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🇲🇨 Monaco got a sermon money could not buy. Pope Leo XIV used his visit to urge the principality to spend its wealth well. He warned against the idolatry of power and money. He said that habit is helping fuel wars and endanger peace. At the palace, Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene received him. From the balcony, Leo praised Monaco’s gift of smallness and influence. Later, he urged Catholics to defend life from conception until natural death. That kept abortion and euthanasia inside his broader moral argument. Monaco has about 38K residents, and only roughly one-fifth are citizens. In a place built on polish, Leo delivered a homily about restraint.

🇺🇦 Zelenskyy shops Gulf ties with drones in hand. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made unannounced visits to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar. The pitch was strategic, not ceremonial. Ukraine wants to export battle-tested drone defense to Gulf Arab states facing Iranian attacks. In return, Kyiv wants more advanced air-defense missiles. Zelenskyy said Ukraine already has 10-year security agreements with Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He said a similar pact with the UAE could come soon. The Qatar deal includes coproduction and defensetech partnerships. Russia launched more than 270 drones overnight, including more than 60 at Odesa. The diplomacy was simple enough: Ukraine is selling experience because that’s what war has given it.

📣 Minnesota becomes the capital of refusal. Organizers say Saturday’s No Kings protests could rank among the largest demonstrations in modern American history. They registered more than 3,100 events across all 50 states. They say more than 9M people are expected to participate. Minnesota is hosting the flagship protest while rallies unfold in Washington and parts of Europe. In the capital, marchers passed the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall chanting “No Kings!”. Grievances stretched from immigration enforcement to the Iran war to transgender rights. In New York, New York Civil Liberties Union executive director Donna Lieberman called Trump the nation’s Bully in Chief. Bruce Springsteen is set to headline the Minnesota observance with “Streets of Minneapolis.” It is protest as census, counting anger one body at a time.

🏛️ Homeland deal died in Republican daylight. Senators thought they had finally found a way to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Then House Speaker Mike Johnson blew up the agreement. He dismissed the unanimously backed Senate plan as a joke. Senate Majority Leader John Thune had spent weeks negotiating it. The episode deepened an open split between House and Senate Republicans. Democrats had pushed for new limits on immigration enforcement work. The fallback plan stripped both that language and fresh funding for key border agencies. Instead of resolution, Washington produced a more theatrical stalemate. Congress can still fund government, but first it must stop performing its own dysfunction.

💊 The supplement aisle wants a larger permission slip. Industry groups are pressuring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow peptides and other new ingredients. Peptides are druglike amino-acid chains sold with promises of muscle, youth, and quick repair. Much of that marketing runs ahead of the science. Some clinics already sell them as injections or intravenous infusions. Some supplement makers also put them into capsules, gummies, and powders. FDA lawyers say those products violate current rules. Consultant Robert Durkin argued the law does not require every dietary ingredient to come from food. Consumer advocates counter that the agency already struggles to police today’s market. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a declared peptide fan, is making the industry’s timing look less accidental.

💻 Iran’s cyber proxies found Patel’s old paper trail. The pro-Iranian hacking group Handala claimed it breached Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel’s personal account, posting old photos, a resume, and personal documents. Some records dated back more than a decade. The group also claimed it released emails and other files from the account. The FBI said it had taken steps to mitigate risks. It also said the material was historical and included no government information. The administration is offering up to $10M for information identifying Handala’s members. Earlier this month, the group also claimed a disruptive cyberattack on Stryker. Even when the files are old, the message is current: the war has a keyboard too.

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