🔥 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms 2026 will be the GREATEST tax season ever for the American people

"President Trump signing the largest middle class tax cut in history. This is shaping up to be the biggest tax refund season ever and we are in now. President Trump and Republicans fundamentally believe that Americans deserve to keep more of their hard earned money, not less, which is why he fought so hard to deliver this long overdue relief. From no tax on tips, overtime or social security, to auto loan interest deductions on new American-made vehicles, plus increases to the standard deduction in child tax credit, more money is flowing back into the pockets of hardworking Americans. We're already hearing from everyday Americans across the country who are reporting substantial tax savings thanks to the Working Families Tax Cut, which every single Democrat in Congress voted against," - said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Thank you President Trump! 🙏❤️

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🇨🇳China’s Alibaba launches AI model to power robots

Alibaba launched an AI model, called RynnBrain, designed to power robotics. The model is designed to help robots comprehend the physical world around them and identify objects.

RynnBrain has enabled robots to possess spatiotemporal memory and spatial reasoning capabilities for the first time, while also setting new records (SOTA) on 16 embodied open-source evaluation leaderboards, surpassing Alphabet-C (GOOG. US) top-tier industry models such as Gemini Robotics ER 1.5.

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⚡FAA lifts El Paso airspace closure after Mexican cartel drone breach

The Federal Aviation Administration has lifted the closure on the airspace in El Paso, and all flights will resume as normal after the FAA had grounded all flights to and from El Paso on Tuesday night.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed the airspace closure was due to a drone breach. Duffy said the FAA and the Department of War acted swiftly to address the cartel drone incursion. According to CNN, Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace, an administration official told CNN, which triggered a temporary airspace closure over El Paso.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸Israeli premier joins Board of Peace ahead of Trump meeting in Washington

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially joined the Board of Peace on Wednesday ahead of a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC. Netanyahu signed as a member of the board at Blair House, the US president’s official guest residence, during a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. 👏

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🇹🇼🇺🇸Taiwan has told Washington that its proposal to move 40% of the island’s semiconductor supply chain to the U.S. was “impossible”

Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said she had made it clear to Washington that the country’s semiconductor ecosystem, built over decades, could not simply be relocated. Taiwan’s international expansion, including its investments in the U.S., is predicated on the notion that the industry remains’ rooted in Taiwan and continues to expand domestic investments.

However these comments push back against onshoring targets outlined by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in a CNBC interview in January, shortly after the latest U.S.-Taiwan trade agreement. Lutnick said he wanted 40% of Taiwan’s entire chip supply chain to shift to the U.S. within President Donald Trump’s ongoing term.

Under the deal, the Taiwanese government promised $250 billion in direct investments by its tech companies, with an additional $250 billion in credit provided for them to expand their production capacity in the U.S. Washington on its part lowered levies on most goods from Taiwan to 15% from 20%, waived tariffs on generic drugs and ingredients, aircraft components and natural resources unavailable domestically, and promised higher quotas for tariff-free exports of Taiwanese chips to the U.S.

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🇺🇸 Trump welcomes "great" jobs numbers, says US should pay less to borrow

The January Jobs Report has come in - and the number almost DOUBLED expectations at over 130K new jobs added. U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed figures that showed better-than-expected job growth in January on Wednesday and pressed his view that the U.S. should pay much less in borrowing costs.

President Trump's economy is BOOMING 💥

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🔥 Chainalysis upgrades support for stellar with automatic token support

Chainalysis is excited to announce upgraded support for Stellar. With this integration, Chainalysis support extends beyond the native XLM token to include automatic coverage for new fungible and non-fungible tokens deployed to the chain that adhere to its classic token standard and smart contract based assets. As new tokens are minted daily, they are seamlessly added to the platform without manual intervention.

Customers can now monitor Stellar tokens through Chainalysis KYT (Know Your Transaction) with actionable alerts and continuous monitoring. Stellar support is also integrated into the entity screening products and in the flagship investigations tool, Reactor. This enables customers to track fund flows across Stellar tokens, investigate transactions, visualize money movements, and identify potential illicit activity.

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💊 Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna’s flu vaccine application

The vaccine maker Moderna said that the Food and Drug Administration had notified the company that the agency would not review its mRNA flu vaccine. Moderna had spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars testing its flu vaccine, enrolling 41,000 people and aimed at a market of adults ages 50 and older. The company concluded that its shot was superior to GSK’s product.

But Mr. Kennedy has scuttled the use of mRNA in vaccines and canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for research using the technology, claiming it is not safe or effective. During his first year as health secretary, he has quashed several projects involving the technology, including an effort by Moderna to develop a shot against bird flu. No country has approved an mRNA flu vaccine.

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⚡ US House passes Bill to require proof of US citizenship for midterm voters

U.S. House passes the SAVE America Act, requiring proof of citizenship to vote, in a narrow 218-213 vote. The bill now moves to the Senate.

Will the Senate finally be able to get this across the finish line? 🧐

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💸 Meta begins construction of $10 billion Indiana data center to boost AI capabilitie

Meta has announced that it’s breaking ground on a new 1 gigawatt data center project in Lebanon, Indiana, which Meta says “represents an investment of over $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community,” one of its largest infrastructure investments to date. According to U.S. power grid operators, that is the equivalent of powering about 800,000 homes.

The project is Meta’s 30th data center initiative in the U.S., with several launching over the past year, as the company continues to push towards the next stage of AI development.

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🧑‍⚖️ US decides SpaceX is like an airline, exempting it from Labor Relations Act

The US labor board said SpaceX should instead be regulated under the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations at railroad and airline companies.

In January 2024, an NLRB regional director alleged in a complaint that SpaceX illegally fired eight employees. The complaint sought reinstatement of the employees, back pay, and letters of apology to the fired employees.

SpaceX responded by suing the NLRB, claiming the labor agency’s structure is unconstitutional. But a different issue SpaceX raised later - that it is a common carrier, like a rail company or airline - is what compelled the NLRB to drop its case. US regulators ultimately decided that SpaceX should be treated as a “common carrier by air” and “a carrier by air transporting mail” for the government.

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🪙 Stellar expands Asia Push with TopNod wallet integration

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced at Consensus Hong Kong that TopNod, a non-custodial wallet, will integrate with the Stellar network. The move is part of SDF’s broader push into Asia - a region where it faces stiff competition from Solana, TON, and XRP in the payments and tokenization markets.

TopNod’s wallet uses key sharding and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technology to eliminate the need for seed phrases. The platform focuses on tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and stablecoins rather than speculative tokens.

In an exclusive interview with BeInCrypto, Stellar CBO Raja Chakravorti called Asia Pacific “a critical growth driver” and said SDF plans to build out anchor networks in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam over the coming year.

“We brought employees in the region focused on Singapore first, but we’ve really been focusing on expanding rapidly,” Chakravorti said, adding that more APAC financial institution partnerships would be announced over the next two quarters.

SDF has also partnered with MarketNode, a Singapore-based tokenization platform, and said it is in discussions with financial institutions about tokenizing money market funds in the region.

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🇰🇵 North Korea’s Kim positioning daughter as successor

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has entrenched his daughter as heir apparent ahead of a landmark party conference, a South Korean lawmaker said on Thursday after a briefing from Seoul's main intelligence agency. The Kim family has ruled North Korea with an iron grip for decades, and a cult of personality surrounding their "Paektu bloodline" dominates daily life in the isolated country. Kim's teenage daughter Ju Ae has long been seen as the next in line.

“In the past, the South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) described Kim Ju Ae as being ‘in study as successor’ but today the expression used was that she ‘was in the stage of being internally appointed ⁠successor’,” lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun told reporters following a closed-door briefing ‌from the NIS.

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🔥 SBI Trade VC Launches New Round of BTC, BCH, XRP, DOGE, XLM Lending Today

SBI Trade VC, a crypto exchange founded by Japanese financial giant SBI Group has spread the word about launching a new round of crypto lending today. The platform thus allows users not only to borrow crypto from it but also to lend it to others through staking.

According to the tweet, SBI Trade VC now allows users to stake seven coins, including Bitcoin, XRP, DOGE and XLM. Since December, SBI Trade VC has already announced several such lending rounds. Lenders will be entitled to receive “rental fees” regularly, depending on the asset they lend.

SBI Trade VC has launched the lending service despite the current bloodbath on the global cryptocurrency market, allowing those who hold on to their cryptos to make some additional passive income through DeFi.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳 US pushes for Venezuela investment, energy secretary warns about legitimacy of Chinese deals

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright pushed for expanded U.S. investments in Venezuela as part of the visit focused on energy policy, while warning about the legitimacy of Chinese businesses in the OPEC country. Wright said the U.S. is prepared to help boost oil, gas and power output in the country, following talks with interim President and Oil Minister Delcy Rodriguez at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas.

"This year, we can drive a dramatic increase in Venezuelan oil production, in Venezuelan natural gas production and Venezuelan electricity production," Wright said during a televised briefing after the meeting. Venezuela is currently producing about 1 million barrels per day of crude.

The boost would lead to more job opportunities, higher wages and quality of life for Venezuelans, while providing benefits for the U.S. and the Western Hemisphere, Wright said, adding that the U.S. wants to "set the Venezuelan people and the economy free."

Wright told reporters at a roundtable after meeting Rodriguez that legitimate deals by legitimate Chinese companies are fine in Venezuela, but U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to avoid "damaging" deals that Chinese enterprises have done in other countries in the region. China has already bought some of the crude offered by the U.S., he said.

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🤖 Waymo begins deploying next-gen Ojai robotaxis to extend its U.S. lead

Waymo said it has begun using its sixth-generation driverless system to provide robotaxi rides to employees on Ojai vehicles, which use a base model made by Chinese automaker Geely. By upgrading their driverless tech, and adding more vehicles to its fleet, Waymo aims to extend its U.S. lead and lock in loyal riders. The Alphabet - owned company said its sixth-generation Waymo Driver uses more cost-effective parts, and should be able to navigate through harsher weather conditions than previous generations.

Waymo is offering service on its Ojai vehicles to employees and their guests in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles first, before gradually expanding to new cities, with a goal to open to public riders later this year.

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🇺🇸 Immigration operation in Minnesota coming to an end

White House border czar Tom Homan said Trump had approved his request to conclude the operation, adding he would stay in Minnesota "a little longer to oversee the drawdown, to ensure its success".

“As a result of our efforts here Minnesota is now less of a sanctuary state for criminals,” Homan said at a news conference. “I have proposed and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude.”

Homan said Operation Metro Surge had resulted in many illegal immigrants who had committed violent crimes being detained for deportation. More than 4,000 undocumented immigrants had been arrested. Homan said that ICE has always had a presence in Minnesota and will continue to have one. 🙏

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