During the Obama administration, Barr served as assistant secretary of finance for the Treasury Department, according to a White House press release. In 2015, Barr joined Ripple as a consultant. Barr said at the time, “I’m excited to be a member of Ripple Labs’s Advisory Board. Our global payment system is very outdated. “I believe that payment innovation can help make the financial system safer, reduce costs and improve accessibility and efficiency for both consumers and businesses....

Before the start of the Russian War in Ukraine, Kira Obedinsky was a happy, beloved 12-year-old girl. Now orphaned, injured and alone in a Russian-controlled hospital in eastern Ukraine, she has become an unwilling pawn in the Moscow information war. Obedinsky’s mother died when he was a baby. The father of Yevhen Obedinsky, a former leader of Ukraine’s national water polo team, was shot and killed as Russian forces entered the southeastern city of Mariupol on March 17....

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The shooting took place on the corner of St. Laurent. and Jean-Talon St. at 10:55 p.m., a police spokesman said. The man’s death was later confirmed by doctors after he was taken to hospital. There were “many witnesses” on stage, in a corner that is usually quite busy, and many different calls to 911 came. But police are still reuniting what happened, the spokesman told CTV News. “We do not know the relationship between the victim and the suspect,” he said....

At approximately 12:20 a.m., Northumbria police received a report of a two-vehicle collision on North Bridge Street with a blue BMW 320 Coupe and a parked car. A male passenger was taken to hospital after serious injuries were described as life-threatening, while two other passengers in the BMW were slightly injured. BMW was traveling from the Tesco department store to the Wearmouth Bridge when, for obvious reasons, it collided with a parked Renault Clio outside the Fona Pizza store....

Je ne m’attendais pas à cette ambiance. Classique, faut tout mettre de côté, c’était pas le moment de le faire (certains ultras se sont mis en grève pour des encouragements). On comprend, ils ont leurs arguments, ils n’ont peut-être pas les réponses, mais l’orgueil a dû être mis de côté à ce moment-là. En tant que joueur, je ne suis pas d’accord. »

In the Western Conference, the No. 3 Golden State Warriors had a rhythm from 22-year-old Jordan Poole, who led the Warriors to a 16-point victory over Nikola Jokic and No. 6 Denver Nuggets. And the seventh Minnesota Timberwolves, who beat the LA Clippers No. 7 against No. 8, beat Ja Morant and second Memphis Grizzlies behind an epic 36-point playoff debut from No. 2020. 1 choice Anthony Edwards. Earlier in the afternoon, Donovan Mitchell and No....

A video posted on social media shows Scotland’s first minister not wearing a mask during a barber shop visit to East Kilbride, south Lanarkshire, on Saturday. There is currently a legal requirement to wear a face mask in most indoor public spaces in Scotland, including shops, public transport and hair salons. In the video, Ms. Sturgeon appears to be unmasked as she meets clients and strokes a man’s head in a barber chair while mimicking the sound of an electric razor....

Un Classic a rarement été aussi indécis sur le papier. Entre le PSG et l’OM, ​​le leader du championnat contre son dauphin, personne ne se risquerait à prendre le nom du vainqueur sur un gros dos. Personne d’autre que Pierre Ménès. Si Eric Di Meko voit par exemple les hommes de Jorge Sampaoli transpirer les hommes de Mauricio Pochettino ce soir au Parc des Princes (20h45), l’ancien conseiller de Canal+ mise sur eux....

Le Belge Wout Van Aert arrive deuxième. Le podium est complété par le Suisse Stefan Küng. Dylan van Baarle, 29 ans, a remporté sa première grande course. Deuxième des Championnats du monde l’an dernier, il a terminé deuxième de la Flanders Round plus tôt ce mois-ci. C’est le 7e succès néerlandais de l’histoire, huit ans après Niki Terpstra. Le premier Français, Adrien Petit, termine à la sixième place. Pour vivre cette course qui traverse les Hauts-de-France, France Bleu Nord et France Bleu Picardie sont une antenne commune avec un programme spécial qui s’enchaîne dès 9h05 !...

There was a large police presence at Baron 84 on Bold Street yesterday (Saturday.) A worker at a nearby store told ECHO that a quarrel had broken out between two workers at the Middle East restaurant. Police today confirmed that the incident involved “two staff members” at Baron 84. Police also confirmed that police had made an arrest at the scene, which the force described as a “dispute”. READ MORE:Blood on the sidewalk after “battle outside the city restaurant” There was blood on the sidewalk outside Baron 84 yesterday as Bold Street was crowded with Bank Holiday weekend shoppers....

“We have already heard Charles say he wants to rationalize the royal family, [to] “Modernize it,” Quinn told Us Weekly. “I think Megan and Harry are hoping… .Charles will be open to [them being] part-time royals, what they wanted from the beginning “. It is true that Harry and Megan wanted to continue doing part-time royal work when they started their royal retirement in January 2020. In announcing the decision, they wrote that they planned to “balance our time between the United Kingdom and the North” “America, continuing to honor our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth and our patrons....

Deputy Labor leader Angela Reiner spoke after the Sunday Times reported that a rally on Downing Street on Friday, November 13, 2020 took the form of a retirement party only after Johnson arrived and started pouring drinks. He said: “While the British public made enormous sacrifices, Boris Johnson was breaking the law. “If the latest reports are true, it would mean that not only did the prime minister attend a party, but he also helped to provoke at least one of them....

This XE variant is a mutation of the Omicron strains BA.1 and BA.2. Some of the symptoms reported with strain XE include fever, sore throat, scratch in the throat, cough and cold. Read more:Statement from NI Health Department as a new variant of XE Covid found in the UK A spokesman for the Public Health Service said: “A total of 1,179 XE cases have been confirmed in the UK so far....

The fact that both the woman and the passer-by knew the hand signal, in both cases, gives the Montreal sisters who made it popular the hope that it is really widespread. It was not clear to them at first whether the signal would take off as it is, or why, Marie-Emmanuelle Genesse, one of the sisters behind the TikTok account that spread the idea, told CTV News. Often, women who “verbally” express a risk they face are not believed, Genesse said....

Social media industry security professionals and outside experts who have spent years trying to slow down the rise of tyrants and violent mobs from Facebook and other platforms are surprised that a second large company can be brought under the control of just one person – especially one who complains that Twitter sets too many limits on what can be posted on his site. In tweets and a conversation at TED following his surprise attempt last week to make Twitter private, billionaire Elon Musk denounced decisions to ban some users as censorship and said moderation was slowing its spread....