Romney announces US Senate run Salt Lake City (CNN)Mitt Romney said in a video announcement Friday that he will run for the US Senate from Utah, setting out on a glide path to Washington where he will likely play a central role driving the direction of the fractious Republican Party.

Turkey and U.S. in Talks on Worsening Syria Crisis President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, right, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Ankara on Friday.  

U.S. states with positive attitudes have advanced towards bitcoin legalization – a process that a growing number of elected officials consider inevitable, if not desirable.  Numerous crypto-friendly bills have been introduced, and some of them have received approval in committees and houses of state legislatures. One wouldn’t necessarily think of states like Arizona, Tennessee, and Wyoming as the backbone of a great nation’s economy. How about… pioneers of its future development? Bitcoin Doesn’t Stink – Arizona Will Take It For some time now legislators in the Grand Canyon State have been thinking how to facilitate residents receiving incomes and profits in crypto-currency. If bitcoin is good for ordinary citizens and businesses, it should be good enough for the state coffers, local lawmakers have decided. Last week Arizona got closer to accepting cryptos as legal tender for taxation purposes. Several bills recognizing coins as currencies have been making their way in the...

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Biafran suit in America: US rejects Nigeria’s defence of immunity By Emeka Mamah: THE Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has asked a United States federal court to commence the trial of 16 Nigerian officials it sued over their alleged direct or indirect complicity in the extrajudicial killings of its members, who launched peaceful protests following the arrest and detention of its Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.