Currently Israel's diplomatic isolation grows over its offensive on the Gazan town of Rafah. / Semafor According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the overall Palestinian death toll in the war is now above 36,000. / The Associated Press Taiwanese activists are using Meta's Threads app to organize
Currently We're taking the weekend off for the holiday, so we tried to make today's edition extra good. See you Tuesday. The US Air Force tracks more than 25,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimeters. / Scientific American A question for the weekend: Do
Currently Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the United States is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration. / The Guardian Unrelated: "Biden Carried Away By Ants." / The Onion Britain's prime minister calls for a general election in July, which the Tories
Currently Spain, Ireland and Norway say they will recognize a Palestinian state. / The Associated Press Members of Israeli security forces are telling settlers the location of aid convoys so they can intercept them. / The Guardian The EU is financing operations to detain tens of thousands of migrants in North Africa
Currently Yesterday's edition was foiled by a technical reason called forgetfulness blargh. Iran sets new elections, which may serve as a "dress rehearsal" for an upcoming power struggle. / Semafor, Atlantic Council Analysis of who inside Iran may benefit from President Raisi's death. / The Atlantic
Currently Views of the aurora borealis should return in a couple of weeks, as the massive solar storm rotates back toward Earth. / BBC "Some political scientists describe this strategy as 'state crime,' violence tacitly permitted or encouraged by the government." Why did Greg Abbott pardon a
Currently A deep investigation into how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate America's illegal marijuana trade. / ProPublica "Fewer than one in 1,000 US university courses include references to critical race theory or other so-called "woke" topics that have become flashpoints in the
Currently What's worse for disease spread: animal loss, urbanization, or the climate crisis? The climate crisis. / Goats and Soda Donald Trump allegedly asked big-oil executives last month for $1 billion in campaign donations. / The Guardian DNA analysis shows baobab trees first arose in Madagascar 21 million years
Currently Tree rings prove that last summer was the hottest summer in the past 2,000 years. / BBC News Current solar and wind deployment rates are much faster than most countries during the nuclear boom period. / Sustainability by Numbers Investors and developers today expect 8 to 10% annual growth in
Currently Secretary of State Blinken visits Ukraine, intending to signal "strong reassurance" that the West will continue to back Kyiv. Meanwhile, Putin heads to Beijing. / Semafor Russia is conducting "hybrid warfare" in Moldova—i.e., anything "short of bombing the country." / The Week Notes
