⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Schumer: "Iran doesn't have Tomahawk missiles, Donald Trump! The claim is beyond asinine. He says whatever pops into his head no matter what the truth is. And we all know he lies, but on something as formidable as this, it's appalling."

⚡🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - Steve Witkoff on Israel: Israel is a one-bomb country. One bomb takes them out.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Investigators are now searching Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch for the bodies of two girls who were allegedly strangled to death, according to the Daily Mail. The search comes after an email claimed that a former staffer had information that two girls were buried outside the ranch. "Did you know somewhere in the hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G?" the email read. "Both died by strangulation during rough, fetish s*x." “We have heard years of allegations and rumors about Epstein’s activities in New Mexico, but unfortunately, federal investigations have failed to put together an official record,” said State Rep. Andrea Romero. “With this truth commission, we can finally fill in the gaps by investigating the failures that led to the horrific allegations of abuse and crime at Zorro Ranch, so we can learn from them and prevent such atrocities from taking place in our state going forward.”

⚡️🇧🇭 NEW - Damage to high rise in Bahrain following Iranian drone strike last night

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Secretary of War Hegseth (Kafir): "Blessed be the Lord, my rock. Who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle."

⚡🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 NEW - Steve Witkoff after convincing Trump to attack Iran, he now says he has no idea how the war will end.

⚡🇺🇸 NEW - Blumenthal after getting briefed on Iran: "We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here. There's also the specter of active Russian aid to Iran putting in danger American lives ... China also may be assisting Iran"

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - The Israeli government is accusing the Iranian government of launching indiscriminate missiles toward Jerusalem, particularly in the direction of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Israel is concerned these missiles could hit and destroy these sacred places. Some people are talking about a narrative (false flag) that is beginning to take shape.

⚡️🚨🤖 NEW - The CEO of Coinbase just said something nobody's taking seriously enough. AI agents will outnumber humans in transactions. Soon. « Very soon there are going to be more AI agents than humans making transactions. They can’t open a bank account, but they can own a crypto wallet. Think about it. » So the biggest economy of the next decade won't run through banks at all. It'll run through blockchains. Not because crypto won. Because banks physically can't onboard a customer that isn't human. Banks weren't built for what's coming.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - General Dan Caine says U.S. has struck more than 5,000 targets and sunk more than 50 Iranian naval ships.

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - Germany's FM says Iran's main political goal "is to eliminate the State of Israel, and this cannot be neglected, especially not by the German government."

⚡️👀 NEW - Polymarket partners with Peter Thiel's Palantir to develop a "sports integrity platform" for Polymarket's sports markets — The Block Polymarket will deploy the Vergence AI engine, co-developed by Palantir and TWG AI, to monitor every trade, screen prohibited users, generate compliance reports, and detect anomalies like manipulation and insider activity in real time.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed allowing crypto exchanges to require users to agree to receive Form 1099-DA, the tax form used to report digital asset transactions. Under the proposal, exchanges could incorporate consent into the account opening process and potentially terminate accounts that refuse to accept the form. The rule remains in the public comment phase, with a consultation period open until May 5, 2026.

⚡️🚨 NEW - The prediction market platform Kalshi has been sued in a class action lawsuit for allegedly refusing to pay approximately $54 million to users who bet that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would leave office before March 1. The plaintiffs claim that Kalshi invoked a "death clause" after Khamenei was killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes to avoid paying out. Kalshi said its rules were clear from the outset that markets could not trade on outcomes involving death and that it refunded fees and net losses to users. Civilization allows you to bet on anything and everything...

⚡️🇺🇸 ICYMI -Strategy acquires an additional 17,994 Bitcoins for approximately $1.28 billion, at an average purchase price of $70,946 per Bitcoin. The company now holds 738,731 BTC.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Cracks Appearing in the financial giants. For the first time in its history, BlackRock’s $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund is facing major withdrawal pressure. Investors requested $1.2 billion in redemptions in a single quarter — more than 9% of the fund’s total assets. That’s nearly double the 5% threshold where managers can begin restricting withdrawals. BlackRock is only paying out $620 million, limiting the rest. For years, private credit funds were sold as the “safe new frontier” of finance — massive returns, steady income, endless liquidity. Now the first real test is beginning. No one is calling it a crisis yet. But when investors start rushing for the exit in markets that were supposedly “unshakable,” it raises a serious question: Was this boom built on solid ground… or on too much money chasing too few real assets?

⚡️👀 WATCH - Founder of the Bloomberg Terminal explaining the function that makes it worth $30,000 a year

⚡️⚠️ WARNING - An infant girl’s body was recovered from the rubble of a Tehran home after US-Israeli air strikes on the capital killed at least 40 civilians.

⚡️🚨🇪🇺 NEW - EU's chief von der Leyen on their nuclear power failure: "While in 1990, one third of Europe's electricity came from nuclear, today it's only close to 15%. This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it was a strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back on a reliable, affordable source of low-emission power."