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Senate Blocks Clarity Act As Cloture Falls Short Of 60 Votes The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, falling short of the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633. The vote, held at about 2:15 p.m. ET, was the first floor test of comprehensive crypto market-structure legislation in the chamber. It was not a vote on final passage. It was a vote on whether debate could even begin. The answer was no, with 50 no votes and...

Ukraine Shake-Up: Zelensky Sacks Popular Defense Chief, & IDs CEO Of Naftogaz As Likely Next Prime Minister Update(1410ET): FT is reporting late in the day Wednesday that Ukraine's 35-year old defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, who has grown in popularity for his 'reformer' reputation and for orchestrating the ramped-up drone war on Russia, has been sacked by Zelensky. The shock move comes days after Yulia Svyrydenko, Zelensky's prime minister, was forced to step down, and amid a big cabinet shake-up. Zelensky had previewed huge changes coming. As to who might be elevated as...

America Spends More On Defense R&D Than Any Other OECD Country - By A Mile On the OECD's yardstick - defense R&D budget allocations per $1,000 of GDP - the United States spends $3.64. The next country on the list, South Korea, spends $2.06, and nobody else clears a dollar. Britain is third at $0.97, Germany fourth at $0.79, France fifth at $0.50. The average across the 20 countries ranked is $0.58; the median is $0.27. Greece, at the bottom, spends nine cents. The gap is about to get wider: the Department...