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Rare Earths, the Chinese Lever Beijing Pulls While Taiwan Rehearses War
On July 2, 2026, the Institute for the Study of War published its weekly China-Taiwan Update, a document that, beneath its technical

At Mount Rushmore, Trump Trades National Unity for a Partisan Attack
On July 3, 2026, the eve of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Donald Trump chose Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, to

The Supreme Court Reins In Trump on Mail-In Voting
On June 29, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling that halts one of Donald Trump's most persistent obsessions: his

Bondi Pins the Blame on Blanche for the Epstein Files Failures
On May 29, 2026, Pam Bondi made her first public appearance since announcing her thyroid cancer diagnosis, a bandage still visible on

Kim Jong-un, the Regime That Traded Gold for Stablecoins
Some reports slip by unnoticed. Others should wake up every foreign ministry in the West. The one published on June 29, 2026

23 ransomware attacks a day, China now in the crosshairs in 2026
The report published on July 2, 2026 by the cybersecurity firm Comparitech paints an unambiguous picture: during the first six months of

Michelin's green star fades just as sustainable France was shining
On March 16, 2026, in Monaco, the Michelin Guide unveiled its annual list of French tables, and amid the usual fireworks over

Mullin touts 3,200 deportations a day, the numbers don't hold up
U.S. Homeland SecuritySecretaryMarkwayne Mullin claimed, at a press conference held in New York on July 1, 2026, that his administration is now

Iron given to infants may cut aggression at age three
Researchers at Umeå University, in Sweden, report that healthy infants, mostly breastfed, who received an ironsupplement between 4 and 9 months showed