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Today β€” 21 April 2026Main stream

Will XRP price break out of the symmetrical triangle or slide as the 4H MACD turns bearish at the apex?

21 April 2026 at 04:00
XRP price is at $1.4311 on April 20, as the 4H chart shows a symmetrical triangle reaching its apex simultaneously with a bearish MACD crossover, compressing an imminent directional resolution into the tightest point of the pattern. XRP (XRP) price…

Will Bitcoin price break above $77,500 or reverse as the 4H MACD prints a bearish crossover at ascending channel resistance?

21 April 2026 at 03:00
Bitcoin price is at $76,466 on April 20, pressing the upper boundary of a 4H ascending channel from the February lows while the MACD simultaneously prints a bearish crossover on the same timeframe, creating a directional tension that will define…

XRP Weekly Gain Outpaces Bitcoin and Ethereum as Trading Volume Jumps 23%

21 April 2026 at 02:00
The XRP price prediction picture improved this week as CoinGecko showed XRP trading at $1.43 with a 6.7% gain over seven days, outperforming the broader cryptocurrency market which rose 3.2% over the same period, while 24-hour trading volume jumped 23%…

FBI Director Kash Patel Files $250 Million Defamation Suit Against The Atlantic Over Drinking Report

21 April 2026 at 01:45
Kash Patel news broke Monday as the FBI Director filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick in US District Court in Washington, alleging the magazine published β€œfalse and obviously fabricated allegations” in a story…

Michigan Attorney General Rejects DOJ Request for Detroit Ballots in Broader Federal Election Push

21 April 2026 at 01:20
US election news arrived Sunday when Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel formally rejected a Department of Justice demand for ballots and voting materials from Wayne County, which includes Detroit, calling the request β€œas absurd as it is baseless” in a…

Trump Weighs Unfreezing $20 Billion in Iranian Assets After Years of Attacking Obama for the Same Move

21 April 2026 at 00:45
The Trump Iran deal under negotiation includes a proposal to unfreeze $20 billion in Iranian assets in exchange for Tehran surrendering its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, CNN reported, according to two US officials and two additional sources briefed on…

Brent Crude at $94.57 as Strait of Hormuz Records Near-Zero Traffic for Second Straight Day

20 April 2026 at 23:40
The crude oil price benchmark Brent reached $94.57 per barrel Monday morning, up more than 5% from Friday’s close, as CNBC reported that Kpler maritime data recorded essentially zero tanker crossings of the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, with shipping…

JD Vance Departs for Islamabad Amid Deep Uncertainty Over Whether Iran Will Show

20 April 2026 at 23:20
Iran peace talks entered their most uncertain phase yet Monday as Vice President JD Vance prepared to lead a delegation to Islamabad alongside envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Axios reported, even as Iran’s Foreign Ministry formally stated it has…

OpenAI Investigates ChatGPT Outage Affecting Users Across Multiple Regions

20 April 2026 at 22:59
A ChatGPT outage struck thousands of users globally Monday, TechRadar reported, with Downdetector recording a spike from under 1,000 reports to over 5,000 within roughly 30 minutes of disruptions first appearing around 10:05 AM ET, as OpenAI confirmed on its…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Vow Retaliation After US Marines Board and Seize Touska

20 April 2026 at 22:45
IRGC news on Monday confirmed that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards declared they will take β€œnecessary action against the terrorist US military” once the safety of the Touska’s crew is confirmed, CNN reported, after the USS Spruance fired on the Iranian-flagged cargo…

Yesterday β€” 20 April 2026Main stream

Trump Breaks With His Own Energy Secretary Over Gas Price Timeline

20 April 2026 at 22:25
Trump news today includes a rare public rebuke of a sitting cabinet member, as President Trump told The Hill that Energy Secretary Chris Wright is β€œtotally wrong” on gas prices, the Washington Examiner reported, insisting prices will fall below three…

Trump Threatens to Bomb Iran Power Plants by Wednesday With No Deal in Sight

20 April 2026 at 21:55
Iran war news escalated Monday as President Trump renewed his threat to bomb Iranian bridges and power plants if no deal is reached before Wednesday’s ceasefire expiry, NBC News reported, even as Iran’s central military command warned its response to…

Bitcoin Proves More Resilient Than Oil as Iran Tensions Resurge Monday

20 April 2026 at 21:35
Bitcoin price today opened at $74,335, down 1.6% over 24 hours, Yahoo Finance reported, as the asset absorbed the weekend’s Iran escalation significantly better than oil, which surged over 5%, and European equities, which fell over 1%. Bitcoin (BTC) price…

Iran Pulls Out of Second-Round Pakistan Talks as Ceasefire Nears Expiry

20 April 2026 at 20:51
Iran news today centers on Tehran’s formal refusal to send negotiators to Islamabad, Al Jazeera reported Monday, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stating that β€œno clear prospect for productive negotiations is foreseen under current conditions,” even as a US…

Oil Price Surges 5% as Hormuz Goes Dark and US Seizes Iranian Vessel

20 April 2026 at 20:45
Oil price news Monday showed Brent crude jumped 4.3% to $94.18 and WTI rose 5.6% to $88.54, reversing Friday’s 9% collapse as Iran reimposed Strait of Hormuz restrictions over the weekend, the US Navy seized the Iranian cargo vessel Touska,…

Before yesterdayMain stream

AndX Enters US Crypto Exchange 2026 Market Using BitGo’s Regulated Infrastructure

18 April 2026 at 17:00
BitGo announced that AndX USA LLC has launched its US crypto exchange 2026 entry on top of BitGo’s Crypto-as-a-Service infrastructure, giving the global digital asset platform nationwide operations across all 50 states under an OCC-regulated custody framework backed by $250…

Circle Payments Network Opens Stablecoin Settlement to Banks Without Digital Asset Complexity

18 April 2026 at 16:35
Circle launched CPN Managed Payments on April 8, a fully managed stablecoin settlement solution that makes the Circle Payments Network accessible to banks, payment service providers, and fintechs without requiring them to manage digital assets, custody infrastructure, or blockchain operations…

Alito and Thomas Will Not Retire This Year, Closing Trump’s Window for a Fourth Court Pick

18 April 2026 at 16:10
Supreme Court news broke Friday as sources close to both justices confirmed to CBS News that neither Justice Samuel Alito nor Justice Clarence Thomas plans to retire this year, ending months of speculation that Trump might be able to lock…

Trump and Pope Leo XIV Trade Escalating Blows Over the Iran War

18 April 2026 at 15:59
In Trump news today, President Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV as β€œWEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” in a social media post that escalated a days-long public feud with the first American pope, who has repeatedly condemned the…

Nebraska Supreme Court Suspends Lawyer Who Used AI to Write Brief Full of Fabricated Citations

18 April 2026 at 15:45
AI hallucinations news moved from courtroom embarrassment to career consequence as the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled to suspend Omaha attorney Greg Lake until further notice, after a court brief he submitted in a divorce appeal contained 57 defective citations out…

Trump Nominates Erica Schwartz as CDC Director 2026 After Fourth Leadership Change in a Year

18 April 2026 at 15:25
Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director 2026 on Thursday, tapping a former Navy rear admiral and deputy surgeon general from his first term to lead an agency that has cycled through four leaders in the past 12 months…

Trump Administration Pulls $73.5M From New York Over Immigrant Trucker Licenses

18 April 2026 at 14:59
The Trump administration announced Thursday that New York will lose $73.5 million in federal highway funding after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found the state has refused to revoke nearly 33,000 commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants whose legal…

Generative AI News: US Households Are Carving Out Room in Budgets for ChatGPT and AI Subscriptions

18 April 2026 at 14:00
In the latest generative AI news, CBS MoneyWatch reported that US households are actively making room in their budgets for AI subscriptions, backed by Bank of America Institute data showing the number of paying AI subscribers has surged 38% from…

Bitcoin ETF News: Goldman Sachs Files for Bitcoin Premium Income ETF With SEC

18 April 2026 at 13:39
Goldman Sachs filed a registration statement with the SEC on April 14 for the Goldman Sachs Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, the first bitcoin ETF news from the Wall Street giant that proposes directly issuing its own crypto income product rather…

Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Bulls Target $125,000 as Funding Rates Hit Most Negative Since 2023

18 April 2026 at 02:20
Bitcoin price prediction turned aggressively bullish early Friday as CoinDesk reported that perpetual funding rates dropped to their most negative level since 2023 on a seven-day moving average, with ZeroStack CEO Daniel Reis-Faria targeting $125,000 within 30 to 60 days…

Solana News Today: DoubleZero Launches Edge to Bring Wall Street Data Infrastructure Onchain

18 April 2026 at 01:15
In Solana news today, DoubleZero Foundation launched Edge, a public beta platform that delivers raw Solana block data through a private global fiber network using multicast, bypassing the public internet to cut average delivery times by 6 milliseconds β€” the…

HBAR Price Prediction: Hedera and Stellar Top CoinDesk 20 as BTC Pushes Toward $76,000

18 April 2026 at 00:47
HBAR price prediction improved Friday as Hedera gained 1.4% and Stellar’s XLM added 1.5% to top the CoinDesk 20 performance update, placing the index at 2,125.52, up 0.3% from Thursday’s close, with just 9 of 20 assets trading higher as…

Payward Acquires First Fully Licensed US Crypto Derivatives Firm for $550M

18 April 2026 at 00:10
Payward, the parent company of Kraken, agreed to acquire Bitnomial, the first US crypto derivatives platform to hold all three CFTC licenses simultaneously, for up to $550 million in cash and stock, in a deal that values Payward at $20…

Bitcoin Breaks 100-Day Moving Average as Strategy Surges on $77K Push

17 April 2026 at 23:35
Bitcoin technical analysis turned decisively bullish Thursday as BTC cleared $77,000 and climbed above its 100-day moving average for the first time since the early February selloff, triggering a 12%+ surge in Strategy shares as the company’s 780,897-BTC treasury gained…

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Third $76K Rejection Extends Two-Month Stalemate

17 April 2026 at 23:20
Bitcoin price prediction turns cautious as BTC failed to sustain its third breakout attempt above $76,000, repeatedly touching the level only to reverse, while 46 consecutive days of negative funding rates on Binance have created the most compressed short positioning…

CFTC Chairman Says AI Is Compensating for 25% Staff Cuts at Crypto Regulator

17 April 2026 at 22:58
CFTC AI news came directly from Capitol Hill Thursday as Chairman Mike Selig told the House Agriculture Committee that artificial intelligence tools, specifically Microsoft’s Copilot, are filling surveillance and investigation gaps at an agency that has lost roughly 25% of…

Stanford’s 2026 AI Index Shows US-China AI Gap Has Collapsed to 2.7%

17 April 2026 at 22:50
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index shows the performance gap between US and Chinese AI models has compressed to just 2.7%, down from a double-digit lead as recently as 2023, as Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 holds a 39-point Elo lead over ByteDance’s…

White House Opens Probe Into Deaths and Disappearances of 10 Defense Scientists

17 April 2026 at 22:35
President Trump said Thursday the White House is investigating the deaths and disappearances of 10 scientists with ties to classified US defense, nuclear, and aerospace research, calling the pattern β€œpretty serious stuff” after leaving a meeting on the topic —…

Minnesota Charges ICE Agent With Felony Over Highway Gun Incident

17 April 2026 at 22:10
An ICE agent charged 2026 with two counts of felony second-degree assault faces a nationwide arrest warrant after allegedly pointing his duty weapon at the heads of two civilians in a moving vehicle during the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge,…

Fired FEMA Chief Cameron Hamilton Set for Renomination Under Trump

17 April 2026 at 21:55
Trump FEMA news took a sharp reversal Thursday when CNN reported the president plans to nominate Cameron Hamilton as FEMA administrator, less than a year after Hamilton was fired in May 2025 for testifying before Congress that the agency should…

20 House Republicans Force Johnson Into 2 AM Stopgap With FISA Rebellion

17 April 2026 at 21:40
A House GOP revolt 2026 collapsed both a five-year and an 18-month FISA extension in back-to-back overnight votes, with 20 Republicans joining most Democrats to kill each plan and force Speaker Mike Johnson into a last-resort 10-day stopgap passed at…

Senate Clears 10-Day FISA Stopgap After House Revolt Sinks Longer Deal

17 April 2026 at 21:25
The Senate passed a 10-day FISA extension 2026 by voice vote Friday, keeping the surveillance program alive until April 30 after a bloc of 20 House Republicans overnight derailed both a five-year and an 18-month renewal that Speaker Johnson and…

House Rejects Resolution to End Iran War, 213–214 Along Party Lines

17 April 2026 at 02:55
The House voted to reject a resolution Thursday directing President Trump to remove US armed forces from hostilities against Iran, 213 to 214, falling one vote short along almost entirely party lines. The Republican-controlled House voted 213–214 Thursday to reject…

RFK Jr. HHS Budget Cuts Draw Congressional Fire at Ways and Means

17 April 2026 at 02:25
RFK Jr. HHS budget cuts of roughly $16 billion faced their first major congressional test Thursday as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, fielding pointed questions on vaccine policy while defending a…

NJ Special Election Puts GOP House Majority Under More Pressure

17 April 2026 at 01:35
Voters in New Jersey’s 11th congressional district are heading to the polls today in a special election that could tighten the Republican House majority to its absolute limit, pitting progressive Democrat Analilia Mejia against Republican Joe Hathaway in a district…

Anthropic Trust Appoints Novartis CEO to Board

17 April 2026 at 01:10
Anthropic Trust has appointed Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis, to Anthropic’s board of directors, making him the first pharmaceutical industry executive to join the AI lab’s governing body and tipping Trust-appointed directors to a board majority for the first time.…

Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Begins Today After Trump Announcement

17 April 2026 at 00:41
President Trump announced Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire beginning at 5 PM ET today, April 16, following direct conversations with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. President Trump announced Thursday…

xAI Terafab Reaches Out to Chip Suppliers at β€œLight Speed”

17 April 2026 at 00:20
xAI Terafab teams have contacted Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, and Lam Research for price quotes and delivery times on chipmaking equipment, with Musk’s representatives telling suppliers the project needs to move at β€œlight speed” and offering to pay above quoted…

Quantum Computing Stocks Surge After NVIDIA Ising Launch

16 April 2026 at 23:55
Quantum computing stocks surged in double digits on April 14 and 15, as NVIDIA’s launch of Ising, the world’s first open-source quantum AI model family, reignited investor conviction that commercial quantum computing is accelerating faster than previously priced. Quantum computing…

NVIDIA Ising Launches as World’s First Open Quantum AI Models

16 April 2026 at 23:10
NVIDIA Ising has launched as the world’s first family of open-source quantum AI models, targeting the two biggest engineering bottlenecks in quantum computing: processor calibration and error correction decoding. NVIDIA Ising launched April 15, 2026, as the world’s first open-source…

Plasma Blockchain Reaches 7th by TVL on Tether Wallet Integration

16 April 2026 at 22:35
Plasma blockchain TVL has climbed to $2 billion, making it the seventh-largest blockchain by total value locked after Tether selected Plasma as one of only four networks to support its newly launched self-custody wallet. Plasma blockchain TVL has surged to…

Ripple Tokenized Bond Pilot Begins in South Korea

16 April 2026 at 22:10
Ripple tokenized bond pilot with Kyobo Life Insurance, one of South Korea’s largest insurers, targets near real-time government bond settlement using Ripple Custody, replacing a process that currently takes two days to settle. Ripple tokenized bond pilot with Kyobo Life…

SEC CLARITY Act Roundtable Opens in Washington Today

16 April 2026 at 21:40
The SEC CLARITY Act roundtable convened in Washington today, April 16, bringing regulators and industry together for a public discussion on digital asset market structure as the Senate Banking Committee targets a late-April markup of the most consequential crypto bill…

XRP Spot ETF Logs Biggest Single-Day Inflow Since February

16 April 2026 at 21:20
XRP spot ETFs recorded $17.11 million in net inflows on April 15, their largest single-day intake in nearly 11 weeks, as four consecutive days of positive flows pushed combined assets under management above $1.25 billion. XRP (XRP) spot ETFs logged…

Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Drifts Near $75K on Profit-Taking

16 April 2026 at 20:57
Bitcoin price prediction turns cautious on Thursday as BTC hovers near $74,921, with profit-taking slowing a ceasefire-driven rally that pulled in $597.5 million in spot ETF inflows over two days. Bitcoin (BTC) price prediction points to consolidation Thursday as BTC…

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