🇺🇸 Less than 2 weeks after Trump announced the job was done, the paint on the renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is already peeling off the bottom.
The pool was drained and refinished in a multi-million dollar no-bid contract, part of a sweeping plan to remake the capital ahead of the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence.
It was meant to come out dark blue. An algae bloom turned it green first, and crews were pouring hydrogen peroxide in this week to fight it.
A $14.7 million bill for paint that didn't last the month.
At least it lasted longer than a Middle East ceasefire
Writer: Julie
🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Well, the Wikipedia verdict on the 2026 Iran war is in: "Iranian victory."
Regime change: failed.
The Strait of Hormuz held as the prize.
The world’s strongest military fought for nearly four months, and the scoreboard reads: Tehran... at least according to Wikipedia, so take that with a grain of salt.
Wild.
Writer: Daniel
🇷🇺 Russia just sent a bunch of firefighting helicopters to deal with that massive blaze at the Moscow Oil Refinery.
It was hit by one of Ukraine's biggest drone attacks on the city since the war started, and the smoke is pretty visible across parts of Moscow.
Russia is throwing serious resources at this one.
Writer: Daniyal
WHAT IRAN GOT:
•$300 billion
•Removed sanctions
•Control of Strait of Hormuz
•Maintains missile program
•No destruction of nuclear program
WHAT THE U.S. GOT
•Higher gas prices
•Billions spent
•No major objectives achieved
•Americans dead
We got fleeced.