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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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At its Money Rails event in Buenos Aires on November 18 during Ethereum Devcon, Polygon announced partnerships with Mastercard and Revolut to enable mainstream cross-border payments. Revolut integrated Polygon for USDC, USDT, and POL transactions with zero fees for UK and EEA users, processing over $690 million in volume since December 2024. Mastercard selected Polygon as the default chain for its Crypto Credential system, allowing username-based transfers to self-custody wallets.

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Polygon just unlocked zero-fee stablecoin remittances for Revolut's 65 million users—gas covered, instant transfers worldwide.

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The U.S. has set June as the target for Ukraine and Russia to agree on peace, Zelenskyy announced after UAE-hosted talks in Abu Dhabi that delivered a swap of 314 prisoners—the first in five months—and restarted U.S.-Russia military dialogues. Zelenskyy highlighted Ukrainian intelligence on Russia's 'Dmitriev package,' a proposed $12 trillion economic deal with the U.S. that draws widespread skepticism for exceeding Russia's entire GDP many times over. While no breakthroughs occurred on core issues like Donbas status or the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, upcoming Miami talks signal continued U.S. pressure, as Zelenskyy calls for strong security guarantees amid ongoing Russian strikes.

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In a closed briefing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared a surprising U.S. push: a June deadline to end the war, amid fresh prisoner swaps but unresolved disputes over land and security.

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On February 8 at Levi's Stadium, Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny delivered the first primarily Spanish-language Super Bowl halftime show, blending reggaeton hits, cultural nods like a mock wedding, and guest spots from Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin. He capped it by naming nations across North, Central, and South America, declaring 'God bless America' to celebrate Latin pride. Viewers split: supporters cheered the diverse Americas shoutout as historic, while critics like Matt Walsh and Donald Trump called the Spanish focus exclusionary for U.S. audiences.

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Bad Bunny ended his Super Bowl halftime set by calling out countries from Chile to Canada, with flags waving and a football reading 'Together We Are America' in hand.

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The U.S. has set June as the target for Ukraine and Russia to agree on peace, Zelenskyy announced after UAE-hosted talks in Abu Dhabi that delivered a swap of 314 prisoners—the first in five months—and restarted U.S.-Russia military dialogues. Zelenskyy highlighted Ukrainian intelligence on Russia's 'Dmitriev package,' a proposed $12 trillion economic deal with the U.S. that draws widespread skepticism for exceeding Russia's entire GDP many times over. While no breakthroughs occurred on core issues like Donbas status or the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, upcoming Miami talks signal continued U.S. pressure, as Zelenskyy calls for strong security guarantees amid ongoing Russian strikes.

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In a closed briefing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared a surprising U.S. push: a June deadline to end the war, amid fresh prisoner swaps but unresolved disputes over land and security.

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The New York City mayor-elect made the visit on Monday evening, days after a deadly shooting at a Hanukkah event on Sydney's Bondi Beach that killed at least 15 people, including a Chabad rabbi, a 10-year-old girl, and Holocaust survivors. Australian police identified the attackers as Sajid Akram and his son Naveed, linked to ISIS ideology. Mamdani, who condemned the attack as antisemitic terror, drew praise from some in Jewish communities for the outreach gesture at the open-to-all gravesite, while critics questioned its sincerity given his past activism on Gaza and associations with controversial chants.

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In a quiet moment of reflection, Zohran Mamdani stood prayerfully at the Ohel in Queens, wearing a kippah and leaving a note at the site revered by Chabad-Lubavitch.

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British historian Sir Antony Beevor, in a December 2025 Sky News interview, accused Trump of being unwittingly manipulated by Putin to weaken Ukraine. Garry Kasparov hit back, claiming Trump is actively colluding with Moscow through stalled talks, aid cuts, and territorial pressure. Amid trilateral meetings in Abu Dhabi that yielded a prisoner swap but no breakthroughs, Zelenskyy eyes a June 2026 U.S. deadline while Russia keeps striking energy targets—the debate underscores splits on whether Trump's push ends the war or favors Putin.

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A historian's sharp label for Trump as Putin's 'useful idiot' resurfaced, pulling chess legend Kasparov into a heated clash over Ukraine peace talks.

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On January 27, 2026, Maulvi Sher Ali delivered a fiery Pashto speech at the Kabul funeral of Qari Ayub, killed near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border days earlier. He called for jihad against parliamentary systems in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, vowing retaliation and drawing anti-Pakistan chants from hundreds in attendance. Pakistani online voices raised alarms over the rhetoric, seeing it as proof of Taliban support for TTP militants blamed for years of deadly attacks.

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Amid chants from a large crowd in Kabul, an Afghan cleric pledged to raise the Islamic Emirate's flag over Islamabad at the funeral of a TTP-linked fighter.

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Veteran journalist Shahid Hashmi speculated in a PakPassion interview that Babar Azam's recent loose shots in T20 cricket might tie to unconfirmed family issues, like pressure from his parents to marry a cousin while he prefers someone else. Fans quickly criticized the comments as an invasion of privacy and poor journalism, with some mocking it as yet another excuse for the Pakistan star's slower strike rates. Despite the noise, Babar remains in Pakistan's preliminary T20 World Cup 2026 squad and has shone in the BBL this season, including two recent fifties among top run-scorers. Neither Babar nor the Pakistan Cricket Board has responded.

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Babar Azam dazzled with an unbeaten 58 in the BBL opener, yet a journalist's speculation about family marriage pressure has drawn sharp backlash.

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Shopify partnered with shader artist XorDev to create 'Shades of Commerce,' a procedural artwork on the Sphere's Exosphere that reacts to live global sales data. Rendered in a web browser at 8K and 60 fps using WebGL and Three.js, the visuals transform orders into colorful patterns visible across Las Vegas. The project highlights record Black Friday performance, with peaks of $5.1 million in sales per minute and over 30 million shoppers, while Shopify's interactive Live Globe adds retro pinball fun for tracking merchant milestones.

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Swirling lights dance across the world's largest LED screen, each pulse marking a real sale from Shopify stores worldwide. It's a mesmerizing way to celebrate the holiday shopping rush.

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A post by user frye noted that Long Island stretches 118 miles east from New York Harbor, making it the longest and largest by land area at 1,401 square miles in the continental United States. It houses over 8 million people, including Brooklyn and Queens, though locals debate those boundaries. Replies mixed puns like 'not called Longest Island,' rival claims from Whidbey Island locals, and a 1985 Supreme Court case treating it as a peninsula for maritime purposes—yet geographically, it's surrounded by water on all sides.

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Early settlers dubbed New York’s Long Island without scouting the whole country—and it turns out they got it right.

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Ahmed Sharif Al Amri, focused on youth and cultural affairs in the UAE, raised the question on Tuesday evening, drawing over a million views and 32,000 likes. Musk's response, noting self-weakening propaganda, earned nearly 40,000 likes, while Al Amri later affirmed his deep Arab and Muslim roots amid ignored warnings to Western leaders. Supporters pointed to cultural conditioning, educational lapses, and institutional influences as causes, while critics urged focus on Palestinian issues and accused ties to UAE or Israeli interests. The exchange highlighted divides over immigration, identity politics, and the UAE's moderate stance against political Islam.

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An Arab analyst from the UAE wondered aloud why he feels more concerned about the West's path than many Westerners do. Elon Musk replied that anti-Western messaging has ironically undermined the region from within.

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CUDA Tile lets coders work with 'tiles' of data instead of juggling thousands of low-level threads, hiding hardware details for smoother coding on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. It kicks off with cuTile Python, an open-source tool on GitHub that compiles Python kernels into efficient code. Performance perks include up to 4x faster math operations, plus new profiling tools—though some developers want more code examples right away. NVIDIA sees this as a future-proof step for the 6 million developers relying on CUDA across industries like healthcare.

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NVIDIA just dropped CUDA 13.1, their biggest update to the GPU programming toolkit in nearly 20 years. At its core is CUDA Tile, a fresh way to handle data chunks that simplifies life for developers building AI tools.

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The inflow came as bitcoin rebounded from below $87,000 to over $91,000 that Tuesday, pushing IBIT shares up 6.8% with $3.7 billion in trading volume. This marked a stark turnaround from November's billions in losses across spot bitcoin ETFs, amid bitcoin's climb to around $93,000 by Wednesday. BlackRock's ETF, launched in January 2024, continues to draw institutional investors seeking bitcoin exposure without direct ownership, holding tens of billions in assets.

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After a rough November with $2.3 billion in outflows, BlackRock's IBIT ETF drew in $120.1 million on December 2—its biggest daily gain in three weeks.

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Pahlavi, son of Iran's last shah, urged global action against what he called a massacre amid protests sparked by economic collapse and demands to topple Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Demonstrations erupted December 28, 2025, spreading to hundreds of cities with chants for regime change and his return; violence peaked January 8-9 as snipers and machine guns killed crowds, with death tolls estimated from 3,000 by the government to over 30,000 by leaked sources and activists. An internet blackout hides the full scale, but reports describe mass burials, over 41,000 arrests, and medics witnessing blood-soaked bodies; Pahlavi vowed freedom is near as exiles plead for U.S. help under new President Trump.

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On January 27, Reza Pahlavi watched Holocaust Remembrance Day images and saw echoes in Iran's streets, where security forces gunned down protesters by the thousands.

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Users on X debated and queried Grok about the first Europeans to land in mainland North America, citing Spanish explorers arriving in Florida in 1513 and establishing St. Augustine in 1565 before English settlements at Jamestown in 1607. The discussion emphasized Spanish presence in future U.S. states like Florida, Texas, and California, referenced Bad Bunny's claim, and challenged the notion of English as America's original language.

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