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- Global markets are experiencing volatility as geopolitical tensions rise, exemplified by exchanges between the US and Iran, impacting supply chains like Japan's naphtha shortage and influencing commodity prices.
- The US housing market shows signs of cooling, with sellers withdrawing properties at a high rate due to elevated prices, while the construction sector faces challenges with the H-2A visa program.
- Cryptocurrency markets are volatile, with Standard Chartered suggesting Bitcoin's bottom may be near, even as major players like Coinbase introduce new trading instruments for pre-IPO assets.
- Technological advancements continue, with companies like Rumble securing significant AI cloud deals and developments in humanoid robots, though widespread implementation remains distant.
- Political landscapes are dynamic, featuring shifts in US policy towards federal employees and international aid packages, alongside ongoing debates and electoral contests in various nations.
ZeroHedge
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Heavily Shorted Rumble Soars After Landing "Largest Customer Commitment To Date" In $270M AI Cloud Deal
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Heavily Shorted Rumble Soars After Landing "Largest Customer Commitment To Date" In $270M AI Cloud Deal Shares of the free-speech video platform and cloud-services company Rumble soared in premarket trading after it announced in an 8-K filing that it had signed a multi-year, $270 million deal with a third-party cloud customer for dedicated GPU cloud capacity powered by Nvidia Blackwell B300 systems. The deal, announced Thursday morning, is Rumble's largest customer commitment to date and signals the video platform's push deeper into AI infrastructure and cloud computing services. " Rumble entered into a multi-year, $270 million agreement with a third-party
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Satellite Imagery Appears To Show Damage At US Airbase In Kuwait After Iranian Attack
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Satellite Imagery Appears To Show Damage At US Airbase In Kuwait After Iranian Attack Via Middle East Eye Satellite imagery appears to show damage to a US air base in Kuwait following Iranian strikes on Wednesday. New imagery of the site released by Soar Atlas seems to show a destroyed shelter at the US Ali Al Salem Air Base , despite US Central Command (CENTCOM) insisting that all the missiles and drones targeting the site were "defeated". Screengrab of satellite imagery of the US Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait released by Soar Atlas (via X) Soar Atlas noted
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US Sellers Pull Homes Off Market At Near-Record Pace As Buyers Balk At High Prices
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
US Sellers Pull Homes Off Market At Near-Record Pace As Buyers Balk At High Prices With March home prices across the US sliding sequentially almost 0.2%, and rising just 0.83% YoY, the weakest annual appreciation since July 2023... ... the balance in the real estate market is rapidly shifting away from a sellers' market. And sellers are not happy. A near record 5.8% of all US home listings were pulled off the market in April, according to Redfin . That’s tied with December 2025 for the highest share since March 2020, when the onset of the pandemic ground the housing
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Trump Signs Executive Order To Facilitate Firing Federal Employees
3 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Trump Signs Executive Order To Facilitate Firing Federal Employees Via American Greatness, President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally advanced a long-sought effort to make it easier to remove senior federal employees involved in policymaking, arguing the change will help ensure government agencies are responsive to elected leadership and the American people. Trump signed an executive order implementing Schedule Policy/Career, or Schedule P/C, a new employment classification that places certain career federal workers into positions that can be hired and removed in a manner similar to political appointees. The policy is a revival of the first Trump administration’s Schedule F initiative
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Coinbase Launches Pre-IPO Perps, Starting With Elon Musk's SpaceX
3 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Coinbase Launches Pre-IPO Perps, Starting With Elon Musk's SpaceX Authored by Ryan Gladwin via Decrypt.co, Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is rolling out a perpetual futures product for pre-initial public offering (IPO) companies, allowing traders to speculate on a company's valuation before its debut. The first pre-IPO company to be traded on the platform is Elon Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX. The SpaceX pre-IPO will be settled using the USDC stablecoin , can be traded 24/7, and all positions will automatically translate when the IPO is complete. That means traders could make massive profits or losses depending on the difference between the pre-IPO
The Guardian
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Experts criticise plan for American-only Ebola quarantine centre in Kenya
7 hours ago
by Melody Schreiber
Ebola, World news, Kenya, Africa, US news, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, World Health Organization, Global healthPlan departs from policy of bringing CDC staff back to US for treatment and offering support to all health workers Former top US officials and other experts are urging the Trump administration to abandon plans for an Ebola quarantine and treatment centre in Kenya, as the union for workers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls for Americans exposed to Ebola to be brought home for treatment. Soon after the US revealed it was setting up a field hospital in Kenya for the Ebola quarantine and treatment of Americans, the Kenyan high court blocked the order
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Civilians flee as Somali troops and opposition-allied militias trade fire in Mogadishu
7 hours ago
by Mohamed Gabobe in Mogadishu
Somalia, World news, AfricaViolence flares before protests on Thursday over president’s decision to remain in office after his term expired Fierce clashes have taken place between government troops and militias allied with the opposition in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee. In the runup to the fighting, which started on Wednesday afternoon, opposition leaders embedded with militias set up positions in their clan strongholds the city. Continue reading...
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Rebel attacks in eastern DRC kill 30 people and hamper Ebola response
15 hours ago
by Prosper Heri Ngorora in Goma
Global development, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ebola, World news, Africa, Infectious diseases, Conflict and arms, Islamic State, Uganda, World Health Organization, Global healthIslamic State-linked militia blamed for raids in North Kivu as governor says three patients with disease fled clinics Rebel attacks around a town that is one of the centres of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have left more than 30 people dead over the past few days, complicating the response to the disease. At least 10 people were massacred in raids on three villages around the city of Beni, in North Kivu, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Continue reading...
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DRC Ebola outbreak could have begun as early as January, WHO chief says
a day ago
by Kat Lay Global health correspondent
Global development, Ebola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World Health Organization, Africa, Health, Society, World newsTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the virus ‘had a big head start’ but that the response was catching up The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could have begun as early as January, the head of the World Health Organization said, giving the virus “a big head start”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said the response was being hindered by blanket travel restrictions and highlighted high levels of community mistrust and low levels of contact tracing as key concerns. Continue reading...
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‘We don’t have another country to run to’: Kenyans fear US plan for Ebola quarantine site
2 days ago
by Carlos Mureithi in Nanyuki
Ebola, Kenya, US news, Africa, World newsPeople from town of potential site for US citizens exposed to Ebola say it puts them at risk in country with no known cases People from a town in central Kenya where the US wants to set up an Ebola quarantine facility for its citizens have strongly criticised the plan, saying they fear it will expose them to the virus and that it is indicative of double standards on the part of the US. “Everybody should be quarantined in their home country. We shouldn’t allow foreigners to bring us diseases,” said Charles Mathenge, a taxi driver who lives near Laikipia
South China Morning Post
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Trump foe John Bolton to plead guilty in classified information case
2 hours ago
by Associated Press
Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the US Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The deal would resolve a criminal case filed in October that charged Bolton with 18 counts of either retaining or disseminating classified information, including diary-like notes from his time in government that...
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EU trade chief swipes at China’s overcapacity, but seeks ‘meaningful’ talks with Beijing
3 hours ago
by Xiaofei Xu
EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic has called for practical approaches and “meaningful discussion” to tackle the growing trade concerns between Brussels and Beijing, following his meeting with China’s chief international trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, on the sideline of a ministerial meeting at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Sefcovic opened his press conference on Thursday by stressing the urgency of crafting policy responses to the non-market practices...
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Trump to nominate Todd Blanche as US attorney general
6 hours ago
by Reuters
President Donald Trump said he would move to nominate acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on Thursday to permanently lead the Justice Department, which would make his former personal lawyer the nation’s top law enforcement officer. “He’s acting attorney general. Tomorrow. I’m instructing Dan (Scavino) and everybody else that’s involved in that very complicated process – which is going to go, I think, very quickly – that we are going to make him permanent attorney general,” Trump said at...
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Small plane crash in Croatia leaves 4 dead, 2 missing
7 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
Four people were killed on Thursday in a plane crash on Croatia’s northern Adriatic coast, police said. “According to currently available information four people have died” in the crash of the plane in Medulin, on Croatia’s northwestern Istria peninsula, a police statement said. The accident occurred in the Campanoz area, outside the town, and “all emergency services are on the scene”, it added. The national firefighting association said it had received a report of the crash near the Medulin...
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Why China’s Latin America ties aren’t immune to Trump’s influence
7 hours ago
by Juan Fernando Herrera Ramos
For over two decades, China’s rise in Latin America has been viewed as one of the most significant geopolitical developments in the western hemisphere. Through trade, investment, infrastructure projects and diplomatic engagement, Beijing built a presence that would have been difficult to imagine at the beginning of the century. The strategy appeared highly successful. Beijing became a leading trading partner for much of the region, financed major projects, expanded its diplomatic footprint and...
New York Times
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Trump’s Arch Project to Face Questions and Criticism at Planning Meeting
5 hours ago
by Luke Broadwater
United States, Architecture, Trump, Donald JThe National Capital Planning Commission received nearly 1,700 comments about President Trump’s plans to build a 250-foot arch in the nation’s capital. Almost all opposed the idea.
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Justice Department Tells Prosecutors to Pursue Immigrant Vote Fraud Cases
3 hours ago
by Ernesto Londoño
Voter Fraud (Election Fraud), Deportation, Voting Rights, Registration and Requirements, United States, Trump, Donald JAbout 90 such investigations are currently open, a Justice Department official told prosecutors. The tally offers a glimpse inside the scale of the administration’s efforts.
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American Farms Rely More Than Ever on the Troubled H-2A Visa Program
3 hours ago
by Lydia DePillis
Agriculture and Farming, Migrant Labor (Agriculture), Foreign Workers, Visas, Workplace Hazards and Violations, Wages and Salaries, Accreditation, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Agriculture Department, AgriLabor Inc, Fair Trade USA, Walmart Foundation, Labor Department (US), Trump, Donald J, Pacific Northwestern States (US), North Carolina, Oregon, Washington (State)The Trump administration is allowing in more agricultural guest workers under the H-2A program, but preventing abuses is proving difficult.
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Early Research Suggests a Path to Predict and Prevent Lung Cancer
4 hours ago
by Nina Agrawal
Lung Cancer, Respiratory Diseases, Lungs, Research, Proteins, Cancer, internal-open-access-from-nlScientists have identified proteins that could signal increased lung cancer risk, as well as a drug that could reduce the odds of a tumor developing.
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Ultra-Orthodox Riot Shocks Israelis In Latest Protest At Military Draft
3 hours ago
by Isabel Kershner
Orthodox Judaism, Demonstrations, Protests and Riots, Supreme Court of Israel, Israel, West Bank, Draft and Recruitment (Military), internal-open-access-from-nlIsrael’s Haredim have escalated their protests against military service in recent weeks, underscoring growing divisions ahead of national elections.