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Bitcoin reaches $16K, highest level since 2018

Bitcoin on Thursday reached a record valuation of $16,118, its highest level since 2018. The cryptocurrency is up 123% year-over-year and 50% this quarter, according to data from the California-based digital currency exchange Coinbase.

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Vatican's financial scandal prompts Pope to move investments

Pope Francis is giving the Vatican secretariat of state three months to transfer all of its financial holdings to another Vatican office following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation.