Today's Top Stories
Iran's Revolutionary Guards are threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz after Trump bombed their coastal defenses and slapped a naval blockade on Iranian ports, completely torching last month's ceasefire deal. Trump floated then immediately ditched a 20% toll on ships passing through the strait in a classic bit of policy theater that changed nothing about the underlying standoff. A federal judge just nuked Trump's sweetheart $1.8 billion IRS deal that would have given him audit immunity, so the taxman can come knocking again.
Two British citizens are on hunger strike in Iranian prisons after Craig Foreman got his espionage sentence bumped to 12 years in what UN experts are calling a sham trial. The House passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent because apparently we needed one thing everyone can agree on, though the Senate will probably find a way to mess it up. A brutal heatwave is cooking North America with 111°F in Montana as climate scientists remind us this is exactly what they've been warning about for decades.