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Rosenblatt Securities lowered price targets and financial estimates for several Bitcoin mining companies Friday, citing a sharp decline in mining profitability that highlights the growing importance of high-performance computing (HPC) revenue.
The investment firm reiterated Buy ratings for Cipher Mining (NASDAQ: CIFR), TeraWulf (NASDAQ: WULF), and Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT), favoring companies that are actively diversifying into AI and computing power. ******* yst Chris Brendler noted that while pure-play Bitcoin mining remains under pressure due to “stubbornly high network competition,” the impact

How DNA and ballistics tie Claudio Neves Valente to Brown, MIT shootings

Investigators offered more information late Friday, Dec. 18, about the weapons discovered at the New Hampshire storage facility along with the body of Claudio Neves Valente, the man who shot and killed two Brown University students and injured nine others on Dec. 13 and killed MIT professor Nuno Loureiro two days later.
Ted Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in a news release that two 9mm pistols were recovered by the FBI’s Evidence Response Team and sent

Key Takeaways
Tom Lee argues Bitcoin is “extremely oversold” and has historically preceded rebounds.
Lee’s Bitcoin predictions have begun to fuel skepticism across the crypto community.
Bitcoin did reach new all-time highs in October 2025, validating Lee’s broader bullish thesis — but the magnitude and timing of his forecasts often prove premature.
Bitcoin (BTC) is “extremely oversold” and historically positioned for a rebound, according to Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee, who made the comments on Thursday.

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A Blue Origin rocket will soon launch carrying an unconventional passenger in a history-making moment made possible by a high-profile former employee of the company’s biggest rival.
Michaela Benthaus, an aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European ******* e Agency, will be aboard the mission, known as NS-37, and become the first wheelchair user to travel to ******* e. The unprecedented opportunity came together after encounter between Benthaus and Hans Koenigsmann, a former executive at ******* eX — Blue Origin’s chief competitor.
Koenigsmann, like Benthaus, is German, and the two of

(NewsNation) — Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb appears to be walking back his attention-grabbing theory that an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS could be some sort of alien technology sent to spy on Earth.
Much of the scientific community has said 3I/ATLAS is merely a comet, albeit a large one with unusual properties. The object reached its closest point to the Earth this week — if 170 million miles can be considered close — and was last seen heading out into ****** e beyond the solar system.
“So far, so good,” Loeb told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” on Monday. “3I/ATLAS did not maneuver o

Trump announces 'Patriot Games' with 2 competitors from every state and territory

America’s 250th birthday is on July 4, 2026, and the White House is planning to go all out to celebrate, promoting new national events, such as the “Patriot Games,” that will anchor the yearlong festivities.
President Trump announced Thursday the launch of Freedom 250, “a national, non-partisan organization leading the Administration’s celebration” to “deliver the most extraordinary commemoration in American history,” according to a news release.
“These landmark events — spanning culture, faith, innovation,

Earlier this week, Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management backed all five of Metaplanet’s bitcoin-focused capital restructuring proposals ahead of the December 22 Extraordinary General Meeting, including plans for share buybacks, dividends, and new preferred share issuance to raise US$150 million from institutional investors.
This support from one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds highlights growing institutional interest in Metaplanet’s bitcoin accumulation model and its unconventional balance sheet plans.
Next, we’ll examine how Norges Bank’s endorsement and Metaplanet’s pu

This 20-year-old lotto winner refused $1M in cash and chose $1,000/week for life. Now she's getting slammed for it

Would you rather be a millionaire or have safe, reliable passive income for life? That’s the difficult choice that many lucky lottery winners are frequently faced with. While the prospect of a seven-figure payout is tempting, 20-year-old Brenda Aubin-Vega from Quebec, Canada recently decided to take the recurring payment option instead.
Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now become a landlord for as little as $100 — and no, you don't have to deal with tenants or fix freezers. Here'

Air pollution isn't just bad for human health; it also poses an existential threat to certain fly species.
New research from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology found that elevated ozone levels inhibit mating among flies.
Ozone in the stratosphere helps protect the Earth from dangerous UV radiation. But down here, the gas is a threat to our health, food supply, and biodiversity. The latter is apparent in this recent study, which found that ozone exposure significantly degrades fly pheromones.
When this happens, male and female flies have a hard time recognizing each other, renderi

Key Takeaways
Mike Alfred remains firmly bullish on Bitcoin.
Prominent bulls including Michael Saylor, Tom Lee, Bitwise, and Grayscale continue to project higher prices over the coming years.
Despite longer-term optimism, some ******* ysts caution that Bitcoin could face further downside.
Famed bullish investor Mike Alfred has dismissed recently bearish ******* ysts as “drama queens” while predicting a Bitcoin price rally to $150,000.

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American Airlines will no longer award miles or status points to basic economy fares

Members of American Airlines' loyalty program will no longer earn miles or other travel rewards when purchasing a basic economy ticket.
People enrolled in the carrier's AAdvantage program previously earned two miles and loyalty points for each dollar they spent on a regular fare. Now they will only earn points if they buy a more expensive ticket.
The new policy, which American Airlines announced on Thursday, is effective as of December 17.
"We routinely evaluate our fare products to remain competitive in

Fresh US economic data is sending a clear but nuanced signal to markets. Inflation pressures are easing, but consumers remain under strain.
For Bitcoin and the broader crypto market, that mix points to improving macro conditions, tempered by near-term volatility.
US consumer sentiment edged up to 52.9 in December, slightly higher than November but still nearly 30% lower than a year ago, according to the University of Michigan.
At the same time, inflation expectations continued to fall. Short-term expectations dropped to 4.2%, while long-term expectations eased to 3.2%.
For markets, those i

Police reveal new leads in JonBenét Ramsey case as DNA tech advances

Nearly 30 years after 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in Boulder, Colorado, an annual report from police says "new evidence" is being considered in the case.
Ramsey, a child beauty queen born in Atlanta, was reported missing from her Boulder home on Dec. 26, 1996 and was later found strangled to death. No one has been charged with her death.
Her murder has been the subject of intense speculation and decades of documentaries, true crime podcasts and conspiracy theories, leading investigators to provide annual up

A star becoming a black hole happens in the same way as Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt: “First it happens gradually, then all at once.” The gradual part of the process can take a lot longer than the time it takes to drain a bank account—billions of years in some cases. That’s why astronomers were puzzled when they found evidence that supermassive black holes existed less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
In order for the timeframe to make sense, the stars that collapsed to form these black holes would’ve had to have been gargantuan—1,000 to 10,000 more massive than our sun.

The S&P 500 is up 15%, and Bitcoin is down 5% year to date. Not since 2014 has the S&P 500 generated positive returns while Bitcoin generated negative returns.
Analysts at Standard Chartered and Bernstein expect Bitcoin to reach $150,000 in 2026, a forecast that implies 74% upside from its current price of $86,000.
More institutional investors are adding Bitcoin to their portfolios due to the improving regulatory environment and the simplicity of spot Bitcoin ETFs.
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The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has advanced 15% year to date, while Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BT

Bitcoin (BTC) has been gripped by sharp volatility in the final stretch of the year, swinging between $92,000 and $82,000 as market sentiment turns increasingly cautious.
Over the past three months, Bitcoin has fallen by 24.1%, highlighting the intensity of the current drawdown.
At press time, BTC was trading at $88,009.31, down 1.1% over the past 24 hours.
With less than 12 days left before the New Year, prominent market watchers are beginning to temper expectations for Bitcoin’s performance in the year ahead.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Suspect in Brown University shooting and MIT professor's killing had been dead for 2 days when found, autopsy determines.
Law enforcement officials say the same gunman who opened fire at Brown University also shot and killed an MIT professor two days later. He was found dead Thursday night.

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Bitcoin’s three-year rally may be over, with signs pointing to the leading cryptocurrency entering a prolonged bear market.
That’s according to blockchain data firm CryptoQuant, whose researchers said in a Friday report that investors should be prepared for the end of Bitcoin’s four-year cycle.
Buyer exhaustion means the biggest digital coin could still drop as low as $56,000, the report noted. But it reassured investors that such a move was unlikely — if Bitcoin does drop that low, it would be the sharpest drawdown in a bear market on record.
“Bitcoin demand growth has decisively slowed, s

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund IBIT, has emerged as a notable outlier on the 2025 ETF flow leaderboard, ranking sixth by year-to-date inflows despite posting a negative return for the year, according to data highlighted by Bloomberg Intelligence **** yst Eric Balchunas.
IBIT is currently the only ETF among the top flow leaders showing a year-to-date loss, with returns down roughly 9.6%. Yet the fund has still attracted approximately $25.4 billion in net inflows, placing it ahead of a range of established equity and commodity products — including the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), which

You may have seen headlines or social media posts talking about a weakening of Earth’s magnetic field, specifically over the South Atlantic.
It sounds dramatic, and a little scary. Is Earth losing its protective shield? Are we in danger? What exactly does this mean for people on the ground?
To get the facts straight, we spoke with Manoj Nair, a senior research scientist at CIRES at the University of Colorado and an affiliate at NOAA, who studies Earth’s magnetic field for a living.
His takeaway is reassuring: this is fascinating science and important for satellites, but not something the av

Arthur Hayes just laid out his Bitcoin roadmap for the next three months — and it ends at $200,000.
The angel investor and Maelstrom fund CIO published a new essay on Friday, arguing that the Federal Reserve is printing money through a new programme, dubbed Reserve Management Purchases.
And once investors realise its effects resemble those of quantitative easing, Bitcoin will explode higher.
“As the market equates RMP to QE, Bitcoin will quickly retake $124,000 and punch quickly towards $200,000,” Hayes wrote.
His timeline is auspicious — Bitcoin should rally hard in the first three months

Trump launches flurry of attention-grabbing moves as polls show his approval slipping

(Bloomberg) -- Bonus checks. New holidays. A return to the moon.
In the span of less than 24 hours, President Donald Trump unveiled a series of initiatives with widespread appeal — with promises of more to come — as he also contends with falling popularity and economic uncertainty.
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This cosmic baby photo collection contains 31 young star systems, images captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Chile. In the bottom right corner, you’ll find a simulation of our own solar system at just 1 million years old. The infant stars at the center of these systems formed from large clumps of super chilly dust and gas that buckled under their own gravity. Over many millennia, this material spins into disks with dense, sizzling centers that morph into stars.
The surrounding disks are known as protoplanetary disks, and scientists think that the leftover gas and dust within the

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Standard Chartered has significantly tempered its bullish price projections for Bitcoin over the next five years.
“I still see Bitcoin continuing to print fresh all-time highs going forward, but I think the pace will be slower than previously expected,” Standard Chartered Global Head of Digital ***** ets Research Geoffrey Kendrick said in an email last week.
Kendrick said in a Dec. 9 note that Standard Chartered was forced to reassess its price targets amid Bitcoin’s recent price action. The

Economists cast doubt on inflation report: 'Hard to take this data seriously'

How much is inflation really cooling?
Thursday’s release of November’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) data showed inflation unexpectedly eased to an annual rise of 2.7% that month. But monthly comparisons — October data was never collected due to the government shutdown — were absent from the Labor Department’s report, leaving more recent price swings a bit of a mystery for dozens of product categories.
Economists treaded lightly following the report.
Heather Long, chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union,

Getty Images tried to sue an AI company for copyright infringement, but its claim was rejected in court.
Getty Images is widely known for the array of stock images it offers, but the multi-million dollar company recently faced a disappointing court ruling when it tried to protect its intellectual property from the company, Stability AI.
Reporting by Reuters investigated the lawsuit, in which Getty Images accused Stability AI of "training" its image generators from copyrighted Getty Images stock pictures. However, the major corporation largely lost its lawsuit, exposing a lack of protection f

Trump halts green card lottery that let suspect in Brown and MIT shootings into U.S.

President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Vale

Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Comet 3I/ATLAS passed its nearest point to Earth early Friday and approaching within 168 million miles.
After its brief visit Friday the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will head back toward the outer solar system before continuing its journey through the Milky Way, according to scientists.
3I/ATLAS was only the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system, following 'Oumuamua in 2017 and Borisov in 2019.
Its arrival gave scientists a rare chance to study the building blocks of distant comets and planets.
NASA first detected the object in July, tracing its path b

Friday, Dec. 19 is the day that astronomers, amateur stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists alike have been waiting for: Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as close to Earth as it will ever get.
The strange interloper in our solar system has for months attracted no shortage of public fascination as it whizzed its way first past Mars, and then the sun. Now, more than five months since it was first discovered, 3I/ATLAS has made its closest approach to Earth.
But lest you think that an extraterrestrial invasion is upon us, know that the comet still is not coming within about 170 million miles of

House Democrats release another batch of Epstein photos

One day before the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files on convicted ***** offender Jeffrey Epstein, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Thursday publicly disclosed another batch of photographs provided by the late financier's estate in response to Congressional subpoenas.
The cache of about 70 photos includes include heavily redacted photos of women's passports, images of famous men who ***** ociated with Epstein, and "concerning text messages about recruiting women for Jeffrey Epstein," according to a