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Month: February 2022

Trump wins CPAC straw poll

By Sara Murray and Steve Contorno, CNN Former President Donald Trump easily won an informal straw poll of conservatives Sunday, when asked who they would support in a GOP primary for president in 2024. Among attendees as the Conservative Political Action Conference, 59% said they would vote for Trump if the 2024 Republican primary were

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BitConnect founder charged with orchestrating $2 billion Ponzi scheme

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN A federal grand jury in San Diego indicted the founder of BitConnect for allegedly orchestrating a $2.4 billion global Ponzi scheme, the Justice Department said Friday. Satish Kumbhani, 36, is accused of misleading investors about the cryptocurrency’s “lending program,” where he claimed the proprietary technology would bring substantive returns to investors

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MIT severs ties with Russian school after Ukraine invasion

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is severing ties with a research university it helped establish in Russia, citing the country’s “unacceptable” invasion of Ukraine. The Cambridge university said it notified the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology on Friday that it was exercising its right to terminate the MIT Skoltech Program.

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