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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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Unveiled in Ottawa on December 12, 2024, the $7.5 million Memorial to the Victims of Communism honors those who suffered under communist rule and celebrates Canada as a refuge. Historians in 2023 flagged over 330 of the proposed names for potential Nazi collaborations, unverifiable details, or lack of Canadian ties, including figures like Roman Shukhevych and Janis Niedra. The wall will now display thematic content, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, to focus on broader history without individual listings. The change highlights the tangled histories of Eastern European anti-communist fighters.

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The memorial's planned Wall of Remembrance aimed to honor 553 individuals who fled communist regimes. But concerns over Nazi and fascist links among many names led officials to scrap the idea entirely.

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Greg Ip explains how targeted price jumps in eggs, beef, housing, and more outstrip income gains, leaving first-time homebuyers and renters strained—half now spend over 30% of income on housing alone. Quick policy ideas like tariffs, rent controls, or rate cuts carry risks of recession or renewed inflation, he warns. Leaders like President Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani highlight the issue, while many call for bold changes from market shifts to reforms ending the Fed or curbing investor home buys.

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Families feel the pinch from higher housing, groceries, and everyday bills, even as wages slowly rise and inflation eases. A top economist asks if real relief is possible without bigger problems down the road.

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On Thursday, Jackson Hinkle's X post labeling Taiwan a 'fake country' under China drew sharp rebuttals and support, spotlighting Taiwan's limited diplomatic recognition by only 12 UN members and the Holy See amid the unresolved Chinese Civil War. Taiwan governs 23 million people democratically, holds multiparty elections, maintains a 215,000-strong military, and receives U.S. arms support, including a recent $330 million package. Public opinion strongly favors the status quo or independence, with over 80% rejecting China's 'one country, two systems' model, reflecting broader geopolitical divides.

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Influencer Jackson Hinkle declared Taiwan a 'fake country' that belongs to China, igniting a heated online clash viewed over 65,000 times. The post amplified longstanding tensions between China's unification claims and Taiwan's 76 years of independent self-governance.

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Anastasia Zorchinsky, born in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 1995, was refused a passport at a Montreal Service Canada office on November 10 when officials cited political conflict and suggested listing Palestine instead. Her lawyer, Neil Oberman, intervened, securing the document with accurate details after confirming no such policy exists. Global Affairs Canada attributed the incident to staff misunderstanding, not an official directive, following backlash over perceived discrimination amid Canada's recent recognition of Palestine.

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Imagine arriving to claim your new Canadian passport, only to be told your birthplace—Israel—can't be listed due to 'political conflict,' with Palestine offered as the alternative.

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Anastasia Zorchinsky, born in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 1995, was refused a passport at a Montreal Service Canada office on November 10 when officials cited political conflict and suggested listing Palestine instead. Her lawyer, Neil Oberman, intervened, securing the document with accurate details after confirming no such policy exists. Global Affairs Canada attributed the incident to staff misunderstanding, not an official directive, following backlash over perceived discrimination amid Canada's recent recognition of Palestine.

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Imagine arriving to claim your new Canadian passport, only to be told your birthplace—Israel—can't be listed due to 'political conflict,' with Palestine offered as the alternative.

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Fizzy strips away the complexity of tools like Trello or Jira, offering clean columns and cards in a freemium model: 1,000 cards free forever, or $20 monthly for unlimited use and support. The entire codebase sits on GitHub under the O'Saasy License, allowing free downloads, modifications, self-hosting, or even sales—with one limit: no rival SaaS services using its features. Developers quickly submitted pull requests, while DHH defends the approach as true open source, pushing back against purists who call it source-available due to the commercial restriction.

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37signals just unveiled Fizzy, a no-frills kanban tool built for quick bug tracking or podcast workflows. It pairs a simple hosted service with fully public code anyone can tweak.

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Manchester United dismissed Ruben Amorim on Monday after 14 months, citing their sixth-place Premier League position following a 1-1 draw at Leeds. The Portuguese manager, who joined from Sporting CP in November 2024 and reached the Europa League final, posted a 38.1% win rate across 63 games—the worst since Sir Alex Ferguson left. Fletcher, a former midfielder with over 340 appearances, takes charge for Wednesday's match at Burnley, with fans mixing despair over the post-Fergie curse and hopes for a reset. Pundits like Gary Neville call for attacking football true to United's DNA, while Amorim's backroom staff departed Carrington laughing despite the shock.

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Ruben Amorim strolled through the snow with his wife, flashing a thumbs-up to cameras just hours after his Manchester United sacking. The club turned to legend Darren Fletcher as interim boss amid a dismal run.

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A Pentagon Inspector General report released Thursday examined Hegseth's messages sent around 11:44 a.m. ET on March 15, detailing F-18 jets, MQ-9 drones, and Tomahawk missiles—two to four hours before the attacks. The report found violations of policies on personal devices and records preservation, as messages auto-deleted, but cleared any laws broken since Hegseth holds declassification authority. Democrats like Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin criticized the risks to pilots, while Republicans called it a full exoneration amid successful strikes.

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Hours before U.S. strikes hit Houthi targets in Yemen, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared strike timelines in a Signal group chat on his personal phone. The chat accidentally included a journalist, raising questions about security protocols.

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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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Lee Gunner, the Arsenal YouTuber with 134,000 subscribers known for critiquing Mikel Arteta, clashed with troll @supremeAbu over personal failings tied to Islam's teachings. He correctly distinguished the Five Pillars of Islam—acts like prayer and charity—from the Six Pillars of Iman, beliefs in God, angels, books, prophets, Judgment Day, and decree, plus paradise's eight gates linked to virtues. Though not Muslim himself, Lee drew from his chat's insights, earning playful titles like Sheikh Lee while prompting calls for self-reflection among fans. The back-and-forth captured football Twitter's mix of tactics and deeper topics last Thursday.

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Lee Gunner fired back at an Arsenal troll questioning his faith knowledge with sharp precision on Islam's pillars and gates. The exchange turned heads for its unexpected dive into theology amid football banter.

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Sulaiman Ahmed posted the Baltimore News front page detailing the Hebron massacre, where 67 Jews—mostly yeshiva students and families—were killed by Arab mobs on August 24, 1929, amid riots in Mandatory Palestine. The event involved homes looted, synagogues ransacked, and brutal killings documented by the British Peel Commission, though some Arabs sheltered Jews and nine Arabs died too. Replies flipped the narrative to highlight pre-1948 Arab attacks on Jews, underscoring how both sides invoke deep history in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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A grainy 1929 newspaper headline about Arab mobs slaughtering Jewish families in Hebron was shared with a simple caption: 'It didn’t start on Oct 7.' Replies quickly turned it into a reminder of violence against Jews nearly a century earlier.

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The Department of Homeland Security launched Operation Charlotte's Web over the weekend, deploying Border Patrol and ICE agents to arrest at least 81 individuals with criminal records in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of President Trump's mass deportation efforts. Local officials including Mayor Vi Lyles and Governor Josh Stein condemned the operations for causing community anxiety and reports of racial profiling, including the detention of U.S. citizen Willy Aceituno, while supporters viewed it as necessary enforcement against violent offenders. In response, nonprofit Siembra NC released the OjoObrero app to track agent activity and provide legal resources, prompting criticism from conservatives like Rep. Mark Harris as an evasion tool.

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Federal agents stormed Charlotte's streets in a weekend raid, cuffing 81 criminal immigrants amid cries of terror and a viral video of a U.S. citizen's brutal takedown.

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