At a Glance Alice Weidel (born 1979) is co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and was its first candidate for chancellor, in 2025. As of Oct. 18, 2026, the AfD leads Germany’s national polls at about 28%, after winning the most votes in the Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state elections in September 2026. It...
Author: Dominick Bianco, Editor-in-Chief
Dominick M. Bianco
Editor-in-Chief, Nexfinity News
Dominick M. Bianco is the Editor-in-Chief of Nexfinity News, where he leads editorial coverage across global finance, capital markets, emerging technologies, macroeconomic policy, and investigative reporting.
His reporting focuses on institutional trends, artificial intelligence, digital assets, ESG investing, blockchain technology, and cross-border capital flows.
Bianco emphasizes data-backed analysis, regulatory context, market transparency, and forward-looking economic implications.
He oversees editorial standards, newsroom strategy, fact-checking practices, and content integrity to ensure coverage aligns with high-trust publishing benchmarks and professional journalism standards.
Bianco is a member of the National Writers Union and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). He is also a former U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
Areas of Expertise
- Global Financial Markets
- Artificial Intelligence in Finance
- Digital Assets & Blockchain
- Carbon Credits & ESG Investing
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Investigative Financial Journalism
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Latest Posts
The Palestinian Cause Won the World’s Sympathy. Its Neighbors Still Keep the Door Shut.
Intro For the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 2001, more Americans say their sympathies lie with the Palestinians than with the Israelis. In Gallup’s February 2026 survey, 41% chose the Palestinians and 36% the Israelis a reversal from 54% to 31% in Israel’s favor just three years earlier, according to the...
More Wars, Fewer Brakes: Is the World Drifting Toward Something Bigger?
Many readers have the same sense right now: that the world is less stable than it has been in decades, and that the pressure is building rather than easing. The data supports part of that feeling. In June 2026, two widely cited sources on armed conflict, Uppsala University’s conflict database and the Institute for Economics...
Voter ID on the Ballot in Seven States: The Record, the Turnout Evidence, and the Close Races
Voters in seven states are deciding voter identification measures in 2026, the most in any single year on record, according to Ballotpedia. Oklahoma approved its measure on Aug. 25. Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio vote on Nov. 3. History favors passage. Of 13 statewide voter ID measures from 2004 through 2025, voters approved 10....
From the Water to the Land: Where the U.S. Campaign Against Cartels Stands in October 2026
Thirteen months after the first U.S. missile hit a speedboat off Venezuela, Washington’s campaign against Latin American cartels is shifting from the sea to the shore. In the past week alone, the Treasury Department sanctioned a business network tied to Mexico’s Cartel del Noreste, and the Army sent soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division at...
Cruel and Unusual? Christa Pike Survived Her Execution. Can Tennessee Try Again?
Quick Answer Can Tennessee try to execute Christa Pike again? Under current law, probably yes in principle. No court has ruled on her case. Intro Christa Gail Pike is back in a Tennessee prison cell, 10 days after the state tried and failed to execute her. Her death sentence has not changed. Pike, 50, was...
“End the Genocide,” Marchers Say. Gaza’s Ceasefire Death Rate Now Matches America’s Deadliest Cities.
On Oct. 10, several thousand marchers moved through central London carrying placards that read “End the genocide.” The director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign told AFP the march marked three years of what she described as an ongoing genocide in Gaza. The same day, a march in Berlin drew about 3,500 people, according to police,...
Most High School Seniors Aren’t Proficient in Math or Reading. Here’s Where the Jobs Are and What They Demand
Only 22% of American high school seniors performed at the proficient level in math in 2024, and only 35% did so in reading, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the federal assessment known as the Nation’s Report Card. Put the other way, roughly 78% of 12th graders are not proficient in math...
Kratom, Ketamine and the Campus Drug Gap
Introduction Two college stories have dominated campus news this fall, and both have been described as drug stories. They involve two different drugs. At the University of Mississippi, two students died on Sept. 21, 2026, in separate incidents. Kratom-derived pills were found at both scenes. Court records disclosed at an Oct. 9 federal hearing say...
Who Signed the Omar Warrant? The Court Record Doesn’t Back Either Side
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, under a judicially authorized warrant. Within a day, a second fight broke out over who signed it. Conservative commentators have named U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh as the likely signer. Their argument: if a judge they describe as a Democrat...









