"Citizens Want Political Turnaround": AfD Now Polls At 43% Across Eastern Germany

Israel Tests Upgraded Laser-Guided Iron Dome System After Harsh 'Lessons' Of Iran War Israel's famed Iron Dome air defense system has undergone a significant upgrade, and the country's defense ministry is hailing new successful advanced tests, touting that it is now immensely better at countering aerial threats such as cruise missiles and drones. Israeli officials are tacitly admitting that a major overhaul was needed based on lessons learned both in the June 2025 aerial war with Iran and the Iranian retaliatory attacks in the opening month of Operation Epic Fury. By pretty much...

Supreme Court Hands Texas GOP Redistricting Win, While Virginia Judge Backs Democrats The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted Republicans a significant boost in the ongoing battle over congressional boundaries, issuing a summary reversal that allows Texas to proceed with its 2025 mid-decade congressional map for the November 2026 elections. In the case, Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens, the justices overturned a federal district court’s earlier injunction against the new boundaries. The majority referenced its own prior opinion from late 2025 in the same litigation, while Justices Sotomayor, Kagan,...

Bitcoin-Gold Correlation Hits Six-Year High As Debasement Fears Mount Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via BitcoinMagazine.com, Bitcoin’s correlation with gold is at its highest in six years as investors increasingly look for ways to hedge against currency debasement.  That’s according to a new report from Bitwise, which this week pointed out that the precious metal and leading cryptocurrency are trading in lockstep because the U.S. government has “materially intervened in the macro picture.”  Bitcoin started surging last month, after the U.S. Treasury Department said it would more than double the size of its government debt repurchases. The...