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View More NewsIn brief The White House registered aliens.gov early Wednesday. Trump may be pushing ahead with a planned UFO file release after the viral Obama “aliens are real” clip. Pentagon has 2,000+ UAP cases—but officials expect no revelations. The Executive Office of the President quietly registered the domain aliens.gov on Wednesday, just after 6:30 a.m.—and while the site sits empty for now, the move didn’t go unnoticed. A domain-monitoring bot flagged the registration.No website, no announcement, no explanation. Just a domain. 404 Media first reported on the registration, following the bot flag.In response to questioning, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna…
In brief Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said the Senate will mark up the Clarity Act in April, with Bernie Moreno (R-OH) warning it must pass by May. The bill faces key hurdles, especially disputes over stablecoin yield and a current lack of bipartisan support. Additional conflicts over DeFi and President Donald Trump’s crypto ties could also prevent the bill’s passage. After months of setbacks, a final plan is emerging from Senate Republicans to get a crypto market structure bill over the finish line before political momentum evaporates on Capitol Hill.Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), the legislation’s chief champion in the Senate, said Wednesday…
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A review of Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind by Jason Zengerle; 400 pages; Crooked Media Reads (January 2026)In the autumn of 1980, as Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were preparing for their second presidential debate, Tucker Carlson’s sixth grade teacher decided to stage a classroom debate between Carlson and Carlson’s best friend Russell. Although the pair were only eleven years old, they were already rabid political junkies, albeit of very different sorts. Carlson was an outspoken conservative, while Russell was a die-hard liberal. There was a twist, though: in the debate, Carlson…
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Ironlight Group has raised $21 million in a Series A round to expand infrastructure for tokenized securities, including scaling its alternative trading system (ATS)…