Just as the U.S. and Iran are trying to negotiate, someone shot a projectile at an oil tanker. If you had "maritime extortion" on your geopolitics bingo card for this week, congratulations.
Remember when deploying the military to police American streets was just a dystopian movie trope? Welcome to real life, where a federal task force in Tennessee just ended with actual soldiers fatally shooting a civilian on patrol.
It's a big day in Washington: the new top cop Todd Blanche is heading to the hot seat, while ICE is quietly telling agents to stop pulling cars over.
Usually, voting on military aid to Israel in Congress is about as controversial as declaring mother's day. Well, not anymore.
Getting a job in the intelligence community apparently requires some serious semantic gymnastics. Trump's DNI pick just did backflips to avoid saying who won the 2020 election.
Getting grilled by your political enemies is just another Tuesday in Washington. But getting sweat-tested by your own team? That’s the special kind of fun Todd Blanche just unlocked.
The highest court in the land just finished its homework before summer break, and they basically handed the keys of the federal government to the president—while somehow saving birthright citizenship. It was a wild week of legal whiplash.
Running an AI startup is basically a fast track to burning through millions of venture capital just to pay for server time. Turns out, some founders are tired of the premium pricing and are quietly outsourcing their brains to China.
Just when we thought global shipping couldn't get any more chaotic, Iran and the U.S. are playing a high-stakes game of chicken over the world's most important oil chokepoint.
So, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz just went from a tense maritime standoff to complete midnight fireworks, and now Donald Trump is threatening to play SimCity disaster mode on Iran.
Nothing screams 'just routine training' quite like launching a massive, nuclear-capable submarine missile across the ocean and telling your nervous neighbors to just chill out.
Nothing says "Happy Birthday, America" quite like canceling outdoor parades because the air has turned into soup and the pavement is literally melting.