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Today we’re announcing a redesigned version of our mobile apps for iOS and Android. These mobile apps have been rebuilt from the ground up, taking advantage of the latest versions of iOS and Android to create the best possible mobile wallet experience for our users. With these sleek and simple apps, you can now:

Instantly buy and sell bitcoin in 19 countries

Send and request money by bitcoin address, email, and QR code

Shop with merchants who accept bitcoin

View your balance, transaction history and transaction details for multiple accounts

Securely and conveniently access your Coinbase account on the go

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Kaumakani, HI — A family is grieving after losing their teenage son after he was run over by a police vehicle Saturday night.
Michael Kocher Jr., 19, of Hanapepe was walking down the street around 9:35 p.m., just east of the Kaumakani Post Office, when he was struck by an eastbound Toyota Corolla, according to the Garden Island.
The driver of the Corolla stopped and remained on the scene.
According to witnesses, all traffic had come to a stop after Kocher was hit. A woman in a car several cars behind the car that first hit Kocher, got out and was trying to …read more

Bitcoin is the first open protocol that allows permissionless innovation in the financial services industry. While there have been some interesting applications built on top of Bitcoin to date, we think that the innovation in the space is just getting started. A primary objective for us in 2015 is to drive bitcoin adoption by helping developers build great applications.
Our API allows developers to do what they do best: build products. By using the Coinbase platform, developers can leverage our banking relationships, security, storage infrastructure, and compliance. We’ve built a platform we would want to use ourselves if we were just …read more

“You don’t go in ready to shoot first and ask questions later. There’s a lot of things you can do before you ever pull out a weapon,” Chappell added.

Wichita, Kansas – Witnesses in the shooting death of unarmed 23-year-old John Paul Quintero have come forward to refute police statements regarding the shooting death of Quintero.
The incident, which took place on Saturday night, began when Quintero’s family called 911, saying Quintero was under the influence of alcohol and had threatened them with a knife at a party.
According to police, Quintero was “belligerent” and wouldn’t comply with the two officers who arrived …read more

In their latest outburst of pure insanity, the National Fraternal Order of Police, a union representing over 300,000 officers, is calling for cops to be included under Congress’s hate crimes statute.
A hate crime is defined by Congress as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.”
Chuck Canterbury, the national president of the union, actually said-
“Nine deliberate murders of law enforcement officers in space of a single year also deserves Congressional attention!”
While we are not at all discounting the deaths of …read more

The cousin of a 23-year-old man, gunned down by Wichita police on Saturday, has blamed the officers for John Paul Quintero’s death, saying they “got out of the vehicle ready to kill,” while the victim was allegedly weaponless.
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“Everybody’s upset, angry, hurt,” Alina Quintero, a family spokeswoman and cousin of John Paul “Paulie” Quintero, who died in hospital hours after the shooting, told the Wichita Eagle online newspaper. “One fact is, police shot an unarmed man,” she stated.
“Paulie” grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and moved to Wichita a couple months ago to begin a food-processing job.
“He came here to …read more

Virginia State Senator John S. Edwards (D-Roanoke) has introduced SB 766, to lower the number of signatures for statewide candidates (whether in a primary or in a general election) from 10,000 to 5,000. The bill is similar to legislation that passed in 2013 that lowers the number of signatures for all presidential candidates from 10,000(More)… …read more

Virginia Delegate Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke) has introduced HB 1463. It eases the vote test for a group to obtain and retain political party status. The bill lowers the vote test from 10% to 4% at either of the last two statewide elections. If the bill were to pass, the Libertarian Party would be ballot-qualified for(More)… …read more

Hartford, Connecticut – 17-year-old Cassandra Fortin has been taken from her family against her will because she refused chemotherapy.
Cassandra was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, but like many people with cancer, Cassandra wants to look into natural options for treatment, instead of chemotherapy. While chemotherapy is heavily pushed by pharmaceutical companies and backed up by government funded science, there are other options for people and everyone should be free to chose their own path in healing.
Doctors at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center forced Cassandra to undergo chemotherapy against her will, so she quickly ran away from home to get away …read more

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A man in San Francisco was shot dead by police after he confronted officers in a police parking lot and reached out for what later turned out to be a fake gun.
The 32-year-old white man walked into the parking lot of the Mission District police station on Sunday evening, police say.
When three police officers asked him to leave the personnel-only area, the man seemed at first to be ready to comply, but seconds later turned back toward them and started to reach for something, which looked like a weapon to the officers.
“The sergeants saw the butt of …read more