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White House OKs huge arms package to Israel, including 30 Apache helicopters

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has approved a massive new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion and to Saudi Arabia worth $9 billion.
The State Department announced the sales to America's allies in the Middle East late Friday as tensions rise in the region over the possibility of U.S. military strikes on Iran. They were made public after the department notified Congress of its approval of the sales earlier Friday.
The sales also come as President Donald Trump pushes ahead with his ceas

Precious metals plunge after months-long rally fueled by weak dollar

Gold (GC=F) futures fell as much as 11% on Friday to trade below $4,900 per troy ounce in a severe reversal of this year's massive rally in precious metals.
Spot gold saw its biggest daily drop since the early 80's while silver (SI=F) also tumbled more than 25%, its largest daily decline on record.
The volatility came alongside a wider stock market sell-off, with the major averages all lower after President Trump selected Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve Chair. The nomination appeared to eased concerns about the c

Bracing for a weekend cold snap in Florida, NASA delayed a dress rehearsal fueling test for its Artemis II moon rocket, moving it from Saturday to Monday, and pushed the long-awaited launch back at least two days to no earlier than 11:20 p.m. EST on Feb. 8.
At the same time, NASA is gearing up to launch a fresh crew to the International ******* e Station to replace the four Crew 11 fliers who cut their mission short and returned to Earth on Jan. 15 due to a medical issue with an unidentified crew member.
Crew 12, launching atop a ******* eX Falcon 9 rocket, will be ready to blast off as earl

Death toll from winter storm rises to 29, with another arctic blast looming

Many in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 30 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold.
Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered wide school closures Monday. The National Weather Service said areas north of P

Support is growing for a Bitcoin proposal that would temporarily limit the amount of data embedded in transactions, as a debate over network spam and node decentralization intensifies.
Key Takeaways:
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110) is currently signaling support from 583 nodes, or about 2.38% of the network, according to data from The Bitcoin Portal.
Out of roughly 24,481 reachable nodes, those backing the proposal are primarily running Bitcoin Knots, an alternative node implementation often favored by operators critical of recent changes to Bitcoin Core.

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Over the past week, the price of Bitcoin faced a significant setback in its goal of reclaiming the six-figure threshold....
The Bitcoin price had a relatively rough trading period over the past week, as it hovered around the psychological $90,000...
Bitcoin is trading below the $90,000 level once again, as the market continues to drift through a phase defined by...

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Support is growing for a Bitcoin proposal that would temporarily limit the amount of data embedded in transactions, as a debate over network spam and node decentralization intensifies.
Key Takeaways:
BIP-110 has gained early traction, with 583 Bitcoin nodes signaling support for a temporary cap on transaction data.
The proposal seeks to reverse recent Bitcoin Core changes that removed OP_RETURN limits.
Supporters argue stricter data limits are needed to curb spam and preserve node decentralization.

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Scientists Astonished by Glimpse of Huge, Ancient Ocean on Mars

Scientists have long suspected that Mars was once teeming with water, a tropical oasis with vast river systems that may have been able to support life billions of years ago.
To get a better picture of what such a lush ocean world could’ve looked like, an international team of researchers used satellite data to simulate the sea level in a colossal geographic feature called Coprates Chasma, which is part of the Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the entire solar system.
While examining the satellite imagery, the team concl

Though former New England Patriots tight end Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski may delight fans with his silly antics, he’s anything but when it comes to managing his money.
The former player recently revealed that he never spent a cent of his NFL salary, using income from off-the-field activities to pay his bills. But the “Gronk” isn’t the only NFL athlete to invest his money wisely and buck the trend of well-paid athletes who later fall on financial hard times despite their astronomical paychecks.
Gronkowski’s teammate Tom Brady, former NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, and current Philadelphia Eagles

Bitcoin Reclaims $90K as U.S. Bid Returns

Bitcoin broke the psychological $90,000 barrier on Friday, trading at $90,742 (+3.2%) during the New York session, effectively snapping a Q4 2025 trend where U.S. trading hours were dominated by selling pressure.
The reversal reflects the end of end-of-year tax-loss harvesting that drove Bitcoin down 23% in Q4.
Buying volume accelerated at 09:30 ET, contrasting sharply with the “4 p.m. sell-off” pattern observed throughout December. CoinGlass data show futures open interest jumped 2.16% to $130 billion in the last 24 hours, indicating renewed leve

Bitcoin price has spent several sessions attempting to secure a daily close above the $90,000 mark. The crypto king has hovered just below this psychological barrier for nearly three weeks.
This prolonged consolidation suggests building momentum, though renewed whale selling could still delay a decisive breakout.
Mega whale activity has intensified since late December 2025. Wallets holding between 10,000 BTC and 100,000 BTC have collectively sold more than 50,000 BTC in just four days, with their balance reaching a two-month low. At current prices, those sales exceed $4.47 billion, reflectin

Detailed measurements collected in metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel, have revealed how the ebb and flow of traffic throughout the week affects the electric field generated by Earth's atmosphere.
Led by researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, the study used an electric field mill deployed in the city of Holon in 2024, matching its results with air quality data over a period of seven months. Only measurements from fair weather days were included to filter out interference from rain and storms.
A number of specific pollutants were tracked, including gases and particles from

These 6 stocks will lead the $1 trillion chip surge in 2026, BofA says

The artificial intelligence boom isn't cooling off — it's getting bigger, Bank of America ******* yst Vivek Arya contends.
While AI skeptics have pointed to eye-popping valuations as a reason to run, Arya said the industry is only at the "midpoint" of a decade-long transformation, and it's being led by Nvidia (NVDA) and Broadcom (AVGO).
In a report ******* led "2026 Year Ahead: choppy, still cheerful," Arya forecast a 30% year-over-year surge in global semiconductor sales that will finally push the sector past a histor

An Australian national science agency called CSIRO launched an experiment in Antarctica that went terribly wrong — in a way that ended up going wonderfully right. A free-floating ocean robot was sent to collect data from the Totten Glacier. However, a current pulled it away from its destination and westward. It ended up in a place very difficult for scientists to ***** yze, and it returned with extremely rare and valuable data.
The ocean float has salinity and temperature sensors and was meant to go below the water and surface once every 10 days to transmit its data to satellites. Robots like

While you were likely scrambling to buy last-minute Christmas presents for your friends and family, NASA completed a vital rehearsal for its upcoming crewed mission to the Moon. The ******* e agency conducted a countdown demonstration test last Saturday in preparation for Artemis II. The actual launch, scheduled for early 2026, will see four astronauts set off to perform a flyby around the Moon. While there won't be a lunar landing, the mission will be the first time NASA has sent astronauts anywhere near the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.
The dry run saw NASA's launch and flight control teams

Police take action after discovering unidentified trash bags: 'We will not tolerate [this]'

A dispute over a handful of rubbish bags has escalated into a £780 ($1,040) fine in Basildon, a borough in Essex about 30 miles east of London.
The town's council is making it clear that fly-tipping (improper waste disposal), even at a small scale, comes with environmental costs that it is no longer willing to absorb.
As The Echo reported, the resident, identified as Ms Apetrei, was first cited with a Fixed Penalty Notice covering 16 sacks of dumped waste. She pushed back, insisting throughout the

Salmonella outbreak tied to raw oysters sickens at least 64 people in 22 states

BALTIMORE — A Maryland resident is among at least 64 people in 22 states who have fallen ill after being infected with the same strain of salmonella linked to raw oysters, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Of those sickened nationwide, 20 people were hospitalized as of Tuesday. No deaths have been reported. Federal officials did not say whether the Maryland case resulted in hospitalization or identify where the contaminated oysters were harvested or sold.
The CDC did not provide requ

Next in line to lead the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has died at 85

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become the faith's president, has died. He was 85.
Holland died early Saturday morning from complications **** ociated with kidney disease, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on its website.
Holland, who died in Salt Lake City, led a governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which helps set church policy while overseeing the many

Quantum computing remains a concern for Bitcoin and crypto markets, posing a security threat to its underlying cryptography. However, a new threat emerges as a controversial "Cat" Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, sparking heated debate among developers about labeling millions of inscription-related outputs as permanently unspendable.
The draft BIP seeks to address concerns about blockchain bloat, raising key questions around property rights and core Bitcoin principles. Community responses range from strong support to warnings about setting a risky precedent.
Every Bitcoin transaction spends coi

Crypto markets are bracing for a historic year-end event today, December 26, with more than $27 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options expiring on Deribit. This represents over half of the derivatives exchange’s total open interest.
The colossal “Boxing Day” expiry could mark one of the largest structural resets in crypto history.
Today’s options expiry is significantly higher than those witnessed last week, given it is the last Friday of the month and the year. More precisely, today’s expiring options are for the month and for the quarter (Q4 2025).
The numbers are staggering, with Bitcoi

A controversial Bitcoin development proposal to permanently eliminate Ordinals inscriptions and Bitcoin Stamps has sparked fierce debate within the developer community.
The draft, known as “The Cat,” would mark millions of dust-sized outputs containing NFT data as permanently unspendable through a consensus-level soft fork.
The proposal targets what its author, Claire Ostrom, describes as an unprecedented explosion in Bitcoin’s UTXO set.
Between 2009 and early 2023, the UTXO database grew gradually to roughly 80-90 million entries.

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El Salvador’s Bitcoin Dreams Came to Earth in 2025

Four years ago, El Salvador started its ambitious Bitcoin adoption strategy. But in 2025, that plan came to a head with the International Monetary Fund.
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El Salvador, the first country in the world to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender, was seen by many in the industry as a pioneer. In 2025, the small country’s Bitcoin ambitions met reality.
The Central American country made waves in 2021 when the Legislative ******* embly approved a bill that required all merchants, stores and places of business to accept

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday that discussions regarding El Salvador’s Bitcoin project continue “centered on enhancing transparency, safeguarding public resources, and mitigating risks.”
The international agency is also in advanced talks, negotiating for the sale of the government-run Chivo crypto wallet. The first Bitcoin-focused government wallet reportedly saw widespread accusations of identity theft, fraud and bugs, leading to accounts being frozen.
Last year, one of the architects of the Chivo wallet said that the government should shut down the wallet application “

(Bloomberg) -- Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. bolstered its cash reserve to $2.19 billion and paused purchases of Bitcoin over the past week as the largest digital ******* et treasury company appears to be settling in for a long crypto winter.
The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm raised $748 million through the sale of common shares in the seven days ended Dec. 21, according to a filing Monday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It had purchased about $2 billion in Bitcoin over the previous two weeks, bringing its total holdings to around $60 billion.
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U.S. car maker wins 2025 sales race with 2.8 million vehicles sold

Car buying patterns in 2025 have been all over the place as consumers and the industry have adjusted to the automotive tariffs that dominated the conversation this year.
While the U.S. eventually got tariff burdens down to 15% for most of its trade partners, for much of the year, importers were paying 25% on autos and auto parts.
While carmakers made it clear that they would not raise prices in response to the tariffs, the threat of increased prices caused consumers to flock to car dealerships.
Ford used incentives and th

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

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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Hudson Tunnel Digging Work to Start as Boring Machines Ready
NYC High Line-Area Building Floats $53 Million Bankruptcy Sale

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Every animal with a brain needs sleep — and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep.
Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very risky,” said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon in France.
When animals nod off, they're most vulnerable to sneaky predators. But despite the risks, the need for sleep is so strong that no creature can skip it altogether, even when it's highly inconvenient.
Animals that navigate extreme conditions and environments have evolved to sleep in extreme ways —

Chestnut farmers are struggling to produce robust crop yields due to the effects of Earth's warming.
According to Ekathimerini, summer droughts across villages near Mount Pelion in Greece have disrupted chestnut production.
Giorgos Nanos, a professor at the Arboriculture Laboratory of the University of Thessaly's School of Agricultural Sciences, said, "This year is one of the worst for chestnut producers in Pelion," per the publication.
In 2024, Reuters reported that chestnut production in Greece dropped by 90%. It seems the situation has not improved since then. Many people in the area dep

Strive, a Nasdaq-listed firm and the 14th-largest public holder of Bitcoin, is pushing back against MSCI’s plan to remove companies with significant digital-asset exposure from its global indexes.
Key Takeaways:
Strive says MSCI’s plan to exclude crypto-heavy firms would shut investors out of key growth sectors.
JPMorgan warns Strategy could face up to $2.8B in losses under the proposal.
Strive argues BTC-focused firms are vital to AI infrastructure and structured finance, making the cutoff unfair.

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