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🇨🇳🇮🇷 The Iran war is nearly seven months old, and today its foreign minister flew to Beijing to keep China locked in as an ally. Abbas Araghchi is meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. The two already met last week at the BRICS summit in Delhi, where Xi told the bloc that China wants to help end the war in the Middle East. It lands about a week before Xi sits down with Trump. Interesting timing. Just days before this visit, the WSJ reported that China gave Iran satellite images of a U.S base in Jordan before a strike that killed three American troops. Beijing denies it… So can China actually play peacemaker, or is it quietly picking a side while wearing the mediator's badge in public? Writer: Bri t.co/dUAysmSGwR

The fallout from Ed Sheeran dropping Macklemore is getting spicier VJayBombs are out there in LA projecting images of Ed massaging Jewish American billionaire Robert Kraft Kraft is believed to be behind the campaign to get Ed to drop Macklemore for making pro-Palestinian remarks on stage He's the owner of Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, one of the venues on Ed's tour He is also rumored to have convinced other stadium owners to force Macklemore to be removed from the tour This story is NOT going away anytime soon Writer: Ian t.co/xCTlVUGSc4

🇨🇳 Just after the U.S admitted it has space weapons, China broke new records in sea-launched space missions by sending nine satellites into orbit The Gravity-1 rocket lifted off near Shanghai and delivered eight communication satellites for Qianfan. One more "test" satellite rode along, all the way up to 800 kilometers. State media is calling it the world's first sea launch of a broadband megaconstellation. But the timing is what makes this worth a second look… Less than two weeks before this launch, one of China's own satellites, tied to its secretive Yaogan military reconnaissance program, broke apart in orbit for reasons nobody has confirmed. And now, the U.S. Space Force has officially confirmed it has deployed weapons into orbit for the first time. China immediately hit back, telling Washington to "stop preparing for war in space". Makes you wonder what the "test" satellite was that hitched a ride Writers: Bri, Ian t.co/Qmnwm3gwVP

$8.49 diesel in California. $6.59 in Georgia. MTG is right to be sounding the alarm National average hit a record $6.28 this week, up from $3.60 in February This ends up in your grocery bill and it's only going to get worse... It’s time for Republicans to buckle down and get a solution in place for the mid-terms, and beyond. Otherwise, it’s going to be a BLOOD BATH at the polls.

FSD's safer driving is starting to show up on your insurance bill. Score! Zurich Australia is now offering lower premiums for Model 3 and Model Y owners using FSD Supervised. The reason is simple. FSD-engaged driving is showing far fewer collisions across more than 132 million km of supervised use. When the car lowers the risk, the price of owning it should start reflecting that too. @Tesla / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Janné

🇨🇦 The dogs chose violence. The man chose a big stick. The bear chose to run. British Columbia is so beautiful this time of year! Writer: Marie t.co/phE1cGBBIJ

🇺🇸 California: $8.49. Georgia: $6.59... Same country, same diesel, and two receipts that would have sounded fake a few years ago. MTG’s warning is blunt: this is the start. How long before people stop calling it a “price” and start calling it a crisis? Writer: Val t.co/tHaXjVlPU6

🇺🇸 In 2008, California sold a high-speed rail dream. In 2026, Nick Shirley walked the alignment and called it a $15 billion ride to nowhere. No two cities linked, but the projected cost he puts above $200 billion to finish, and the comparison that makes people furious: China used those same years to lay more than 30,000 miles. He says money went to contractors who couldn’t work, and the route is already colliding with homes and farmland. You can argue his numbers, not the facts: the train was supposed to exist by now. Does this deserve any more funding? Writer: Val t.co/3wwS5k6pxk

Watch this girl drive in this parking garage and tell me she deserves to have a license. t.co/Ww0hSckz97

Defenders call Haaland a giant, but compared to Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson? Erling is 6'4" and still somehow the little brother here. Football strength vs strongman strength... it is NOT the same. Writer: Val t.co/2LEk9CsUyK

🇺🇸 The House killed Al Green's impeachment push 232 to 147, with Democrats helping again Forty-seven members voted present in the third failure of Green's effort in two years. He forced this one without leadership backing, over killings by federal immigration officers, and some colleagues told Axios privately it was a distraction with one week of session left before the midterms. Green's answer was that his critics lack the courage to face him. Watch what happens to that math after November 3. Right now Democratic leadership kills these motions because a losing vote becomes a Republican ad in a swing district. Flip the House and the calculation inverts: subpoena power, the gavels on Oversight and Armed Services, and a caucus whose base has spent seven months watching a war nobody voted for. Don't even get me started on GAS PRICES. The Trump team can see that too, which is why the defense is already being built. Impeachment still likely dies in the Senate, so the real damage is two years of hearings, and leaked testimony, straight through the 2028 primaries. Vance and Rubio would run while testifying about this war. That is the real fight Washington is actually preparing for. Source: Axios / Writer: Daniel

FOMO stream was supposed to be a stream, then Pinkchyu got ahold of Drake. She put him through a goth makeover in front of everybody... Nobody is recovering from this. Writer: Val t.co/2iWEEPnJkY

Thanks for showing me exactly who not to hire Writer: Sol t.co/kWFcYXBB4M

🇺🇸 218 signatures, that’s the number that can force a House vote on the Epstein files: no permission slip from leadership. Lauren Boebert was asked if another lawmaker might be the one who puts it over the top. She didn’t crown anybody: “We’ll see. We’ll see. We don’t even have all the Democrats yet. Y’all got to get them going.” Writer: Val t.co/GC3bHyAjJp

🇺🇲 Nothing says “f*ck Waymo” like 20 of them trapping your car in San Francisco traffic. The AI uprising has begun. Writer: Marie t.co/yGzdS5cNEr

🚨🇵🇸 Drake just premiered a new song and says "Pray for Gaza" For those who don't know, Drake is half Jewish, but has publicly voiced his support for Palestine in the past. Most notably, he was one of the first major artist to sign a letter to Biden, 23 days after Oct 7th, calling for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid into Gaza. He also called out DJ Khaled for staying silent. Both of Khaled's parents were born in Palestine. Writer: Daniel t.co/H8xsAlBeYK

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The Coast Guard and FBI boarded a Texas-bound oil tanker mid-voyage after finding its network may have been compromised... A team of Coast Guard cyber operators, a vessel inspector and FBI Cyber Action Team agents went aboard the foreign-flagged carrier on August 21 before it could reach port, examining both its IT and operational systems and working with the crew to clear the threat. No operational disruption, no danger to crew, no environmental impact. Washington has not named an actor. Iranian media has been bragging about it for weeks. Mehr reported the ship lost communications for 30 hours on August 7 and claimed attackers reached engine-room systems, cut cooling flow and pushed engine speed. Tasnim ran the headline "No American Vessel Is Safe Anymore: Will Cannons Give Way to Codes?" The vessel in those reports is a 333-meter crude carrier that holds 2.3 million barrels, and it was sailing from Egypt's Sidi Kerir terminal, the exact route Gulf oil now takes to avoid Hormuz. Source: CBS News / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇲🇨🇴 Sofía Vergara’s cleavage has more star power than half of Hollywood🤣 Writer: Marie t.co/7sraGLWiQU

🇬🇷 Ilias Kasidiaris walked out of prison today and immediately announced he is heading back into Greek politics. The former Golden Dawn spokesman and MP was released after serving his sentence, then told supporters he was returning to the “front lines” with plans for a new national party. Golden Dawn was a far-right Greek political party whose leadership was convicted over the group’s criminal activity. He has said he intends to run in Greece’s next general election, although his path back onto the ballot is still legally complicated: Greek law allows parties to be barred if their real leadership is tied to people convicted of serious crimes, and a Kasidiaris-linked party was already blocked on that basis in 2023. Will Greek courts actually let him turn it into an election campaign? Writer: Sol t.co/AkJnKehO7w

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: Reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw reportedly killed in the NBC4 helicopter crash in Los Angeles Officials have not released identities. LAFD confirms three dead total, two aboard the aircraft and one bystander standing in a parking lot. A fourth person was hospitalized. FAA and NTSB are investigating. Source: LA Times / Writer: Daniel, Marie t.co/3C3BEEjfpE

They spent years calling him an antisemite, but Tucker doesn't care. Norman Finkelstein; Princeton-trained, son of Holocaust survivors, author of Gaza’s Gravediggers, sits down and makes the case he’s been making for decades: Gaza, October 7, genocide, and a media machine that he says shuts the argument down by attacking the messenger. He says the official story is a lie. They go from 1948 to the war, from cancelled campus invites to him getting pushed out of Hunter College. Agree with him or not, you can’t meaningfully challenge an argument you refuse to let people hear. Source: @TCNetwork / Writer: Val

🇨🇳China’s latest mega-weapon is being called a SUBMARINE DRONE MOTHERSHIP. Satellite imagery over a Shanghai shipyard reportedly shows what is most likely a vessel that deploys drone submarines. China is already at the forefront of such technology as the only country to have built full-sized, uncrewed subs. Knowing Trump, this becomes a sub-measuring contest by week's end: "Ours is bigger, and frankly, much more beautiful"😂 Source: Naval News / Writer: Marie

🚨🇺🇲BREAKING: Los Angeles police say 3 people are dead and 1 hospitalized after a KNBC helicopter CRASHED in Chatsworth. The chopper was filming a deadly bus crash LIVE when it went down. At least 1 of the deceased was on the ground during the accident. Story developing… Writer: Marie t.co/vioXlzm6w3

🚨🇺🇲BREAKING: A Los Angeles firefighter CONFIRMED one person on the ground was killed when a helicopter crashed in Chatsworth tonight. Crews are searching the wreckage, and the LAPD is expected to give a statement. It is unknown at this time how many people were in the chopper and if there are any other injuries. Writer: Marie t.co/oG7oM6Yr1f

🚨🇸🇦🇾🇪 Saudi air defenses reportedly shot down a Houthi drone heading for Mecca Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki says the drone was destroyed south of the holy city Tuesday evening before it entered prohibited airspace, the second attempt on Mecca since a ballistic missile in July 2017. He called the city's security a red line. The Houthis call it a worn-out lie. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has already condemned heinous attacks on Mecca and Madinah. The Houthis hit Taif, 70 kilometers from Mecca, on Monday and wounded 13. Source: Reuters, AFP / Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸 More footage of the KNBC news helicopter that went down in Chatsworth, LA. Source: @kalanithegreat / Writer: Sol t.co/M4JIGOqDsC

🚨🇺🇲A helicopter in Los Angeles ERUPTED in a ball of fire after crashing while covering a deadly bus accident. The helicopter was reportedly in Chatsworth when it went down. Nearby trucks and infrastructure were caught up in the blaze. One person on the ground in a parking lot was reportedly killed. It is unclear how many people were in the helicopter or if anyone else was injured. Officials are unsure who owns the helicopter, but it is believed to be a news chopper. Source: NBC4 / Writer: Marie t.co/oRMHj8hnGl

🇺🇸 A news helicopter crashed in Chatsworth tonight while covering another fatal wreck in the San Fernando Valley. First responders converged on the site, but the cause is still unknown. Early accounts did not include the condition of those aboard. Two disasters in the same stretch of streets. Writer: Val t.co/TZm5l6okgI

🇺🇸 They asked him to give the money back... and he called that racist. Abdul El-Sayed was pressed over campaign cash reportedly tied to people linked to a group accused of financing extremist activity. But he didn’t walk through the donations, he flipped the question: "People like Mike Rogers want to make this race about the color of my skin or how I pray." Writer: Val t.co/EUjniLf2vy

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Washington approved $2.8 billion in heavy bombs for Israel tonight, built in the same factories that can't refill America's own magazines The sale went through this evening: 2,000-pound bombs and bunker penetrators, previewed to Congress as a formality. Eli Clifton points to the part nobody mentions. A president can stop a sale with the stroke of a pen, as the first Bush once did, and every shift that fills an Israeli order is a shift not spent refilling arsenals this war has emptied. The pattern runs deeper. Israel enters wars without defining victory and goes as far as it can until Washington says stop. Nobody has said it. And the Abraham Accords, sold as a security architecture, assumed the region's three strongest militaries could do as they pleased. A shut strait, a bombed pipeline and a Saudi collapse in Yemen have answered that. @EliClifton @wethebrandon