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Congress delivered its strongest rebuke yet of the Iran war, passing a resolution to limit U.S. military involvement just as the conflict spilled into Kuwait and a newly announced Israel-Lebanon ceasefire began to unravel. At the same time, John Bolton is preparing to plead guilty in a classified documents case, and Wall Street staged a dramatic rotation away from AI stocks and into traditional blue-chip names.

We'll also cover a remarkable rescue on Mount Everest, a potential breakthrough in treating a deadly lung disease, and why Christopher Nolan's next film is already crashing ticketing platforms.

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The House passed a war powers resolution directing Trump to halt military action against Iran, with four Republicans joining Democrats in a 215–208 vote. Trump called the defectors "unpatriotic" on social media, and aides privately acknowledged mounting pressure to define an endgame.

Hezbollah rejected a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon hours after it was announced, with leader Naim Kassem calling the terms a "roadmap to annihilate" the Lebanese people. An Iranian drone hit Kuwait's airport overnight, killing one and injuring 60 — a signal that the conflict is spilling beyond its original geography.

Former national security adviser John Bolton will plead guilty to one count of retaining classified information, down from an original 18-count indictment. A rearraignment hearing is set for June 26, with Bolton facing up to 60 months in prison and a $2.25 million fine.

Bolton shared diary-like notes from his White House tenure with family members — the basis for the government's case against him. Prosecutors pressed forward even after Bolton emerged as one of Trump's sharpest public critics during the 2024 campaign cycle.

The Dow rallied nearly 900 points to a fresh all-time high, with investors rotating out of mega-cap tech and into industrials, financials, and consumer staples. The breadth was the story — gains spread across two dozen blue chips rather than piling into a few semiconductor names.

The rotation hit on the same day Broadcom shares slid after the chipmaker declined to raise its AI revenue outlook, disappointing a market that had been "clamoring for material beats and raises." A clean swap. Old-economy names finally got their moment while the AI trade caught its breath.

A Nepali climbing guide missing for six days below Camp IV was found alive Thursday, crawling toward base camp — a discovery so unexpected his family had already begun funeral rituals. Dawa Sherpa was airlifted to Kathmandu with frostbite and is reported stable.

North Korean state media published photos of a newly disclosed facility that analysts say is almost certainly producing weapons-grade uranium. The public reveal — rare for Pyongyang — signals confidence in expanding fissile-material output while denuclearization talks remain frozen.

Dutch authorities arrested four suspects after German and UK police shared evidence identifying men who drugged and filmed assaults on their wives and girlfriends. At least eight men are now under investigation after police uncovered private social media groups where suspects shared techniques involving GHB and Rohypnol.

The Supreme Court upheld the FCC's authority to levy fines against AT&T and Verizon over failures to protect consumer location data, rejecting the carriers' argument that they were owed a jury trial. The ruling preserves a core enforcement tool for federal regulators across multiple agencies.

An AP investigation found the Trump administration has re-separated dozens of children from parents already split under the original family separation program — despite a court settlement meant to prevent exactly that. In some cases, parents were deported after officials discovered they were legally protected from removal.

A new study found the National Guard's ten-month deployment in Washington D.C. produced no measurable reduction in violent crime rates despite sustained presence across the city. Authorities plan to double Guard numbers in coming weeks regardless of the findings.

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Lululemon cut its full-year guidance, citing disappointing product launches and "negative" media commentary, and warned things will get worse before they get better. Shares tumbled as the athleisure brand acknowledged it has lost the cultural momentum that powered a decade of growth.

The Trump administration will invoke Cold War-era defense authority to fund 13 coal plants and a new export terminal — the first new US coal capacity since 2013. More than 14,000 jobs are expected across coal, construction, rail, and maritime industries, with plants planned in Alaska, West Virginia, and Maryland.

Broadcom shares fell sharply after the chipmaker declined to raise its AI revenue forecast for next year, frustrating investors who'd positioned for a beat-and-raise. The reaction shows how high the bar has risen for anything tied to the AI capex trade.

A new study linked a mutation in the TLR5 gene to IPF, a life-threatening lung-scarring disease affecting millions globally that currently has no cure. Drugs targeting the TLR5 receptor significantly slowed fibrosis in mice — raising hopes for a treatment that goes beyond merely managing symptoms.

A large-scale analysis published in Science found that dual-use research papers — studies with both civilian and military or security applications — are cited significantly more often than civilian-only work. Researchers analyzed 600,000 papers across 25 years, finding roughly 14% had dual-use characteristics and raising questions about how publicly funded science priorities are shaped.

Researchers unveiled a solar desalination process that turns seawater into drinking water while eliminating brine waste and recovering valuable minerals. With 2.2 billion people lacking reliable safe water, a method that doesn't poison the coastline could expand where the technology is viable.

Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin has asked the team for a trade, ending a decade-long run as the face of the franchise. The request reshapes Detroit's offseason overnight and hands contenders a top-line center to chase.

Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva beat Marta Kostyuk 6-1, 6-3 to reach her first Grand Slam final at Roland-Garros, with no handshake at the net between the two players. Her final opponent will be Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska — only the second qualifier in the Open era to reach a Grand Slam singles final.

Two fans received lifetime bans from all NBA arenas after a selfie-seeking incident during Game 1 of the Finals on Wednesday night. The league moved within 24 hours — zero tolerance for court intrusions on its biggest stage.

Demand for Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic The Odyssey was so intense Thursday that AMC's app paused and Fandango hit one-hour wait times — more than six weeks before the film's July 17 release. IMAX 70mm opening-weekend screenings are already sold out from last summer, with the $250M film starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, and Zendaya.

Director Wim Wenders withdrew his 1975 film "Wrong Move" from circulation after Nastassja Kinski asked him to, citing a scene in which she appeared topless at age 13. "I could already tell that wasn't right," Kinski told a German newspaper, decades after the fact.

Director Adam Shankman called online claims that he used generative AI to make the ensemble action comedy "Stop! That! Train!" "patently not true" ahead of its Pride Month release. The denial reflects how quickly AI accusations have become a standard pre-release headache for filmmakers.

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What it is: Over the past five years, the global market for liquefied natural gas consolidated around two suppliers — the United States and Qatar — which together command the majority of internationally traded LNG. That concentration looked efficient when both producers were online and expanding.

The detail: The U.S. became the world's largest LNG exporter after a wave of Gulf Coast terminal construction, while Qatar leveraged the world's cheapest production from the North Field. European buyers, scrambling after cutting Russian pipeline gas, leaned heavily on both — locking in long-term contracts that assumed reliable flows from each. Asia did much the same, with Japanese and South Korean utilities treating U.S.-Qatari supply as the new baseline.

Why it matters: The war has now hobbled one of the two pillars, exposing how thin the global safety net really is. When a duopoly supplies the fuel that heats European homes and runs Asian factories, a disruption to either side ripples through power prices, fertilizer costs, and industrial output within weeks.

What to watch: Whether buyers diversify toward Australia, Mozambique, or smaller U.S. projects, and how quickly new export capacity can come online to rebuild a buffer. Until then, LNG prices remain hostage to events in the Persian Gulf — and any further escalation around the Strait of Hormuz would land directly in European and Asian utility bills.

- A missing Sherpa guide crawled back toward Everest Base Camp after six days unaccounted for at higher altitude, found by mountain cleaners who were presumably not expecting that particular piece of litter.

- The Archdiocese of Washington removed its chief exorcist after he publicly declared that aliens are actually demons, a theological freelance the cardinal said "undermines the Church's very precise teaching on the devil."

- The nose gear on a Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner collapsed at Frankfurt Airport, injuring several workers under a jet that can weigh 279 tons fully loaded. Physics noticed.

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