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us politics 4 41m ago 4 min read

California's Congressional Map Takes Shape: Gallagher Wins Special Election, Kim-Calvert Collision Set, and Pelosi's Seat Goes to Two Democrats

Since our prior coverage settled the governor's race and Iowa results, California's congressional primaries are now filling in the rest of the November map. James Gallagher flipped a vacated GOP seat via special election, two Republicans are forced to fight each other in the fall, and Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco seat will be decided between two Democrats — none of them the progressive insurgent.

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us health 5 44m ago 4 min read

UN Puts 80-90% Odds on El Niño Forming by Fall 2026 — and Some Models Say It Could Be the Strongest in 75 Years

Since the Hormuz blockade began driving food and energy costs higher, a potential Super El Niño is now building in the background — one the World Meteorological Organization says has an 80% chance of forming before September and a 90% chance before November. Some computer models project it could exceed every El Niño event since at least 1950. The people least able to absorb another global shock are about to get hit from multiple directions at once.

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us politics 5 47m ago 3 min read

Rubio Spends a Full Day on Capitol Hill Defending Iran War, Foreign Aid Cuts, and a $33.6 Billion State Department Budget

Since the Iran war began at the end of February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent Tuesday, June 2 in back-to-back congressional hearings — his first public testimony since the conflict started. He claimed Iran is now willing to negotiate on nuclear points it previously refused to touch, while the Gulf itself told a different story with fresh drone strikes and U.S. counter-strikes reported as recently as June 3.

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gb politics 4 1h ago 4 min read

Southampton Riots: 11 Officers Injured, Two Arrested After Henry Nowak Bodycam Footage Triggers Street Violence

Protests over the police handling of 18-year-old Henry Nowak's murder in Southampton turned violent Tuesday night, leaving 11 officers injured and sparking a full-blown political brawl in Parliament. The killer, Vickrum Digwa, was jailed for life Monday — but the bodycam footage showing officers handcuffing the dying white teenager after his Sikh attacker falsely claimed racism has cracked open a serious debate about whether anti-racism training has warped police judgment. Both mainstream left and right coverage are missing the actual hard question here.

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us health 5 1h ago 4 min read

Study Links USAID Shutdown to Double-Digit Violence Spikes in Africa — Same Regions Now at Center of Ebola Crisis

Since the DRC Ebola outbreak began claiming lives earlier this spring, a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Science has quantified what aid workers have been saying anecdotally: gutting USAID produced measurable, deadly consequences across Africa. The numbers are bad. And the Ebola crisis is the most visible symptom of a much larger breakdown.

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us energy 6 1h ago 4 min read

Global Oil Buffers Are Nearly Gone — And the Pain Hasn't Started Yet

Since the Iran-Israel war disrupted Hormuz flows, governments and industry have kept prices from exploding by burning through strategic reserves and inventories at a historic pace. Those buffers are now approaching critically low levels. When they run out, price becomes the only rationing mechanism — and that hits regular people hardest.

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us tech 4 2h ago 4 min read

2026's Cybersecurity Crisis: AI Chatbot Account Takeovers, Health Data Breaches, and the DOGE Social Security Disaster

The first half of 2026 has been a parade of preventable security failures — Meta let hackers hijack Instagram accounts by simply asking an AI chatbot nicely, Ultrahuman exposed customer health data through a malware-infected employee laptop, and DOGE may have handed the Social Security numbers of most living Americans to an unsecured server. The common thread isn't sophisticated nation-state attacks. It's basic incompetence.

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us energy 5 2h ago 4 min read

Google Pays Homeowners to Cut Power Use So Its Data Centers Can Keep Running

Google is funding a three-year, 100-megawatt virtual power plant in the PJM grid — the largest in the U.S. — paying homes and businesses to dial back electricity use during peak hours. The partner is Voltus, a distributed energy platform that will aggregate smart thermostats, batteries, and other devices into a coordinated grid resource. This is a market-driven workaround to a real problem: AI data centers are eating electricity faster than new power plants can be built.

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us defense 6 2h ago 4 min read

Kuwait's Oil Output Won't Recover for 10-12 Weeks Even If Hormuz Reopens Tomorrow — and It Won't

As this four-month war churns into a dangerous new phase, the economic damage is compounding faster than any ceasefire can fix. Kuwait says oil production won't bounce back for 10-12 weeks after the Strait reopens — and right now, the Strait isn't reopening. Brent crude hit $98 a barrel Wednesday morning, Iran has frozen back-channel talks, and U.S. markets are starting to feel it.

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us economy 5 2h ago 4 min read

630,000 More Sellers Than Buyers: U.S. Housing Market Hits a Wall in 2026

Home sellers are pulling listings at the fastest rate since the pandemic, buyers are walking away from deals in record numbers, and the gap between sellers and buyers just hit an all-time high. The housing market isn't crashing — it's frozen. And nobody's blinking first.

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us finance 5 2h ago 4 min read

Private Credit Contagion Spreads to Private Equity as 80% of Buyouts Face Tighter, Costlier Financing

Since the private credit default rate hit 6% in April and federal prosecutors opened a valuation probe, the stress is no longer contained to lenders — it's now squeezing private equity portfolios directly. About 80% of all leveraged buyouts are financed through private credit, meaning every dollar of tightening hits deal activity and existing portfolio companies at the same time. The 'zero-loss fantasy' is over, and the people holding the bag are pension funds, insurance companies, and retail investors who were sold this asset class as a safe yield machine.

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us defense 7 2h ago 5 min read

Iran Freezes Back-Channel Talks With Washington as Four-Month War Enters Dangerous New Phase

Iran's IRGC declared all back-channel communication with Washington frozen on Wednesday, directly contradicting Trump's claim that daily messages are flowing between the two sides. With Brent crude topping $98, Kuwait's oil infrastructure needing 10-12 weeks to recover after Hormuz reopens, and Bahrain floating dollar bonds hours after a missile hit its territory, the gap between Trump's diplomatic optimism and ground reality has never looked wider.

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il energy 6 3h ago 4 min read

Vitol's Tom Baker: Western Governments Are 'Asleep at the Wheel' as Hormuz Oil Crunch Deepens Into Month Four

Since U.S. and Israeli strikes began on February 28, the Strait of Hormuz blockade has now drained global inventories for four straight months — and one of the world's largest oil traders says Western governments are actively hiding the severity from their own citizens. Vitol board member Tom Baker warned publicly on June 2 that gasoline could be the next product to face a hard supply crunch, while China sits on withheld imports that could detonate prices the moment Beijing decides to buy.

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us health 6 3h ago 3 min read

DRC Ebola Outbreak Hits ISIS-Controlled Territory as Case Count Climbs Past 900 Suspected

Since the WHO declared this outbreak a global health emergency, the DRC Ebola crisis has taken a dangerous new turn — the virus has reached forested areas controlled by ISIS-linked rebels where health workers simply cannot go. As of June 2, the CDC counts 344 confirmed DRC cases and 60 confirmed deaths, but the real number is almost certainly higher given entire zones are inaccessible. This isn't a containment problem anymore. It's a war problem.

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us finance 5 3h ago 4 min read

Private Credit Default Rate Hits 6% and Industry Insiders Are Split on Whether It Gets Worse

Since we first reported the Cliffwater gating crisis and SDNY investigation earlier this week, the default picture has sharpened considerably. Fitch now puts the U.S. private credit default rate at a record 6.0% as of April 2026 — and that number gets uglier when you count distressed restructurings. The industry's biggest players are publicly disagreeing about what comes next, and the Financial Stability Board just added a global alarm bell to the pile.

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us politics 4 3h ago 4 min read

California House Races, New Jersey Senate, and South Dakota GOP Runoff Round Out the June 2 Primary Picture

Since the June 2 primaries closed, the marquee results — Hilton vs. Becerra in California, Hinson vs. Turek in Iowa, and Lahn's upset of Feenstra — have already been reported. What hasn't gotten enough attention: a Republican-on-Republican California House clash, a battle for Nancy Pelosi's old seat, a doctor-veteran flipping a New Jersey House primary, and South Dakota heading into a July runoff that nobody's talking about.

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us defense 8 4h ago 4 min read

U.S. Strikes Qeshm Island, Iran Fires Back Across the Gulf — Oman Now in the Crosshairs Too

Since Iran's missile strike on Kuwait International Airport killed one and injured 63, the tit-for-tat has escalated further: the U.S. struck Iran's Qeshm Island overnight, Iran answered with missiles and drones targeting two American bases in Kuwait plus Gulf-wide sirens, and now Washington is threatening to bomb a second country — Oman — for not picking a side. There is still no deal. There are still no serious talks.

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tr energy 6 4h ago 4 min read

Iraq Is Trying to Triple Pipeline Exports Through Turkey After Hormuz Closure Gutted Its Oil Revenue by 89%

Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz cratered Iraq's oil exports from 93 million barrels a month down to 10 million in April 2026 — an 89% collapse. Iraq is now racing to triple throughput on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline to Turkey, but even hitting that target replaces less than a quarter of what was lost. This is a slow-motion fiscal disaster for Baghdad, and most coverage is buried under geopolitical noise.

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us finance 5 4h ago 4 min read

Federal Prosecutors Are Now Investigating Private Credit Valuations — and the Industry Knows It

Since we last covered the liquidity crunch squeezing private credit funds, the story has escalated: Southern District of New York prosecutors are now scrutinizing how private credit managers mark their portfolios. That's a criminal probe, not a regulatory slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, industry insiders are publicly warning of a coming shakeout — while simultaneously insisting nothing is fundamentally broken.

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us defense 7 4h ago 4 min read

Trump and Netanyahu Are Now Publicly Fighting Over This War While Iran Keeps Shooting

Since Iran bombed Kuwait Airport and struck Gulf neighbors earlier this week, the ceasefire has continued to deteriorate — and now the Trump-Netanyahu partnership is cracking in public view. Netanyahu told CNBC on Wednesday that there are 'tactical disagreements' between the two leaders, hours after Trump confirmed he cursed at Netanyahu in a phone call over Israel's continued attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Meanwhile, Iran still hasn't responded to Washington's latest peace proposal.

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