⚡️🇪🇺 NOW - EU's Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, says a commission to address "claims for war damages against Russia" will be set up in The Hague tomorrow, with 80,000 submissions already received.

⚡️🎥 NEW - Tom Lee shuts down a CNBC reporter questioning whether Bitcoin’s growth narrative has slowed. “The best is still ahead. Today, only 4 million Bitcoin wallets hold $10K. There are 900 million IRA and brokerage accounts with $10K. That’s a 200x larger market still to grow into.”

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump family’s American Bitcoin surpasses Pomp’s ProCap Financial in Bitcoin holdings Corporate Bitcoin race is heating up

⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸 NEW - Netanyahu held a meeting with Tom Barrack.

⚡️🔎 NEW - Bitcoin holds above U.S. ETF cost basis at $83,800 Same level it bounced from in April.

⚡️🇸🇾🇷🇺 NEW - After being overthrown and fleeing Syria in December 2024, Bashar al-Assad is living a quiet, luxurious exile in Russia, largely cut off from politics and public life. He is reportedly studying Russian and brushing up on ophthalmology, his original profession, more out of personal interest than necessity. Assad and his family are believed to live in Moscow’s elite Rublyovka district, supported by wealth shielded from western sanctions. Despite their comfort, they remain isolated, with Russian authorities restricting Assad from media or political activity. Asma al-Assad, who was receiving cancer treatment in Moscow, has reportedly recovered. Their children are adapting to life among Moscow’s elite, studying, shopping and travelling frequently to the UAE, though permanent relocation there appears unlikely.

⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱 NEW - Al Jazeera: Israel is using drones and food aid to smuggle drugs into Gaza. The Palestinian Tribal & Clan Council warned that large quantities of narcotics are being deliberately smuggled in, targeting Palestinian youth, while aid remain blocked.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - France mandates vaccination of one million cows against lumpy skin disease (LSD), amid widespread farmer protests over the government's policy of culling entire infected herds.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Strategy acquires an additional 10,645 Bitcoin for $980.3 million at an average price of $92,098 per Bitcoin. The company now holds 671,268 BTC for approximately $50.33 billion at an average purchase price of $74,972 per Bitcoin.

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - Germany is now rebuilding its military, and Rheinmetall is building and expanding 13 arms factories across Europe.

⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - Australian PM Anthony Albanese Says He Will Look to Tighten Gun Laws After the Bondi Beach Shooting “I will put on the agenda of the National Cabinet tougher gun laws … People can be radicalized over a period of time. Licenses should not be in perpetuity.”

⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, Trump's pick for US Anti-Semitism Czar, says the State Department is going to "have a whole division" dedicated to battling "anti-Semitism on the internet" and pushing social media to do "better on algorithms." Tech leaders, "many of whom are Jewish," have already "offered their assistance," he says. "The [Office of the Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism] is going to be revamped entirely to be one of the highest-profile offices in the State Department because that's what the [Secretary of State Marco Rubio] wants and that's what the President wants."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: “We’re building an arc like the Arc de Triomphe. It will be like the one in Paris but it blows it away.“

⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 NEW - Russian Ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin: There should not be a deal, we have to talk about the surrender of Ukraine.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - For the first time since World War II, a combat-ready German brigade is being permanently deployed abroad, to Lithuania, a country once brutally occupied by the Nazis.

⚡️🪳 NEW - Tests are underway to see if cockroaches, equipped with tiny hi-tech backpacks, can be used as miniature battlefield assets.

⚡️💬 NEW - Luke Gromen says that he reduced his Bitcoin portfolio substantially at $95,000 and thinks it’s going a lot lower. - Risk of quantum computing - Not making new highs vs gold - Lots of selling from whales - Charts broke down 6 weeks ago - Believes 4 year cycle is playing out

⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - The parents of the Bondi Muslim hero Ahmed el Ahmed have praised their son’s courage after he disarmed one of the attackers, saying his background in policing gave him an instinct to protect others and his conscience compelled him to act.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - New gameplay look at Enginefall, a first-person survival crafting extraction shooter where players will traverse across megatrains to kill, scavenge, and attain better gear before attempting to escape.

⚡️🚁 NEW - The Jetson ONE personal air vehicle costs $128k pilot license not required after a quick 5-day training course. It requires an $8,000 deposit, has backup batteries, a ballistic parachute, and radar for auto-landing Top speed is 102 km/h.