Hormuz reopens to gunfire, Gaza's truce keeps dying by the day, and Washington loses its Senate fixer.
The US and Iran are fighting again, not merely arguing over a text. Washington launched fresh strikes on Iranian targets after Tehran hit a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz and widened the fighting into Oman, and UN Ambassador Mike Waltz said flatly the ceasefire has "broken down." Trump says the two …
Six more Palestinians died in Gaza on Sunday, including a 9-year-old girl killed by gunfire at a tent camp. Tala Abu Matar died at the Al-Bureij refugee camp; a separate strike on a metal foundry in Gaza City's Sabra district killed four more, which Israel said hit a Hamas weapons facility inside wh…
Lindsey Graham died Saturday at 71 after a brief, sudden illness, hours after returning from Ukraine. Trump said he'd spoken with the senator the previous evening and that it "could've been his last call"; Graham chaired a Senate committee central to Trump's biggest legislative wins and was one of W…
US economists now expect inflation to stay higher for longer because of the Iran war. The Wall Street Journal's latest survey found forecasters have actually lowered recession odds, but the war left inflation — already above the Fed's 2% target — more persistent, and left Kevin Warsh's Fed with no r…
China's economy likely slowed in the second quarter, a Reuters-style survey shows ahead of official data due this week. Strong exports have propped up growth even as factories in southern China report margin squeeze despite a pickup in new orders — the volume is there, the profit is not. Brussels, m…
OpenAI, Meta and SpaceXAI all released new AI models within the same week, each pitched on price rather than raw capability. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is built to finish more work using fewer tokens, a direct answer to complaints about inference costs; Mistral shipped a robotics model aimed at physical AI ap…
Deep skepticism about AI companies is now, per new polling, the American mood. An overwhelming majority of US respondents back a federal AI sovereign wealth fund alongside strict oversight — support for guardrails and public capture of AI upside rising together rather than trading off. That sits odd…
The EU is delaying new fish import controls after Alaskan pollock sat stranded off the Dutch coast. The system, built to crack down on illegal fishing, tripped up on paperwork rather than substance, and Brussels extended the American exemption rather than let cargo rot in port. It is a small case st…
Trump wanted an exit from Iran; Putin wanted more of Ukraine. Neither got what he wanted, the New York Times argues, and both wars now illustrate the limits of military force in achieving political ends — even as the mechanics of each conflict diverge sharply. Russia's offensive around Ukraine is gr…
A Texas poll finds Hispanic business owners furious at Trump's deportation drive, after swinging hard for him in the last cycle. The survey shows Democratic nominee James Talarico dominating among a demographic Republicans had counted as a durable gain — evidence that immigration enforcement intensi…
AI capital spending is now large enough to distort the numbers meant to measure the US economy. Roughly $800 billion in AI-related spending is juicing headline GDP even as it muddies the picture on inflation, wages and the labor market — one economist quoted calls it "impossible to discern what is a…
A Chinese startup says it has built the world's first 8-inch pilot production line for 2D semiconductors. The claim, if it holds up commercially, would move an entirely new transistor architecture from lab demonstrations toward factory-scale output — a different bet than the chip-packaging workaroun…
Netflix has signed content deals with Vogue, BuzzFeed, Variety and three other major publishers to challenge YouTube on its own turf. The agreements bring Penske Media, Condé Nast and BuzzFeed Studios content onto Netflix in a direct bid to pull scrolling audiences off YouTube's platform — a rare in…
The Justice Department subpoenaed New York Times journalists over their reporting on the Qatari-gifted Air Force One. Agents delivered subpoenas to reporters' homes on Friday, ordering testimony before a grand jury Wednesday over an "alleged violation of federal criminal law"; the Times called it an…
Bitcoin lost roughly 20% of its value in June, briefly dropping below its key psychological floor. The collapse arrives as prediction-market operators Kalshi and Polymarket push ahead with multi-billion-dollar fundraising even as legal pressure on the sector escalates — a split market where speculat…
Pedro Sánchez condemned former prime minister Mariano Rajoy as "xenophobic" over remarks about the French football team. Rajoy claimed France's national side had "no French players," prompting a formal rebuke from the French embassy in Madrid as well as Sánchez's public criticism — a minor World Cup…
The Gordie Howe Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor is set to open by month's end, after Trump-era delays. A deal ended the administration's blocking of the crossing, which will ease congestion at the busiest trade corridor between the two countries; the Bank of Canada is separately expected to hold …
San Antonio's McNay Art Museum will install its first outdoor sculpture by a Latina artist this month. Puerto Rican artist Edra Soto's "Screenhouse," a 10-foot gazebo-like structure built from roughly 400 concrete blocks, draws on the decorative rejas found across working-class Puerto Rican homes. "…
Lonely Russians can now rent a stranger to barbecue with. A new online service lets people book a companion to share beer, meat and conversation over an open flame for a modest fee — a small, very literal answer to a large problem, and reportedly gaining takers.