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NYC Shooting A lone gunman killed four people in Midtown on Monday evening. Surveillance shows a man entering a Manhattan office tower carrying an M4 rifle, opening fire in the lobby, then taking an elevator to the 33rd floor—the offices of the building’s owners. He fatally shot an NYPD...

Border Beef Cambodia and Thailand are heading to the negotiation table after their century-long, on-again-off-again border dispute reignited last week. Tensions on the border have been rising since May, when a Cambodian soldier was killed in a skirmish. The conflict escalated Thursday when...

In Gaza After 21 months of war, aid groups are sounding every alarm over starvation in Gaza. The U.N. reported this week that Gaza’s hunger crisis had reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.” The Hamas-run...

Money Moves The Trump admin’s makin’ trade deals and AI plans. President Trump unveiled a “massive” trade deal with Japan, lowering tariffs from 25% to 15% in exchange for Japan’s $550B investment in the U.S., including purchasing 100 Boeing planes and upping defense spending with American...

Sentenced Bryan Kohberger will spend the rest of his life behind bars. On Wednesday, a judge sentenced him to four consecutive life sentences, plus 10 years for burglary—with no possibility of parole—for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students. Kohberger pleaded guilty earlier...

Roadbloc The E.U. is threatening to use one of its most powerful weapons in trade talks with Uncle Sam: love. Kidding, it’s called the Anti-Coercion Instrument. The ACI is a legal tool that allows the 27-country bloc to push back against hostile trading partners in “extraordinary...

On the Ground The fighting in Gaza appears to be intensifying. On Monday, Israeli ground forces advanced into Deir al-Balah—a major humanitarian hub in central Gaza and one of the few places that had not been evacuated or declared a military zone. Israel says Hamas is keeping some of the...

Coldplaygate What began as a playful “Kiss Cam” moment at Wednesday’s Coldplay concert became a worldwide viral moment and ultimately ended with the resignation of a tech CEO. When the screen showed a cuddling couple, they immediately separated and hid their faces, prompting singer Chris...

Food Insecurity Report Global food insecurity is on the rise. Last month, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program released the semiannual Hunger Hotspots report—an early-warning and predictive analysis of global food crises for the next five months...

Tragedies in Los Angeles L.A. is shaken after two devastating events. Early Saturday, a car drove into a crowd of people waiting outside a nightclub, injuring 30. The driver—who had been kicked out of the club for being disruptively intoxicated—was pulled from the car by angry bystanders...

Syria Ceasefire A ceasefire in the Middle East has been reached… for a conflict you likely haven’t heard of. Syria announced Wednesday it had renewed a ceasefire with the Druze—a tight-knit religious minority of ~1 million people living in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel—following days of...

MAGA Rift President Trump is digging in against his base over the Epstein case. After the DOJ announced there is no Epstein “client list” and reaffirmed his suicide, many Trump supporters cried cover-up. On Wednesday, Trump doubled down, calling it a “hoax” pushed by “Democrats and foolish...

Crypto Week Lawmakers have declared it “Crypto Week” on Capitol Hill. The House is considering three bills that promise to bring crypto out of the wild west: The GENIUS Act would establish a framework for stablecoins—digital tokens tied to value tangible assets, like the US dollar—and...

Diplomacy, Deals, and Deadlines Uncle Sam is digging in against Russia. On Monday, President Trump announced the U.S. will sell “top-of-the-line” weapons to NATO allies, who will then “massively supply” them to Ukraine. He also threatened “very severe tariffs… at about 100%” on Russia’s...

Wimbledon Winners Iga Swiatek and Jannik Sinner are Wimbledon champions. In the women’s final Saturday, 8th-seeded Iga Swiatek, of Poland, became the first Wimbledon champion to post a “double bagel” (winning 6-0, 6-0) in the finals since 1911, defeating 23rd-seeded American Amanda...