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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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Holosoma unifies simulators like IsaacGym and MuJoCo for reinforcement learning on humanoid robots such as Unitree G1 and Booster T1. It supports tasks like walking, full-body motion tracking, and even dancing, with tools to retarget human motion data to robots. Researchers praised its efficiency and modular design, which lets them focus on algorithms. Demos show smooth real-world performance, and the team welcomes contributions on GitHub and Discord.

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Amazon's robotics team just dropped an open-source tool that turns simulation training into real-world robot walks in minutes. With a single high-end GPU, they train and deploy policies on hardware in about 20 minutes.

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The figures, from the Current Population Survey, prompted the department to pledge reversing these trends and prioritizing American workers over globalism. Recent BLS data from September 2024 to 2025 shows a shift, with native-born employment rising by 2.5 million and foreign-born dropping by 670,000. Officials aim to protect U.S. jobs amid ongoing debates on immigration and labor policy.

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The U.S. Labor Department shared striking BLS data this weekend, showing native-born Americans lost over 1.3 million jobs from August 2023 to 2024 while foreign-born employment grew by 1.24 million.

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In a 31-second video posted late Tuesday, the couple described Ramadan as a sacred time of discipline, caring for others, and family, ending with 'Ramadan Kareem, California!' The message arrived as February 18 marked both Ramadan's likely start—confirmed by moon sightings—and Ash Wednesday for the state's 12 million Catholics. While fellow Democrats like LA Mayor Karen Bass echoed the greetings and supporters praised the inclusivity, conservative voices criticized Newsom for spotlighting Muslims over the larger Catholic population without a comparable Lent message.

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Standing before American and California flags, Governor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel Newsom offered warm Ramadan wishes to over half a million Muslim Californians on the holy month's first day.

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MP Rachael Thomas questioned leaders of the Canadian Media Producers Association in a parliamentary committee for telling Prime Minister Mark Carney 'we have your back.' She argued that this compromises media independence. Minister Marc Miller dismissed the concerns, accusing Thomas of making it up and defending CBC as ferociously independent while noting the association seeks financial support.

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On January 22, 2025, at the World Economic Forum, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez proposed linking social media accounts to Europe's digital identity wallets. This would allow nicknames but enable authorities to trace real identities for crimes like hate speech or harassment, addressing bot accounts and misinformation. Part of his pitch to EU leaders, the idea ties into eIDAS 2.0 wallets rolling out by mid-2026 for services like banking, though social media linkage remains just a proposal. The clip has fueled strong pushback, with many viewing it as a step toward greater oversight.

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In a Davos speech earlier this year, Pedro Sánchez drew everyday comparisons to make his case for change online. He pictured streets without masks and cars without plates, urging a shift from full anonymity.

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Will Chamberlain posted that ordinary people lack greater insight into America's approach to Iran than Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth, urging to 'let them cook.' The post sparked widespread replies criticizing the named individuals as corrupt, idiotic, or unqualified, with comparisons to past Iraq War leaders like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

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Germany cruised past France 5-1 behind five points from Edmonton Oilers duo Leon Draisaitl and Josh Samanski, setting up a clash with No. 3 Slovakia. Czechia edged Denmark 3-2 in a nail-biter, with Martin Necas scoring the opener and David Pastrnak assisting; they'll rematch Canada, where Necas joked they 'let them win the first one.' Switzerland shut out host Italy 3-0 led by Nico Hischier's three points, earning a showdown with No. 4 Finland. Off the ice, France's Pierre-Edouard Bellemare shared heartfelt family reflections after his likely final Olympic game.

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Leon Draisaitl buried a huge goal while Nico Hischier dominated with three points, propelling their teams into thrilling quarterfinal matchups against top seeds.

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A YouGov survey of over 1,000 U.S. adults from February 10-13 revealed 50% support for D.C. statehood and 48% for Puerto Rico, compared to just 27% for Greenland and 24% for Canada. Partisan splits stand out: Democrats strongly favor D.C. and Puerto Rico but oppose the others, while Republicans lean against D.C. and Puerto Rico yet show more openness to Greenland. The findings highlight ongoing debates over representation for tax-paying areas without full congressional votes, amid hurdles like stalled bills and Republican control of Congress.

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Imagine paying federal taxes without a voting senator—that's the daily reality for D.C. residents, and a new poll finds most Americans want to change it for them and Puerto Rico.

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On February 15, 2015, ISIS militants beheaded 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians and one Ghanaian worker, Matthew Ayariga, who chose solidarity with them by affirming 'Their God is my God.' The men, kidnapped from construction jobs, refused to renounce their faith, prompting Egypt's President Sisi to launch airstrikes and the Coptic Church to canonize them as martyrs days later. Today marks the anniversary with posts sharing family testimonies, church murals, and reflections on their enduring legacy amid frustration over the world's muted response at the time.

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Eleven years after 21 migrant workers knelt on a Libyan beach and whispered 'My Lord Jesus' in the face of ISIS blades, their quiet courage still moves people to share stories of faith and loss.

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In 2023, Labour Together—a think tank key to Keir Starmer's leadership shift—paid APCO Worldwide £30,000 to investigate reporters like Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund and Harry Yorke, Guardian's Henry Dyer, Paul Holden, and Matt Taibbi after stories on its £740,000 in unreported 2017-2020 donations. The firm labeled them 'significant persons of interest' and speculated their info came from an illegal hack, even submitting reports to the National Cyber Security Centre. Labour Together's then-director Josh Simons, now a minister, called it a probe into a suspected hack unrelated to UK journalists, but targeted reporters described the materials as a 'dodgy dossier' aimed at discrediting their work. Press freedom groups raised alarms over the tactics amid broader concerns about political pressure on scrutiny.

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Journalists who exposed hidden donations faced unexpected scrutiny from a Labour-linked group, with leaked memos revealing a PR firm's detailed dossiers on them.

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Jaxson Hayes, the first Los Angeles Laker in six years to participate since Dwight Howard, attempted a dunk reminiscent of Michael Jordan's iconic slam but executed it poorly. Hayes posted an Instagram story comparing his dunk to Jordan's.

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On the exact anniversary of 23-year-old Ilan Halimi's death from torture by the 'Gang of Barbarians' in 2006, Macron called the fight against antisemitism 'existential for France.' He condemned its forms across ideologies, from Islamist extremism to far-right stereotypes, amid a 300% surge in acts after October 7, 2023, in a nation with Europe's largest Jewish community of 450,000. Proposing tougher penalties, judge training, and tech fines, Macron stressed that free speech ends at hate, vowing the Republic's resilience.

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Twenty years after Ilan Halimi's brutal murder, President Macron planted an oak tree—'Ilan' means 'tree' in Hebrew—in the Élysée Palace gardens as a symbol of enduring memory.

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Damian Lillard won the 2026 State Farm 3-Point Contest at All-Star Saturday Night in Los Angeles, scoring 29 points in the final to beat Devin Booker (27) and Kon Knueppel (17), joining Larry Bird and Jason Kapono as the only three-time winners. Curry, a two-time champ who sat out the event, stole the show with his epic long-range swish from above the Intuit Dome. He then promised to enter next year with Lillard, Klay Thompson, and Kevin Durant for a dream-team showdown.

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From the broadcast booth, Steph Curry launched a 100-foot 3-pointer that swished perfectly as Damian Lillard claimed his third contest crown. The crowd roared while broadcasters shouted, 'Greatness, baby!'

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The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on U.S. policy challenges in Syria after Bashar al-Assad's fall in December 2024, focusing on rising atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities under interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa. Witnesses detailed mass killings of over 1,500 Alawites in March 2025, more than 1,000 deaths in Suwayda including abductions of Druze women and girls, a suicide bombing that killed 25 Christians at Damascus's Mar Elias Church, and brutal offensives against Kurds with beheadings and executions. Chairman Brian Mast warned al-Sharaa against eroding U.S. trust, while calls grew to enforce minority protections, manage Turkish influence, and potentially reimpose sanctions amid tensions with the Trump administration.

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Lawmakers from both parties voiced sharp frustration over attacks on Druze, Kurds, Alawites, and Christians in Syria's fragile new era.

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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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