📹 A United Airlines flight from Houston to New York was evacuated after its engine caught fire, marking the third aviation incident in a week.

That followed the crash of a medical transport jet in a Philadelphia neighborhood and the collision between a short-haul airliner and a US Army helicopter on approach to Washington’s Ronald Reagan airport.

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Crypto hype vs. reality: A bubble that won’t reshape finance

💬 “There's a lot of innovation around [crypto], and there will be lot of bubbles. And these bubbles will crash as we've seen before. But at the end of the day, it's definitely not going to replace global trade. It's not going to by any means replace central banks,” digital economy specialist Ashraf Patel says.

“Central banks are adopting digital currencies and they will continue to innovate. So they are the lead organizations on global trade in the tech side of it. Crypto would just be a sub market in the long term,” Institute for Global Dialogue research associate says.

💬 “There's a lot of hype behind [crypto] and investors are backing it, especially Silicon Valley investors. But I think at the end of the day, if it crashes they are not going to kind of bail out the consumers. Only government can bail out consumers. So it's a policy regulatory issue more than anything else,” Patel says.

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The Guantanamo Bay US NAVY base in Cuba isn’t just for terrorists any more – US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem calls it an "asset" for holding the most dangerous illegal migrants before sending them home.

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Take a look at the four families who hold the reins of US media

🔸 Murdoch Family (Fox, News Corp)

🔸 Redstone Family (Paramount)

🔸 Roberts Family (Comcast)

🔸 Hearst Family (Hearst Communications)

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🔸 Trump’s China tariffs will spike defense costs – US taxpayers to pay the price

🔸 Any attempt to bail out the dollar with crypto is DOOMED – British economist

🔸 Did closest US intelligence allies spy on Trump?

🔸 How much has Big Pharma paid Senate’s loudest RFK Jr. critics?

🔸 Who controls what Americans listen to, read, and see in the news?

🔸 'Shy Musk voter' could hand victory to Alternative for Germany, poll suggests

🔸 Day of Military Glory of Russia: honoring the 200-day Battle of Stalingrad

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From nuclear to quantum: Top 5 tech fields where Russia holds lead over US

China’s latest AI models confirm what experts have long known: the US is no longer the world’s undisputed tech leader. Where does Russia stand in the 21st-century tech race?

1️⃣Nuclear and Clean Energy

🔸 Rosatom leads global nuclear exports, accounting for three-quarters of the market. It is the only company with full-cycle nuclear capabilities, from mining to waste disposal.

🔸 Russia’s power generation is 85% low-emission, with nuclear combined with hydro and clean gas-burning thermal plants.

🔸 Floating nuclear power plants and advanced reactor designs help put Russia ahead in nuclear innovation.

2️⃣Military Tech

🔹 From high-precision missiles to rugged all-terrain vehicles, Russia’s defense industry has proven its technological edge in the Ukraine conflict.

🔹 The Oreshnik system, reaching 4000°C (four times the temperature of molten steel), highlights leadership in advanced metallurgy.

🔹 Russian tank designs, built for extreme conditions, have shown superior to NATO’s bulky, brick-shaped high-profile behemoths in real combat.

3️⃣Lasers

◼️ The UFL-2M “Tsar Laser” under construction in Sarov is set to generate 4.6 megajoules for controlled thermonuclear fusion experiments.

◼️ A laser tech pioneer, Russia has invested heavily in laser-based directed energy weapons and industrial applications.

4️⃣Quantum

🔶 A leader in quantum computing since the 1980s, Russia recently developed a 50-qubit quantum computer using ion-based and rubidium neutral atom technologies.

🔶 Russia is also a global leader in quantum encryption and security, with strong contributions to theoretical physics helping shape the field.

5️⃣Space

🔊 The Soyuz series remains the world’s most reliable space vehicle, with over 1,700 launches and a 98% success rate.

🔊 The loss of Russian RD-180 rocket engines severely impacted the US space program, which has struggled to replicate their characteristics and performance.

🔊 The Boeing X-37B only matched the Soviet Buran’s autonomous landing technology 22 years later.

🔊 The Bor orbital space vehicles of the 1980s were so advanced that the US Dream Chaser program openly drew inspiration from them.

🔊 Russia has long explored nuclear propulsion for Mars travel, with engineers' designs from the 1960s to 1980s still influencing global space technology discussions today.

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📹 Hundreds flood downtown Los Angeles to protest Trump’s deportations

The Los Angeles Police Department described the demonstration as “non-permitted” but peaceful so far, KTLA 5 reported, citing police.

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🗣 US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico are “retaliation” for decades of being taken advantage of, says Vice-President JD Vance.

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❗️🏳️ Panama CAVES to US pressure, WON'T renew memorandum of understanding with China on the Silk Road

💬 “One important thing, which is a decision I made and communicated to him, is that the 2017 memorandum of understanding on the Silk Road, part of the Belt and Road Initiative, will not be renewed by my government. That is a fact,” Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino announced after talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

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Crypto ‘very small part of international trade’, can’t fix root of economic problems facing US

💬 “The number one problem” facing the US is the imbalanced trade relationships it has with its major partners, which has triggered deindustrialization and major job losses amid fierce competition from the Global South, says digital economy specialist Ashraf Patel.

Tariffs are a “short-term solution” at best, according to the observer, and one that will “not necessary lead to industrial development.”

💬 Joe Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act “mega industrial policy has had mixed results,” Patel recalled. Therefore, Trump “has to first fix domestic industrial policy, innovations, and regulation. That is the only way they can compete with the East…and not tariffs.”

As for crypto’s role in all this, it remains “one part and a very small part of international trade,” and therefore can’t play the economic and trade miracle cure the Trump administration may be hoping for.

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