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🇵🇸 Brussels summits test whether and how money can rebuild Gaza. In Brussels, over 60 delegations convened to chart Gaza’s future: part rebuilding plan, part diplomatic audition. Donor states floated billions but tied the purse strings to reform within the Palestinian Authority (PA). European envoys want governance guarantees before concrete pours. Saudi Arabia and France co-chaired, balancing humanitarian urgency with political caution. Aid groups warned reconstruction without a ceasefire is cosmetic. The absence of a unified plan echoed the deafening shout of the devastation itself. Once again, the world’s promises to Gaza may prove easier to fund than to fulfill.

☢️ UN nuclear agency confronts Iran over opaque enriched uranium stockpile. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) formally censured Iran for stonewalling on its 60% enriched uranium stockpile. The rebuke, backed by 19 nations, accused Iran of withholding access to critical sites. Inspectors say the regime’s honesty evaporated just as enrichment surged. Iran now holds nearly half a metric ton of near weapons-grade material, a hair’s breadth from the threshold. Tehran called the resolution “political theater,” but diplomats worry drama ends with detonation. China and Russia voted “no” as expected. Even by nuclear standards, the distrust is radioactive.

🌊 Offshore drilling plan pits coastal states against Trump energy agenda. The Trump administration greenlit new oil drilling off California and Florida, reopening waters closed for decades. Energy officials billed it as “economic revival,” estimating thousands of new jobs and billions in royalties. Coastal governors called it reckless, a crude replay of 1969’s Santa Barbara spill. Environmentalists say the move ignores both climate math and hurricane history. Oil giants smell profit, beach towns smell diesel. Legal challenges already bubble like tar beneath the surface. The ocean, once again, becomes America’s battleground between profit and preservation.

🏙️ Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol sees federal case dropped. Federal prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot multiple times by a Border Patrol agent. She had faced assault charges in a case born from an immigration sweep gone wrong. New evidence, including unredacted bodycam footage, shredded the official account. The agent remains on duty as civil-rights lawyers circle. Prosecutors called the dismissal “in the interest of justice,” an understatement fit for a headstone. Immigration advocates see a rare concession in a system allergic to accountability. The wound is closed, but the scar remains public.

📉 Wall Street whiplash turns an AI sugar high into a slide. Wall Street’s buzzy peak ended in a crash, as markets erased morning gains and spiraled by afternoon. The S&P 500 fell 1.6%, the Nasdaq dropped 2.2%, and Nvidia ($NVDA) turned from hero to hostage: up 5% early, down 3% by close. Traders blamed everything from rate-cut rumors to “AI fatigue.” Bitcoin cratered below $87,000, proof that gravity still works. Walmart alone defied gravity, rising 6.5% on “boring is beautiful” earnings. The day felt less like a correction than a caffeine crash. The bull is alive, but it’s breathing hard.

🏛️ Trump labels Dem military video “seditious” and hints at death penalty. Donald Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behavior punishable by death” after they urged troops to resist illegal orders. The charge, delivered via social media, not statute, sent constitutional scholars scrambling for precedent and pulse checks. Democrats called it “political necromancy,” resurrecting a rhetoric unseen since McCarthy. Military lawyers reminded the public that soldiers swear to law, not men. Trump’s base cheered; his opponents saw a test of institutional grit. Sedition, it seems, is back in season. America’s civics lesson has never felt more like a loyalty oath.

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