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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 23, 2026

Iran’s president admits country faces ‘many problems,’ insists deal is best way forward

Traffic in Strait of Hormuz skyrockets nearly 400%, as analysts say Iran’s grip on critical waterway weakens

Turkey & Israel On Brink Of Military Clash After Netanyahu Ordered Strikes On Syrian Airbase

Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea

Passenger burned after laptop computer catches fire aboard American Airlines flight to Dallas

Chobani’s designs for billion-dollar yogurt plant in Upstate NY are giving Apple Park vibes

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 21, 2026

‘I don’t think beyond tomorrow’: How people in occupied Crimea are surviving one of the hardest summers of the war

Russia’s second fuel crisis this summer: prices climbing, rationing in 59 regions, and now a motor oil shortage

The Typhus Rats of Los Angeles

Rewriting History: Researchers Uncover a Forgotten Amazon Civilization That May Have Housed 3 Million People

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 17, 2026

I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math. That is why this spring and summer, thousands of faculty members across all 10 UC campuses — including more than two-thirds of UC’s mathematics faculty — signed open letters(opens in new tab) urging the system to restore the SAT and ACT in admissions. Five Nobel laureates joined us, along with professors from across the university, including Beatriz Manz, Berkeley’s first Latina full professor.

Syracuse airport charges the highest parking fees in Upstate NY. It just raised them even more

‘TickCrusher’ kit that could help you dodge weeks of Lyme disease anxiety in 15 minutes

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as 404 Media reports that an Airtag hidden in a rare book shows that at least one tech giant, in the race to advance its frontier models, is behind some of the bulk orders: Amazon.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 16, 2026

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

Blackout hits four Central Asian countries at once

Iran’s Economy Is Buckling Under the Weight of War

As Spokane firefighters achieve containment, France faces wildfire challenges as 400 people arrested on suspicion of starting a fire…with a vast majority actually being charged with arson.

Europe’s Gas Storage Crunch Deepens Ahead of Heating Season. With less than three full months left until the start of heating season in much of Europe, the issue of gas inventories is becoming increasingly pressing. Current inventory levels are at the lowest in 17 years, and supply available for purchase is tighter than it was back in 2022.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 15, 2026

Israel Strikes Hezbollah Terror Targets in Southern Lebanon After Troops Attacked

US Lost 25% Of Its Reaper Drones In Iran War. Made by General Atomics, each drone costs between $30 million to $50 million. With 45 drones wiped out, this means that well over one billion dollars in hardware was either shot out of the sky or crashed in the context of Iran war operations.

Qatar Purchases U.S. LNG to Supply Its Asian Customers

Indonesia: Dozens dead after earthquake off Flores island. At least 47 people have died and several buildings were damaged after the powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake, which was followed by dozens of aftershocks.

Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, erupts in fiery display, disrupting hundreds of flights

Hawaii’s Big Island is under a hurricane warning as Tropical Storm Lala is expected to make landfall on Saturday local time, according to the National Hurricane Center. “This is a very serious storm,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green told reporters late Friday night. “We have not had a hurricane make landfall in quite some time. So none of us really have experienced this really in, you know, the last couple of decades.”

Social Security is deep in deficit, and once its trust fund is depleted, under the law, it cannot pay more in benefits than it generates in revenue. In just six years, beneficiaries will face an abrupt 22% benefit cut – the equivalent of a roughly $500 cut in monthly benefits per beneficiary.

Tailing 30Y Auction Prices At Highest Yield In 25 Years