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Food Fight The SNAP must go on. On Friday, federal judges in Rhode Island and Massachusetts ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to submit a plan by noon today showing how it will use contingency funds to keep Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits alive through...

WHAT YOU’RE ASKING Why isn’t the government reopening? You know how on movie night, when 22% of the room wants action, 37% wants a rom-com, and 41% are too spineless kind to make a decision? So you just keep scrolling… Congress has been scrolling Netflix for more than 720 hours without a...

Stacks and Cuts Wall Street’s serving up another round of record-breaking earnings. Nvidia just became the first company ever to hit a $5T market cap, fueled by ever-surging demand for its AI processing chips. The company hit $4T only three months ago and $3T last year. Other corporate...

Devastation in the Caribbean Hurricane Melissa’s winds and torrential rain are bringing utter devastation to Jamaica and parts of Haiti. World Concern’s local church partners in both countries are directly responding to urgent needs as communities face flooding, landslides, power loss, and...

Hurricane Melissa The strongest storm of 2025 made landfall in Jamaica yesterday. What happened? Over the weekend, Hurricane Melissa ballooned to a Category 4, with meteorologists warning of “catastrophic flooding” in Jamaica and parts of Cuba and Haiti. Jamaican officials issued...

Heisters Nabbed Police have reportedly arrested two men in connection with last week’s brazen midmorning Louvre heist targeting France’s crown jewels. Last Sunday, a hooded quartet took less than eight minutes to enter the world’s most-visited museum through a window, steal jewels worth an...

Ad-versity A contentious commercial that ran during the World Series has the U.S. and Canada in a trade pickle. An ad by the Ontario government featured clips from a 1987 radio address by then-President Ronald Reagan, saying that “over the long run,” tariffs “hurt every American worker and...

Escalation The U.S. is ramping up its war on drugs. Friday, War Secretary Hegseth ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group—comprised of the world’s largest aircraft carrier and three destroyers—to the Caribbean to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt” criminal...

We’re all friends here, so I’m trusting you with a confession: my gut response to the Louvre Museum heist was fascination (and dare I say amazement?) at the seeming success of the thieves. For a second, I was rooting for them. Who can pull something like that off? (Two of four suspects have...

Nothing But Bet The FBI is alleging that members of the NBA teamed up with the Mafia on illegal sports betting and rigged poker. The FBI announced 30+ arrests yesterday following two “mind-boggling” fraud probes, implicating multiple major crime families alongside Miami Heat guard Terry...

Slapped Uncle Sam’s putting Russia’s feet to the fire to end its war with Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies on Wednesday—the first economic sanctions of Trump 2.0—citing the Kremlin’s “lack of serious commitment” to ending the conflict...

The internet had a costly hiccup Monday. An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage around 3 a.m. knocked out a good chunk of the web, including Amazon, Snapchat, Venmo, Roblox, and even Delta’s and United’s airline reservation systems. AWS powers roughly one-third of the internet, making it the...

War & Peace President Trump is shifting his peace-negotiating energy to Ukraine. Friday, POTUS held another Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as part of a renewed effort to end the Russia-Ukraine War. Zelenskyy’s been pushing Uncle Sam to supply Ukraine’s military with...

Royal Pains Prince Andrew is bowing out of his royal titles. On Friday, King Charles’s younger brother announced he will no longer use the title of Duke of York, saying renewed “accusations” about his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein “distract from the work” of the Royal Family...

Indicted John Bolton, Trump aide turned critic, pleaded not guilty in federal court Friday to 18 counts of mishandling classified information. Bolton, who served as national security advisor from April 2018 to September 2019 during Trump 1.0, is accused of using a personal email and...

President Trump’s second-term economic policy has been marked by tariffs and economic fluctuation (read our tariff explainer here). Our financial outlook is not merely a political issue; our posture toward money is profoundly spiritual. Economic uncertainty has a unique power over us. We fear...

How do tariffs work? Y’all ever used DoorDash? A $10 burger turns into a $23 burger by the time it crosses your doorstep, but the burger isn’t any bigger... and you think to yourself, “Self, next time we can save money by doing this the homemade way.” Consider that your first lesson in...

Gaza Ceasefire Holding Israel and Hamas are continuing their hostage-prisoner exchange. Since Monday, they’ve traded 90 deceased Palestinians for eight Hamas-held bodies, seven of which have been identified as hostages. Hamas says it needs “special equipment” to reach 19 remaining hostage...

Chips & Chatbots OpenAI announced (another) megadeal. The ChatGPT maker revealed its latest major partnership in recent weeks—this time with semiconductor giant Broadcom—to co-develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and infrastructure starting in 2026. The two had quietly collaborated for...

Peace in the Middle East President Trump declared “the end” of the Gaza war on Monday as the last 20 living Israeli hostages were exchanged for Palestinian prisoners. How’d the swap go? Video footage captured joy and relief in Israel and Gaza as loved ones returned home (watch here and...