A key Trump administration official has claimed that left-wing Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the shots on the Biden administration’s restrictive approach to cryptocurrencies.

White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks argued Tuesday night that Warren (D-Mass.) has a “pathological hatred” for crypto and pushed the Biden administration to suppress the nascent technology.

Jeux de mains, jeux de vilains… Hand games always end badly: This saying is very old; possibly originated in the Middle Ages, when hunting and military exercises were only permitted to the nobility, while peasants, then called villains, fought with their arms and hands.

Duels at that time were fought with swords but were only suitable for the aristocracy, and the villains settled quarrels only with their fists or sticks.

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BY Rachel Marsden

Macron has been slapped in the face in more ways than one
Whatever happened between the French president and his wife on their trip to Vietnam, it completely overshadowed the politics of the visit

Ukraine: Merz announces long-range weapons with Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin to discuss further military support. Follow DW for updates.

China has never explicitly condemned the attacks of October 7. In China’s view, October 7 can’t be separated from the more than seven decades of Israeli brutality, apartheid and occupation. Naturally, this has drawn harsh criticism from Israel which expressed its “deep disappointment” over China’s refusal to repudiate Hamas. Even so, China has not caved in to Israeli pressure or softened its rhetoric.

The US presidential envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has accused former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of warmongering, following Medvedev’s warning that the tensions with the US could escalate into World War III.

Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, made the remarks in response to comments by US President Donald Trump.

“Stoking fears of WWIII is an unfortunate, reckless comment by [Medvedev] and unfitting of a world power,” Kellogg wrote on X on Wednesday. He added, “President Trump is working to stop this war and end the killing.”

Kellogg said the US is awaiting Russia’s submission of a memorandum outlining its terms for a ceasefire, as agreed during the first direct Russia-Ukraine talks in three years, held in Istanbul earlier this month.

Democrat strategists are struggling to come to terms with President Donald Trump’s decisive rightward shift of the electorate in last year’s election that saw him win the popular vote and all seven swing states in a historic victory.

Report: Struggling Democrats’ Proposed $20 Million Study on How to Reach Young Male Voters Lost to President Trump: “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan”

By Kristinn Taylor 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Western companies which exited the Russian market amid sanctions would not be welcomed back, declaring it a matter of national dignity. Citing strong economic growth and technological independence, Putin praised domestic entrepreneurs for transforming Russia into the world's fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity.

Amid rising tensions with Western tech firms, he vowed to retaliate, saying, “We need to strangle them... because they are trying to strangle us.” Companies such as McDonald’s and Microsoft were specifically called out as Russian firms replaced their services. Local brands like Vkusnoe Tochka claimed full recovery, asserting that a potential Western return could undo their progress.

IN A PROPAGANDIST ARTICLE IN THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, ROB HARRIS TELLS US THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN WANTS TO RECREATE THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE... NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH. THE WESTERN MEDIA IS PUSHING THIS LAME CRAP THAT IS LAPPED UP BY THE WARMONGERS...

OF ALL THINGS ONE NEEDS TO READ THE SPEECHES MADE BY PUTIN... AND ALTHOUGH IN SOME INTERVIEWS HE SPOKE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE "RUSSIAN EMPIRE" HE HAS NO DESIRE TO RULE OVER A MOB OF NAZIS OR DISCONSTRUCTED POLES THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY A NASTY DEVIOUS WEST.

DOES PUTIN WANT PEACE? OF COURSE.... BUT HE DOES NOT WANT NATO ON THE DOOR STEPS OF RUSSIA. CAPICE? AS WELL HE DOES NOT WANT THE RUSSIANS OF UKRAINE BEING VICTIMISED BY THE KIEV REGIME. CLEAR?

The future of the centre-right in Australia may depend on whether Sussan Ley can weather the current storm.

John Frew

This thing is not going anywhere

It is about a philosophical ware

Doing nothing to allay our sadness

And our strange human congress

Of thoughts in philosophical formulas

With semantics and verbal gondolas

Doing nothing to stop us being destructive

Believing we are creatively constructive

With normative and epistemic institution

Pushing instability of philosophical intuition

Analytic cosmology and experimental-ism

Challenging without risking an ugly skepticism

To accentuate grand-standing negativitism

Repeating reflection of gas chamber challenge

Burning human myths on top of the range

Template of purpose for old meanings loss

Deliberately misunderstanding who’s the boss

Decoration for deconstructive multi-intentions

Sinking in the Doldrums of arrested decompositions

Shortly after China and the United States announced tariff adjustment measures in Geneva, Switzerland, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Aron Solomon argued in a Newsweek article that the US now has an administration that “governs not with strategy, but with impulse”.

Richard Cullen

The primary architect and advocate of the extraordinarily reckless White House tariff project — widely labeled a “tariff tantrum” by leading Western media outlets — is Peter Navarro, key adviser to US President Donald Trump and professor emeritus of the University of California, according to The New York Times.

Over the past 18 months, it has become harder and harder to speak publicly in this country if you are Muslim, brown, and pro-Palestinian.

For people like me, who not only want to speak up, but need to, it has been a time marked by isolation, scrutiny and risk. Risk to our reputations. Risk to our livelihoods. And risk to our place in a country that insists on calling itself democratic, while punishing those who dare name a genocide for what it is.

Ghaith Krayem

Israel’s military operation against Hamas is a “proxy war” being waged on behalf of the UK, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed in an interview with Sky News.

Badenoch made the remarks on Sunday, commenting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent statement that the UK, France, and Canada are on “the wrong side of humanity” for trying to pressure his country to end its campaign in the Palestinian enclave.

The Tory leader dismissed accusations that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to genocide, arguing that it is justified in its fight against Hamas, and that the conflict also serves the interests of the UK.

”Who funds Hamas? Iran – an enemy of this country. Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK,” Badenoch said.

During an appearance on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino discussed the details surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death.

According to Bongino, Epstein committed suicide.

“You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide,” host Maria Bartiromo said. “People don’t believe it.”

“Well, I mean, listen, they have a right to their opinion, but, as someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor, who’s been in that prison system, who’s been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who’s been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was,” FBI Director Kash Patel said.

Bongino added, “He killed himself. Again, you want me to — I have seen the whole file. He killed himself.”