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In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pam Bondi dated Tuesday, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed requested an investigation by December 1 into World Liberty Financial's compliance with anti-money laundering rules, sanctions, and governance. The demand stems from a September report by Accountable.US alleging the project sold $WLFI governance tokens to wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group, a Russian sanctions-evasion stablecoin, Iran's NoBitex exchange, and the sanctioned mixer Tornado Cash. DT Marks DEFI LLC, controlled by Donald Trump and his family, holds 22.5 billion tokens and receives 75% of sales revenue, while the project lists Trump family members in prominent roles; World Liberty Financial maintains it has robust compliance measures with no evidence of wrongdoing.

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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed have fired off a letter urging a federal probe into World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's crypto project, over alleged sales to North Korean hackers and sanctioned entities.

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hosted French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Federal Chancellery on June 24. They issued a joint statement vowing substantial aid to Ukraine, including sanctions on Russia, economic pressure, and support for Kyiv's energy and air defenses, while stressing a stronger NATO ahead of its July summit. Starmer, attending as caretaker after resigning on June 22, earned praise from peers like Macron for his dignity in fostering European unity, with talks signaling steady UK policy.

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Against Berlin's skyline, leaders from five nations stood together under NATO flags, pledging firm backing for Ukraine amid Russia's war.

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Posted in German on June 22 by @RatkoR2, the fabricated message lists eight reasons Russia has no interest in Germany, from €2.8 trillion public debt and €24.8 billion migrant spending to 55% train punctuality and climate rules like biking. It quickly spread with English translations, tapping into real frustrations over infrastructure decay and economic stagnation. While no Kremlin records match it, some call it blunt truth on Western challenges, others dismiss it as propaganda echoing past denials.

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A made-up letter from Putin to Germany mocks the country's debt, trains, and green policies—saying even surrender wouldn't tempt an invasion.

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In a February 6 speech at the New York Public Library, Mamdani linked Islamic teachings on the Hijrah to broader calls for compassion toward migrants, drawing from the Torah's story of Joseph and announcing stronger sanctuary city policies like limiting data-sharing with ICE. The clip's circulation aligns with Ashura on June 26, when he honored Imam Hussain's stand for truth and dignity. Supporters praise his inclusive leadership rooted in NYC's diverse faiths, while critics accuse him of prioritizing Islamic values over American ones.

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At his first Interfaith Breakfast, New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood at the podium and quoted the Quran on welcoming those who migrate after persecution—a message now resurfacing during Muharram mourning.

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Nigeria's First Lady initiated an empowerment program providing support for low-income households to start small-scale ventures like selling akara, kulikuli, and small chops.

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Bitcoin Rachy posted the query on X early Wednesday, prompting users to highlight Bitcoin's decentralized nodes, open-source code, public ledger, and 21 million supply cap as key distinctions from Ponzi schemes. Contributors contrasted it with fiat currencies' inflation since 1971 and noted regulators target actual Bitcoin scams, not the asset itself. As Bitcoin hit $90,000 amid post-election gains, the thread exposed divides between maximalists and skeptics invoking greater fool theory.

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A financial advisor turned to X after a client branded Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme—sparking over 400 replies packed with sharp rebuttals.

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Posted in German on June 22 by @RatkoR2, the fabricated message lists eight reasons Russia has no interest in Germany, from €2.8 trillion public debt and €24.8 billion migrant spending to 55% train punctuality and climate rules like biking. It quickly spread with English translations, tapping into real frustrations over infrastructure decay and economic stagnation. While no Kremlin records match it, some call it blunt truth on Western challenges, others dismiss it as propaganda echoing past denials.

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A made-up letter from Putin to Germany mocks the country's debt, trains, and green policies—saying even surrender wouldn't tempt an invasion.

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Disney Channel released vibrant character posters for Descendants: Wicked Wonderland, the fifth movie premiering July 16 on Disney Channel and streaming July 17 on Disney+. Returning stars like Kylie Cantrall as Red and Malia Baker as Chloe Charming join new faces including Liamani Segura as Pink, Brendon Tremblay as Max Hatter, Kiara Romero as Hazel Hook, and Alexandro Byrd as Luis Madrigal. The story follows Red and Chloe rallying the group to rescue the reformed Queen of Hearts from villain Maddox Hatter after their time-travel changes in the previous film. Fans love details like symbolic blue butterflies hinting at rivalries and nods to parents like Cinderella.

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Kylie Cantrall's Red strikes a fierce pose amid red roses and golden castles, capturing the twisted magic of Wonderland in the latest posters.

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Hande Erçel attended the opening of Pomellato’s ‘Le Joaillier Révolutionnaire’ exhibition in Paris with celebrities including Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Kerry Washington, Yang Zi, Catherine Deneuve, and Carla Bruni. She wore a Georges Chakra Spring 2023 Couture ivory halter gown paired with a Pomellato diamond and emerald necklace.

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Former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler proposed Christian Pulisic as a transfer target for Liverpool FC. He highlighted Pulisic's age, Premier League experience, and versatility as a potential successor to Mohamed Salah.

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England secured a 2-0 victory over Panama in their final Group L match at MetLife Stadium, with Jude Bellingham scoring in the 62nd minute from a corner and assisting Harry Kane's goal in the 67th minute. The win allowed England, coached by Thomas Tuchel, to finish top of the group with 7 points and advance to the Round of 32 as a seeded team. Harry Kane reached 11 World Cup goals, becoming England's all-time leading scorer ahead of Gary Lineker's record of 10.

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Euro Pacific Asset Management chief Peter Schiff this week dismissed Bitcoin as a flawed medium of exchange and inferior store of value compared to tokenized gold. He referenced Cathie Wood's revised $1.2 million Bitcoin target for 2030, blaming stablecoins' rise in emerging markets. Amid Bitcoin's 5% year-to-date drop to $90,400, gold has surged 54% while drawing online mockery of Schiff's repeated past predictions.

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Peter Schiff strikes again: Bitcoin is doomed, he says, as stablecoins steal its transaction role and gold crushes it in value storage.

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At Crossroads Church in Loveland, Colorado, lead pastor Ryan Howell shared this view in a sermon alongside a sign language interpreter, wearing a T-shirt linking Jesus to modern issues like refugees and transgender coworkers. Critics, mainly conservative Christians, called the interpretation heretical, with one labeling it 'literally Satanism' and others mocking it as revisionist history. Biblically, Saul was rejected by God for disobedience and jealousy toward David, whom scripture describes as a man after God's heart despite his sins. The clip fueled online tensions between progressive and traditional views of the Bible.

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Pastor Ryan Howell stood in shorts and a trucker hat, preaching that King David twisted Bible stories for power while Saul deserved hero status.

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Owens described how the veteran, plagued by headaches, coughing blood, hearing loss, and seizures, had been dismissed by the VA as PTSD cases and given Xanax instead of scans. In Russia, paramedics rushed him to a hospital for an immediate CT scan, diagnosis, and successful surgery that ended all his symptoms. She called it life-saving divine intervention, amid her praise for Russia's Christian heritage from the trip, while critics question the unverified account and accuse her of promoting Kremlin views. The story highlights documented VA struggles with TBI misdiagnoses overlapping PTSD, elevated suicide risks, and care delays affecting over 185,000 veterans.

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A former Navy SEAL on Candace Owens' security team collapsed with a seizure during her family trip to Russia. Russian doctors spotted and removed a massive brain clot that U.S. care had missed for years.

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The 25-year-old defensive midfielder joins Perth Glory on a season-long loan from Heart of Midlothian for the 2026/27 Isuzu UTE A-League campaign. A Sydney native who shone with Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers before his 2023 move to Hearts, Nieuwenhof brings versatility as a six or eight, despite injuries like a fractured vertebra and hamstring surgery. He expressed excitement about consistent play and title contention under coach Adam Griffiths, whom he knows from youth days at Manly United. Perth's football director called it a coup to help secure finals football.

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Calem Nieuwenhof is heading home to Australia, reuniting with a familiar coach to chase A-League success after tough injury battles in Scotland.

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Russian-American influencer Alexandra Jost, known as Sasha Meets Russia, posted on Saturday that she feels safer as a young woman in Moscow than in the 'woke west.' The claim drew sharp criticism online, especially after a Friday video showed an Iranian dissident in Toronto shouting down a pro-regime flag-waver, only to face rebuke from a Russian woman over her tank top exposing her midriff. Critics accused Jost of Kremlin propaganda, citing her links to RT-funded programs and Russia's issues like high domestic violence rates and lack of protective laws. While Numbeo data ranks Moscow safer than Toronto on crime indexes, detractors point to underreporting and political risks.

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Alexandra Jost posed happily by the Moskva River in a sundress, sharing how much safer she feels in Moscow than the West. Her words hit a nerve just as a video surfaced of a tense street confrontation in Toronto.

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The strip, posted on X on Tuesday, depicts a protagonist in a dungeon finding faded yellow highlights on objects, contrasting modern chunky graphics with subtle 90s-era cues. It quickly garnered over 37,000 likes and 800,000 views, sparking discussions on player guidance, immersion, and accessibility in remakes like Resident Evil 4. Defenders argue yellow paint aids casual players in high-fidelity worlds, while critics prefer intuitive designs like lighting or landmarks over what they call lazy visual aids.

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Artist Adam Ellis dropped a biting four-panel comic that flips the script on gamers griping about yellow paint in video game remakes.

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In QSMP2 streams, q!Ewron struck a deal with Dark Cucurucho, trading q!Ash's heart for a Level 5 amulet that rewrites the soul to banish radiation and boost strength. q!Ash felt betrayed when q!Ewron called Dark Cucurucho 'master' and agreed to turn him into a slave or weapon, sparking a heated confrontation where Ash accused him of objectification. Fans divide between defending Ewron's cunning strategy and condemning his manipulation, with q!Tina calling him out for sacrificing a friend, as the duo's once-tight bond from assassinations and revivals hangs in the balance.

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q!Ash handed over his heart to save his partner q!Ewron from radiation poisoning, only to hear him boast about training and controlling him like a weapon.

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A viral image or video from Japan ridicules Europeans as uncivilized for wiping with toilet paper rather than using water bidets or heated Japanese toilets. The meme has sparked online discussions highlighting cultural differences in hygiene practices between Japan and Europe.

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In a June 17 letter, the Vatican's Dicastery for Divine Worship denied the German Bishops' Conference request to allow laypeople to preach in place of homilies, even in crises. The dicastery explained that homilies are tied to the ordained ministry through Holy Orders, not just a rule to bend. This follows Rome's rejections of other German Synodal Way proposals, while urging better priest training to address pastoral needs. Traditionalists hailed the decision, while progressives voiced disappointment.

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Germany's Catholic bishops turned to the Vatican for help amid a priest shortage, asking if laypeople could step in to give homilies during Mass. Rome said no, holding firm on tradition.

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The feud began on a livestream when WBC welterweight champ Ryan Garcia bet UFC lightweight Arman Tsarukyan $40,000 that he could knock down Tsarukyan's friend Rafayel Simonyan with body shots. Garcia lost, paid in cash on camera, but Tsarukyan claims he asked for it back to count and never sent the transfer. Garcia refused to pay and challenged Tsarukyan's team to a full fight for $100k, then proposed boxing eight rounds himself for the same amount; Tsarukyan countered with $1 million if Garcia survives one round of MMA sparring, which Garcia declined, sticking to boxing offers. Amid the trash talk, Tsarukyan and friends were removed from an American Airlines flight on April 16 after a phone dispute during takeoff.

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Ryan Garcia handed over cash after failing to drop a pro boxer with body shots, but then allegedly ghosted on the transfer—igniting a back-and-forth of taunts and massive fight bets.

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In Peru's tight presidential runoff, right-wing Keiko Fujimori leads left-wing Roberto Sánchez 50.11% to 49.89% with 99.72% of votes counted, a gap of about 40,700 out of 18.3 million cast. Sánchez alleges manipulation in overseas ballots from the U.S. and Argentina, claiming a last-minute rule change on physical submissions disrupted the process, and plans national marches Saturday. Fujimori's team calls for calm verification, while prediction markets give her over 98% odds of victory amid Peru's history of six presidents in eight years and past unrest.

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With just 40,700 votes separating them, Roberto Sánchez refused to accept Keiko Fujimori's narrow edge, flanked by allies in Andean attire as he called for protests.

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On June 19, the United States men's national team beat Australia 2-0 in FIFA World Cup 2026 Group D play, thanks to an 11th-minute own goal from Folarin Balogun's pressure and Alex Freeman's header before halftime. Even without Christian Pulisic due to a calf injury, the US controlled the game, securing back-to-back World Cup wins for the first time since 1930 and a knockout spot. Fans traded hilarious jabs online—Aussies called it envy or ref bias, while Americans shrugged off the unrequited beef with quips like 'pretend' and kickball tournament trolls.

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Aussies hyped a one-sided rivalry with bold predictions, only for the USMNT to flip the script with a clean-sheet win in Seattle.

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Stanbic Black Pirates won their fourth Uganda Rugby Premiership title—and first successful defense—with a thrilling 30-29 grand final victory over Toyota Buffaloes. Pirates led 25-13 at halftime on tries from Nathan Bwambale (two), Alex Aturinda, and Kidega, before fly-half Yasin Waiswa's 19 points fueled Buffaloes' near-comeback to 30-29. The team dedicated the win to late flanker Sydney Gongodyo, posting 'It's for Sydney' post-match amid celebrations of three straight finals.

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Captain Frank Kidega's try helped Pirates build a big halftime lead, but Buffaloes' second-half charge had the packed Kings Park Arena on edge until the final whistle.

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