Questions about Donald Trump’s fitness for office are no longer sitting at the edge of political debate. They are now trading in public view. On Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market, users buy and sell contracts tied to real-world outcomes, with prices showing the market’s current estimate of what may happen. In this case, traders...
Energy market analysts and economists issued fresh warnings this week that the ongoing Strait of Hormuz closure – triggered by the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran that began on February 28, 2026 – will push any meaningful recovery in global fuel prices back by months, not weeks. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) raised its...
On Monday, April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT. Traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, surpassed the record for the farthest distance any humans have ever traveled from Earth –...
In late November 2025, Michael W. Green, chief strategist and portfolio manager at Simplify Asset Management, published a Substack essay arguing that a family of four needs roughly $136,500 a year to cover basic essentials, including housing, child care, food, transportation, and healthcare. That figure sits more than four times above the official U.S. poverty...
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued one of the starkest nuclear safety warnings in the Middle East’s modern history on April 5, 2026, warning that continued strikes on Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant could trigger radioactive fallout with the power to devastate multiple Gulf nations. Araghchi stated that the Bushehr facility had been “bombed” four...
Federal health regulators have formally warned ImmunityBio Inc. for making misleading promotional claims about Anktiva, the company’s bladder cancer drug. Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the company’s executive chairman, made these claims during a public podcast appearance in January 2026. The FDA determined that the statements were false, misleading, and in clear violation of federal drug marketing...
Iran’s first move through the Strait of Hormuz looked hard, deliberate, and politically selective. After the late February strikes, Tehran signaled that some countries could still move through the waterway. Reuters reported on March 27 that Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi named friendly nations, including China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan. That message suggested Iran was...
In February of this year, Trump launched Operation Epic Fury, when U.S. Central Command conducted strikes against Iranian military infrastructure. These strikes targeted IRGC command centers, air defenses, and missile sites, coinciding with Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion to mark a historic level of joint military cooperation. However, on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli attacks...
Bad news for some cannabis users: both recreational and medical cannabis use seem to be ineffective in reducing the symptoms of various mental health conditions, according to 2 recent studies. The Lancet Psychiatry published a major meta-analysis conducted by the University of Sydney’s Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use. Researchers went...
Los Angeles, situated in a state with over 39 million residents, ranks as one of the most densely populated urban centers in the United States. The state’s coastal geography profoundly shapes California’s economic and cultural identity. In the past, before the advent of commercial flight, the proximity of a city to the sea was the...
Most of us think of cars as a huge purchase. A reliable new vehicle can cost anywhere from $25,000 to $32,000. But what if a single dose of medicine costs even more than that? That’s exactly the reality with some modern prescription medications. These aren’t everyday treatments you’d pick up at a pharmacy. Instead, they...
Climate stories rarely arrive with this much tension packed into a single forecast. Across the Pacific, the last traces of La Niña are fading, and forecasters now see a credible path toward El Niño later in 2026. That shift would draw attention in any year, yet this is not any year. The world has just...
