Russian Drone Innovations are Likely Achieving Effects of Battlefield Air Interdiction in Ukraine

Ukraine Situation Report: Attacks on the bridge linking Korabel Island with central Kherson City have sparked concerns of a Russian incursion.

Trump’s 15% tariffs on imports from Israel take effect as part of sweeping global regime

Mexico has been in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs over border security and fentanyl for more than a decade. Yet it is the sole country to win a 90-day extension on trade talks, after steep penalties on dozens of other countries kicked in Thursday.

Trump vows 100% tariff on chips, unless companies are building in the U.S.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 6, 2025

‘We never see kids like this:’ Israeli doctors speak out on emaciated Gazan children

Staged Suffering? German Investigation Exposes Hamas’s Photo Propaganda Machine

Refinery Outages Force Russia to Redirect Crude to Export Markets

A heat wave and water shortages are paralyzing public life in Iran.

China Battling Another Virus: Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya. Chinese authorities have decided to use some moves from their covid playbook in response.

China’s biggest solar firms fired nearly one-third of their workforces last year, a Reuters analysis of company filings shows, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses.

France’s biggest wildfire of the summer has eclipsed the size of Paris and is still spreading

The Sri Lankan economic recovery
Trump Wants Copper Smelted in America—But It’s a 30-Year Wait

Discovery of lithium’s essential role in Alzheimer’s disease opens a hopeful avenue for treatment

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 5, 2025

Southern Kamchatka shifted nearly two meters (almost 7 feet) in July 30 quake

Lebanon wants army plan to disarm Hezbollah by end of year

Denmark zoo asks people to donate pets to feed predators

A small earthquake rocked parts of New York and New Jersey on Tuesday — the second to be felt in the region in just a matter of days.

“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 4, 2025

Netanyahu said set to order full takeover of Gaza, despite IDF qualms

Long dormant Russian volcano erupts, spews ash 4 miles high

Britain’s free expression crisis: Earlier this year, Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine — the parents of a 9-year-old girl in Hertfordshire — were arrested in front of their daughter after exchanging messages critical of her school’s new headteacher in a WhatsApp group. Six officers arrived at their home, seized their devices, and the couple was interrogated for hours over allegations of malicious communications.

These responses suggested that the brain can maintain normal blood sugar levels even in the absence of insulin. At the time, the diabetes research community didn’t know what to make of the discovery.

Box Tree Moth Invades Virginia: 10th U.S. State Confirms Pest Presence

For the Baby Dinosaur Objects should shut up

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 3, 2025

New Syria Fighting Erupts Overnight, Shattering Fragile US-Backed Truce

How Pakistan shot down India’s cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear

3.0 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey, tremors felt in parts of NY

NY Times Op-Ed: Expanding the Definition of Death Could Mean More Donor Organs

Trump Is Openly Using the Presidency To Enrich the Trump Brand

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 2, 2025

Japan, South Korea Issue Alerts Amid Historic Temperature Highs

Confusion and anger in Switzerland – hit by highest tariffs in Europe

Myths and Lessons from a Century of American Automaking

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 1, 2025

US imposes 15% tariff on goods from Israel as part of sweeping new trade policy

China has begun construction on the world’s largest hydropower dam, known as the Motuo Hydropower Station, on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau, which will cost $170 billion and is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about the amount of electricity consumed by Britain last year.

Google now spends more on physical capital like datacentres ($85 billion / year) than the entire UK defence budget ($79 billion / year).

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 31, 2025

Russia’s Jet Powered Shahed Kamikaze Drone Is A Big Problem For Ukraine

Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?

New British cars may have to be fitted with breathalyser technology and black box-style recorders under Labour plans to align with EU vehicle safety laws.

St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

To be fair, this is not all that new. They used to go after drug dealers by monitoring the electric bill that was read the old fashioned way. This just makes it easier. When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance

Trump suspends trade loophole for cheap online retailers globally

During a major thunderstorm in October 2017, the colossal crack of jagged electricity streaked across the Great Plains of North America for 829 kilometers (515 miles) – a distance that surpassed the previous record by 61 kilometers.

It’s been a joke since the early days of this Trump administration that anything and everything was subject to a court wanting everything to change. I’ve seen jokes about how a federal court ruled that Ozzy Osbourne couldn’t die, for crying out loud. It’s ridiculous what all they’ve done, even after the Supreme Court said that a district court didn’t have the authority to offer nationwide injunctions like that. But now we’ve reached a moment where even the Washington Post is (justifiably) lashing out.

Reactions to Graphic Images of Cincinnati Attack Victim Expose Racial Divide

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 30, 2025

Severe Drought Threatens 25% of Crops in Russia’s Agricultural Heartland

Israel faces unprecedented drought crisis as water shortages loom. This winter broke all records, with the Sea of Galilee’s water levels unchanged—an unprecedented event, Lifshitz said. His gravest concern is not war with Iran or ongoing fighting but an earthquake.

Despite landmark legislation to allow massive new borrowing for defense and infrastructure, Germany’s government still faces a spending crunch. The €30 billion gap projected for 2027 is due to increased interest rate payments and to new coalition spending on measures such as the “mothers’ pension”. Even if the necessary cuts are found, the coalition’s spending crunch is not likely to end in 2027. The government will have to close a budgetary gap of approximately €172 billion by 2029.

Tsunami Waves Reach Hawaii, West Coast After 8.8 Earthquake Off Russia. It’s the sixth strongest earthquake on record.

Four earthquakes hit near Bay of Bengal in 90 minutes

Cartel Members Fought In Ukraine To Learn FPV Drone Skills
Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers can be used clinically — and can replace expensive brain scans and invasive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sampling — as long as they meet strict criteria for sensitivity and specificity, according to a new guideline from the Alzheimer’s Association

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 29, 2025

Ukraine Repeatedly Targets Key Rail Line Deep Inside Russia With Drone Strikes

Plague of locusts descends on Ukraine

‘You can’t fake that’: Trump sees ‘real starvation’ in Gaza, says Israel must do more

Israel slams int’l media for misrepresenting Gazan child’s condition as starvation More here: This is a really strange way of saying “We ran a front page blood libel claiming Israel is starving a baby to death, but it’s not true and we actually knew it wasn’t true at the time

Israel’s declining image in the United States poses a strategic threat

China is also Fighting a Trade War with Europe (and Winning)

Toddler in India survives deadly encounter with cobra by biting its head

More interesting then the title suggests. The Future of Immigration Policy in Europe & Africa