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Pope Leo XIV Holds Mass at the Sagrada Familia, Inaugurating the World’s Tallest Church

Pope Leo XIV presides over a historic evening Mass at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia tonight,…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 10

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World Cup 2026 Kicks Off Thursday With Three Opening Ceremonies, Shakira, and the Biggest Tournament in History

The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins Thursday in Mexico City, and nothing about this…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 8

Aerial view of collapsed buildings and rescue workers in a tropical city after a major earthquake

Deadly 7.8 Earthquake Rocks the Philippines, Killing at Least 16 and Triggering Tsunami Warnings Across the Pacific

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mindanao early Monday morning,…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 8

A flooded urban street at night during a severe thunderstorm with car headlights reflecting off standing water and emergency vehicle lights in the distance

Dallas-Fort Worth Under Flash Flood Warnings as Multiple Storm Rounds Pummel North Texas

Multiple rounds of heavy thunderstorms hit the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex through Saturday night and…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 7

Aerial view of the North Atlantic showing warm and cold ocean currents with arrows indicating AMOC flow

The Atlantic’s ‘Cold Blob’ Is Growing, and Scientists Say It Points to a Climate System in Trouble

A mysterious patch of unusually cold water in the North Atlantic has been expanding…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 6

Pentagon building and Israeli flag separated by a digital surveillance grid

Pentagon Raises Israel Espionage Threat to ‘Critical’ as Allied Trust Fractures

The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency has raised its counterintelligence threat assessment for Israel to…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 6

Devastated apartment building with smoke rising and emergency rescue lights at dawn after Russian aerial assault

Russia Launches 656 Drones and 73 Missiles at Ukraine in One of the War’s Largest Aerial Assaults

At least 22 people are dead and more than 130 wounded after Russia unleashed…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 3

Military personnel in a darkened operations center monitoring radar screens and a tactical map of the Persian Gulf

The Pentagon Just Struck Inside Iran Again, and This Time Beijing’s Hardware Was in the Crosshairs

The United States military destroyed Iranian radar stations and drone command sites on Goruk…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 2

An oil supertanker passing through the narrow Strait of Hormuz at dusk with a distant naval warship silhouette on the horizon

Iran Walks Away From Trump’s Nuclear Talks and Threatens to Close the Strait of Hormuz

Iran’s negotiators told the United States on Monday that they are done talking, suspending…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 1

Medieval Beaufort Castle overlooking southern Lebanon valley with smoke visible on the horizon

Israel Seizes Crusader-Era Beaufort Castle as Lebanon Invasion Deepens

Israel’s military has captured the 12th-century Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, marking the deepest…

By Mark Masterson · Jun 1

Oil tanker ships navigating a narrow strait with arid mountains in golden light

Trump has a tentative Iran deal on his desk and the clock is ticking

American and Iranian negotiators have done something that seemed impossible six weeks ago: they…

By Mark Masterson · May 31

Clay tennis court at Roland Garros with ball crossing the net in golden afternoon light

Joao Fonseca stuns Novak Djokovic in five-set French Open epic

The generational shift in men’s tennis just arrived ahead of schedule. Nineteen-year-old Brazilian Joao…

By Mark Masterson · May 31

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A young person looking at a glowing smartphone in a dim room with a Middle Eastern city skyline at night through the window

Iran Restores Internet After 88-Day Blackout, the Longest in Modern History

A near-empty upscale coffee shop in Seoul at dusk, rain on the windows with blurred city lights outside and a single abandoned paper cup on a wooden table

Starbucks Korea’s ‘Tank Day’ Promotion Reopened a National Wound

A vast solar and wind farm with high-voltage transmission lines and a substation carrying power to a large data center lit from within at golden hour

Artificial Intelligence

The U.S. Thinks AI Is a Chip Race. China Knows It’s an Energy Race.

Oil tankers and a distant naval warship on the Strait of Hormuz at dusk under a stormy sky

Trump Convenes a Camp David Cabinet Meeting as the Iran Deal He Called Nearly Done Stalls

A US Navy guided-missile destroyer on dark water at dusk as missile flashes light the southern Iranian coastline across the Strait of Hormuz

US Strikes Southern Iran Hours After Doha Ceasefire Talks, as the Nuclear Question Stalls the Deal

An oil tanker moves through a narrow strait between arid coastlines at dawn with a distant naval vessel on the horizon

Trump Calls the Iran Deal ‘Largely Negotiated’ as Tehran Accuses Washington of Obstruction

Health workers in white protective suits and face shields sort supplies at a field Ebola treatment center with orange containment tents in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at dusk

WHO Declares Ebola a Global Health Emergency as the First American Tests Positive in Congo

Night view from a Moscow apartment balcony of an oil refinery burning in the distance, searchlights crossing the sky and faint drone tracers overhead, residential apartment blocks in the mid-ground with windows lit

Ukraine’s 556-Drone Barrage Brings the War Home to Moscow

Cinematic dusk view of a four-reactor nuclear power plant complex in an arid desert with sodium-amber security lighting, distant mountains, and a faint drone silhouette in a stormy violet sky; an orange emergency glow rises from a peripheral generator suggesting recent damage

Drone Strike Hits UAE Nuclear Power Plant: Houthis Claim Attack as Iran War Spirals Beyond Borders

Broadcast news studio scene with curved video wall showing a Brent crude candlestick chart climbing, a glowing amber map of the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, and a stacked data panel reading gasoline 3.58 per gallon and inflation 3.8 percent year over year. A ticker bar runs across the bottom of the wall and a dark anchor desk sits in the foreground

Iran Ceasefire Expires With No Deal in Sight as Gas Prices and 6% Inflation Squeeze American Households

Pacific Ocean map showing a broken golden arc from Washington DC to Taipei with a pause symbol and a red beam from Beijing, with data panels labeled Taiwan Arms Package 14B Status Pending and US China Summit Beijing May 2026

Trump Waffles on $14 Billion Taiwan Arms Deal After Xi Summit, Leaving Taipei in Limbo

A generic American gas station at golden hour with a tall illuminated price sign showing regular at 4.89, plus at 4.99 and premium at 5.19 per gallon, a sedan parked at the pump, long shadows across the asphalt, small-town buildings in the distance

Trump Says Americans’ Finances Aren’t ‘Even a Little Bit’ a Factor

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping stand together in the red and gold Great Hall of the People in Beijing as a Chinese honor guard stands at attention

Xi Downgrades Trump in Beijing

A dark map of the North Atlantic shows a thick bright arc of aid from Europe reaching Ukraine and a thin faint arc from North America fading before it crosses the ocean

Europe Approved €90 Billion for Ukraine. Washington Is Still Fighting Over $400 Million

A US Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft in level flight over the Caribbean Sea at golden hour, with a distant tropical coastline visible on the horizon

Twenty-Five US Spy Flights Off Cuba Since February, and the Pentagon Wants Havana to See Them

Empty institutional hospital hallway with biocontainment unit glass doors and a yellow biohazard placard, evoking the National Quarantine Unit response to the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak

17 Americans From Hantavirus Cruise Ship Land in Nebraska Quarantine, One Tests Positive

Empty conference room with scattered papers, tipped water glass, and abandoned translator headset evoking failed Iran ceasefire talks

Trump Calls Iran Ceasefire Proposal ‘Garbage’ as Beijing Summit With Xi Approaches

An empty eastern European urban street at twilight, autumn leaves on cracked pavement, low brick apartment buildings, faint columns of smoke against a dusk sky

Trump’s Three-Day Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire Buckles on Day Two as Both Sides Trade Strikes