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Paxton Crushes Cornyn In Stunning Texas Senate Upset In a brutal repudiation of the GOP old guard, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton crushed four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican Senate runoff Tuesday night, winning by a commanding margin of roughly 63% to 37%. The victory marks one of the biggest primary upsets in modern Texas political history. Cornyn, a powerful Senate insider and former Majority Whip, was unceremoniously dumped by his own party’s voters after more than two decades in Washington. Paxton, the hard-charging conservative known for his fierce battles...

UK Adopts 'No Gain, No Loss' Tax Treatment For Crypto Lending And Liquidity Pools Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, The United Kingdom’s HM Revenue & Customs will treat certain disposals involving cryptoasset loans and liquidity pools as “no gain, no loss,” deferring Capital Gains Tax until a user makes an economic disposal of the underlying cryptocurrency. The measure, published Monday, takes effect 6 April 2027 and applies to individuals and trustees who enter cryptoasset loan and liquidity pool arrangements, according to the policy paper.  It amends the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992. The rules cover three scenarios....

Leftist Media Quiet After Four Suspected Islamic Terror Attacks In Two Weeks Nothing to see here, folks,  Move along... The strange relationship between fundamentalist Islam and the political left has taken a disturbing turn recently as establishment media platforms seek to spin or ignore at least three separate terror attacks involving Muslim suspects in the past two weeks.  Is selective news coverage being applied to protect militant Islamism in the name of "diversity?"  The war in Iran is heating up an the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has global markets in...