Today's Top Stories
Iran and the US are trading actual military blows with Iran damaging 20 US bases across the Middle East while peace talks collapse over the closed Strait of Hormuz that's jacking up oil prices globally. Israel just escalated hard by bombing Beirut after Hezbollah broke their ceasefire, with over 3,400 dead in Lebanon and diplomats basically powerless to stop the fighting. Mike Pence is big mad that Trump's new $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund—created from a DOJ settlement—lets January 6 rioters who beat up cops apply for victim compensation alongside actual government abuse victims. France seized another Russian oil tanker trying to dodge sanctions, the fourth since last fall, while the UK counted nearly 200 shadow fleet ships in their waters anyway. Nvidia dropped the RTX Spark chip to bring AI directly to consumer PCs this fall, basically declaring war on Intel and Apple while flexing its $5 trillion valuation.