~Bitcoin News of the Day

• A UK pension fund has become the first in the country to add Bitcoin (BTC) to its portfolio. In a press release on Monday, the pension advice firm Cartwright said it had recommended a 3% Bitcoin allocation to an unidentified client, citing the digital currency's long-term performance. Since 2013, Bitcoin has returned nearly 100,000%.

Global Trade & ~Econ

• Following the end of the zero-interest rate regime two years ago, the “bond vigilantes” woke from a long slumber and began punishing nations for fiscal profligacy, starting with frontier markets such as Sri Lanka and Ghana, shifting to emerging markets like Brazil and Turkey and most recently to developed markets, first the UK and now France. Thanks to heavy demand for the world’s preferred currency, the US seems less vulnerable, but no country in history has been immune forever.

~Politics_and_Law

• The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the F.B.I. said in a joint statement that foreign adversaries led by Russia were “conducting additional influence operations intended to undermine public confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections and stoke divisions among Americans.”

~Stacker_Sports News

• Davis has not been ruled out of the Lakers' game at the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday to conclude the trip, sources told ESPN. However, those sources cautioned, with the foot issue plaguing the All-Star big man from the end of last season through the Paris Olympics, it will be a day-to-day situation.

~Tech & ~Science

• Signs that progress was lacking were clear from the outset of the meeting, with nearly all countries missing a deadline to submit official plans on how they will achieve the ambitious biodiversity targets set two years ago at COP15, including protecting 30 per cent of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030. A few more of these plans trickled in during the two weeks of the summit, including those from large countries like India and Argentina, but most countries’ strategies are still missing.

~History with Mystery

• Regardless of intent, the somewhat spurious endorsements of late drinkers, late sleepers and even the petty thieves for Cerrinius Vatia are part and parcel of what was expected of a Roman campaign for political office. Pompeii’s walls are adorned with red letters, the painted inscriptions that serve as ancient advertisements, including those used by politicians. Referred to as electoral programmata, these campaign posters were painted largely by professional sign painters (scriptores), recording the men who stood for office and their supporters (rogatores).

~Entertainment World

• On the polls, Kimmel said, “There are only two choices. You have a 50 percent chance of being right. It’s not like you picked the Trifecta at the Belmont Stakes. There’s no magic involved. It’s heads or tails. At the end of this, the pollsters who were wrong will quietly disappear – the other ones will be like, ‘I told ya, one percent!’ What did you tell us? You called 800 losers who didn’t have enough sense to not answer an unknown call. That’s all you did.”

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