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Black Breaking News
Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate foreign aid funding for now
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration must temporarily allow the disbursement of foreign aid, a judge ruled Thursday, dealing the latest…
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Black Breaking News
Missouri Farmer Who Used Online Quiz to Vote for President Now Faces Losing Family Farm After Funding Freeze
First-generation Missouri farmer Skylar Holden said he wishes he’d been more careful with his vote now that he faces financial…
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Black Breaking News
HIV infections could jump over 6 times if US funding is dropped and not replaced, UNAIDS chief says
The head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six…
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Black Breaking News
Democrats find their voice fighting Trump’s federal funding freeze
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s flurry of actions in his first week knocked Democrats back on their heels, dividing the…
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Politics
How Trump Administration Impacts Black College Funding
Tyler Hall at Morgan State University looks out over Holmes Hall and other buildings on campus on February 7, 2022,…
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Crypto
Bitcoin (BTC) Price Tops $77K Record as Muted Funding Rates Suggest Crypto Rally Has More Room to Run
While crypto assets booked double-digit gains during this week, with BTC sitting at record highs, funding rates for perpetual swaps…
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Crypto
Polymarket Reportedly Seeks $50M in Funding, Mulls Token as Election Bets Surge
The startup’s runaway success this year has been a sore point for Kalshi, a regulated, dollar-denominated prediction market that’s been…
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Crypto
The Next Stage for Public Good Funding in Crypto
Companies such as Uniswap, Optimism, Yearn, Gnosis, and 1Inch are examples of early Gitcoin grantees. The collective market caps of…
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Black Business
HBCU Grads, Founders of Black-Owned Golf Brand Secure $3.4M In Funding
Eastside Golf, a lifestyle golf brand founded in 2019 by African American entrepreneurs Olajuwon Ajanaku and Earl Coope (both HBCU…
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Crypto
‘One-Stop Station’ Digital Identity Service Root Protocol Raises $10M Seed Funding
The funding rounds, which gave Root a $100 million valuation, were led by Animoca Brands and included contributions from a…
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