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⭐ Editor’s Pick: A "Wannabe Strongman" Rises in Iran—Will He Make a Deal with Trump? (WSJ)

Iran received Trump’s 15-point plan to end war as the president says Washington and Tehran are "in negotiations right now."

2,000 troops from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are preparing for rapid deployment to the Middle East. (TH)

Oil prices fall as Iran signals safe passage for ‘non-hostile’ ships through the Strait of Hormuz. (CNBC)

Private credit’s “zero-loss fantasy” is coming to an end as defaults and fund exits rise. (CNBC)

How Wall Street enlisted a Marine veteran to take on Mamdani’s tax hikes. (WSJ)

Why JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon is optimistic about the Iran war. (NYP)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: Meta Ordered to Pay Hundreds of Millions of Dollars After Jury Finds Platform Enabled Child Predators (CNBC)

NTSB revealed the excruciating final minutes before deadly Air Canada LaGuardia crash. (NYP)

Unanswered questions about Epstein's final hours: A '“lash of orange,” a Google search, a makeshift noose. (NBC)

Top butchers revealed the three fast-food cheeseburgers that actually use real, quality beef. (FOX)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: 5 Tax Breaks Worth Claiming if You Made Under $100K (ML)

Suze Orman’s 6 brutally honest money tips to follow. (YF)

10 bills you can actually negotiate—and how to do it. (FB)

Facing a financial emergency? Here’s how fast can you get a personal loan. (CNBC)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: 2 Tech Stocks Most Investors Haven't Heard of That Could Go Parabolic (MF)

Which of the 3 giant AI IPOs should you buy? (MS)

Zacks Investment Research highlighted the top-ranked high growth stocks it says you can't ignore. (ZCK)

Insider Monkey listed the 10 most undervalued tech stocks to buy. (IM)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: Trader Made Nearly $1 Million on Polymarket with Remarkably Accurate Iran Bets (CNN)

House Republicans rejected a proposed Senate trade linking community bank deregulation with crypto legislation in exchange for a housing package. (POL)

Tether announces that it will be audited by a Big Four accounting firm. (DEC)

Circle shares tanked 20%. But traders are reading the Clarity Act wrong, says Bernstein. (DLN)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: "It Was a Big Rug-Pull" OpenAI Staffers Stunned After AI Giant Suddenly Shuts Down Sora Video Platform (RTS)

Baltimore became the first U.S. city to sue xAI, accusing Grok of enabling deepfake porn of women and children. (USN)

Arm launched its first in-house CPU for AI inference with Meta as the debut customer. (YF)

A federal judge called the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk "troubling" and questions if it's aimed at crippling the AI company. (AX)

China barred Manus AI co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country while regulators review whether Meta’s acquisition violates investment rules. (FT)

Israeli researchers developed an AI tool to predict chemotherapy benefit. (CALT)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: No Arms, No Legs, No Problem: The Robots Taking Over Retail Logistics. (BI)

Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics, the startup behind the “approachable” humanoid robot Sprout. (CNBC)

Researchers developed a brain surgery robot that outperforms humans, cuts procedure time by 29%. (VNE)

San José Mineta International Airport deployed a humanoid robot to greet, guide, and assist passengers in over 50 languages. (IE)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: NASA Reveals Plan to Build a Base on the Moon (SPA)

In Iran War, cheap drones remain the ultimate wild card. (NTY)

Anduril and Palantir are developing the software for the Golden Dome space-based missile defense shield. (RTS)

B-2 Spirits heading to Iran appear with puzzling features on their wings. (TWZ)

⭐ Editor’s Pick: Vince Vaughn Calls Out Late Night Comedians for Becoming Too Political (THR)

The U.S. government settled a censorship lawsuit with Missouri and Louisiana, barring federal agencies from threatening social media platforms with penalties. (GOV)

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) confirmed that the Biden-era FBI recorded a privileged phone call between Susie Wiles and her lawyer—without Wiles' consent—as part of the "Arctic Frost" probe. (X)

Pride festivals seek millions of dollars from the Canadian government as corporate sponsors pull back amid DEI backlash. (CBC)