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Libra’s regulatory hurdles appear taller after House hearing Roll Call 11/05/19 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg provided only a few additional details about the company’s proposed cryptocurrency to a House Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23 that generally didn’t like what it heard. Zuckerberg said Facebook wouldn’t proceed with the proposed Libra until it had satisfied… Read more »

IBM Report: Central Bank Digital Currencies Getting Closer to Reality Blockonomi  11/05/19 Multinational tech powerhouse IBM has co-published a new report that hails central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, as all but inevitable in the years ahead. Written in collaboration with the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), the report, which was… Read more »

Markers Honor 12 Men Falsely Convicted Of Murder In 1919 Racial Uprising KUAR 11/05/19 Twelve African-American men wrongly accused of murder during the 1919 Elaine Massacre and later exonerated were inducted into the Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail. Each man has a trail marker dedicated in his honor. U.S. Rep. French Hill, the Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Little… Read more »

Possible migrant site minutes from former internment camp Valliant News  11/03/19 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Nearly 75 years after federal officials shuttered a Japanese-American internment camp in , Arkansas, the Trump administration is examining a site about 2 miles away as a potential temporary shelter for immigrant children. The Department of Health and Human Services… Read more »

1919's Elaine 12 to get heritage trail markers ADG 11/02/19 The Elaine 12 will become a permanent part of the Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail on Tuesday. The Elaine 12 were a group of black sharecroppers in Phillips County who were wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death by all-white juries after the Elaine Massacre of 1919. Eventually, all of the men were… Read more »

State's 4 House members all 'no' on impeachment inquiry vote ADG 11/01/19 WASHINGTON -- The four Arkansas Republicans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to oppose House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, with the state's delegation portraying the process, up to now, as a sham. The deck, they maintained, has been stacked against President Donald Trump and… Read more »

World ‘sleepwalking’ toward second financial crisis, warns ex-Bank of England head Micky 10/31/19 The former head of the Bank of England believes that the global financial system is heading towards a second devastating economic crisis – the same kind of crisis that inspired Satoshi Nakamoto to develop Bitcoin. Global financial crisis ahead Speaking at the annual meeting of… Read more »

Hill leads tree planting as a tribute to Roosevelt ADG  10/31/19 WASHINGTON -- In a city polarized by impeachment investigations, Republican and Democratic leaders paused Wednesday to pay tribute to a president from New York who is revered on both sides of the aisle -- Teddy Roosevelt. At the invitation of U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,… Read more »

U.S. House formalizes Trump impeachment inquiry in divided 232-196 vote TB&P 10/31/19 The U.S. House of Representatives voted 232-196 Thursday (Oct. 31) to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over his handling of military aid to Ukraine and possible abuse of power in his request to have foreign leaders investigate a political opponent, former… Read more »

Political rivals plant tree together on Capitol lawn in honor of Teddy Roosevelt ABC4 (Salt Lake City) 10/31/19 NEXSTAR (WASHINGTON) – Amid the divisive impeachment inquiry, political rivals in Congress took a moment to plant a tree together in front of the U.S. Capitol in honor of the conservationist president: Theodore Roosevelt. There are nearly 900 trees on the Capitol… Read more »