White House2026-09-10 10:18:21White House has yet to decide on refined copper tariffs, Reuters reportsThe White House has not made a final decision on tariffs for refined copper, according to a Reuters report citing two people familiar with the matter. Officials are weighing the risk that higher copper prices could raise manufacturing costs against the possible benefit of encouraging more domestic mining. The hesitation comes as the administration pays closer attention to affordability ahead of the November midterm elections, with Trump and Republican lawmakers under pressure to show their economic policies are lowering, not raising, costs for U.S. consumers and businesses. A White House official said no final call has been made and confirmed that the Commerce Department submitted an update to Trump before the June 30 deadline set by the White House. The official added that the government is still evaluating options to bring copper and other critical manufacturing back to the United States. Reuters said the remarks suggest expanded tariffs on refined copper are not a settled matter, even though markets have been expecting such a move.780
Trump2026-09-10 08:04:24Trump warns Iran over Pickaxe Mountain as Strait of Hormuz attacks intensifyU.S. President Donald Trump said on Sept. 9 local time that Iran should not carry out any further activity at the suspected nuclear-related site known as Pickaxe Mountain, warning that the United States would strike "very strongly" if it did. Trump said Washington had observed recent "activity" at the location. A new satellite imagery assessment from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or CSIS, said road traffic at the site has reached its highest level on record this year and construction activity has increased sharply, with work appearing to shift from underground excavation to internal buildout and perimeter reinforcement. The site is about 2 kilometers from the heavily damaged Natanz nuclear facility, though CSIS said it could not confirm whether Iran had moved centrifuges or other nuclear infrastructure there. At the same time, attacks tied to the Strait of Hormuz continued to escalate. Iran said it launched ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan and struck 10 vessels near the strait, while U.S. Central Command said it had earlier destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in response to two ballistic missile attacks by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on U.S. warships. Brent crude briefly moved above $100 a barrel before trading at $99.19.830
Trump2026-09-10 02:28:40Trump says U.S. could strike Iran’s “Gaoshan,” warns Tehran to be cautiousAccording to ChainCatcher, U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could strike Iran’s “Gaoshan” and urged Tehran to remain cautious. Speaking at a Republican midterm election conference, Trump said he had noticed activity at “Gaoshan” and warned Iran not to “play tricks.” He said a heavy strike would follow if Tehran did so. The brief remark was reported as a fast news update by ChainCatcher, with no further details provided in the source text about the location, the nature of the activity, or any timeline for possible action. The report attributes the comments directly to Trump and frames them as a warning directed at Tehran.750
Hunter Biden2026-09-09 23:56:45Hunter Biden says he made no profit from LAPTOP, calls post-launch price action stableHunter Biden responded on X to sharp price swings in the early trading of the LAPTOP meme coin and to accusations that the launch amounted to a rug pull. He said the token’s debut was hit by insufficient liquidity, technical issues and sniper trading, which pushed the price up quickly before it later pulled back. According to his statement, the token has since stabilized. Biden also addressed questions around insider selling. He said the team’s token allocation is locked, that no team member sold tokens, and that he personally has not received any profit from LAPTOP. He added that the token’s fully diluted valuation, or FDV, is now above $1 billion. He said the team is studying ways to improve liquidity and will keep building the community. Biden also commented on the project’s free LAPTOP distribution to users who lost money on TRUMP, saying it was inaccurate to describe that move as a failure and that the project will continue over the long term. GMGN data showed LAPTOP last traded at $1.851.810
Trump2026-09-09 18:35:37Trump says Iran war would end right after the midterm elections, while talks remain possibleAccording to BlockBeats on Sept. 10, U.S. President Donald Trump said the Iran war would end immediately after the midterm elections. He also said the United States was "not seeking to reach a deal," while adding that negotiations could still take place. Trump had previously said U.S. military action against Iran would not last very long. At the same time, tensions between the United States and Iran have continued to rise in recent days, with clashes intensifying near the Strait of Hormuz. International oil prices at one point moved above $100 a barrel.710
Hunter Biden2026-09-09 15:47:09Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP meme coin plunged 99% after peaking within minutes of launchHunter Biden-linked meme coin LAPTOP opened trading on Base on Wednesday and followed a familiar pattern for politically charged meme tokens: a violent early surge, then a near-total collapse. Arkham said the token hit $190.81 just two minutes after launch, a level that implied a fully diluted valuation of about $144 billion even though the liquidity pool held only $48,000. The mismatch quickly unraveled. LAPTOP fell about 90% within 30 minutes, traded near $4.77 after one hour, and later changed hands around $1.97, down nearly 99% from its intraday high. Even at that level, the token still carried a reported market capitalization of roughly $780 million and a fully diluted valuation of $2.2 billion. On-chain trackers showed how fast fortunes split at launch: one wallet withdrew $249,800 from Binance before trading began, bought 9,124 LAPTOP, and sold most of the position minutes later for about $1.18 million, while another trader spent around $200,000 buying 919 tokens near $218 each and saw the position fall below $3,000 within an hour. Decrypt said the launch mirrored the trajectories seen in TRUMP and Melania Trump’s meme coins, while noting that LAPTOP still has tokenomic features scheduled to unfold over coming months, including a six-month founder lockup, 30 burn events, and staggered airdrops.860
Hunter Biden2026-09-09 15:45:48Hunter Biden-Linked LAPTOP Crashes 99% in Three Hours, Quickly Nearing TRUMP’s ValuationLAPTOP, a memecoin linked to Hunter Biden, lost 99% of its value within three hours of starting to trade on Base on Wednesday morning, according to The Defiant. The token quickly fell from triple-digit prices in its opening minutes to roughly the same range as TRUMP, the token launched in President Donald Trump’s name three days before his second inauguration. Because both tokens have a total supply of 1 billion, their prices can be compared directly as fully diluted valuations. The report said LAPTOP opened at 12:00 UTC and dropped from $247.55 on Aerodrome Slipstream’s first five-minute bucket to $1.90 by 15:20 UTC. Trading volume reached $13.4 million on Aerodrome and $11.3 million on Uniswap V4 over that span. CoinGecko data cited by The Defiant showed LAPTOP at $1.93 and a $678.4 million market cap at 15:25 UTC, while TRUMP traded at $2.16 with a $2.16 billion fully diluted valuation. The article also detailed LAPTOP’s token design, including a mechanism that allocates 30% of supply to prediction-linked outcomes, and noted differences between the project’s published token allocation and pre-launch reporting by The Wall Street Journal. BaseScan holder data showed more than 25,400 holders as airdrop claims continued to settle.1780
Hunter Biden2026-09-09 10:21:15Hunter Biden says 30% of LAPTOP supply will track public predictions and charity before Base launchHunter Biden released a fuller breakdown of the tokenomics for his LAPTOP memecoin one day before its planned launch on Base, Coinbase’s layer-2 network. The structure ties 30% of the token’s 1 billion supply to 30 public prediction events, many linked to Polymarket markets. If an event resolves yes, the related tokens will be burned; if it resolves no, the tokens will go to charity. Separately, another 50 million tokens are earmarked for charity regardless of outcomes. The allocation also gives 30% to founders, including Biden, under a six-month lock-up and a 24-month vesting schedule. Community distribution accounts for 20%, with half claimable at the token generation event and the rest left to the Phoenix Veritas Foundation’s discretion. Biden’s “Where’s Hunter?” Substack subscribers are set to receive 8%, while wallets that lost money on TRUMP are allocated 2%. Biden also said buyers “should not expect me or anyone else to make this token more valuable,” as copycat tokens have already started appearing across Base, Robinhood Chain, and Solana.930
