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Geopolitics06 May 26
Trump Suspends Project Freedom — Strait of Hormuz Blockade Partially Paused

Business06 May 26
Trump Tariff Refunds and the $100 Oil Bet: Administration Pivots to Energy-Export Orthodoxy
Business06 May 26
Trump Administration Begins $166 Billion Tariff Refund Payout as Record Oil Exports Redraw Energy Map

Business06 May 26
Trump Tells Tehran: Take the Deal or Face Intensified Strikes

Opinion06 May 26
Trump's 'Too Early' Line Is the Point: How Washington Uses Israeli Backdrop to Pressure Tehran

Opinion06 May 26
Trump's Uranium Gambit Meets the Saudi Rebuff

Opinion06 May 26
Trump's Victory Paradox: How Claiming to Have Won the Iran War Undermines Any Deal

Geopolitics06 May 26
Trump Warns of Intensified Bombing Campaign If Iran Fails to Reopen Strategic Waterway

Investigations06 May 26
Ceasefire Collapsed: How Ukraine's Proposal Unraveled and What Russia's Violations Reveal

Opinion06 May 26
The Membership Mirage: How NATO Arms and EU Timelines Expose the Gap Between Ukraine's Aspirations and Its Actual…

Investigations06 May 26
Ukraine Vows 'Mirror' Response as Drone Strike Hits Kharkiv Hours After Ceasefire Announced

Opinion06 May 26
Another morning, another strike: Why Ukraine's civilian infrastructure keeps getting hit — and what the West keeps…

Geopolitics06 May 26
US F/A-18s Fire on Iranian-Flagged Tanker in Gulf of Oman, CENTCOM Says

Geopolitics06 May 26
US and Iran 'closing in' on one-page memo to end war as tensions simmer across the Middle East

Opinion06 May 26
The One-Page Memo That Wasn't

Geopolitics06 May 26
Oil Below $100: What a US-Iran Memo Would Mean for Global Energy Markets

Investigations06 May 26
Inside the US-Iran Memorandum: What We Know, What Remains Contested

Opinion06 May 26
The Hormuz Handshake: What the US-Iran 'One-Page Deal' Actually Means

Investigations06 May 26
US and Iran 'Close' to One-Page Memo Ending War — As It Happened

Geopolitics06 May 26
US and Iran Near One-Page Memorandum to End Conflict, Sources Say
Geopolitics06 May 26
US and Iran Near One-Page Memorandum to End Gulf Tensions, Reuters Reports

Business06 May 26
U.S. Navy Disables Iranian-Flagged Tanker in Gulf of Oman After Blockade Warning Ignored

Business06 May 26
US Navy Disables Iranian Tanker Attempting to Break Hormuz Blockade

Geopolitics06 May 26
US Navy F/A-18 Fires on Iranian-Flagged Tanker in Gulf of Oman
Geopolitics06 May 26
US Requests UN Resolve Crisis It Contributed to Creating, Indian Journalist Reports

Sport06 May 26
The USMNT's Goalkeeper Problem and the Host-City Hangover

Investigations06 May 26
The Vatican, the FDA, and Capitol Hill: Three Flashpoints in the Trump Resistance

Opinion06 May 26
The Visibility Gap: How Lebanon's Civilians Register Differently Than Other Conflict Zones

Opinion06 May 26
Vivek Ramaswamy's Ohio Win Reveals a Republican Party Still Working Out Its Identity Crisis

Opinion06 May 26
Washington's 600-Attack Threshold: How the Iraq War Legacy Shapes US Pressure on Iran

Geopolitics06 May 26
Washington's UN Gambit: Who Created This Crisis?

Opinion06 May 26
The Wishful Calculus of Regime-Cchange Forecasting

Sport06 May 26
The £8.4m Final: How World Cup Tickets Became Ultra-Premium Assets

Business06 May 26
Zcash Breakout: Inside the $2.7B Hedge Fund Bet and What Shrinking Supply Means for Privacy Coins

Geopolitics06 May 26
Zelensky Says Russia Has Broken Ceasefire, Warns of Symmetric Response

Tech06 May 26
JPMorgan's Crypto Pivot and Bitcoin's $82,000 Moment

Markets06 May 26
Hut 8's AI Pivot Underscores Crypto Mining's Strategic Reckoning

Opinion06 May 26
Coinbase Goes Legitimate — and the Crypto Industry Has a Problem

Africa06 May 26
Mogadishu Soldiers Unpaid as RPG Strikes Hit Military Vehicles

Culture06 May 26
Bondi Beach Massacre: The Twenty-One Counts of Hate

Letters06 May 26
KelpDAO Blames LayerZero Infrastructure for $292M Exploit, Migrates rsETH to Chainlink CCIP

Long Reads06 May 26
Mogadishu's Recurrent Flooding: When Seasonal Rains Overwhelm a Fragile Capital

Sport06 May 26
British Tennis's Injury Crisis: A Clay-Court Reckoning
Opinion06 May 26
Oil's Collapse and Bitcoin's Surge Expose a Broader Reckoning With 'Hard' Assets

Science06 May 26
Toyota's Hydrogen Bet: Fuel Cell Trucks Enter US Logistics Chain

Sport06 May 26
Kvaratskhelia's impossible geometry and the handball question PSG will not answer

Africa06 May 26
Sudan Recalls Ambassador to Ethiopia After Strikes on Khartoum

Opinion06 May 26
The Bureau and the Bourbon: When Institutional Symbols Become Personal Swag

Arts06 May 26
Titanic Salvage Company Moves to Auction 100 Artifacts as Legal Fight Over Wreck Enters New Phase

Culture06 May 26
Eurovision 2026 director defends Ukraine participation amid removal calls

Culture06 May 26
Fargo's Enduring Brilliance and the Art of the Television Anthology

Letters06 May 26
Shadow Fleets and the Limits of Sanctions Pressure

Opinion06 May 26
Oil's May Rout and the Fragility of the New Price Order

Obituaries06 May 26
The Quiet Revolutionaries: How Mitochondrial Research Redefined Our Understanding of Autism

Culture06 May 26
Hideki Kamiya Draws Line on Bayonetta LGBTQ Icon Framing After Fan Backlash Over Bayonetta 3 Direction

Culture06 May 26
AI Oversight and the Surveillance Hangover: Two Moments, One Trajectory

Opinion06 May 26
The Trump-at-the-PE-lesson problem: what dominance politics looks like when the cameras are rolling

Opinion06 May 26
The Betting President

Culture06 May 26
The Survey Is Dead. Long Live the Survey.

Tech06 May 26
Stablecoin Yield Goes Institutional: OpenTrade's $17M Bet on the Next Fintech Layer

Opinion06 May 26
The Quiet Gold Reckoning Beneath Dollar Dominance

Science06 May 26
The $9 Starbucks and the Price of Affordable Luxury

Opinion06 May 26
The Market's Schizophrenia Problem

Culture06 May 26
The Motherhood Question That Split Two Conservative Voices

Letters06 May 26
Flavors, Ballrooms, and the Leveraging of Power

Culture06 May 26
The Tiny Martials: How China's Youngest Are Being Cultivated as Cultural Ambassadors

Long Reads06 May 26
Trump Hits Pause on Project Freedom — but the Strait of Hormuz Was Never Just About Nukes

Sport06 May 26
The Return: How Joshua Van Found Redemption in the UFC Flyweight Division

Business06 May 26
Ukraine Signals Symmetric Response as Russia Eyes Southern Resource Extraction

Asia06 May 26
After Mamata's Win, a Fragile Opening on the Teesta

Americas06 May 26
Thirteen-year-old opens fire at school in Rio Branco, Brazil, killing two

Culture06 May 26
Riteish Deshmukh's Raja Shivaji Crosses Rs 50 Cr, Reshaping What Marathi Cinema Can Be

Sport06 May 26
The Six Who Stayed: Why Top 2026 NFL Draft Prospects Are Betting on Themselves

Science05 May 26
US Navy Opens Fire on Civilian Vessels in Persian Gulf, Iranian State Media Reports

Business05 May 26
Romanian Parliament Topples Pro-EU Government in No-Confidence Vote

Culture05 May 26
Tehran's Axis of Resistance Redraws the Cultural Battle Lines

Long Reads05 May 26
The Sports Complex: Beijing's Long Bet on Athletic Ambition as Economic Engine

Europe05 May 26
Whale Strands on German North Sea Beach, Rescued by Local Efforts

Oceania05 May 26
Westpac Sounds Alarm on Iran War Economic Fallout as Canberra Weighs Regional Exposure

Defense05 May 26
Ukrainian drones return for second wave strikes on Cheboksary defence plant
Europe05 May 26
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Cheboksary High-Rise, Injuring Two; War Returns to Russian Heartland
Long Reads05 May 26
The 2,000-Kilometre Boundary: Ukraine's Extended Reach and the Redrawing of Russia's Interior

The Weekly05 May 26
Trump's Iran Rethink: Weapons for the People, 20 Years to Recover

Culture05 May 26
Trump's Iran Strategy Runs Aground: Regime Change Plans 'Humiliated'
Americas05 May 26
Trump and the Iran Trap: How the 'Greatest Negotiator' Landed in a War He Didn't Plan
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Iran Gamble: Maximum Pressure Meets the Negotiation Table
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Iran De-escalation: From Missiles to Memoranda

MENA05 May 26
Trump's Economic Siege: How Washington Is Weaponising Finance Against Tehran

Long Reads05 May 26
The Tehran-Beijing Axis: What Araghchi's Beijing Visit Tells Us About Multipolar Realignment
Oceania05 May 26
Stop Wars Aotearoa: New Zealand's Fractured Response to Middle East Tensions
Arts05 May 26
Seven Iskander Missiles in One Night: Russia's Barrage on Ukrainian Infrastructure
Obituaries05 May 26
Russian Missile Strike Kills Four in Dnipro, Ukraine — May 5, 2026
Arts05 May 26
Russian Iskander-M Strikes Hit Ukrainian Infrastructure Overnight
Long Reads05 May 26
The Price of Ceasefire: Iran Tensions, American Wallets, and the Fragile Architecture of Middle East Stability

Culture05 May 26
Wildfire Claims Iranian Wetland in Fifth Environmental Crisis This Year
Letters05 May 26
Iran Frames Its Victory After 12-Day Conflict, Claims Internal Coup Attempt Failed
Long Reads05 May 26
Iran-UAE Standoff Tests the Limits of Gulf De-escalation
Science05 May 26
Iran's Property-Seizure Dragnet: How Tehran Uses Asset Forfeiture Against Dissent
The Weekly05 May 26
Water Returns to Iran's Central Province: The Revived Miqan Wetland

Culture05 May 26
Iran's Aviation Recovery Signals Fragile Normalization After Years of Conflict
MENA05 May 26
Hegseth Declares Iran "Trying to Subjugate the World" as Allies Show Measured Response

Energy05 May 26
Hegseth Confirms Ceasefire Holds as U.S. Hands IRGC Rogue-Element Problem Back to Tehran
Culture05 May 26
Greene publicly accuses Trump of labeling her a traitor, fuelling death threats

Europe05 May 26
Germany's Merz Calls on Iran to Resume Negotiations Following UAE Strikes
Americas05 May 26
Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: What the Claims Do and Don't Tell Us
Obituaries05 May 26
Five Killed in Ukrainian Drone Strike on Dzhankoy, Crimea

Investigations05 May 26
China's Autonomous Truck Ambitions Collide With American Skepticism
Long Reads05 May 26
The Cheboksary Strike: What Ukraine's Deepest Incursion Into Russia Tells Us About the Long War
Long Reads05 May 26
The Ceasefire That Was Never Tested: Pentagon, Policy, and the Fragile Architecture of US-Iran Détente

Oceania05 May 26
Australia Eyes Fiji Security Pact as Beijing's Pacific Push Faces Counterpressure

Culture05 May 26
Zimbabwe's Migration Crisis Is a Regional Problem, Not Just South Africa's

Obituaries05 May 26
Zakie Asiabi: A Life Revered, A Death Mourned in Northwestern Iran

Culture05 May 26
World Art Olympiad Winner Sparks Venice Biennale Controversy With US Exclusion Call

Culture05 May 26
Tamil Cinema's Biggest Star Just Became Tamil Nadu's Most Likely Next Chief Minister

Arts05 May 26
Venice Biennale Opens Amid Political Fractures and Unlikely Comebacks
Culture05 May 26
Dark Clouds Over Venice: The 61st Biennale Opens Under Geopolitical Strain

MENA05 May 26
US Air Force transport flights to Middle East fall silent as refuelling missions surge

Asia05 May 26
US Strikes Boats in Strait of Hormuz, Killing Five — Oil Prices Surge 5%
MENA05 May 26
US Forces Sink Iranian Boats in Strait of Hormuz as Trump Warns Tehran of "Annihilation"
Long Reads05 May 26
Blockade Lines: How a U.S.-Iranian Standoff Became a Civilian Maritime Crisis
Long Reads05 May 26
US-Iran Naval Clash in Strait of Hormuz Signals Sharper Regional Calculus

MENA05 May 26
US Intelligence Finds Iran War Has Barely Slowed Nuclear Programme
Opinion05 May 26
The KC-135R Over the Persian Gulf Is a Rorschach Test for How Washington Sees Risk

Obituaries05 May 26
The Unnamed Dead of Lebanon's 2026 Offensive: A Memorial in the Absence of Politics
Science05 May 26
Unconfirmed Maersk Transit of Strait of Hormuz Draws Scrutiny as Geopolitical Signal

Defense05 May 26
UAE Intercepts Iranian Missiles and Drones in Major Air Defense Action

Africa05 May 26
Two US Soldiers Missing After Multinational Exercise in Maghreb, Army Confirms

Africa05 May 26
Two U.S. Service Members Reported Missing During African Lion 2026 Exercise in Morocco
The Weekly05 May 26
Two Months In, the Iran War Has Neither Stopped the Bomb Nor Drained the Red Sea
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Transactional Order: Hormuz Blockade, Energy Leverage, and the Architecture of Coercive Diplomacy
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's SEC reform and the Hormuz blockade: the transactional logic reshaping American power

Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's War on Quarterly Earnings: What the SEC's Landmark Rule Change Means for Corporate Transparency

Letters05 May 26
Trump Tariffs and the Language of Executive Absolutism

Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Tariff Gambit: Inside the Push to Penalize 'Excess Factory Capacity' and What It Means for Global Trade
Long Reads05 May 26
Inside the White House's New Deportation Playbook

Long Reads05 May 26
The Week Trump Became a Polymarket: Chaos, Contingency, and the New Geometry of American Power

Long Reads05 May 26
Trump Pauses Project Freedom — But Leaves the Noose in Place
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump Pauses Project Freedom Against Iran, Citing Pakistan and Allied Requests
MENA05 May 26
Trump Tells Iran to 'Wave the White Flag' — But the Calculus in Tehran Is Harder Than It Looks
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Iran Ultimatum Meets a Public Wary of War
Long Reads05 May 26
The End of the Operation: What Trump's Iran Announcement Actually Does and Doesn't Resolve
MENA05 May 26
Trump Issues Nuclear Ultimatum to Iran as Uranium Dispute Threatens Diplomatic Opening
Long Reads05 May 26
The Collapse Hypothesis: How Trump's Maximum Pressure Puts Dollar Architecture at the Center of the Iran Standoff
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Retreat Exposes the Limits of Coercive Diplomatic Architecture
The Weekly05 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: Military Strikes and a Diplomatic Pause That Tells Two Stories
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Hormuz gambit: what the Strait crisis reveals about coercive diplomacy in the Persian Gulf
Culture05 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit Meets Dubai's Complicated Loyalties
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Hormuz Gambit: Blockade, Bluster, and the Limits of Coercion

Europe05 May 26
Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Opens a Window on Europe’s Nuclear Reckoning
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Gambit: How Unpredictability Became the Point
Long Reads05 May 26
Trump's Double Agenda: Wall Street Deregulation and the Hormuz Gamble
Long Reads05 May 26
The Trump Doctrine Goes to Riyadh: Dance, Deterrence, and the Financial Warfare Option

Long Reads05 May 26
The Trump Crypto Empire's Legal War With Justin Sun: Inside the WLFI Defamation Battle
Long Reads05 May 26
The Apology Machine: How Trump Made America Into Content
Europe05 May 26
Trump Administration Restructures Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Pathways
Culture05 May 26
Trump Administration Purged 24 Senior Military Commanders Since January Return, Guardian Reports
Intelligence05 May 26
Trump Admin Declares Iran Strike Phase Complete, Eyes Nuclear Deal Through New 'Freedom Project'
Long Reads05 May 26
The Transparency Deficit: Five Signals From the Trump Administration's Deregulatory Spring
Sport05 May 26
Timberwolves' Second-Round Entry Masks Deeper Questions Minnesota Must Answer This Summer
Opinion05 May 26
Three Billion Books and No Editor: AI Has Broken Amazon's Shelves

Science05 May 26
Stuart Russell's Albatross: What Musk's Expert Witness Reveals About the AGI Safety Divide

Letters05 May 26
Strikes Hit Russian Drone-Navigation Facility in Cheboksary
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait Question: Hormuz, Dollar Power, and the Limits of Coercion
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz and the Geometry of Coercion: What Trump's Cards Reveal About US-Iran Deterrence
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait of Hormuz and the Architecture of Coercion: Who Controls the World's Oil Chokepoint?
Long Reads05 May 26
The Strait at the Centre of Everything: How Hormuz Became the World's Most Dangerous Chokepoint
Energy05 May 26
Strait of Hormuz Tensions Put Iran Ceasefire at Risk as Israel and US Coordinate Strike Options
Defense05 May 26
Strait of Hormuz Strike Kills Ten Civilian Sailors as Rubio Sets Narrow Threshold for US Response
Defense05 May 26
The Strait Standoff: How a Naval Confrontation Brought the World's Most Critical Chokepoint to a Halt

Sport05 May 26
SportsLine's NBA Playoffs Betting Model Is Betting Heavy on the Knicks. Should You?

Sport05 May 26
Sportsbooks Race for NBA Playoff Betting Share as Knicks-76ers, Spurs-Timberwolves Headline Monday Slate
Energy05 May 26
Spain's Diplomatic Defection: Madrid Refuses to Join Any Military Action Against Iran
Americas05 May 26
Sheinbaum Decries Foreign Interference as Mexico's Political Class Faces Sovereignty Reckoning
Culture05 May 26
The Seventy-Billion-Dollar Shadow: How US-Iran Tensions Reshape Regional Culture and Economy

Long Reads05 May 26
Settler at the Helm: Israel's Land Authority Appointment and the Normalisation of Annexation
Asia05 May 26
Seoul faces Hormuz reckoning as Trump pushes South Korea into a US-led Strait mission
Culture05 May 26
Security Failures and Near Misses: A Pattern Forming Near the White House

Long Reads05 May 26
The SEC's Quiet Revolution: How Trump's War on Quarterly Earnings Could Reshape American Capitalism
Long Reads05 May 26
The Quiet Revolution in Russian Air Power: How Glide Bombs Redefined the Ukraine War
Intelligence05 May 26
Russian Airbomb Strike Kills Five in Central Kramatorsk
Africa05 May 26
Russian Africa Corps Intercepts Mine-Laying Operation in Sahel Corridor, Expanding Footprint Raises Strategic Questions

Long Reads05 May 26
The Arithmetic of Attrition: Why Russia's Stalemate Strategy May Be Its Own Long-Term Defeat

Business05 May 26
Russia Strikes Poltava Energy Facility Twice, Killing Two Rescuers
Long Reads05 May 26
Russia's Missile Buildup and India's Strategic Gambit: What the New Delhi-Moscow Pact Tells Us About the Multipolar…

Africa05 May 26
Russia's Madagascar Pivot: Moscow Seeks a New African Foothold After Regional Setbacks

Europe05 May 26
Rubio Vatican Trip Tests Whether Rome Can Pry Open a Channel With Washington
Americas05 May 26
Rubio's SOUTHCOM Visit Signals Harder U.S. Line on Latin American Security
Letters05 May 26
Rubio Calls Iran Operation 'Defensive' as U.S. Pitches Hormuz Resolution to UN

Long Reads05 May 26
Rubio Declares Iran Operation 'Over' While Escalating UN Resolution — And a Vatican Détente
Culture05 May 26
The Rolling Stones' Enduring Currency: Legacy, Live Performance, and the Machinery of Cultural Memory

Long Reads05 May 26
The Engine Beyond the Game: How Real-Time 3D Software Became Industrial Infrastructure

Oceania05 May 26
RBA Delivers Third Straight Rate Rise, Lifting Cash Rate to 4.35%
Obituaries05 May 26
The Quiet Wars: Three Years of attrition, Drones, and the Slow Erosion of Middle East Certainty
Long Reads05 May 26
The Quiet Revolution: How Washington Is Dismantling the Market Rules That Shaped the Global Economy
MENA05 May 26
Reports Emerge of Missiles Launched From Qeshm Island Toward UAE as Regional Alert Rises
Energy05 May 26
Project Freedom: Inside the US Navy's Largest Hormuz Escort Operation in Decades

Sport05 May 26
Why the Post-Draft Window Is Fantasy Football's Most Competitive Intelligence Battlefield

Europe05 May 26
Portugal Moves to Tighten Citizenship Rules as Foreign-Born Population Reaches Record High

Americas05 May 26
Polymarket's Americas Wagers: Venezuela's Political Horizon and a GameStop–eBay Merger Market
Europe05 May 26