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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 10, 2026

Drone Sightings Are Happening At Diego Garcia, America’s Remote Strategic Island Outpost. The sightings highlight concerns about drone attacks from the sea, especially at a time of extreme hostility between Iran and the U.S.

Over 100 people dead after magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits Colombia

Horrifying Footage Shows Buildings Crumbling As Colombia Quake Death Toll Tops 111

Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers

Nevada Discovery Could Rebuild America’s Tungsten Supply Chain

Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 9, 2026

US military dominance has always depended on technological innovation. It’s no longer clear that this condition holds.

Saudi Arabia’s $5 Oil Detour Is Expensive… But Worth It

U.S. Energy Helps Cushion Global Supply Shock From Hormuz. That role is straining domestic supplies, with U.S. crude and fuel inventories falling below five-year averages as record exports and high refinery utilization tighten the domestic market.

Spokane Wildfire Complex Still Less Than 50% Contained After Week of Destruction

Spotify’s new ‘skip’ button could end the podcast business as we know it

Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any apparent health consequences.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 8, 2026

Pakistan’s defense minister threatens ‘illegitimate’ Israel after inking pact with Saudis, Turkey

The Wall Street Journal’s recent investigation into rising anti-Christian hostility in Jerusalem has now brought a sense of justified urgency and unprecedented international attention to what the Armenian community has long experienced firsthand.

The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice

Ebola outbreak in Congo tops 4,000 cases in world’s second-largest epidemic

Students recount terror as gunman kills nine at Thailand school

Canning Jars Are Getting Harder to Find, and Nobody’s Talking About Why. What has changed over the past several years is the machinery behind the glass rather than the enthusiasm of the people buying it. Domestic container glass capacity has shrunk while furnaces have been idled or torn down and never rebuilt.

Good Questions that I was Asked at the Cardiology Society of Australia and New Zealand Meeting

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Russia could attack NATO, allied country as early as this fall, US intelligence warns

‘Mecca Agreement’: Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Joint Military Pact

Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500

A horrifying story of decline. The Typhus Rats of Los Angeles. A medieval disease is rocking the vermin-ridden county. The city’s rat problem has worsened. In 2025, the pest control company Orkin released its annual list of the most rat-infested major cities in America. That year marked the first time since the list’s inception, that any city other than Chicago had taken the top spot.

Pack of Wild Coyotes Takes Over Abandoned Condo Complex in West Hollywood

Hunting and trapping licenses now on sale in NY. In addition to changes in DMP availability, several changes to deer hunting regulations go into effect this year, most prominently DEC’s “Earn-a-2nd-Buck” program.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 5, 2026

North Korea Upping Ballistic Missile Supplies To Russia Would Be Bad News For Ukraine At The Worst Time

Ballistic Missile Threat

Explosive Drone Found Next To Ukrainian An-124 In Germany Signals A New Threat Reality

Houthis Escalate Red Sea Campaign, Claim Eighth Saudi Tanker Attack

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand. Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 3, 2026

Saudi Arabia Forms Coalition to Deter Red Sea Attacks

New York Won’t Force Catholic Religious Sisters to Counsel Assisted Suicide for Now

New York launches second summer speeding crackdown this week

Metformin has been well known for its strong glucose-lowering effects. But a study published in 2025 in Science Advances revealed the drug also affects a part of the body we had never realized – the brain.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 2, 2026

Trump Calls Off Strike, Says Framework Deal Reached – Iran Denies

Hungary Stops Nuclear Plant For First Time As Danube River Dries Up

Mexico has quietly become a cornerstone of the AI boom, providing 40 per cent of US imports this year of the computer servers that are widely used in the data centres powering artificial intelligence. Taiwanese manufacturers are rapidly expanding factories in Mexico to assemble servers, which are now the country’s top US export, overtaking autos that dominated its trade for decades.

AI burns books? Tech giants are buying, shredding books to train smarter chatbots. AI Tech giants have been working on a secret project to buy millions of books and destroy them to feed their new models.

Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is an illness many often relegate to the history books. Florida, however, has recorded 17 infections this year as of July 18, according to state health data. Of the 174 cases recorded nationwide in 2025, 36 occurred in the state, including 27 that were contracted locally rather than abroad.