Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire After Pakistan Talks Fail To Launch

NATO Mulls Nixing Annual Summits, Wary Of 'Trump Drama' Overshadowing Fresh reporting in Reuters says that NATO leadership is mulling ending its practice of holding annual summits as the Trump presidency has "cast a long shadow" over such meetings and as member states are looking for "less drama". For example, at the 2018 summit Trump threatened to walk ⁠out after bitterly complaining over allies' low defense spending. Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary general at the time, wrote in a recently published memoir, "Had he made good on his threat to leave ​in protest,...

US Senate Votes To Include CBDC Ban In Bipartisan Housing Bill Authored by Vince Quill via CoinTelegraph.com, The United States Senate voted on Thursday to include an amendment in the 21st Century Road to Housing Act that would prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The CBDC prohibition will remain in effect until Dec. 31, 2030, according to the amendment in the bill. The legislation, which passed 89-10, stated: “The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or a Federal Reserve Bank may not issue or create a central...

Memos Show Anti-Trump Nonprofit Assisted State Prosecutions Of Trump Supporters Via American Greatness, A nonprofit organization led by prominent Trump critic Norm Eisen quietly assisted Democratic attorneys general and prosecutors in efforts targeting supporters of President Donald Trump who challenged the 2020 election, according to internal memos, contracts and public records released under open records laws. The documents reveal that Eisen’s States United Democracy Center (SUDC) provided legal assistance, strategic guidance and, in at least one case, attorneys formally appointed by a state attorney general to aid investigations and prosecutions involving alternate electors and...