hamas battalions there, we will complete all the objectives of the war, including the repatriation of all our abductees. This is from frank gardner. A lot of things are about to happen in this part of the world over the coming days. Antony blinken has arrived here and hes only spending less than a day in israel but he will be pushing for the Ceasefire Deal. I do not think it would be Ceasefire Deal
was found guilty of fraud and money laundering last month. also in november, the ceo of binance, the world s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty to anti money laundering and us sanctions violations. he paid a $50 million fine and the company paid a $4.3 billion fine. but bitcoin, it seems, is no worse for the wear. the price climbed above $44,000 tuesday and shares of coinbase global, the largest us crypto exchange, were up as well. bitcoin miners traded higher too. here s some of the wind in their sails. us regulators are expected to approve an exchange traded fund that directly holds bitcoin. it could happen as early as next month and traders are betting on it. data out overnight said higher interest rates are causing businesses to cut costs including recruiting new workers. we re nearly half way in to this year s round of climate talks known as cop28 and there seems to have been progress on some deals already. under one agreement, 110 governments have commi
and then the collapse of the ftx cyrptocurrency exchange in november 2022, and the ftx founder was found guilty of fraud and money laundering last month. also in november, the ceo of binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty to anti money laundering and us sanctions violations and paid a $50 million fine and the company paid a $4.3 billion fine. but bitcoin, it seems, is no worse for the wear. the price climbed above $44,000 tuesday and shares of coinbase global, the largest crypto exchange in the us were up as well. bitcoin minors traded up as well. here are some of the wind in their sails. us regulators are expected to approve an exchange traded fund that directly holds bitcoin. that could happen as early as next month and traders are betting on it. australia s economy barely grew in the third quarter with gdp rising just 0.2%, the slowest growth in a year. households have been cutting back on spending and exports have also been flagging and data further