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As Solana meme coins like Dogwifhat (WIF) and Bonk (BONK) surge, a vanguard of new meme coins themed after politicians and celebrities are stealing the spotlight with daily gains in the thousands of percent.

The Terra Luna Classic price has shot up by 13.5% in the past 24 hours, reaching $0.0002135 as the crypto market as a whole remains static today.

TORONTO — Royal Bank of Canada plans to ramp up its renewable energy funding, even as it also reported little progress on reducing the emissions intensity of its oil and gas financing.

says it has detected benzene, a chemical that causes cancer, in several popular, over-the-counter acne products including those from brands like Clearasil, ProActiv, Walmart and Clinique, among others.Valisure, an independent lab whose discovery of benzene in dry shampoo in 2022 prompted the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada to issue recalls, reported that its “extensive testing” revealed the same carcinogen can form at high levels in benzoyl peroxide products used to treat acne, and that it found it in products from the brands it tested.Health Canada, the World Health Organization and FDA all state benzene can cause cancer.“High levels of benzene were not only detected inside BPO (benzoyl peroxide) products, but also in the air around incubated BPO products,” Valisure’s report stated, “showing that benzene can leak out of some product packages and pose a potential inhalation risk.”The report also stated that benzene can form “over 800 times” the FDA conditionally restricted concentration limit in products and that “the current evidence suggests that this problem applies broadly to BPO products currently on the market.”The lab detected the benzene levels it says raise concerns in 66 benzoyl peroxide-containing acne treatment products incubated at 50 C for 18 days.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted 3-2 to issue a final rule that requires certain U.S. companies to disclose their risks related to climate change and how they contribute to a warming planet via greenhouse gas emissions.

Also Read: US sanctions threaten Russian oil sales to India; complicate process for OMCs to secure annual deals: Report Oil has found support in 2024 from rising geopolitical tensions and Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, although concern about economic growth has weighed. While OPEC+ was widely expected to keep the cuts in place, Russia's announcement could bolster prices further. -Boost crude oil prices: The oil supply cuts first announced in 2023 as part of an agreement among oil producers to boost prices following economic uncertainty.

MUMBAI : Bulls turned the tables on bears in the last hour and a half of trading on positive cues from the global markets, lifting benchmark indices to new closing highs on Wednesday. US futures indicated the Dow Jones may open in the green ahead of the Fed chair's appearance at the Congress, aiding markets in India. Interest rate cuts were likely “at some point this year", chairman Jerome Powell said in a prepared testimony released later, but made it clear the Fed is not ready yet.

Also Read: Explained | Why did OPEC+ members extend oil output cuts to mid-2024 Back home, on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), crude oil futures due for a March 19 expiry, was last trading 2.42 per cent higher at ₹6,638 per bbl, having swung between ₹6,484 and ₹6,671 per bbl during the session, against a previous close of ₹6,481 per barrel. -The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies (OPEC+) led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed earlier this week to extend voluntary oil output cuts of 2.2 million barrels per day (bpd) into the second quarter or mid-2024.

ALSO READ: ICC T20 WC 2024: India vs Pakistan venue in New York's Nassau County International Stadium still underprepared, Watch "It is extremely exciting to see the progress made in the construction of the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York over the past month. Work on the outfield commenced in January and in the past few weeks the East Stand framework has started to take shape," said Chris Tetley, the ICC's head of events.

The New York Times, Donald Trump on Sunday met Musk and a number of wealthy Republican donors. It is said that Trump is hoping to have a "one-on-one discussion" with the SpaceX CEO. However, the owner-executive chairman of X (formerly Twitter), took to his microblogging platform to clear that he is not funding either the Republicans or the Democrats for the upcoming US Presidential elections.

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, in a Fortune interview last week, said, 'We have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon in it, but people aren't willing to spend the money to do that.' Ergo, the public is to blame for still showing little intention of moving away from gobbling petro dishes. This is much like blaming people, not the easy availability of guns in the US, for gun crime — 'If they moved to knives, America would indeed have had gun control.' Or, as a climate economist put it, 'It's like a drug lord blaming everyone but himself for drug problems.' But let's take Woods' claim seriously for a minute.

Committee to Unleash Prosperity launches new campaign warning American public about «reckless» government spending.

The Treasury Department says it has sanctioned two people and a Greece-based commercial spyware company headed by a former Israeli military officer that developed and distributed technology used to target U.S. government officials, journalists and poli...

Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, gave the most to charitable causes last year, followed by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, and Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s exclusive l...

A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a ship in the Gulf of Aden caused “fatalities” Wednesday

In case you needed yet another incentive to cram all your travel items into a carry-on, Delta Airlines has just boosted the cost of your first checked bag by 17%

Big Tech stocks pulled Wall Street down to its worst day in three weeks

The Biden administration is hailing the arrest of a California man accused of smuggling illicit air coolants into the United States

A former producer of raw milk cheese has pleaded guilty to charges related to a deadly outbreak of listeria

U.S. job openings barely changed in January but remained at a high level, suggesting that the American job market remains healthy