⚡️🇧🇷🗽 NEW - Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Lindsey Graham says anyone who criticizes U.S. aid to Israel is an idiot. He says the Israeli Defense Forces are doing far more to protect America than most people realize and that the budget would have to be doubled to replicate it. Graham says not a single American soldier has died for what Israel has done.

⚡️🚨🇺🇸 ALERT - President Trump says he will consider a pardon for the CEO of privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet Samourai. "I've heard about it, I'll look at it. Let's take a look at it."

⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - The hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed, who disarmed a gunman in Sydney is a Muslim of Syrian origin from Idlib. Speaking to Al Araby TV, Mostafa, Ahmed’s cousin said: “I spoke with him, and he told me about it. At first, he was not thinking about death. When he saw people dying and bullets flying over his head, he told me, literally: “Allah Almighty gave me the courage - I found myself rushing at him.”

⚡️🚨 NEW - Kick's CEO says ads are coming to the platform but promises they won't "destroy your ability to enjoy livestreaming" “Kick will have ads at some point, so enjoy the ad-free experience while it lasts" "We're very conscious that we can't just throw 1000 ads at people and assume they're going to stick around"

⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - More than $1.7 million has now been raised for the Sydney hero named Ahmed Al Ahmad. A GoFundMe was created to support the man who stopped the attacker, and saved many lives. Give this guy some money he deserve it

⚡️🔎 NEW - Fidelity reports that Bitcoin's 4 year cycle may be over Investors "believe we could be entering a supercycle...For reference, a supercycle in commodities in the 2000s spanned nearly a decade."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - President Trump formally classifies fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. "With this historic executive order I will sign today, we're formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is." "No bomb does what this is doing."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Erika Kirk says Turning Point USA will host a Shabbat dinner during its annual AmericaFest conference. She says the event is meant to combat antisemitism and they will also connect students with information from Jewish organizations.

⚡️🇬🇧 NEW - By the end of 2027, the UK government wants to regulate cryptocurrencies in the same way as traditional financial products. Crypto exchanges and wallets will come under the supervision of the FCA.

⚡️💻 NEW - The Official Proton VPN CLI is now available on: ➥ Arch ➥ Debian ➥ Ubuntu ➥ Fedora

⚡️💬 NEW - The Outdoor Boys explains why he retired from his YouTube channel “I want to be able to go out in public & eat dinner with my wife at a restaurant & not have it cause problems, I want to be able to go to my kids school event & not have it be a distraction”

⚡️🎮 GAMING - Larian announced Divinity II Original Sin is now available on Switch 2, PS5 and Xbox Series.

⚡️🚨 NEW - MetaMask now supports Bitcoin!

⚡️📽️ ARCHIVE - 20 years ago the YouTube founders were depressed that they only had 40 uploads You know, it reminds me of us on Nostr. Some people, myself included, sometimes complain: there aren't many of us, value for value still doesn't work very well, Nostr client is unstable. But one thing is certain: we are the first. To be completely honest, that's also what motivates me. I missed the early days of Bitcoin. I missed the early days of YouTube. I missed the early days of TikTok, then Twitch. Each time, it was the same scenario. This time, on Nostr, I won't let my chance slip away. It's going to explode, it's inevitable. The more governments censor social media, the more Nostr will naturally find its place in the world. In the end, the best ambassadors for Nostr are the governments themselves. We just have to wait and see.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Four people charged with plotting New Year's Eve bomb attacks in California, FBI reveals footage from a surveillance plane, showing the four that "travelled out to the desert to test their explosive devices."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - SEC Chair Paul Atkins says "public blockchains are more transparent than any legacy financial system ever built."

⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - Reddit files lawsuit against Australia's youth social media ban Reddit has filed a lawsuit asking the High Court to overturn Australia's social media ban for people under 16, as well as its inclusion of Reddit in it, calling the law an infringement of free political expression.

⚡️🎬🍿 WATCH - First trailer for Ben Wheatley’s ‘NORMAL’, starring Bob Odenkirk The film follows a temporary sheriff who discovers a criminal conspiracy at the heart of his town & realizes that everyone is in on it. In theaters on April 17, 2026

⚡️🇪🇺 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.