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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 8, 2026

Ukraine’s Medium-Range Strike Campaign

Russia Bans Diesel Exports, Assuring Even Higher Prices

Russia is in the acute phase of a fuel crisis

Both Trump and Iran declare the ceasefire is over in the wake of the latest flare-up in fighting.

Trump Signals Willingness To Sell Turkey F-35 Jets Despite Loud Netanyahu Protests

How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me. A simple error got magnified by Flock’s nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 7, 2026

U.S. Strikes Iran In Retaliation For Multiple Attacks On Shipping In Strait Of Hormuz Over Last 24 Hours (Updated)

When the earth shook in Caracas, thousands of disabled people had nowhere to run

Pirate Attacks Spike Off The Horn Of Africa

Cuba begins to restore power to Havana following nationwide blackout

Japan Bankruptcies Surge To All-Time High As A Result Of Plunging Yen

Surprisingly large number of people may have marker for tick-linked meat allergy

Michigan sees explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite with over 700 cases

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 6, 2026

Out Of Patriot Interceptors, Ukraine Can’t Down Any Ballistic Missiles Striking Kyiv

The governor of the Vologda region, Georgy Filimonov, said in his Telegram channel that he had been stranded on a highway after his official car ran out of gas.

Khamenei Funeral: Loyalists Call for Killing of Trump, Vance, and Conservative Influencers

China’s Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Test In The Pacific Is A Big Deal

In early 2005, one of the largest public works projects in American history was about to age into eligibility for the National Register for Historic Places. The Interstate Highway system, launched by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, would reach its 50th birthday in June 2006—the age at which federal law considers a place as potentially historic. The officials who administer the nation’s preservation law needed to figure out how to handle this impending deluge of work. Treated as eligible, the system’s 46,700 miles would trigger historic review for every federally funded repaving and guardrail replacement project.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 5, 2026

All gas stations in Russia’s Novorossiysk run out of gasoline

Russia Scrambles for Asian Jet Fuel as Crisis Deepens

Iran’s ambassador to China stated on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would impose service fees on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but that China and other “friendly” countries would be granted “special considerations.”

China frees pastor after Trump raised case with Xi

Samsung plans to raise average third-quarter DRAM prices by about 20% from the prior quarter.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 3, 2026

39 hours in line for gas: One driver’s road trip through Russia’s fuel crisis

NHS facing ‘absolutely shocking’ £27bn bill for maternity failings in England. Jeremy Hunt, the former Conservative health secretary, said: “It should be a matter of national shame that we now spend more on maternity litigation than the total cost of running maternity services.”

Trump personally made more from crypto than EVERY publicly traded US crypto company.

Explosive Diarrhea Parasite Spreads Across America Ahead of Independence Day