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WASHINGTON — One commercial lunar lander has entered orbit around the moon while another, launched at the same time, has performed a lunar flyby to set up a later return.Firefly Aerospace confirmed Feb. 13 that its Blue Ghost 1 lander entered orbit around the moon, performing a 4-minutes, 15-second burn of its reaction control system thrusters starting at 8:51 p.m. Eastern.The company did not disclose specifics about the orbit but amateur trackers, monitoring its radio signals, estimated that the spacecraft is in an orbit between 150 and 5,673 kilometers above the moon. Firefly said the lander will perform additional maneuvers…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Bitcoin (BTC) has faced heightened volatility in recent weeks, initially driven by Donald Trump’s proposed trade tariffs and later exacerbated by the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data. The inflation report sent BTC plummeting to as low as $94,000 before it managed to recover some losses. However, according to crypto analyst Ali Martinez, Bitcoin must defend a critical price level to avoid a significant correction. Analyst Identifies Critical Bitcoin Price Level In an X post shared earlier today, Martinez brought attention to the Pi Cycle Top Indicator. For the uninitiated, the Pi Cycle…

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsEatOkra’s mobile app lists nearby Black-owned restaurants.Courtesy: EatOkraWhen Anthony Edwards Jr. and his then-girlfriend, Janique, first moved to Brooklyn in 2016, they struggled to find food that was comfortable and familiar to them.They explored their neighborhood, Edwards said, but had a hard time finding Black-owned restaurants nearby. There were few resources for doing so besides group chats and informal lists. So, with the encouragement of Janique, now his wife, he used his computer science degree to create a platform for users to find Black-owned eateries.The two co-founded EatOkra, an app that now has 20,000 monthly active…

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American social and political norms and the economy while redefining the U.S. role in the world.At the same time, he has empowered Elon Musk, an unelected, South African-born billionaire, to help engineer the firing of thousands of federal employees and potentially shutter entire agencies created by Congress. Those efforts have largely overshadowed Trump’s crackdowns on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts to remake social policy by wiping out diversity, equity and inclusion…

As Democrats lob claims that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are a potential national security threat, Republicans are calling them out for what they perceive as hypocrisy after years of weak immigration and foreign policies.”Being lectured by the Democrats on national security is pretty rich after they spent the last four years sending billions of taxpayer dollars to terrorists, letting suspected terrorists walk through our wide-open southern border and disgracefully retreating from Afghanistan, empowering Iran and kicking off the most destabilizing foreign policy paradigm in a generation,” Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., told Fox News…

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Meet Samuel Edyme, Nickname – HIM-buktu. A web3 content writer, journalist, and aspiring trader, Edyme is as versatile as they come. With a knack for words and a nose for trends, he has penned pieces for numerous industry player, including AMBCrypto, Blockchain.News, and Blockchain Reporter, among others. Edyme’s foray into the crypto universe is nothing short of cinematic. His journey began not with a triumphant investment, but with a scam. Yes, a Ponzi scheme that used crypto as payment roped him in. Rather than retreating, he emerged wiser and more determined, channeling his experience into over three years of insightful…

WASHINGTON — Space transportation company Firefly Aerospace secured a $21.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to launch a mission to orbit under the military’s quick-reaction space program, marking the company’s third such award.The contract, announced by the Space Systems Command Feb. 13, is for a mission dubbed Victus Sol that will utilize Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The launch is part of the Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) program, which aims to demonstrate the Space Force’s capability to rapidly deploy satellites during national security emergencies.Details about the payload, mission objectives, and launch timeline are not being disclosed, according to a Space…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially acknowledged the receipt of Grayscale Investments’ 19b-4 filing to convert its XRP Trust into a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF). The agency’s confirmation—disclosed by Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart on 14th February—signals the start of the formal review process that could ultimately decide whether the product is cleared for public listing. James Seyffart, who reported the news via his X account, stated: “There it is — The SEC just acknowledged Grayscale & NYSE’s 19b-4 filing to list an XRP ETF (this was mostly expected but…

New York City mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the federal government secretly revoked more than $80 million in funding for the city’s migrant shelters.Counsel for the Adams administration sent a letter Friday to city Comptroller Brad Lander saying that the city’s Law Department planned to take legal action by the end of next week to have the $80.5 million in FEMA payments taken earlier this week returned, according to the New York Post. Lander is running against Adams in June’s Democrat primary election for the city’s mayor.”The Law Department is…