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Cryptocurrency has revolutionized how we think about money and has disrupted the banking world.

CNN's John King criticizes Republican senators that abstained from voting for a bill that would create an independent and bipartisan commission to investigate the pro-Trump riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responds to the Senate GOP's effort to block a bill to create a commission to investigate the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.

Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would create an independent and bipartisan commission to investigate the pro-Trump riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

W. Kamau Bell travels to San Diego, a city with one of the largest populations of military service members in the country, to explore the disparities, injustices and issues that both active-duty troops and veterans face. Watch "United Shades of America" Sunday at 10 p.

Inverie (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The Old Forge in Inverie, western Scotland, is Britain's most remote pub, situated in what has been described as the country's "last true wilderness". Now villagers are joining forces to buy back the pub to return it to its former status as a community gathering place.

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says that Germany for the first time recognises that it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid projects in the African nation.

After six months of parliamentary debates, internal discussions and judicial procedures, all 27 EU countries have ratified the legal instrument that underpins the bloc's €750-billion recovery fund, paving the way for money to reach national governments by July.

An overpass carrying a subway train has collapsed in Mexico City, killing 15 people and injuring at least 70, according to local government officials.

China's foreign ministry hits back after US President Joe Biden said Washington will release a report detailing the findings of US intelligence on the origins of the pandemic. Biden has ordered intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident.

Negotiations over the reform of the European Union's agriculture policy have ended without an agreement after two days of intense talks. Discussions between all three EU institutions had been ongoing this week in Brussels to discuss the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with the aim of reaching a consensus on the three regulations that make up the reform package – social conditionality, targeting of payments, and green architecture.

Despite growing opposition to the Olympics, Tokyo and the IOC are plowing ahead – and getting ready for the logistical nightmare that awaits as tens of thousands of athletes prepare to descend on the city amid rising Covid-19 cases.