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World

Three ships were hit in the Strait of Hormuz. Then the talks in Pakistan never happened.

Iran struck at least three vessels in the strait hours after a Pakistan-mediated meeting between Tehran and Washington fell through. The Trump administration's blockade is still in place.


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Politics

A U.S. soldier won $400,000 on a Maduro-raid bet. Investigators say it wasn't a guess.

Federal prosecutors say a soldier with access to classified planning placed contracts on Polymarket the same week U.S. forces moved against the Venezuelan president. The size of the win is what triggered the audit.

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Opinion

Mortgage rates were finally easing. Then the Strait of Hormuz happened.

The 30-year mortgage was at 5.81% on the first of the month. It's 6.22% today. That 40-basis-point move is geopolitics, not the Fed — and it's costing the typical buyer about $215 a month.

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Culture

Two games in, the Lakers and Thunder have already broken Round 1 in half

Through the first weekend of the 2026 NBA playoffs, four series are tied 1–1 and four are not. The four that aren't are the four anyone is willing to talk about.

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Culture

A tabloid 'secret sister' story about Tucker Carlson is really an inheritance question in disguise

The supermarket-tabloid framing was 'long-lost heiress.' The actual filings are about a 1990s trust, a frozen-food fortune, and a woman who insists none of this is news to her family.

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Business

Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs. The roles being eliminated say more than the headcount does.

Meta announced its third major workforce reduction in three years, eliminating 10% of staff. The cut falls heavily on ad-sales and middle management — the part of the company AI tools are now expected to replace.

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Business

TSMC's profit jumped 58% on AI chips. The constraint nobody wants to talk about is electricity.

TSMC posted a record quarter on AI demand. DRAM is up nearly 50%. And the 92 gigawatts of new data-center power every 2028 projection assumes doesn't yet exist on the grid.

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