Hailey Welch Releases Statement After Meme Coin Fiasco By , also known as “Hawk Tuah girl,” first found fame through her popular catchphrase “Hawk Tuah.” However, she drew widespread criticism following the collapse of her cryptocurrency , $HAWK, resulting in a multi-million dollar loss for the investors. She has now released a statement on the fiasco, promising full cooperation. Hailey Welch’s statement about meme coin explained Hailey Welch, who became known as “Hawk Tuah girl” after a viral clip circulated online in June 2024, took to X (formerly Twitter) to the rapid crumbling of $HAWK. She launched the coin on December 4 on the Solana blockchain. It reportedly experienced an immediate surge, reaching a market capitalization of $491 million before undergoing a severe 95% drop shortly after. “I take this situation extremely seriously and want to address my fans, the investors who have been affected, and the broader community,” Welch posted on X on Friday, December 20. “I am fully cooperating with and am committed to assisting the legal team representing the individuals impacted, as well as to help uncover the truth, hold the responsible parties accountable, and resolve this matter.” Welch proceeded to ask those who have sustained financial losses because of $HAWK to contact the law firm Burwick PLLC. Per , the firm has claimed that it does not represent Welch, underscoring its objective to gain compensation for the impacted parties and arrive at the best possible outcome. On December 4, Hailey Welch, a.k.a. “Hawk Tuah girl,” on X that her “team hasn’t sold one token and not 1 KOL was given 1 free token.” However, a community note refuting her statement has since been added to the post. Some observers have alleged that the drop happened due to the actions of the snipers, parties that acquire a significant portion of the tokens when they go public. $HAWK’s creators now face a lawsuit in New York from investors demanding more than $150,000 in damages, according to the above-mentioned Binance report. Notably, besides her prominent presence on social media, Hailey Welch, also known as “Hawk Tuah girl,” hosts the Talk Tuah podcast, which is backed by Jake Paul’s media company, Betr. Entertainment and pop-culture writer at ComingSoon. In his spare time, Tamal dreams of dragons. Share article14 Analysts Have This To Say About Danaher
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victims' families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences . Biden converted the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The inmates include people who were convicted in the slayings of police, military officers and federal prisoners and guards. Others were involved in deadly robberies and drug deals. Three inmates will remain on federal death row: Dylann Roof , convicted of the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; the 2013 Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. Opponents of the death penalty lauded Biden for a decision they'd long sought. Supporters of Donald Trump , a vocal advocate of expanding capital punishment, criticized the move as an assault to common decency just weeks before the president-elect takes office. Victims' families and former colleagues share relief and anger Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner was killed by one of the men whose death sentence was commuted, said the execution of “the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace.” “The president has done what is right here,” Oliverio said in a statement also issued by the White House, “and what is consistent with the faith he and I share.” Heather Turner, whose mother, Donna Major, was killed in a bank robbery in South Carolina in 2017, called Biden's commutation of the killer's sentence a “clear gross abuse of power” in a Facebook post, adding that the weeks she spent sitting in court with the hope of justice were now “just a waste of time.” “At no point did the president consider the victims,” Turner wrote. “He, and his supporters, have blood on their hands.” Decision to leave Roof on death row met with conflicting emotions There has always been a broad range of opinions on what punishment Roof should face from the families of the nine people killed and the survivors of the massacre at the Mother Emanuel AME Church. Many forgave him, but they can’t forget and their forgiveness doesn’t mean they don’t want to see him put to death for what he did. Felicia Sanders survived the shooting shielding her granddaughter while watching Roof kill her son, Tywanza, and her aunt, Susie Jackson. Sanders brought her bullet-torn bloodstained Bible to his sentencing and said then she can’t even close her eyes to pray because Roof started firing during the closing prayer of Bible study that night. In a text message to her lawyer, Andy Savage, Sanders called Biden’s decision to not spare Roof’s life a wonderful Christmas gift. Michael Graham, whose sister, Cynthia Hurd, was killed, told The Associated Press that Roof’s lack of remorse and simmering white nationalism in the country means he is the kind of dangerous and evil person the death penalty is intended for. “This was a crime against a race of people," Graham said. “It didn’t matter who was there, only that they were Black.” But the Rev. Sharon Richer, who was Tywanza Sanders’ cousin and whose mother, Ethel Lance, was killed, criticized Biden for not sparing Roof and clearing out all of death row. She said every time Roof’s case comes up through numerous appeals it is like reliving the massacre all over again. “I need the President to understand that when you put a killer on death row, you also put their victims' families in limbo with the false promise that we must wait until there is an execution before we can begin to heal,” Richer said in a statement. Richer, a board member of Death Penalty Action, which seeks to abolish capital punishment, was driven to tears by conflicting emotions during a Zoom news conference Monday. “The families are left to be hostages for the years and years of appeals that are to come,” Richer said. “I’ve got to stay away from the news today. I’ve got to turn the TV off — because whose face am I going to see?” Biden is giving more attention to the three inmates he chose not to spare, something they all wanted as a part of what drove them to kill, said Abraham Bonowitz, Death Penalty Action’s executive director. “These three racists and terrorists who have been left on death row came to their crimes from political motivations. When Donald Trump gets to execute them what will really be happening is they will be given a global platform for their agenda of hatred,” Bonowitz said. One inmate's attorney expresses thanks — and his remorse Two of the men whose sentences were commuted were Norris Holder and Billie Jerome Allen, on death row for opening fire with assault rifles during a 1997 bank robbery in St. Louis, killing a guard, 46-year-old Richard Heflin. Holder’s attorney, Madeline Cohen, said in an email that Holder was sentenced to death by an all-white jury. She said his case “reflects many of the system’s flaws,” and thanked Biden for commuting his sentence. “Norris’ case exemplifies the racial bias and arbitrariness that led the President to commute federal death sentences,” Cohen said. “Norris has always been deeply remorseful for the pain his actions caused, and we hope this decision brings some measure of closure to Richard Heflin’s family.” ___ Swenson reported from Seattle. Associated Press writer Jim Salter in O'Fallon, Missouri, contributed to this report. Jeffrey Collins And Ali Swenson, The Associated PressWhat Analysts Are Saying About Waters Stock
Ghana Launches Citizen-Led iCollate App to Enhance Election TransparencyChina successfully launched its newest rocket on Saturday, making another step towards stronger launch capabilities and a crewed moon landing before 2030. The 62-metre-tall, 3.8-metre-wide Long March 12 lifted off from Wenchang spaceport on south China’s Hainan island at 10:25pm Beijing time, sending two “technology test satellites” into orbit, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the country’s main space contractor. CASC did not provide more detail about the satellites. The two-stage rocket, powered by burning kerosene and liquid oxygen, is notable as the widest launched so far by China, said Wu Jialin, an engineer with the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under CASC, which developed the spacecraft. Most Chinese rockets have a diameter of 3.35 meters, Wu told a press conference on site shortly after the launch was announced successful. “A wider body means the rocket can hold about 30 per cent more propellant, giving it much enhanced carrying capacity,” he said. Long March 12 can deliver about 12 tonnes of payload to low Earth orbit and over 6 tonnes to a so-called sun-synchronous orbit, Wu said. It will join existing rockets to help China assemble its broadband “megaconstellations”. The planned megaconstellations, called Qianfan and Guowang, each aim to launch more than 13,000 satellites to provide internet services to remote areas and rival SpaceX’s Starlink in the international market.