U.S. Central Command carried out a fresh wave of strikes against Iran overnight Monday, targeting coastal defense systems, missile and drone sites, and more than 140 military installations — bringing CENTCOM's three-night total to over 300 targets. As of 4 p.m. Eastern today, American forces will resume blockading all maritime traffic in and out of Iranian ports, and Trump announced a 20 percent fee on all cargo transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening from an aortic dissection, just one day after meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Kyiv. President Trump called him "one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known," and Graham's sister has since been appointed to fill his vacated Senate seat.
An intestinal parasitic infection has now sickened more than 2,640 people in Michigan alone and spread to 31 states, with the CDC tracking nearly 2,400 additional cases under review. Officials say contaminated lettuce or salad greens are the likely culprit, and Taco Bell has pulled multiple menu items at affected locations; no deaths have been reported, but symptoms can persist for weeks without treatment.
Members of the Supreme Court made an unusual visit to Capitol Hill this week, a rare institutional gesture that draws attention amid ongoing friction between the judicial and legislative branches. Such appearances are uncommon enough to signal deliberate outreach at a charged political moment.
Iran targeted two United Arab Emirates tankers — the Mombasa and the Al Bahiyah — with cruise missiles while they transited the Strait of Hormuz inside Omani territorial waters. One Indian crew member was killed aboard the Mombasa and eight others were injured, escalating the conflict as U.S. forces prepare to reimpose the naval blockade.
A fire tore through the Rong Beer Na Lat Phrao pub in Bangkok's Chatuchak district Sunday night, killing at least 27 people and hospitalizing 63 more, 22 of them in critical condition. Investigators believe the blaze started when a circuit breaker near the stage began smoking; most victims were found near restrooms at the rear of the building, which had no clear escape doors.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko stepped down over the weekend as President Zelenskyy announced the country is "changing its political strategy" and launching fresh leadership changes. This marks the fourth major government reorganization since Russia's full-scale invasion, with Zelenskyy also signaling changes at the top of Ukraine's law enforcement agencies.
A May explosion at Cape Canaveral destroyed the only launch pad designed for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket — the vehicle assigned to carry NASA's Moon Base I lander to the lunar south pole, with a launch window measured in months. Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp says the company will fly again before year's end, and NASA is publicly staying the course, but the rebuild timeline is under intense scrutiny.
President Trump signed two executive orders directing the U.S. to develop the world's first research-grade quantum computer by 2028, in partnership with IBM and Google, backed by two billion dollars from the CHIPS and Science Act. The orders also target an emerging national security threat: foreign adversaries eventually deploying quantum systems to crack modern American encryption.
Zachary Young, the Navy veteran who won a landmark defamation case against CNN, says the CIA is now demanding he delete or destroy portions of his unpublished spy memoir covering his work in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Young calls the agency's intervention outright censorship, saying the CIA wants to kill a manuscript that could expose what he saw inside the U.S. intelligence community.
