President Donald Trump said he will call the final shots on a peace deal to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy preparing to unveil a new peace plan when the two meet Sunday. ‘He doesn’t have anything until I approve it,’ Trump told Politico Friday. ‘So we’ll see what he’s got.’ Zelenskyy told reporters ...
BNB Chain has the largest average of active wallets per day in the year 2025. This achievement places it on top of Ethereum and Solana based on this important user-activity indicator. Binance founder CZ rejoices in this milestone. Does Institutional Adoption Boost BNB Chain? The information is provided by the CryptoRank and TokenTerminal as they The post Binance Founder CZ ...
North Korea showed off its apparent progress in the development of a nuclear-powered submarine. State media released photos of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and his daughter, a potential heir, as they inspected what appears to be a largely completed hull. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s official state media, said Kim and his daughter visited the ...
Altius Minerals (TSX:ALS,OTCQX:ATUSF) is making a bet on a lithium market recovery, agreeing to acquire Lithium Royalty (TSX:LIRC) in a C$520 million deal that will expand its exposure to battery metals. Under a definitive agreement announced by the two companies on Monday (December 22), Altius plans to purchase all of the issued common and convertible common shares of Lithium Royalty ...
MSTR stock is showing signs of a short-term bottom as investor attention across social platforms continues to fade. Social metrics covering the period from September 23 to December 23, 2025 show weakening engagement even as the stock faced a deep price correction. According to Santiment report, social volume and social dominance indicators for MSTR have The post MSTR Bottom In? ...
The Department of Justice said Wednesday it may have more than a million more documents related to the late Jeffrey Epstein that it needs to review and that the process could take weeks to complete. The DOJ said two of its components, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, had just handed over ...
Lobo Tiggre, CEO of IndependentSpeculator.com, described uranium’s key role in providing baseload energy, a narrative that is only being heightened by added artificial intelligence data center and electric vehicle (EV) demand projections. “The use case is baseload power. There’s no substitution, and the world is building like gangbusters,” he explained. “If the EV story completely went away, it wouldn’t undo ...
XRP price trades below the $2 mark after the latest correction across the broader cryptocurrency market. Recent data shows the XRP Ledger has processed over four billion total transactions, drawing fresh attention from traders. Analysts observe that in case there is any improvement in the general market sentiment, the trend is constructive despite slight selling The post XRP Price Prediction: ...
As the year closes, Republicans are looking to the past for another dance with a partisan exercise that tested the party’s unity and delivered President Donald Trump his crowning legislative achievement of the year. Budget reconciliation is how congressional Republicans rammed through Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ earlier this year. But it’s a time-consuming, labor-intensive process that laid bare intra-party divisions ...
Nickel prices were stagnant in 2025, trading around US$15,000 per metric ton (MT) for much of the year. The metal’s primary price motivation stemmed from persistent oversupply from Indonesian operations. Overall, sentiment remained weak amid soft demand growth from the construction and manufacturing sectors, and declining interest in nickel as electric vehicle (EV) battery makers began to eye cheaper chemistries. ...
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said Congress is poised to advance crypto market structure legislation. His comments came as Trump Media & Technology Group disclosed a $40 million Bitcoin purchase. The company added the assets to its corporate balance sheet. In an X post, analytical platform Lookonchain revealed that Trump Media bought 451 Bitcoin for approximately The post Trump Media Invests ...
The Justice Department on Monday appealed the dismissal of its criminal cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, making good on its vow to revive both cases despite what appear to be significant legal and procedural hurdles. Lawyers for the Trump administration appealed both cases Monday to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, ...