On Sunday, the president said Vance wasn’t going to Pakistan to lead the peace talks with Iran. Trump had told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that Vance would not be part of the U.S. delegation for the next round of talks. “It’s only because of security,” he insisted.
Whiplash over the Iran war intensified on Monday as Donald Trump made conflicting claims about the whereabouts of JD Vance. As the war entered another day, the 79-yr-old president struggled to keep his plans straight, adding to confusion about where things stand.
IEA: CO₂ deadly emissions increase
Makes our future fossil-fueled global heating hell.
2025 Record energy CO₂ emissions
Top source of energy CO₂ emissions still coal, by a large margin
Fossil fuels 79.5% of total world energy
Demand for each of the three fossil fuels grew in 2025
"It turns out, there are deeper facets of time that no one has ever experienced, and that have never been measured either," physicist Igor Pikovski of Stevens Institute of Technology in the US told ScienceAlert.
A team of physicists has shown how optical clocks – a highly precise type of atomic clock that uses optical light frequencies instead of microwave signals – might be used to demonstrate the quantum nature of time. In turn, this could help us understand the entire mysterious nature of time itself.
The fact that Mills is the handpicked choice of Chuck Schumer would appear to be the kiss of death. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
I keep thinking there must be some obvious reason why this is not corrupt... but no, it's corrupt. www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
Was Lori Chavez-DeRemer trying to turn the Department of Labor into a bordello? Since she has resigned, she won't have to answer questions from the inspector general about what she meant when she told young women who worked for her that they needed to pay close attention to her father and husband.
There is only one feasible conclusion to draw from the pool of incoherent, contradictory social media posts by Trump about the Iran War—and that is that Trump is desperate for a deal, while the Iranians could care less. Never has America been more humiliated. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/usa-...
As many as 1.4 bn people live in areas with soil dangerously polluted by heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead. The results reveal a global risk, but also a previously unrecognized high-risk, metal-enriched zone in low-latitude Eurasia. scim.ag/48MrXEA
The explanations offered by the Trump administration for the incident make no sense.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations after four US and Mexican officials died in an accident over the weekend, adding she was unaware of collaboration between the US and the local government in northern Chihuahua.
The Trump regime is a magnet for creepiness and corruption.
Domenico Tintoretto, Judith and Holofernes (Venice 1600)
Judith was one of the biblical heroines. The Old Testament narrates how this beautiful and honourable Israelite widow freed her people from the subjugation of the Syrians by seducing general Holofernes and then killing him while he slept.
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
It seems from this that there is as of yet no agreement to have negotiations in Islamabad or anywhere else.
Ross Douthat's column on the fall of Orbán persuades me that Ross (1) knows nothing abut Orbán, (2) knows nothing about Péter Magyar, and (3) knows nothing about Hungary. Otherwise it's an interesting piece.
How Trump's social media posts brought chaos to oil trading. Sebastian Barrack, who has helped build Ken Griffin’s hedge fund into one of the world’s most influential energy traders, says he has a screen solely to monitor the US president’s social media posts. ft.trib.al/3F76Rii
Chaos diplomacy. It's no diplomacy at all.
Tit for tat attacks between misbehaving MAGA Republicans in the House—it sums up the very essence of life under Speaker Mike Johnson. www.notus.org/congress/cor...
Michael de Adder
This happens as Trump has stopped purporting to be neutral, instead weighing in decisively in support of the Kremlin in multiple fora, including the UN.
Phillips P O'Brien: “Using language that would until recently have been unthinkable, Zelensky has indicated that he no longer views the U.S. as a reliable ally and, even more astonishingly, that all of Europe needs to start moving on from the transatlantic relationship”
“$105,000 — that’s how much Rod Dreher cost the Hungarian taxpayer last year, according to freedom of information requests by investigative journalism website Átlátszó. Roughly three times the average salary in Hungary,”: jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strange-…
