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🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: Reports say SEC Enforcement Director Margaret Ryan resigned after clashing with leadership over calls to investigate misconduct tied to the Trump family.

Gen Z may be the first generation in 100 years to score lower on IQ and cognitive tests than their predecessors, a trend researchers call the “Reverse Flynn Effect,” marked by declines in memory, attention and verbal skills.

Microsoft hit an all time high of $555 on July 1, 2025. It’s now trading at $372 down roughly 33%. Despite reporting revenue up 17% and beating earnings expectations, the stock cratered after Wall Street grew impatient with 37.5B in quarterly AI spending without a faster payoff.

Trump on Iranian leaders: "They're gonna make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not gonna tell you what that present is but it was very significant prize."

JUST IN: Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, the man now considered to be running Iran’s war effort, denies any negotiations with the U.S., calling reports “fake news used to manipulate financial and oil markets.”