Palestinian death toll tops 73,000 despite ongoing Gaza truce

The Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Gaza war has surpassed 73,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Nearly 1,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire. Five Israeli soldiers have also been killed since the truce.

Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

Meta is rolling out new AI features on Facebook that aim to change how users find information, create content, and interact with the platform. The headline update is a new way to search Facebook that uses Meta AI to surface answers pulled from public posts. Facebook also added editing tools that let users play around with collage cutouts and transition effects for their video montages.

Wave of Philippine government website hacks raises alarms over security, investor trust

The defacement of the National Bureau of Investigation’s website over the weekend marked an escalation in a wave of attacks on Philippine government pages. It is the third major state body in less than a week to have its website compromised. The Senate's website was hacked on Wednesday and the House of Representatives' page on Saturday.

Xi Jinping’s Secret War: How China Is Bankrolling Russia’s Assault on Ukraine

Xi Jinping hosted US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing within the same week in May. Trump's visit produced trade optics, Putin's visited produced strategic coordination on Ukraine. The real business in Beijing was Russia. Xi and Putin have met more than 40 times, with formal talks on at least 25 occasions. China has been supplying Russia’s war machine.

7 Reasons Trump’s Iran Deal Is Good, Bad and Ugly for Putin

President Donald Trump’s tentative Iran framework has its own Mexican standoff: Washington wants the Strait of Hormuz reopened, Tehran wants relief, and Moscow wants the crisis to keep making Russia useful. For Vladimir Putin, the result is good for his theory of power, bad for his balance sheet, and ugly for his long-term leverage.

Can Chicken Nuggets Grow Up?

Farmers’ markets are a haven for whole, unprocessed foods. The pastured meat purveyor at the Greenmarket in Manhattan was selling frozen chicken nuggets from Ox Hollow Farm in Woodbury, Connecticut. Stephanie Maynard, co-owner of the family-owned farm, raises cows, pigs, and chickens for meat, selling locally and online.

Prison 'used more' for climate, genocide activists

A new report documents 286 cases involving climate and Palestine solidarity protestors imprisoned since 2019. The average detention period was 28 weeks, equivalent to more than six months, one in three protestors were jailed for six months or more, and one in five were imprisoned for more than a year. The most common offence leading to imprisonment was contempt of court, and conspiracy offences accounted for 17% of cases analysed.

The canvas and the disappeared: The inability to recognize the suffering of the other

Three young people, identified as members of the Jewish community, took a tarp from a searching mother during the celebrations for Mexico's victory on the same day of the opening of the World Cup. The tarp contained the faces of the missing children. They used it as an umbrella and mocked the mother, who is searching for her missing children, who are still missing.

There’s a Name for the People Who Drain You

According to social-science research, the best thing for your well-being is your relationships. Relationships with people who are draining, critical, or otherwise difficult can compromise our mental and physical health. Researchers have even come up with a term for the people who wear us down: hasslers.

Israel Refuses to Leave Lebanon Despite Reported Inclusion in U.S.-Iran Deal

Israel will not withdraw from southern Lebanon despite the peace deal between the United States and Iran announced by President Donald Trump. Israel will proceed with its plan to clear the buffer zone of civilian residents and destroy all terror infrastructure. Israel's opposition leaders are critical of the U.S.-Iran deal regarding Lebanon.

New Crop of Electric SUVs Ready for Suburban American Moms

BMW iX3, Volvo EX60, Mercedes-Benz Electric GLC and Rivian R2 are coming off lease in the U.S. in the coming 18 months. They are aimed at suburbanites with single-family homes. The current market for electric vehicles in the country is floundering.

The End of Climate Politics

In Manhattan’s Union Square, mounted on a building home to a Best Buy and $8,000-a-month one-bedroom apartments, is a public art installation known as the Climate Clock. Between flashes of “Stop Fossil Fuels” and “Protect Earth,” the clock counts down until the world is committed irreversibly to 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. When the clock was first unveiled in September 2020, the world had about seven years and 100-odd days to act. Now it's three years and 156 days.

Western 22 Countries Warn Iran Over Alleged Global Threat Network, Demand Immediate Halt

22 countries signed a joint statement accusing Iran of involvement in malign operations on foreign soil. Iran is accused of targeting Iranian dissidents, journalists, Jewish communities, and Western interests across multiple countries. Western governments are concerned about alleged intimidation campaigns, targeted attacks, and security threats affecting diaspora communities and dissidents.

Minneapolis small businesses – and some big ones – start receiving assistance to remedy ICE surge

Sara Wordofa received a refund of her 2026 city licensing fees, totaling $4,666. The refunds are part of the city’s $7 million Small Business Resiliency Fund to help businesses recover from Operation Metro Surge. The fund was approved by the Minneapolis City Council in February.

Bitcoin Price Claws Back From The Brink To $66,500.

On Sunday, President Trump announced that a peace deal with Iran was “complete” and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. On Monday morning, Bitcoin reached $66,800. Strategy bought 1,587 BTC between June 8 and June 14 for approximately $100 million at an average price of $63,024 per coin.

Is Beijing planning to make more drones overseas for Middle Eastern buyers?

Norinco displayed a model of a drone assembly line at the Eurosatory defence exhibition in Paris this week. The miniature depicted the manufacture of several Norinco drones, such as the BZK-005E reconnaissance aircraft, which is currently operated in Indonesia, Mauritania and Sudan. A graphic in the booth also described how explosives and propellants used in the drones are made.

Young People Turn to AI for Mental Health Support

18% of general college students use AI for mental health, but students battling depression, intense anxiety, or active suicidality have a two-fold higher likelihood of using these unregulated systems. The most vulnerable individuals are outsourcing critical emotional regulation and crisis management to automated, general-purpose algorithms that lack human oversight or institutional accountability. Asian students have twice the odds of using artificial intelligence as their peers.

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Tariffs and energy shocks have had limited inflation impact, goods prices remain soft, Chinese deflation is a structural drag, and shelter inflation is expected to resume its downtrend. We expect the Warsh Fed to reduce reliance on forward guidance, with labor-market softness becoming the larger policy concern than inflation.

Ballot box in Horn of Africa: For whom and under what conditions?

Ethiopia's general elections were held on June 1. The Prosperity Party won the election with a landslide victory, but there were problems with the election's legitimacy. In Tigray, the epicenter of the 2020-2022 civil war, there were no elections at all, and the TPLF re-established control of the regional administration. Ethiopia's bid for Red Sea access is drawing regional dynamics onto increasingly tense terrain.

The End of Climate Politics

In Manhattan’s Union Square, mounted on a building home to a Best Buy and $8,000-a-month one-bedroom apartments, is a public art installation known as the Climate Clock. Between flashes of “Stop Fossil Fuels” and “Protect Earth,” the clock counts down until the world is committed irreversibly to 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. Bill Gates, for whom climate change has long been a signature issue, published a memo last October in the lead-up to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Brazil criticizing the “doomsday outlook” of the climate community. Even the European Union,

CFTC Pulls New Mexico Into Prediction Markets Battle

New Mexico is the eighth state to be sued by the CFTC over prediction markets. The state sued Kalshi for allegedly offering illegal sports betting. Gary Gensler doubts the regulators' claim of authority over sports event contracts. He wrote an amicus brief to the Sixth Circuit on Thursday.

Tentative deal on ending the Iran war sends stocks soaring, oil prices to lowest levels in months

Futures for the S &P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq and Nasdaq futures are up on the news of a tentative deal on ending the Iran war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices fell close to $5 a barrel. It may take months for oil prices to stabilize after the disruptions from the war caused them to surge, pushing costs up for gasoline and many other products.

The Only Bear Case Left Is Extinction

The 2026 Iran war was announced on February 28, 2026. The S&P 500 was trading around 6,900 at the time. It went up to 7,430 before any real framework agreement had even been reached. The market reacted in the only way modern markets know how: it went up again.

Iran War: How falling oil prices are relieving pressure on Germany

The agreement between the United States and Iran on a framework agreement is fragile. The relief spread across the financial markets and was accompanied by a fall in oil and gas prices is justified. Any hope that the war will end is economically very important. The conflict exacerbates the difficult fiscal situation in many industrialized countries.

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