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Tom Lee says U.S. stocks can finish 2025 higher and crypto should rally into year-end after a sharp deleveraging, laying out his case during an interview Friday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell: Overtime.” Pressed by co-host Jon Fortt on whether the risk-on trade is back, Lee, who is the chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), as well as the head of …

President Donald Trump has named his new choice to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, formally backing Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer Mike Selig after jettisoning his one-time pick of former CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz. The near-term leadership of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission could be a weighty matter for the crypto industry as the agency is contemplated by …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a roundtable on criminal cartels with President Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House on Thursday. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, the Pentagon announced Friday, in the latest escalation of military firepower …

Americans Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu won the two biggest figure skating events last season. In their first head-to-head this season, they went one-two at Cup of China in each’s first top-level competition of the Olympic season. Glenn, last year’s Grand Prix Final champion, overcame a 1.57-point deficit from Friday’s short program to Liu, last season’s world champion. Glenn totaled …

Another day, another federal probe into Elon Musk’s troubled EV company. This week, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reportedly announced that it was looking into one of Tesla’s automated driving modes, which is charmingly called “Mad Max.” If you haven’t heard of “Mad Max,” that’s probably because it’s new. Ars Technica notes that it and another mode, …

U.S. sending world’s largest aircraft carrier to Latin America  Axios The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela  The Atlantic Venezuela’s Maduro says the US is fabricating a war as aircraft carrier approaches  The Hill US Navy’s ‘most lethal combat platform,’ the carrier USS Gerald R Ford, is being sent to the Caribbean  CNN Maduro Hits Back at Trump: ‘Inventing New Eternal War’  Newsweek Source …

Rare-Earth Stocks Gain. Why Trump-Xi Meeting Won’t Curb U.S. Production Drive.  Barron’s Brussels to host EU-China talks on rare earth export controls  Reuters Opinion | How to Escape China’s Rare-Earth Chokehold  The Wall Street Journal Macron Tells EU to Consider Using Strongest Trade Tool on China  Bloomberg.com The U.S. Struggles to Break Out From China’s Grip on Rare Earths  The New York Times Source link

U.S. sanctions Colombia’s President Petro and his family  Axios U.S. imposes sanctions on Colombia’s president and family over drug trade allegations  NPR Caribbean boat strikes: Is the US killing innocent people?  vox.com Parents of fisherman killed in US strike: ‘We need answers from Trump’  The Times Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro tells CBS News blowing up drug boats is easy, but illegal and ineffective  CBS News …

The Trump administration is proposing to auction offshore oil drilling leases across new portions of the U.S. coast as soon as 2026, according to internal Department of Interior draft documents viewed by CBS News. New leases would include waters off New England, the Carolinas and California.   Offshore oil leases are common along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana, …

U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Colombia’s Leader, One of President Trump’s Harshest Critics  The New York Times US sanctions Colombian president  CNN U.S. imposes sanctions on Colombia’s president and family over drug trade allegations  NPR Caribbean boat strikes: Is the US killing innocent people?  vox.com Trump calls Colombia’s Petro an ‘illegal drug leader’ and announces tariffs and an end to US aid  AP News Source link