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Anticipating Anchorage Presidents Trump and Putin are meeting in Alaska today for highly anticipated peace talks. Putin’s hoping to formalize Russia’s territorial gains, having seized roughly a fifth of Ukraine’s land (see map). Trump wants a ceasefire and described the bilateral meeting as...

Chippin’ In Uncle Sam is cashing in his AI chips. Monday, the White House reached an “unusual” agreement with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to allow the sale of mid-level AI chips to China—the latest, most-powerful AI chips still cannot be sold to China due to national security...

Pennsylvania Explosion Blasts killed two people and injured 10 others at a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh on Monday. Just before 11 a.m., smoke billowed from Clairton Coke Works, America’s largest manufacturing facility of coke (coal-made steelmaking fuel, not soda). The factory employs...

Takeover President Trump is taking the wheel in D.C. On Monday, Trump announced he’s temporarily taking control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police and deploying the city’s National Guard (they’re under presidential control—unlike state guards), to make “crime, savagery, filth, and...

Bringing Hope to the Scroll Across Southeast Asia, young people are facing heavy burdens—loneliness, instability, and fear of war, trafficking, and natural disasters. Many feel isolated and overwhelmed, turning to their phones in search of comfort or connection. And in the midst of all that...

Countdown to Alaska Ukraine-Russia peacemakers are working overtime. Friday marked President Trump’s deadline for Russia to make peace or face more sanctions. Before the day's end, Trump announced a face-to-face with Russian President Putin in Alaska on August 15. The White House said...

Turning Russia’s Ship The U.S. is hoping some economic pain will steer Russia off the warpath in Ukraine. Next month, Uncle Sam will auction the most valuable asset seized from Russian oligarchs yet: the Amadea, a 348 ft superyacht worth an estimated $300M (see pics). U.S. Marshals seized...

Base Shooting A U.S. Army sergeant allegedly shot and wounded five fellow soldiers at Fort Stewart, Georgia, on Wednesday. The suspect, a 28-year-old automated logistics sergeant with no combat history, reportedly used his personal handgun. Law enforcement was dispatched to the 2nd Armored...

Going In Israel and Hamas are reportedly done talking. Amid growing global backlash over hunger in Gaza, Hamas released videos over the weekend showing emaciated hostages inside underground tunnels. Then, on Monday, Israeli PM Netanyahu’s office announced a proposal to “occupy all of the...

Good Jeans, Bad Fit? American Eagle’s new denim ad campaign has caused some chafing, but its stock has spread its wings and soared. The millennial-loved fashion brand sparked controversy when it announced a partnership with actress Sydney Sweeney for its fall denim campaign, featuring the...

Texas Hold ‘Em The Texas State House voted 85-6 to issue civil arrest warrants for over 50 of their (absent) Democratic colleagues. The Democrats fled the state to block a vote on a controversial new congressional map. Republicans are trying to redraw district lines mid-decade, a rare move...

Verdict Tesla failed to steer clear of responsibility in the courtroom. The case centered around a 2019 crash that killed a 22-year-old and seriously injured her boyfriend. The couple had parked a Chevy Tahoe to look at the stars when it was hit by a Tesla Model S; the driver ran a stop...

Downward Revisions After years of heat, the U.S. labor market turned suddenly chilly and contentious on Friday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its monthly jobs report on Friday, indicating that 73,000 jobs were added in July (under the expected 115,000) and unemployment rose to...

Honesty The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but accurate weights are his delight. Proverbs 11:1 NIV __________________ Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable? Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with...

Rattled The Pacific was a little shook this week. A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday morning. It was the sixth-largest quake ever recorded and the strongest in 14 years, triggering tsunami warnings and orders to seek high ground across the...

Tariffs Take Effect Today is Tariff Day 2.0. After a four-month pause, the “reciprocal tariffs” President Trump first announced on April 2 (and paused shortly after) are taking effect. This means the import tax on goods from many countries is jumping from the 10% baseline to a higher number...

Hunger in Gaza Harrowing images out of Gaza have sparked international outrage… and dispute. Scenes of hunger and desperation have been circling the globe, with the U.N.-backed food security group warning that “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in Gaza. The U.N...

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...