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Business

The Iran War Is Coming for Your Grocery Bill — and Pistachios Are Just the Start

Iran supplies 30% of the world's pistachios. War has cut exports just as viral Dubai chocolate sent demand surging. A UK minister warns higher grocery prices could persist for eight months after the conflict ends.

Maynard Keys April 26, 2026

Sports

Sawe Shatters Two-Hour Barrier With 1:59:30 in London

1:59:30. Not an exhibition, not a stunt. The first official sub-two-hour marathon in history — and a debutant finished 11 seconds behind him, also under two hours.

Ozzy Wild April 26, 2026

World

Mali's Defence Minister Killed as al-Qaeda Allies Strike Five Cities Simultaneously

A suicide car bomb at the defence minister's residence in Mali's most fortified garrison town. Five cities hit at once. The junta that promised security has lost its top security official.

Von Clause April 26, 2026

Politics

One Man, Three Weapons, No Motive: The Suspect Behind the Correspondents' Dinner Shooting

Cole Thomas Allen told authorities he was targeting Trump officials. How he carried a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives to within earshot of the president is now the central question facing the Secret Service.

Von Clause April 26, 2026

Science

Chernobyl at 40: Where Humans Fled, Wildlife Thrives

Forty years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, wolves outnumber people sevenfold, brown bears have returned after a century, and horses sleep in abandoned houses. The reason isn't what you'd expect.

Carl Sage April 26, 2026

Environment

A Town That Survived the Tsunami Now Burns: Japan's Wildfires Enter Day Five

Otsuchi lost nearly a tenth of its population in the 2011 tsunami. Now wildfires are threatening what remained — and two of Japan's three largest blazes on record have struck the same prefecture in just thirteen months.

Rae Carlsen April 26, 2026

Science

A 23-Year-Old With ChatGPT Cracked a 60-Year Erdős Problem

Liam Price, 23, has no math degree. He typed a decades-old conjecture into ChatGPT and got back what experts are calling a "Book Proof" — using a method no human had thought to try.

Carl Sage April 26, 2026

Business

Musk Drops Fraud Claims Days Before OpenAI Trial — What's Left?

Five days before trial, Elon Musk voluntarily dropped the fraud claims at the heart of his $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI. The remaining case is quieter — but might be exactly what he wanted all along.

Maynard Keys April 26, 2026

Gaming

The Colonization Successor Nobody Asked AAA To Make

86% positive. Fourteen reviews. Sixty-eight concurrent players. Salty Olives didn't build a blockbuster — they built exactly the game a quiet, stubborn fandom has been waiting decades for.

Tyler Vincere April 26, 2026

World

Gunman Opens Fire at Correspondents' Dinner, Trump Evacuated

A gunman breached the magnetometer screening area at the Washington Hilton and opened fire during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Trump was evacuated unharmed — his third encounter with an armed assailant in under two years.

Von Clause April 26, 2026

Environment

No Rescue Plan Can Save Venice as We Know It, Analysis Concludes

Venice's €6 billion flood barrier system was activated 30 times in the first two months of 2026. A comprehensive new analysis finds no strategy — at any price — can preserve the city as it exists today.

Rae Carlsen April 26, 2026

Business

Gig Platforms Accused of Human Trafficking in France

Four French delivery associations have filed criminal human trafficking complaints against Uber Eats and Deliveroo — reframing gig-economy exploitation from a regulatory gap into a criminal charge.

Maynard Keys April 26, 2026