GREECE - A huge earthquake has rocked parts of Greece and Turkey, causing at least one death. Several huge earthquakes have rocked the Greek island of Rhodes and parts of Turkey. At least one person, a 14-year-old, has died in Turkey, with reports of panicking locals jumping from buildings to try to escape any potential collapse. At least 69 people are injured. The first tremor, measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale, struck 29km north of Rhodes around 12.30am local time and was felt across Greece, Turkey and the rest of the region. A second quake hit Marmaris in Turkey at 2.13am, registering 5.8.

USA - How are businesses supposed to plan for the future if they have no idea what the rules of the game are going to be? Businesses thrive in a predictable environment, but we have entered a period of time of extreme uncertainty. One day we are facing high tariffs, the next day one court strikes them all down, and then the next day another court temporarily reverses that decision. How is anyone supposed to make solid business decisions in such an environment? Our economy has been heading in the wrong direction for a long time, and we need to take bold action to fix things. But if legal battles are going to be constantly upending the rules of the game, there is no way that we are going to be able to pull out of our economic death spiral.

USA - The world economy is facing a predicted contraction due to physical limits related to resource extraction and diminishing returns in various areas, including energy and minerals. Current economic indicators, such as high debt levels, falling oil and coal production, and rising inflation, suggest an impending downturn that will affect global living standards and government stability. As existing economic systems falter, new economic models are expected to emerge, though the transition period will likely be marked by financial instability, job losses, and a decrease in overall prosperity. I predict that the world economy will shrink in the next 10 years. I think that this is bound to happen because of energy and debt limits the world economy is hitting.

USA - Grocery prices are insanely high. Housing costs soar, wages stagnate, the middle class is vanishing before our eyes. The American middle class is shrinking at an alarming rate, and the consequences are reshaping the nation’s economic landscape. This isn’t just a statistical shift — it’s a fundamental restructuring of American society. The numbers paint a grim picture. In 1971, 61 percent of US households were considered middle class. By 2021, that number had dropped to 50 percent. The decline is accelerating, with rising costs and stagnant wages pushing more families out of the middle-income bracket. The upper-income tier has expanded, now encompassing 21 percent of households, while the lower-income tier has grown to 29 percent. The purchasing power of the dollar has plummeted, leaving families unable to afford basic necessities. The middle class, once the backbone of the American economy, is being squeezed out by financial speculation and corporate consolidation.

UKRAINE - Ukraine launched an audacious drone strike against Russia’s prized strategic nuclear bombers in an operation kept secret from Donald Trump. Swarms of attack drones emerged from parked trucks to target airfields in the coordinated assault on four bases deep behind enemy lines. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, hailed the “brilliant” attack, which he said will “undoubtedly be in history books”. The SBU said that as many as 40 warplanes - worth $7 billion and amounting to 34 per cent of Russia’s strategic cruise missile carriers - had been destroyed in the clandestine drone operation. If the figures are confirmed, the attack would represent a sweeping blow to Russia’s ability to bomb Ukraine safely from a distance and a dent to its nuclear strike capabilities.

MIDDLE EAST - While Hamas tries to keep aid from reaching desperate Palestinians, chaos erupted on Tuesday as civilians stormed a US-backed food distribution site in Gaza. The New York Post reports that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) faced a chaotic and violent start during its first food distribution site in Rafah. Viral footage shows the hungry masses pushing through workers to remove boxes of aid from the site. After receiving desperately needed aid and relief from the US and Israel-backed aid center, crowds of Gazans were seen cheering the United States and the President chanting, “Trump, Trump, Trump.” In exclusive footage shared by Daily Wire reporter Kassy Akiva, as they passed news cameras, they expressed their gratitude saying, “Thank you! Thank you, America."

USA - Earth will have a dystopian population of just 100 million by 2300 as AI wipes out jobs turning major cities into ghostlands, an expert has warned. Computer science professor Subhash Kak forecasts an impossible cost to having children who won’t grow up with jobs to turn to. That means the world’s greatest cities like New York and London will become deserted ghost towns, he added. Professor Kak points to AI as the culprit, which he says will replace “everything”. And things will get so bad, he predicts the population will shrink to nearly the size of Britain's current estimated population of close to 70 million. The Age of Artificial Intelligence author, who works at Oklahoma State University, told The Sun: “Computers or robots will never be conscious, but they will be doing literally all that we do because most of what we do in our lives can be replaced."

USA - For years, when Meta launched new features for Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, teams of reviewers evaluated possible risks: Could it violate users' privacy? Could it cause harm to minors? Could it worsen the spread of misleading or toxic content? Until recently, what are known inside Meta as privacy and integrity reviews were conducted almost entirely by human evaluators. But now, according to internal company documents obtained by NPR, up to 90% of all risk assessments will soon be automated. In practice, this means things like critical updates to Meta's algorithms, new safety features and changes to how content is allowed to be shared across the company's platforms will be mostly approved by a system powered by artificial intelligence — no longer subject to scrutiny by staffers tasked with debating how a platform change could have unforeseen repercussions or be misused.

This month, 1,700 years ago, was one of the most significant and consequential events in all of Church history. Across the Bosphorus Strait from Constantinople, in Nicaea, a Council met to settle a question plaguing the Church: Who, precisely, is Jesus? Their work shaped the future of Christian theology.

USA - The US economy is a ticking time bomb — and Senator Ron Johnson isn’t sure how much time we’ve got left. Why is your car insurance insane? Why is your grocery bill breaking the bank? It all traces back to one thing: reckless government spending. America is drowning in $37 trillion in debt, and Senator Johnson says we’re nearing the point of no return. This is the warning DC insiders pray never goes public. Senator Ron Johnson sat down with Tucker Carlson, and the interview opened with a moment that exposed just how clueless Congress really is about America’s finances. “I just asked my colleagues, ‘Hey, anybody know how much we spent last year in total?’ Dead silence,” Johnson said.

USA - “Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

These lines from the full version of The Star-Spangled Banner, our national anthem, make a direct reference to God. Yet in today’s political climate, figures like Speaker Mike Johnson and other prominent Republicans come under fire simply for professing their Christian faith, praying in public, or referencing God and Jesus in their speeches.

USA - Elon Musk’s bromance with President Donald Trump has taken a hit after the tech billionaire blasted the White House for ‘undermining’ him and treating DOGE like ‘whipping boys.’ The billionaire Tesla CEO spoke to the press before launching a SpaceX Starship into the stratosphere on Tuesday night and unleashed on Trump’s $3.8 trillion spending bill. ‘It undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,’ Musk bluntly told CBS. ‘I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it.’

UK - If you wanted a reason to be pessimistic about the future of Western democracies – besides the low birth rates, internal strife and rising competing powers – you could do a lot worse than look at two fiscal rows, one in Westminster and one in Washington. Between them, a hidden failure mode in democracy has been put on full display. In Britain, Sir Keir Starmer is on the ropes after being forced into an about-turn on cuts to winter fuel payments, with Left-wing MPs demanding an end to the child benefit cap while opposing cuts to disability benefits. Meanwhile, the IMF is bluntly stating that Britain has no more room to borrow within its fiscal rules, squeezing the PM and Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, from the other direction.

ITALY - A powerful series of earthquakes at Campi Flegrei, a massive supervolcano in Italy has raised fresh concerns among scientists about the risk of a major eruption. In May, the Phlegraean Fields near Naples was shaken by a magnitude 4.4 earthquake, the strongest in 40 years. Over the past six months, scientists have recorded more than 3,000 smaller quakes, known as tremors, a figure far above normal seismic activity for the area. Experts say eruptions are usually preceded with the increase in earthquake activity, as underground pressure builds up. Campi Flegrei poses a serious threat to over four million people living in the metropolitan area of Naples.

UK - Britain will run out of drinking water by the mid-2030s if new reservoirs are not built, the water minister has warned, as the government seized control of new projects from local councils. Emma Hardy told Times Radio that the country was facing an “infrastructure crisis because we haven’t built the reservoirs we need”. She added: “In fact, we built no reservoirs for the past 30 years.” Ministers have taken over two reservoir projects in East Anglia and Lincolnshire by deeming them “nationally significant” and speeding them through the planning process. It will also take over future projects.