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View More NewsXRP’s push toward $1.25 ran into the same problem that has capped every rally since the spring selloff: sellers waiting overhead. After briefly trading above $1.22, the token lost the $1.20 level on heavy volume and spent the rest of the session trying to stabilize above support near $1.18. The pullback doesn’t fully undo last week’s breakout, but it does show buyers still have work to do before the market can challenge higher resistance levels.News Background• XRP remains in focus after recent ETF inflows and growing institutional participation helped drive last week’s rally above $1.20.• Analysts continue to watch the…
New York City mayors have attempted to solve the city’s public bathroom problem for decades. Now, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking his turn. On Wednesday, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) announced that Throne Labs Inc. won the city’s $4 million contract to install and maintain 17 new bathrooms across the city. Should the project stay on budget, that price tag is relatively low compared to New York City’s past bathroom boondoggles. In 2019, The City Reporter noted that the average cost for a city Parks and Recreation Department bathroom had “nearly tripled to $3.6 million since 2011.”…
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Last Wednesday, 3 June, was surely one of the most shameful days in the Knesset’s 77-year history. Michael Rabello, the personal attorney of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was elected the country’s next state comptroller—the official who inspects, reviews, and audits government policy and conduct, and whose broad powers of inspection include the use of hundreds of lawyers, accountants, and other professionals under his authority.Israeli law stipulates that the Knesset vote for this position must be carried out in secret, with MKs casting ballots alone behind a screen. Rabello’s rival for the post, former Supreme Court justice Yosef Elron, won…
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