One of lifes most underappreciated talents is to know when its time to move on to lifes next chapter. So i stand before you today, mr president and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. For more on mitch mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, heres our North America correspondent gary odonoghue. After repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides have at least reached a partial agreement on some other Spending Bills that they have been arguing about. It looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through senate and the House Of Representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday, by which time they will pass Spending Bills on six separate departments. Now, they havent reached an agreement on the other six departments, but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22. So in some ways, this is progress being made and in some
So what is driving this revival in bitcoin . Erin delmore reports. Its been more than two years since we have seen Bitcoin Cross the 60,000 mark, but the cryptocurrency did just that on wednesday, even soaring to 64,000. It may be closing in on its all time high of 68,000. There are a few reasons why crypto enthusiasts are fired up About Bitcoin these days, newly approved Spot Bitcoin Exchange traded funds have investors buzzing and there is a change coming up in april when bitcoin miners start getting less bitcoin for their efforts and the spectre of lesser supply fuels more demand. 0ne lesser supply fuels more demand. One more thing than any background here, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut Interest Rates this year, that stokes investors because interest in alternative investments like cryptocurrencies. But its not all smooth sailing, some uses of queen based global, the largest trip to exchange in the us unexpectedly saw their balances drop down to zero among the bitcoin buzz
One of lifes most underappreciated talents is to know when its time to move on to lifes next chapter. So i stand before you today, mr president and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. For more on both mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, heres our North America correspondent gary odonoghue. After repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides have at least reached a partial agreement on some of the Spending Bills that they have been arguing about. It looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through both the senate and the House Of Representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday, by which time they will pass Spending Bills on six separate departments. Now, they havent reached an agreement on the other six departments, but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22. So in some ways, this is progress being made, i
0ur North America correspondent peter bowes sent this update. This means the trial of donald trump on charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the result of the 2020 election will be significantly delayed if indeed it is able to go ahead at all. Donald trump is accused of being involved in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through his words, his actions, in the days leading up to january six, 2021, and the assault on the capitol building. He says he was the president at the time and therefore he cannot face these criminal charges because he had president ial immunity and that he cannot be charged for anything he did during that time. We have since heard from him again, after hearing about the Supreme Court does make intention is to look at this case, donald trump releasing a statement, reaffirming his still believed that president ial immunity applies. In fact, he says it is in the best interest of the United States, Notjust Talking about himself but referring