Labor market demographics are rapidly shifting:

The foreign-born labor force in the US has shrunk by -3.4% over the last 3 months, the steepest decline since at least 2007, excluding the 2020 pandemic.

During this time, the foreign-born labor force has fallen 1.1 MILLION individuals, to 32.6 million, the lowest since December 2024.

Overall, the foreign-born labor force has surged by +6.3 million, or +24% since 2020.

Meanwhile, the native-born labor force has grown by +1.8 million, or +1.3%, over the last 3 months, to a record 138.8 million.

The US labor force is changing.

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🇰🇿 KAZAKHSTAN TO START NATIONAL BITCOIN RESERVE

Kazakhstan’s central bank just announced it’ll hold Bitcoin as a sovereign asset - making it one of the first countries to go full-on crypto hedge.

Confiscated BTC, state-mined coins, and institutional reserves? All part of the plan.

This isn’t just about diversification. It’s about ditching dollar dependence and backing national reserves with something borderless.

The mining hub just became a crypto central bank.

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Who needs fireworks anymore?

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Trump has said he'll replace Powell with "somebody that wants to cut rates."

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🚨🇺🇸 CHICAGO: AT LEAST 50 SHOT, 6 KILLED IN 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND VIOLENCE

Another American holiday ends in bloodshed.

As of Sunday afternoon, at least 50 people have been shot across Chicago this 4th of July weekend - 6 of them fatally, including a 16-year-old girl, a 15-year-old boy, and multiple others gunned down in mass shootings and drive-bys across the city.

Victims range from teenagers to adults. Some were sitting in parked cars.

Others were caught in crowds. One woman was killed during a robbery. Another man died in a vehicle in Cabrini-Green.

Gunfire hit nearly every corner of the city: South Side, West Side, downtown.

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This might become the best example of a group of academics signing on to an open letter and ending up completely, 'devastatingly' wrong.

Argentina struggled for decades but now it's thriving, and the man who they said would destroy it is practically solely responsible.

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JUST IN: 🇷🇺🇺🇸 President Putin says Russia helped the United States gain independence from Great Britain.

"We supported their desire for independence from Great Britain, actually supplied them with weapons, provided financial assistance and so on."

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Libya: Army neutralizes 8 militants from Chadian opposition during border clashes in southern Libya

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AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios, per FORTUNE.

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