War & The Strait

• Trump Says the Iran Deal Is "Largely Negotiated" — Tehran Disagrees CNBC
• What's Actually in That Would-Be US–Iran Peace Memo CNN
• Exclusive: 60 Days, Open Strait, and a Nuclear Gamble Axios
• In Principle — But Nothing Signed: The Iran Deal in Limbo Al Jazeera
• Satellites Don't Lie: Iran Hit Far More US Bases Than Admitted Washington Post
• Zero Enrichment vs. Five Years: The Nuclear Gap That Could Sink the Deal UK House of Commons Library

The Home Front

• Nero Fiddled, Republicans Fumed: Trump's $1.8B Fund Fractures the GOP CNN
• Trump's Sinking Numbers Raise the Odds of a Blue November CNN
• Cuba on the Radar: Trump and Rubio Float Military Intervention Threat NPR
• Farm Bills, Housing Dreams, and a New Fed Chair: Congress's Crammed Plate Spectrum News
• Courts Keep Swatting Down Trump's Tariffs — He Keeps Rebuilding the Wall Al Jazeera
• The $1,500 Tariff Tax: What Every American Household Is Paying in 2026 Tax Foundation

Money, Markets & Machines

• Oil Shock, Stagflation Echoes, and a Fed Walking a Tightrope Crestwood Advisors
• Oil Up 80%, US Markets Outperform: The Weird Upside of the Iran War US Treasury / TBAC
• After Two Court Defeats, the Administration Rebuilds Its Tariff Wall Atlantic Council
• The US Ranks 21st in AI Adoption — And Is Finally Catching Up Microsoft
• An OpenAI Model Just Outdiagnosed Human Doctors in a Boston ER Study Science Daily
• US Diplomacy Is Accidentally Forging a Russia–China–Iran Bloc The World Now