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The judge just announced in court that a settlement has been reached in the historic defamation case between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems. Continue Reading »

A settlement has been reached in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against Fox News, the judge for the case announced. The network will pay more than $787 million to Dominion, a lawyer for the company said. Continue Reading »

Mortgage rates dropped below 6%, matching their lowest levels since 2022, as economic concerns over tariffs and a recent GDP report cause bond yields to drop. Continue Reading »

Cybersecurity stocks are the latest to see sell-off pressure as AI threatens to upend software companies. Continue Reading »

COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area. Continue Reading »

The project comes as Amazon has committed up to $200 billion this year on AI investments, which include data centers, chips and networking equipment. Continue Reading »

A majority of President Donald Trump's tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court on Friday, leading him to seek other legal mechanisms for the duties. Continue Reading »

Par TV5MONDE Demet KORKMAZ TV5 JWPlayer Field Les démocrates mais aussi certaines filières réclament que les droits de douane indûment perçus soient remboursés après la décision de la Cour suprême qui les a jugés illégales. Les détails avec Demet Korkmaz. TV5 JWPlayer Field Les démocrates mais aussi certaines filières réclament que les droits de douane indûment perçus soient remboursés après la décision de la Cour suprême qui les a jugés illégales. Les détails avec Demet Korkmaz. Continue Reading »

Par TV5MONDE PHILIPPINE DE CLERMONT-TONNERRE TV5 JWPlayer Field La CPI estime que l'ex-président philippin a "autorisé des meurtres" et "sélectionné personnellement" certaines des victimes de sa guerre contre la drogue. TV5 JWPlayer Field La CPI estime que l'ex-président philippin a "autorisé des meurtres" et "sélectionné personnellement" certaines des victimes de sa guerre contre la drogue. Continue Reading »

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Par TV5MONDE MOHAMED KACI TV5 JWPlayer Field Lors de derniers grands concerts, le prix de certaines places a atteint des sommets en France. On en parle après le décryptage Hugo Barbieux et nos invités: Matthieu Drouot, PDG chez Gérard Drouot Production, Bertrand Burgalat, musicien, chanteur, compositeur, producteur, et la journaliste Marie-Maude Denis, journaliste, présentatrice de l'émission d'investigation "Enquête" à Radio Canada. TV5 JWPlayer Field Lors de derniers grands concerts, le prix de certaines places a atteint des sommets en France. On en parle après le décryptage Hugo Barbieux et nos invités: Matthieu Drouot, PDG chez Gérard Drouot Production, Bertrand Burgalat, musicien, chanteur, compositeur, producteur, et la journaliste Marie-Maude Denis, journaliste, présentatrice de l'émission d'investigation "Enquête" à Radio Canada. Continue Reading »

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As the world gets deeper in dramatic structural changes, the one universal tool – the internet – has become a new kind of trench warfare Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Hungary has placed a double veto on the EU’s latest Russia sanctions package and an emergency loan for Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

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Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has rejected claims that Budapest hates Ukraine during an exchange with reporters in Brussels Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hid files and computers in storage units the US authorities have yet to search, The Telegraph claims Read Full Article at RT.com Continue Reading »

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that calm is being restored and that improvised cartel roadblocks removed. Continue Reading »

Attack on alleged drug smugglers brings death toll from US military campaign against suspected drug boats to around 150. Continue Reading »

Part of award-winning filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr's speech in which he says 'Free Palestine" was not aired. Continue Reading »

European Union fails to approve further Russia sanctions and a $106bn loan to Ukraine after Hungary refuses to agree. Continue Reading »

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has announced hikes on petrol and sales taxes. Analysts say it is a regressive policy. Continue Reading »

The Metropolitan Police says a 72-year-old man has been taken to a London police station for interview following the arrest in Camden. Continue Reading »

The Metropolitan Police said a 72-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Continue Reading »

Violence has erupted across Mexico since a powerful drug cartel boss died after being captured by special forces. Continue Reading »

Valdo Calocane's phone was analysed after the Nottingham attacks in June 2023. Continue Reading »

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Binance pledged to crack down on crime. But internal investigators at the world’s largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform. Continue Reading »

The death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes dealt a major blow to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, but few believe it spells the end for the powerful group. Continue Reading »

The Mexican government has killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the longtime leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Continue Reading »

When violence broke out after the killing of Mexico’s most-wanted cartel boss, vacation spots ordinarily spared from the drug wars were also targeted. Continue Reading »

Emails showed that the longevity influencer had provided medical advice to Jeffrey Epstein and had made crude comments about women. Continue Reading »

The Chinese upstart says it has trained high-performing AI models cheaply, without using the most advanced chips. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek, SoFi and more in the latest Market Talks covering Technology, Media and Telecom. Continue Reading »

DeepSeek is called “amazing and impressive” despite working with less-advanced chips. Continue Reading »

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies” author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Continue Reading »

Apps can add flexibility and freshness to your routine. Just try not to get injured. Continue Reading »

Israel allowed displaced Gazans to begin crossing a military zone that bisects the enclave after a deadlock over hostage releases was broken. Continue Reading »

Troubles at Vanke raise questions about the continued spread of the property crisis and whether the Chinese state will step in. Continue Reading »

Some of the women were held alone for extended periods and spent eight months in tunnels, an Israeli medical official said. Continue Reading »

The alliance mounted its first coordinated response to a suspected sabotage campaign against critical infrastructure after another cable was severed in the Baltic Sea. Continue Reading »

Residents of Goma reported gunfire and shelling after rebels overran Congolese troops. U.N. officials estimated that more than one million displaced people were now inside the city. Continue Reading »

NO. There is no legal process that allows voters to recall a sitting member of Congress. The Congressional Research Service notes that members of the U.S. Senate and House serve fixed terms and cannot be removed by voters through recall elections. However, each chamber may expel its own members via a two-thirds vote. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Maine Trust for Local News Continue Reading »

Popular GLP-1 weight-loss medications have helped millions of people shed pounds, but new research from Australia suggests doctors and patients may need to pay closer attention to what users are actually eating while taking them. A systematic review from the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) found that while the medications are effective for weight loss, many clinical trials fail to track changes in diet or whether patients are still getting enough essential nutrients. According to researchers, that gap could increase the risk of malnutrition over time. Continue Reading »

In the days before his State of the Union address, President Trump has claimed to have ushered in a historic comeback. "So just one year ago under crooked Joe Biden — and he was crooked as hell — our country was dead," he said at a rally last week in Georgia. "Now we have the hottest country. In one year, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world." But economic indicators and crime metrics do not show abrupt reversals from "worst" to "best," as the president often brags. Rather, trends on these issues that began before Mr. Trump retook office continued, largely unabated, in his first year back. Here is what the data show. Continue Reading »

America is celebrating its first U.S. men's hockey gold since the '80s, toppling Canada with a clutch overtime goal amid historically sharp tensions between the neighboring nations. The big picture: The victory was extra sweet for the MAGA world, which swiftly seized the win as an opportunity to roast Ottawa — and uplift Team USA's star player Jack Hughes' patriotism after calling out other athletes for criticizing the current state of the country. "We're USA. We're so proud to be Americans. Tonight was all for the country," Hughes said after the win. Continue Reading »

FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed critics of his presence in the locker room during the U.S. men's hockey team's celebration of their gold medal game victory over Canada on Sunday. Patel, who was in attendance in Milan, Italy, was captured on camera in Team USA's locker room on the final day of the Winter Olympics. At one point, the FBI director drinks a beer and bangs on a table, before forward Matthew Tkachuk drapes his gold medal around Patel and the group loudly sings "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" by the late Toby Keith. Continue Reading »

Jack Hughes was overcome with American pride as his goal gave Team USA the gold medal in men's ice hockey in overtime against Canada on Sunday. Hughes buried one behind Canadian goaltender Jordan Binnington, giving the Americans their first gold medal in the sport since 1980 – which was won by the "Miracle on Ice" team that upset the Soviet Union 46 years to the day Team USA defeated Canada. Continue Reading »

A new economic indicator has captivated Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington. Technology companies' massive spending on artificial intelligence accounted for half or more of U.S. growth last year, some economists calculated, effectively propping up an otherwise anemic economy. To President Donald Trump and his advisers, the figures showed that AI is helping spark an economic renaissance that must not be impeded by regulation. To some critics, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), the data revealed an economy dangerously addicted to AI. Either way, it became conventional wisdom that the technology was now a major engine of growth in the world's largest economy. But a growing number of forecasters now say the economy's dependence on AI was overstated. Continue Reading »

Before Friday, President Trump's tariffs, after months of on-again, off-again turbulence, had seemed to finally steady. Now, with the bulk of Trump's tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court, and a new, temporary global tariff in place, fresh questions hang over the U.S. economy. Will Trump's new 15% tariff meaningfully change trade flows and business operations? Will the federal government still be able to reap trillions in tariff revenues that could help slow the surging national debt? Will billions of dollars from the overturned tariffs flow back to the hundreds of businesses demanding refunds? Continue Reading »

Nations that negotiated trade deals with President Trump are demanding clarity from the U.S. and scrutinizing their options after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs that formed the backbone of the agreements. Mr. Trump and his team said the deals remain in full effect, and they would backfill the tariffs canceled by the justices. Indeed, Mr. Trump swiftly imposed a global tariff of 15% under alternative authorities. Yet the evaporation of Mr. Trump's tariff powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act left trading partners wondering what's next, and whether they can secure better terms for their companies. Many countries had struck trade deals in principle but had not fully ratified the pacts, which largely hinged on goodies for the U.S. economy in exchange for a lower tariff rate under IEEPA. Continue Reading »

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it his Make America Healthy Again mission to challenge the medical establishment. President Donald Trump's signature law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, could entrench it. Kennedy sees America's medical schools as bastions of groupthink that ignore the root causes of disease. But newly proposed caps on student loans that stem from the law would favor establishment institutions over nontraditional schools aligned with Kennedy's view that Americans are sicker than ever because of what they eat, the chemicals they're exposed to, and how little exercise they get. Continue Reading »

Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill this week facing an uphill climb to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as Republicans see an opening after President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday despite few signs that Democrats are willing to compromise on their demands. Discussions between the two sides have yielded little in recent days, with the White House not issuing a formal counter-offer as of Sunday, after Democrats presented what GOP sources described as a "recycled" proposal last week. However, some lawmakers are hopeful that negotiations can shake loose starting on Wednesday. Continue Reading »

When the Supreme Court recently struck down a key portion of President Trump's tariff authority, the usual suspects rushed to declare defeat. Pundits predicted chaos. Globalists smirked. The commentariat announced that "America First" had finally met its constitutional wall. They were wrong. What they witnessed wasn't a collapse. It was a strategy. While others play checkers, President Trump plays 4D chess. Instead of retreating after the Court's decision, Trump pivoted immediately — refining and restructuring his tariff approach through alternative statutory authorities and executive mechanisms. It wasn't reactionary. It was prepared. And it was decisive. Continue Reading »

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Major Mexican drug lord Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho," was killed in a military operation Sunday morning, the country's Defense Department announced, marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organized crime amid pressure from President Donald Trump to intensify the crackdown on drug cartels. The announcement came as government officials warned of clashes in Jalisco state and widespread criminal activity across the country, prompting the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to issue shelter-in-place advisories for multiple states. On Sunday, Mexican troops reportedly conducted operations in Tapalpa, Jalisco, targeting Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, a former police officer who became the elusive leader of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), a major supplier of fentanyl to the United States. Continue Reading »

Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of the most powerful and feared criminal organisations in Mexico, have unleashed a wave of violence across 20 Mexican states. They torched businesses and erected burning blockades in retaliation to the killing of their leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as "El Mencho", who died in custody on Sunday shortly after being captured by Mexican special forces. El Mencho, Mexico's most wanted man, was seriously injured in a firefight between his bodyguards and the military commandos deployed to capture him. He died while the military was transporting him from the town of Tapalpa, in Jalisco state, to the capital, Mexico City. Continue Reading »

The Mexican government said it killed the nation's most wanted cartel boss on Sunday, setting off a wave of fires and violence across the country as cartel operatives sought to exact revenge in an unsettling show of force. Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," was the longtime leader of one of Mexico's most powerful cartels, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and was widely regarded as one of the country's most violent criminal figures. He presided over a criminal enterprise that has expanded rapidly over the past decade, producing and selling drugs, extorting local businesses and terrorizing communities across the country. Continue Reading »

The US Supreme Court decision to strike down the tariffs that have been the centerpiece of Donald Trump’s economic and foreign policy agenda last Friday shook the world. Continue Reading »

A Nevada lawsuit trickling toward trial could determine how the nation's most arid state balances the legal rights of upstream landowners to divert water from rivers for agricultural irrigation with the impacts those withdrawals have on downstream ecologies and economies. Water rights exceed water supply across much of the western United States. With many watersheds failing to deliver enough water for local needs, the suit is being watched by attorneys, state water managers, and federal agencies. It could potentially set a precedent in revising how states across the West regulate access to water. Continue Reading »

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to the Caribbean country of St. Kitts and Nevis this week to reassert the Trump administration's interests in the Western Hemisphere just a month after the U.S. military operation that removed then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power. With the eyes of much of the world on the U.S military buildup in the Middle East and President Donald Trump's threats to attack Iran, Rubio will make a one-day visit to St. Kitts on Wednesday to participate in a summit of leaders from the Caribbean Community, the State Department said. Continue Reading »

The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after entering Mar-a-Lago with a weapon was a recent high school graduate who started an artwork company last year that specialized in handmade drawings of golf courses. The man, Austin Tucker Martin, of Cameron, N.C., was confronted by the Secret Service and officers from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office inside the north gate of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's residence and private club in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Martin was carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel canister. Officers told him to drop the items, but he put down only the canister and was shot and killed after raising the shotgun to a "shooting position," the authorities said. Continue Reading »

AOC's Ignorance Is No Laughing Matter Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, Over the past week or so, many on the political Right have understandably enjoyed a laugh or two at the expense of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.). AOC went to the Munich Security Conference to provide “balance” to the Trump administration’s presence and to burnish her own credentials on the global stage. Instead, she mostly just made a fool of herself. Not only did she stutter, stammer, and offer a Kamala Harris-esque non-answer when asked about American interests in and obligations to Taiwan, but she also demonstrated a comically poor grasp of geography and a righteously ignorant understanding of history. In an effort to rebut and embarrass U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, AOC embarrassed only herself, showing that historical facts mean far less to her than identity-inspired fiction. But while it’s inarguably fun to chuckle at and mock the ignorance of the smug congresswoman and presumed presidential aspirant, it is also important to acknowledge that her historical and political illiteracy extends beyond the superficial and touches on matters of real and critical importance. Notably, this purported champion of the working ... Continue Reading »

IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes On Cobol After disrupting countless Software/SaaS/finance/real estate/broker sectors, Anthropic's Claude is now going after targeted companies.  A little before 2pm ET, Bloomberg sent out a headline that Anthropic's Claude has found yet another skillset: *ANTHROPIC SAYS CLAUDE CODE CAN AUTOMATE COBOL MODERNIZATION A herd of panicked IBM longs flooded to the Claude blog to read more on what is happening. Here's what it found (excerpted):  COBOL is everywhere. It handles an estimated 95% of ATM transactions in the US. Hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL run in production every day, powering critical systems in finance, airlines, and government. Despite that, the number of people who understand it shrinks every year. The developers who built these systems retired years ago, and the institutional knowledge they carried left with them. Production code has been modified repeatedly over decades, but the documentation hasn't kept up. Meanwhile, we aren't exactly minting replacements—COBOL is taught at only a handful of universities, and finding engineers who can read it gets harder every quarter. Given these roadblocks, how can organizations modernize their systems without losing the reliability, availability, and data they’ve accumulated over decades? And ... Continue Reading »

Supreme Court To Hear Lawsuits Over Americans' Seized Assets In Cuba Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to hear two cases on Feb. 23 about U.S. business assets that Cuba’s communist government seized decades ago. Both cases focus on the 1996 Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act that was created to pressure Cuba by penalizing foreign companies “trafficking” in property that the Cuban regime seized from U.S. interests. Also known as the Helms-Burton Act, the law allows U.S. citizens and companies to sue any person who traffics in or uses confiscated property. Trafficking in the statute includes using or profiting from the confiscated property. The law defines “person” to include “any agency or instrumentality of a foreign state,” and contemplates civil judgments being obtained against “an agency or instrumentality of the Cuban Government.” Cuba’s late dictator Fidel Castro overthrew the then-government in 1959 and turned Cuba into a one-party state in which socialist policies were implemented, including the nationalization of the assets of foreign businesses operating in Cuba at the time. In Exxon Mobil v. Corporacion Cimex, Exxon Mobil seeks compensation from three Cuban government-owned companies for energy ... Continue Reading »

Plan B-2 By Benjamin Picton, senior market strategist at Rabobank US stocks closed higher on Friday following news that the Supreme Court had ruled 6-3 to uphold a lower court decision that found Trump’s signature tariff policy to be illegal. The court found that Trump acted beyond his authority by imposing tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act with the majority holding that tariffs are a branch of taxation and that the Constitution grants powers over taxation to Congress, not to the President. Critically, the Court found that IEEPA makes no specific mention of delegating tariff powers to the Executive and that there exists no precedent of IEEPA being used to levy tariffs. Precious metals are higher in early trade, the DXY is down, US equity futures are pointing lower and Brent crude is down by almost 1%. Aussie yields are now bull-flattening after initially moving higher, but Kiwi yields are holding at higher levels following idiosyncratic strong retail sales data. Aussie stocks have opened weaker, but the Hang Seng, TAIEX and KOSPI are catching a bid, highlighting the winners-and-losers effect of shifts in tariff policy that has just delivered ... Continue Reading »

"Go F**k Yourself": Immigrant-Owned Maryland Crab Shack Goes Viral After Slamming HuffPo Over Anti-USA Olympic Story It was a historic moment for Team USA Hockey as Jack Hughes scored the game-winning goal in a dramatic overtime finish, defeating Canada for the gold medal in Milan. The last time USA won Olympic gold in hockey was during the "Miracle on Ice" at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Now, the celebration heads to Washington, with President Trump inviting Hughes and his teammates to the White House. The thrilling 2-1 victory ended Team USA's nearly five-decade Olympic gold drought and marked one of the biggest moments in the US hockey program. "I'll tell you what. I just told my people two minutes ago, I didn't know they'd be calling. I said we're giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night," President Trump told the players. "I can send a military plane or something, but if you would like to, it's the coolest night. It's the biggest speech …" One player told Trump, "Sir, we're in." 🚨 EPIC! Kash Patel put PRESIDENT TRUMP on the phone in Team USA’s locker room so that 47 could PERSONALLY ... Continue Reading »

Judge Says Jack Smith's Final 'Mar-a-Lago Docs' Report On Trump Can Never Be Released Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Feb. 23 said that the final report on President Donald Trump compiled by a former special counsel shall not be released. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is based in Florida (and was appointed by President Trump), said in a 15-page decision that she was granting requests from Trump and his co-defendants to keep part two of the report from former special counsel Jack Smith shielded from the public. Cannon said that Smith wrongly forged ahead with investigating Trump and others for allegedly violating federal law by gathering and retaining sensitive documents even after she ruled his appointment was unconstitutional and threw out the case. “Rather than seek a stay of the Order, or clarification, Special Counsel Smith and his team chose to circumvent it, for months, by taking the discovery generated in this case and compiling it in a final report for transmission to then-Attorney General Garland, to Congress, and then beyond,” Cannon said. “The Court need not countenance this brazen stratagem or effectively perpetuate the Special ... Continue Reading »

EU Leaders Furious At Hungary's Double Veto Defeat Of Anti-Russia Measures Hungary strikes again... As the European Union confirms no agreement Monday on a proposed 20th package of sanctions against Russia, EU leaders are furious at Budapest. The majority of EU states were hoping to unveil their next round of punitive sanctions in time for the four year anniversary of the grinding war, on Tuesday. But instead Hungary came in with a resounding veto, and not just one - but two. via Atlatszo "This is a setback and message we did not want to send today, but the work continues," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in response to the failed passage. The sanctions weren't the only major anti-Moscow move vetoed by Hungary. It in fact exercised a double-veto, further infuriating Brussels leadership: A €90 billion emergency loan for Kyiv and a new package of sanctions against Moscow are being held up by Budapest over an energy dispute involving the transit of Russian oil through the Soviet-era Druzbha pipeline. "We should not tie together things that are not connected to each other at all," High Representative Kaja Kallas said on Monday morning before heading ... Continue Reading »

Disgraced UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson Arrested Weeks After Resigning Over Epstein Former UK cabinet minister and Ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, has been arrested just weeks after resigning over revelations that he gave Jeffrey Epstein advance notice of a €500bn bailout to save the Euro.  Mandelson was arrested at an address in Camden on Monday and taken to a London police station for an interview in connection with 'misconduct in public office.' BREAKING: Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the Metropolitan Police has saidhttps://t.co/CAU6JMk4vg 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube pic.twitter.com/Hgl7kPXEpa — Sky News (@SkyNews) February 23, 2026 The arrest follows search warrants at two addresses in Wiltshire and Camden, and comes four days after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of misconduct in public office, amid allegations he shared confidential government trade documents with Epstein as well. As we noted earlier this month; Documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the so-called Epstein files appear to show that Mandelson, then business secretary in the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, forwarded confidential policy discussions and draft plans to ... Continue Reading »

Zohran Mamdani's Budgetary Buffoonery Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance When Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor, he sold New Yorkers a vision of relief. Free childcare. Free buses. A rent freeze. A city that would finally tilt toward the struggling rather than the secure. What he did not campaign on was a nearly 10% property tax hike affecting more than three million residences and over 100,000 commercial properties. Yet, days after his election, here we are. The proposal, floated as leverage in a standoff with Kathy Hochul, is being marketed as a reluctant last resort. But for a mayor elected on affordability, threatening one of the broadest tax increases available to City Hall is not just ironic—it’s revealing. When the numbers got tight and Albany didn’t comply, Mamdani’s idiotic grand promises collided with fiscal gravity. And instead of rethinking the scale of the agenda, the answer was to reach for the biggest local tax lever available. Truly a courageous and brilliant new strategy from the left: raising taxes. How novel. This is not some clever new framework. Property taxes are the most predictable, blunt instrument in municipal finance. They are also uniquely capable of ... Continue Reading »

PayPal Shares Jump On Report Of Takeover Interest PayPal shares were briefly halted due to volatility and are now up 9% after a Bloomberg report said the digital payments firm is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers, as the stock slid to a decade low. The report, based on unnamed sources, has not been confirmed by PayPal. Interest in a PayPal takeover is in the early stages, according to people familiar with the matter. They say the company has met with banks amid unsolicited interest from suitors. The sources described one of the suitors as a "large rival" looking to purchase the entire digital payments firm, while others are only interested in certain PayPal assets. Before the news hit, PayPal shares in New York were at 2017 lows (with a market capitalization of around $37 billion) and down more than 85% from the 2021 high of $291.48. Year to date, shares are down 30%. Wall Street analysts are largely neutral on the stock, with 12 "Buys," 31 "Holds," and six "Sells." The average 12-month price target is $50.08.  PayPal was one of the pioneers of digital payments, but has been losing market share ... Continue Reading »

Putin Vows To Bolster Russia's Nuclear Triad As "Absolute Priority" In a Monday televised speech on the occasion of Russia's "Defender of the Fatherland Day," President Vladimir Putin declared that the development of the nuclear triad "remains an absolute priority" for Russia, coming soon on the heels of the collapse of the New START nuclear treaty with the United States. The nuclear triad serves as the ultimate guarantee of Russia's security and allows the effective maintenance of strategic deterrence and the balance of power in the world, explained Putin, calling it "our absolute priority". Countries like Russia, which are seen by the US either as rivals or even 'rogue' - are busy taking note of Iran now being threatened with regime change given it does not possess a nuclear deterrent.  1971 nuclear test off French Polynesia.  Putin further emphasized in the context of strategic deterrence that Russia will enhance the potential of its armed forces and improve their combat readiness and mobility - as well as maintaining the ability to operate under the most complex conditions. He further pledged to accelerate the pace of research and development of advanced weapons and equipment for the military ... Continue Reading »

Greenland Prime Minister Rejects Hospital Ship Offered By Trump Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said he does not support President Donald Trump’s decision to send a hospital ship to Greenland. “It’s going to be a no thank you from here,” according to a translation of Nielsen’s Facebook post on Feb. 22. “President Trump’s idea to send an American hospital ship here to Greenland is noted. But we have a public health system where treatment is free for citizens. It’s a deliberate choice. And a basic part of our society. It’s not like that in the United States, where it costs money to go to the doctor.” Nielsen said Greenland is “always open to dialogue and collaboration” but requested Trump “talk to us now instead of just coming up with more or less random outbursts on social media.” It’s not clear which ship was sent. The rejection came one day after Trump said on Truth Social that a hospital ship was on its way to the country. “We are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and ... Continue Reading »

Key Events This Week: PPI, Iran Talks, Nvidia Earnings, Fed Speakers Galore And State Of The Union While much digital ink has been spilled on the Supreme Court's striking down of Trump's IEEPA tariffs and the consequences of this decision (see "Full Analysis Of The Supreme Court IEEPA Decision: How It Impacts The Economy, Policy And Markets"), a lot more is on deck for this week when we will also have more geopolitical headlines to contend with, as the latest round of US-Iran talks is expected in Geneva on Thursday. The talks come amid a recent buildup of US forces in the region and yesterday the New York Times was the latest outlet to report that Trump is considering an initial targeted strike against Iran in the coming days, which could be followed by a larger attack if Iran does not give in to US nuclear demands. Other highlights for the week ahead include the State of the Union address in the US (late tomorrow), US PPI and preliminary CPIs in Europe (both Friday). In earnings, the focus will be on Nvidia, Salesforce (both Wednesday) and Home Depot (tomorrow). ... Continue Reading »

Newsom Says He's Like Blacks Because He 'Can't Read' And Got Low SAT Score California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) needs to work on his pandering skills - after telling a crowd of black people that he's just like them because he can't read and got a low SAT score.  "I’m not trying to impress you, I’m just trying to impress upon you, ‘I’m like you. I’m not better than you.’ I’m a 960 SAT guy," Newsom told Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickins during a Sunday night event promoting his new book.  "And I’m not trying to offend anyone," the potential 2028 Democratic contender continued. "I’m not trying to act all there if you got 940 … You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech." Of note, the average SAT score for blacks is a 907 out of a possible 1600, according to 2024 College Board data, while white SAT takers received an average of 1083.  Watch: Gov. Newsom to a black crowd in GA: "I am like you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. I can't read." pic.twitter.com/4Gk0WKbIYz — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 23, 2026 Newsom, 58, graduated from Santa Clara University in 1989. ... Continue Reading »

Enablers Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance There’s an obvious growing failure at the center of modern markets that, as a former short seller, has become beyond obvious to me over the years. It isn’t just fraud or aggressive accounting. It’s the ecosystem that allows both to thrive: financial media that won’t press, and a sell side that won’t risk upsetting management teams they depend on for access. We’ve seen this movie before. Enron did not implode because there were no warning signs. It imploded because the warning signs were inconvenient. There were whistleblowers. There were people inside the system who knew the numbers didn’t add up. But complexity was treated as brilliance, and skepticism was treated as cynicism. Analysts admired the innovation. Television hosts admired the executives. And the stock went up—until it didn’t. The same institutional shrug preceded the collapse of Bernard Madoff. And one line is enough about Harry Markopolos: he handed regulators a mathematical proof Madoff’s returns were impossible, and they filed it away until the financial crisis caused Madoff to collapse. The common thread wasn’t ignorance. It was incuriosity. Or, more precisely, selective incuriosity. Now consider Carvana. For years, short sellers have argued ... Continue Reading »

Core US Factory Orders Better Than Expected In December While sentiment is sagging to multi-year lows, 'hard' data is helping support growth forecasts (GDPNOW) and holding stocks at record highs. This morning we get a fresh glimpse at America's manufacturing segment - hard data - with Orders data (which is expected to drop MoM in December). After surging higher in November (+2.7% MoM), analysts expected US Factory Orders to drop 0.6% MoM in December but the actual print disappointed, dropping 0.7% MoM Source: Bloomberg Interestingly, Core Factory Orders rose 0.4% MoM - better than expected Source: Bloomberg The final December prints for Durable Goods Orders fell 1.4% as expected (and in line with the preliminary data).\ New orders non-defense, ex-air - a proxy for spending - rose 0.8% MoM (better than expected). The bottom line is this data is overall supportive for GDP guesstimates (and earnings). Tyler Durden Mon, 02/23/2026 - 10:06 Continue Reading »

EU To Freeze Trade Deal With US After Supreme Court Overturns Trump Tariffs Update (9:40am ET): In response to the EU's decision to freeze ratification of Trump's landmark deal, the US president has come out swinging and on Truth Social threatened any countries that "play games" with the supreme court decision that they "will be met with a much higher tariff." It just isn't clear what the procedure for these much higher tariffs - aside from Section 122 which is limited to 150 days - will be now that IEEPA has been ruled unconstitutional. Earlier: In the aftermath of Friday's SCOTUS decision to reverse Trump's tariff policy, one lingering question is what happens to the bilateral trade deals Trump struck with various countries (and which supposedly would lead to hundreds of billions of fresh investment into the US). Well, in the case of the EU we no longer have to wonder: The morning, the European Union said it would freeze the ratification process of its trade deal with the US and was seeking more details from the Trump administration on its new tariff program. Zeljana Zovko, the lead trade negotiator in the European ... Continue Reading »

"Worst-Case Scenario": Novo Nordisk Plunges After Next-Gen Obesity Drug Falls Short Of Lilly Rival Shares of Novo Nordisk A/S plummeted again on Monday after the company reported trial results showing its next-generation obesity shot, CagriSema, delivered 20.2% weight loss at 84 weeks, compared to 23.6% for Eli Lilly & Co.’s tirzepatide (Zepbound). Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Michael Shah explained, "This outcome is the worst-case scenario for Novo and heightens the need for M&A with Novo’s other GLP-1/Amylin drug." Shares of Novo in Copenhagen plunged as much as 16.5%, breaking below a support level that had held since August 2025. The stock is now down about 75% from its 2024 peak and is near its 2021 low. The result is yet more trouble for Novo’s new leadership, led by Mike Doustdar, following Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen's recent exit, along with board turnover linked to disagreements over a turnaround plan to regain GLP-1 market share. There’s also the copycat GLP-1 compounding issue involving the telehealth firm Hims & Hers. Novo’s strategy revolves around CagriSema as Wegovy and Ozempic face longer-term patent pressure; it combines semaglutide and another gut hormone called amylin. Early studies have shown mixed results, ... Continue Reading »

AI Agent OpenClaw Confirms Ban On Bitcoin/Crypto Discussions In Discord Authored by Amin Haqshanas via CoinTelegraph.com, The developer behind the fast-growing open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw has confirmed that any mention of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies on its Discord server can lead to removal. In a Saturday post on X, a user revealed that they were blocked from OpenClaw’s Discord simply for referencing Bitcoin block height as a timing mechanism in a multi-agent benchmark. In response, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger confirmed the action, writing that members had accepted “strict server rules” upon joining and that the community maintains a “no crypto mention whatsoever” policy. OpenClaw confirms ban on crypto. Source: Steinberger Steinberger later agreed to re-add the user, asking them to email their username so he could restore their access to the server. OpenClaw’s crypto problem began with a fake token Trouble began during a rebrand after Steinberger received a trademark notice related to the project’s original name. In the short window between releasing old social accounts and claiming new ones, scammers seized the abandoned handles and promoted a Solana-based token called $CLAWD. The token surged to roughly $16 million in market capitalization within hours before collapsing more than 90% after Steinberger publicly denied ... Continue Reading »

Futures Slide As Renewed Tariff Turmoil Shakes Global Markets Stock futures slumped after Trump’s weekend tariff tantrum added uncertainty to American trade policy and was another blow to bullish outlooks for 2026. The Supreme Court’s tariff ruling means a big source of fiscal revenue from 2025 may have to be refunded (although if it is refunded to US consumers, who bore the brunt of tariffs as most liberals analysts concluded, it would represent a huge pre-midterm stimulus). As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures were 0.5% lower, giving up almost all Friday gains, while Nasdaq 100 contracts sliding -0.6%. In pre-market trading, there is a defensive tone as Mag7 names are mostly lower, Semis are coming for sale (NVDA flat ahead of earnings on Wednesday); and, most sectors are seeing weakness with pockets of positive performance in HC, Aero/Def, Materials, and Utilities.  “We started 2026 with a bullish outlook — but not even two months into the year, many of our assumptions are being challenged,” wrote the Bloomberg Economics team led by Anna Wong. The risk of war in Iran and the AI scare are also denting optimism. The dollar recouped losses while bond yields are ... Continue Reading »