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PORTRAIT: Two Bronze Figurines Reopen an Etruscan Ritual at Kainua

TESTIMONY: Kumba Floods Put 22 Rescues and 100 Evacuations on the Record

PORTRAIT: 11,000 Troops and a Broken Tradition Mark Abelardo de la Espriella’s Oath

PORTRAIT: The Geran-2 Is Adapting. Ukraine Says It Is Still Stopping 95%
Geran-2 The Russian Geran-2 is acquiring new electronic defences, mesh-radio control, and in one reported variant a terminal artificial-vision system. 12-element Kometa Ukraine is…

PORTRAIT: Fired 54 Minutes After His Oath, He Is Suing the White House
Fifty-four minutes. That is how long Roger Rogoff held the job of federal prosecutor for the Western District of Washington before a White House…

PORTRAIT: Golden Dome, Decoding a Program Told in Three Acts
Some programs are best understood not as a single announcement but as a story told in three separate acts, each with its own date,…

PORTRAIT: Washington Sanctions Rosneft and Lukoil, the Questions Few Outlets Are Asking
On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil companies.

PORTRAIT: Decoding American military space in three movements
A military budget is never read in a single glance; it must be decoded in layers, each one revealing a distinct strategic priority behind…

PORTRAIT: the NDAA 2026 and its $800 million for Ukraine, the questions worth asking
Eight hundred million dollars, buried inside a nine-hundred-billion-dollar bill, can travel through an entire legislative session without a single headline of its own.