Trump Receives the CENTCOM Three-Option Briefing as Brent Hits Its Highest Since 2022
The long blockade got a docket of execution variants and the tape priced duration risk at $126 Brent, a four-year high and a ninth straight day of gains.
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US Indicts a Sitting Mexican Governor for Running Drugs With El Chapo's Sons
The Southern District of New York charged Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine senior officials with helping the Sinaloa cartel install him in exchange for political support.
Trump Says the US Is Studying Troop Cuts in Germany as the Merz Feud Hardens Into Pentagon Planning
A presidential aside that the US is studying force reductions in Germany turned the Merz humiliation line from rhetoric into Pentagon planning the day after King Charles spoke to Congress.
Al Jazeera's Investigation Tracks 185 Ships That Broke the Hormuz Blockade
An open-source investigation names 185 vessels and 202 voyages through Hormuz; 25 ships crossed in the 48 hours after US enforcement began.
Russia Holds a Victory Day Parade With No Tanks or Missiles for the First Time Since the Invasion
The Patriotic War narrative is, this year, quieter than the war it justifies — and the Kremlin says the reason is Ukrainian drones.
Three Lebanese Rescue Workers Killed in an Israeli Double-Tap Strike in the South
Three medics killed in a strike pattern that hits twice; the Lebanese prime minister calls it a war crime, the names are still being read.
Pentagon Will Not Speak About the Minab School Strike and Former Officials Are Saying So
Two months after the Minab strike, the Pentagon has not produced a finding; the people who used to run that desk have started talking instead.