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“Iran launched an attack against U.S. Navy ships on Monday that the U.S. military has yet to acknowledge, after firing ballistic missiles at an aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer over the weekend,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “No American ships were struck in the attacks, but Iran’s recent attempts to hit American naval assets […]

“President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff earned $107 million in 2025 from the holding company that owned his share of a crypto venture he and his boss helped co-found,” Bloomberg reports.

Pretty much all the music you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

RNC Chair admits the cost of food is too high:

When you go to the grocery store and it's so expensive. Even my wife tells me, "Oh, I can't believe how much I spent at the grocery store"

Waymo has won official approval to deploy driverless cars in Berkeley and other East Bay cities. Meanwhile, golden Tesla Cybercabs have been spotted in Oakland. 

“The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a New York woman’s bid to send her son to kindergarten without receiving state-required vaccines, in a case that highlights the limits of the court’s push to expand religious rights,” the Washington Post reports. “In a one-line order, the high court effectively sided with state and local officials, who […]

“The White House on Tuesday pulled a Tetris-style game called Build the Wall from its new online arcade, four days after a warning by the classic game maker that it takes copyright infringement seriously,” AFP reports.

“The U.S. military has struck targets near Kharg Island and the port city of Jask, part of a strategy to pressure Iran economically and bring the war to a close,” Bloomberg reports.

BYD is testing a new boxy SUV positioned as a smaller, lower-priced sibling to the Ti 7 (Tai 7). Here’s our first look at it.

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Wisconsin is awarding $25 million in federal funding for 42 new DC fast-charging stations, expanding its EV charging network beyond the state’s interstates and onto more US and state highways.

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Can reporters see it? Yes, Mark Jacob told me. But they are afraid.

Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.

Feels like the AI world is balancing on a knife’s edge. On one side, the worst of big tech’s social media addiction machine and an even greater concentration of power. On the other side, the democratization of intelligence and an abundance that lifts all of society. Either outcome seems possible.

"Science fiction imagines the future. We build it."

Money would ostensibly fund research the NIH leadership said it no longer wanted.

There's good news to report after a Hudson Valley woman disappeared for months. Continue reading…

RNC Chair: Trump's policies are popular, and I think our candidates will win as a result

(Trump's approval rating is at an all-time low)

What do you do when the gig you do on the side, that off-hours hustle to help pay the bills and keep busy in service of your real work, becomes the thing that attracts acclaim and recognition? Do you lean into the success? Does the side project become your life? Hrishikesh ...

Amy Walter: “How will we know if 2026 is a wave election in the House? To me, the real sign of a wave year won’t be how many seats Republicans lose, but rather the types of seats that change hands.” “Democrats could have a good Election Night just by winning seats Trump carried by six […]

It would be nice to go a day or two (or three-day weekend!) without being apprised of some new awfulness from this administration. Since that’s not going to happen, let’s check in with the latest shitshow! And here it is: the Pentagon has “enlisted” some X.com influencers to thrust and parry on behalf of the […]