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Dispatch: 🚨 BRENT CRUDE NEARS $100/BBL; U.S.-IRAN STRIKES STOKE SUPPLY CONCERNS

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Dispatch: 🚨 IRAN-US TENSIONS ESCALATE; US STRIKES TANKERS, IRGC ATTACKS JORDAN BASE

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Dispatch: 🚨 US IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON IRAN AVIATION SECTOR

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Dispatch: 🚨 US STRIKES IRANIAN OIL TANKERS FOLLOWING NAVY ATTACK

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Dispatch: 🚨 IRAN OIL EXPORTS COLLAPSE; HORMUZ STRAIT TENSIONS ESCALATE

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Dispatch: 🚨 US IMPOSES IMPORT BAN ON CANADIAN ALCOHOL, OTHER GOODS

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Dispatch: MAMDANI RELEASES RECORDS ON TOXIC AIR IN NEW YORK POST-9/11

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Dispatch: 🚨 HEGSETH SHAKES UP PENTAGON AMID ONGOING US WAR OPERATIONS

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Dispatch: HEDGE FUNDS BUILD FUEL POSITIONS; U.S. SUPPLY SQUEEZE DEEPENS

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Dispatch: ALBANIA PROTESTS ERUPT over Trump-linked project; police clash with demonstrators

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Dispatch: AI INFRASTRUCTURE STOCKS RALLY; QUALCOMM, CORNING ANNOUNCE DEALS

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Dispatch: 🚨 US WARNS FORD OVER CHINESE FIRM TIES AMID TENSIONS

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WIRE: Iran's IRGC Navy says it captured one of the US military's newest unmanned submarines at the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz at dawn today, calling it a "complex intelligence and operational" action.

The vehicle is an @anduriltech Dive-LD: a six-meter, three-ton autonomous survey submarine built for seabed mapping and intelligence collection, rated for ten days underwater and 6,000 meters of depth. Delivered to the US Navy's unmanned undersea squadron in 2025.

New photos show the white hull intact, half submerged and rigged to a crane sling at an Iranian pier. Iran now holds a current-generation US underwater platform in one piece.

Same position it was in with the Israeli Hermes 900 it took earlier in the war and handed to IRGC engineers. The RQ-170 captured in 2011 never left the country either.

Next stop for the hardware: Chinese and Russian engineers?

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Dispatch: 🚨 US FORCES SINK VESSEL LINKED TO ECUADOR CRIMINAL GANG 🇪🇨

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Dispatch: 🚨 UK AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL GLITCH; HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS DELAYED, CANCELLED

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WIRE: Tesla Cybercab begins first passenger rides in Austin.

No steering wheel. No pedals. Two seats, butterfly doors, and nothing for the rider to touch but a screen.

@MotorTrend was in one of the first cars: https://t.co/qNTyX5oddL

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Dispatch: 🚨 BRAZIL SUPREME COURT RIFT WIDENS; justice suspends federal police chief 🇧🇷

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Dispatch: 🚨 RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE ON KYIV captured in police bodycam footage 🇺🇦

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Dispatch: 🚨 LIV GOLF FILES CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY

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Dispatch: STABLECOINX NAMES FRANKLIN TEMPLETON DIGITAL ASSET VETERAN AS NEW HEAD