Daily Briefings

UN experts find "reasonable grounds" the US committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike that hit a school.
The Fed defied Trump and raised interest rates for the first time in three years.
The Houthis targeted Mecca — and the Muslim world is furious.
An oil tanker exploded in the Strait of Hormuz — and the US and Iran are telling opposite stories about who caused it.
Russia struck a train near the Ukraine-Poland border hours after Boris Johnson, David Petraeus, and other senior Western officials passed through the same station.
Iran's hard-liners sabotaged their own president's peace deal with a clandestine campaign to attack Hormuz shipping.
Saudi Arabia shut its Aramco East-West pipeline — the one built specifically to bypass Hormuz — after a drone struck it from Iraq.
Houthis seize Mokha, tightening their grip on the Red Sea.
Trump promised every adult American $5,000 — contingent on Republicans winning the midterms.
Oil crosses $100 for the first time since July as the US-Iran war enters its most dangerous sequence yet.
Russia bombed Kyiv within hours of Witkoff and Kushner's departure.
AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt with 44% — but falls short of outright majority.

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