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American Bankers Association (ABA) CEO Rob Nichols sent an emergency Sunday letter to every bank CEO in the country, urging “immediate engagement” against what he called a stablecoin yield loophole in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, days before a Senate Banking Committee markup scheduled for Thursday. The letter, dated May 11 — Mother’s Day — and addressed to ABA member bank CEOs, asked bank leaders to contact their senators and mobilize their employees to do the same before the committee convenes for a scheduled May 14 executive session on the bill. “I am reaching out to make every bank…

Spotify’s yearly Wrapped recap provides users a glimpse into their favorite artists and what they listened to most that year. As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, the streaming service is now releasing a limited-time feature that surfaces various facts about users, such as when they joined the app, the first song they streamed, their favorite artist, and a playlist of their most-streamed songs. Image Credits: SpotifyImage Credits:Spotify Users can access this feature by opening Spotify and searching for “Spotify 20” or “Party of the year(s)”, or by visiting this link. The feature also creates a personalized playlist of users’…

Jump to Recipe There are side dishes… and then there are these awesome Air Fryer Baby potatoes. Aka an effortless, quick and easy side you can whip up anytime. Golden, crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy in the middle, and ready faster than it takes to preheat the oven. Bonus is that this Air Fryer Mini Potatoes recipe has no parboiling or complicated steps. I just toss, cook, shake and try my hardest not to eat half straight from the basket. Oh and try these Air Fryer Baked Potatoes, crispy Air Fryer Potato Wedges, awesome Air Fryer Potato Chips…

A spinner has signed for Kent on an all-format loan until the end of their Vitality T20 Blast campaign.Left-armer Jake Lintott, 33, joins from Warwickshire until July 19. He will be a part of Kent Spitfires’ Blast squad for the 2026 tournament, as well as being available for selection in Rothesay County Championship Division 2.Kent head coach Adam Hollioake – has agreed to sign spinner Jake Lintott on an all-format loan until July. Photo: Stuart WatsonThe wrist-spinner has taken 90 Blast wickets at 22.77 and an economy of 7.96.Five years ago, he took 15 wickets in the Blast, earned a…

Amazon Ring, facing a surge in customer-support calls during last year’s holiday season, evaluated more than 40 AI voice vendors before choosing startup Vapi to handle its inbound phone traffic. Today, Ring routes 100% of its inbound calls through Vapi’s platform. That deployment helped Vapi raise a $50 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a valuation of around $500 million after investment, according to a person familiar with the matter. Ring turned to Vapi in mid-Q4 last year, when it was weighing whether to expand call-center capacity, rely more heavily on traditional automated phone systems, or deploy…

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Tuesday 12 May 2026 11:57 am eBay is headquartered in the US. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Global commerce giant Ebay has dismissed an audacious play from video game retailer Gamestop that sought to merge the two companies into a new titan to take on the dominance on Amazon.Ebay’s chairman Paul Pressler said the firm’s board had “thoroughly reviewed [the] proposal and has determined to reject it”.In a letter to Gamestop chief executive, Ryan Cohen, Pressler listed a litany of factors that contributed to the board’s conclusion, including Ebay’s “standalone prospects” and the impact a deal would have on its “long-term…

A total of 35 individuals and organisations from across Scotland are in the running for the prestigious awards, which celebrate the vital work of charities and voluntary groups improving lives and communities. The winners will be revealed at a ceremony on Thursday, June 11, hosted by broadcaster Sally Magnusson at the Radisson Blu in Glasgow. Anna Fowlie, chief executive of SCVO, said: “Across Scotland and beyond, voluntary organisations are making an extraordinary difference, and the breadth and depth of their impact never fail to inspire. “Our 2026 finalists epitomise this. “Our voluntary sector is truly essential to Scottish society -…

Six members of staff lost their jobs on a week’s notice while families received letters saying their children could not attend in the morning06:30, 12 May 2026Updated 09:11, 12 May 2026Acrewood Daycare in West BelfastA West Belfast daycare centre has been condemned after it “sacked” six members of staff and told more than a dozen families they could no longer use the service they had paid for.Acrewood Daycare on Grosvenor Road, which is partly owned and run by Hannahstown Parish priest Father Patrick Devlin, has been condemned for the way it treated its former staff and the families who used…

Amazon deliveries keep getting faster. On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option, dubbed “Amazon Now,” in dozens of U.S. cities. This ultra-fast delivery option will allow customers to shop across “thousands” of items, Amazon says, including fresh groceries, household essentials, and other locally relevant items. At launch, Amazon Now will be widely available in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, and is expanding to Austin, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis, Orlando, Oklahoma City, and Phoenix. By year-end, Amazon expects to bring the service to tens of millions of customers in these and other cities, as the…