Bitcoin plunged as much as 20 percent hours after a rally past $11,000 generated a surge in traffic at online exchanges that led to intermittent outages. The plunge capped a wild day for the largest cryptocurrency that included a breakneck advance to a high of $11,434 before the reversal took it as low as $9,009.…

NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Lauer’s firing for what NBC said was « inappropriate sexual behavior » with a colleague stunned viewers Wednesday, rocked the network and made the « Today » show host the best-known figure in America brought down so far by the misconduct allegations sweeping the industry in recent weeks. Also, former « Prairie Home Companion » host…

Joe Hart is undoubtedly England’s number one and it would be too much of a risk to put anyone else in goal for the World Cup, according to former Three Lions international David Seaman. Hart has played 75 times for England but was criticised for his performances at Euro 2016, including a high-profile error in the embarrassing last-16…

Tim Southee, who is expecting the birth of his child, will miss New Zealand’s first Test of the home summer, against West Indies in Wellington. Batsman George Worker has been added to the squad. On Tuesday, fast bowler Lockie Ferguson was also drafted in to the squad for the first Test with doubt lingering over…

Serial killer Levi Bellfield confessed to murdering Lin Russell and her daughter Megan during a conversation with a cellmate, lawyers for the man twice convicted of the killings claim.  Michael Stone, now 57, is serving three life sentences with a minimum of 25 years in prison for the killings in Chillenden, Kent, which shocked the nation…

However, the price tag of the plan is in the area of $1.5 trillion at a time when the Congressional Budget Official already is projecting a deficit of more than $1 trillion in the years ahead and with the total debt level at $20.6 trillion and rising. Of that total, $14.9 trillion is owed by…

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the very same mainstream media that attempted to disqualify then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 over the phrase “binders full of women,” the very same media that grinded Republican senate candidate Todd Akin into dust over something he said, appears to be, itself, a depraved institution populated by…