The top 1% households, defined as those with over $11M in net worth, hold around $25T in equities, securities, and mutual funds, equivalent to the amount owned by the remaining 99% of the country, per the Federal Reserve.

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Hegseth has broken the record for the least popular wartime Secretary of Defense, underwater by -17 points.

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Ben Shapiro is losing roughly 1.4K YouTube subscribers per week, alongside a massive decline in monthly views from 2024 to 2026.

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The Pentagon will designate Palantir’s Maven AI as a core program of record for US military operations, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg has announced.

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The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a 30-day sanctions waiver lifting sanctions on tankers transporting Iranian oil.

The decision, freeing up 140 million barrels, was made to stabilize rising crude prices.

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Trump on the Iran War: "I may have a plan or I may not.”

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Iran targeted Diego Garcia with two ballistic missiles, but neither made contact.

Diego Garcia is about 4,000 kilometers from Iran, suggesting that the country has longer-range missiles than Tehran has publicly stated.

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California is moving to rename “Cesar Chavez Day” following credible allegations that the labor leader sexually abused girls as young as 12 and assaulted fellow labor organizer Dolores Huerta.

In San Fernando, a statue of Chavez has been removed. In Fresno…

The top 5 US podcasts on Spotify are all opposed to the Iran War.

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Governor Gavin Newsom is poised to surpass VP JD Vance as the projected 2028 presidential victor, per Polymarket odds.

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The Trump administration has sued Harvard for alleged discrimination against Jewish students, but not White students, who continue to be disfavored due to race-based admissions criteria.

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Iran has announced that Natanz nuclear facility was struck by an airstrike.

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Iran’s missile capabilities are now feared to be in striking distance of London and Paris after two ballistic missiles were launched toward Diego Garcia; one failed mid-air, the other was intercepted.

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An Iranian ballistic strike in Arad, Israel, damaged multiple residential buildings and left over 100 people injured, with several fatalities reported.

Authorities have declared a mass casualty event.

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President Trump celebrated the death of former FBI Director Robert Mueller on Truth Social.

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Iran struck the southern Israeli city of Dimona in one of the most aggressive attacks since the start of the war.

Iran is increasingly ramping up the number of ballistic missile and drone strikes, despite earlier assessments that its missile capabilities…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “We’re millions of people short in labor today.”

As of early 2026, over 1.9 million Americans aged 25 and older with at least a bachelor’s degree are unemployed.

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President Trump has threatened to blow up Iran’s power plants, one-by-one, if it does not open up the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.

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Iran has threatened to strike desalination infrastructure across the Middle East if Trump attacks its power plants.

Desalination supplies roughly 90% of Kuwait’s drinking water and around 70% of Saudi Arabia’s.

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Reuters poll shows Democrats lead Republicans 40 to 37 on a generic congressional ballot, down 1% from recent polling, suggesting that the decline could accelerate as the Iran conflict escalates or extends into full-blown war, marked by troops on the ground.…

Elon Musk announces a hyperscale chip manufacturing plant, called “TERRAFAB”, designed to exponentially increase domestic chip production.

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