⚡️🇺🇸🇫🇷 NEW - Trump randomly mocks Macron again: I spoke to Emmanuel Macron, nice guy, and I said, "Emmanuel, you're going to have to triple the price of your prescription drugs." "No, no, no, Donald. I will not do that." I said, "Yes, you will, Emmanuel. We're paying like $130 for a pill and you're paying $10." I said, "You will, Emmanuel. 100%. Because if you don't do it, I'm going to put a tariff on you of 100% on all your wines and champagnes that come into the United States." And he said, "Donald, I would be delighted to do it. Please don't do that to me."

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - The Iran war has cost U.S. consumers an estimated $96.2 billion in additional gasoline and diesel expenses since February 28, equivalent to roughly $734 per household, according to Brown University’s Iran War Energy Cost Tracker. ➤ Gasoline accounts for $52.56 billion of that burden. The national average rose from $2.982 to $4.095 a gallon, an increase of 37.3%. ➤ Diesel accounts for another $43.61 billion. Its average price climbed from $3.670 to $5.633 a gallon, up 53.5%. ➤ Researchers estimate the additional costs by comparing actual fuel prices with projected prices without the war, using AAA, U.S. Energy Information Administration and Census Bureau data. Brown University

⚡️🇨🇩🇮🇱 NEW - DR Congo President Félix Tshisekedi kisses the Western Wall.

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⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: When the next president comes in 2.5 years, gonna say, “What a great job he or she did.” I did it.

⚡️🎬 NEW - New trailer for the ‘Harry Potter’ series Releasing December 25 on HBO

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - Netanyahu, surrounded by Israeli soldiers, watches the ruins of Gaza he destroyed.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Lutnick: Data centers don't use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down. Lutnick last year: These AI things suck water. They need water.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Eric Trump shared a video showing his new passport featuring President Trump.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - US Mint says the new 2026 President Trump $1 Coin is now in circulation.

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - Q: How do you see Gaza in 5, 10 years? Netanyahu: As an area where no one even thinks of attacking us, because we control it from a security perspective with absolute control.

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Putin: Any military facilities in Ukraine — British or otherwise — are legitimate targets for us.

⚡️NEW - Staten Island man struck by lightning while walking to a dentist appointment. Thomas Fahmy says he is grateful to be alive. "Once the lightning bolt struck me, the initial sensations that I had throughout my whole body were completely unprecedented; tingling, numbness, pain, just I feel this burning sensation." "No burns. I had multiple body exams; no burns at all."

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu in Gaza: We control the territory. We are not withdrawing. We are staying on this line. We control 60% of the Gaza Strip, and there is still more to come, because we are eliminating the terrorists who threaten us, doing so day in and day out. Yesterday, we took out Hamas’s head of the Shin Bet. We’ll certainly learn a few things.

⚡️🇷🇺 NEW - Q: Could military infrastructure sites in the UK become a military target? Putin: It's a military secret.

⚡️🇹🇭🇺🇸 NEW - Thailand has launched a large-scale crackdown on prostitution in Pattaya ahead of the arrival of approximately 5,000 U.S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Between 40 and 50 people suspected of prostitution were arrested during raids conducted before the arrival of the U.S. aircraft carrier, which has just spent 286 days at sea on a mission against Iran. (Newsweek)

⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 NEW - U.S. Energy Secretary Wright finalizes oil agreements with interim Venezuelan president and officials.

⚡️🇳🇱 NEW - Dutch central bank moved 86 tonnes of gold from North America to London, citing “crisis preparedness” amid global political instability.

⚡️🤖 NEW - AI is finding more security bugs in the Linux kernel than ever, but developers are struggling to deal with the flood of reports. Linux 7.2 has already passed 1,500 reported CVEs, and the next release could approach 2,000. That doesn’t mean Linux suddenly became less secure, AI tools are scanning more than 40 million lines of code and spotting issues that might have been missed before. The problem is that many reports are duplicates, false positives, or minor issues, so developers still have to review them.

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - This map tracks physical assaults related to cryptocurrencies that have targeted French citizens... and the total has already reached 60 cases. Burglaries, false imprisonment, kidnappings, violence, or attempted extortion: behind each marker lies a case in which crypto holders, their loved ones, or people connected to the industry were reportedly targeted. While these attacks were frequent at the beginning of the year, they have slowed significantly, thanks in particular to numerous arrests, the police’s meticulous investigative work, and crypto holders who are increasingly well-prepared.