Maker of Drone Boats Used in Iran War to Open New Texas Shipyard
[Saronic Technologies will make naval and commercial vessels at the facility. The company’s naval drone helped rescue the crew of a downed Apache helicopter last month.
The Long-Running, Never-Ending Argument Over What Counts as ‘America’
The label applies to the country, but also two whole continents. Our claim over it is yet another way for us to annoy the entire hemisphere.
Viral video does not show Iranian Navy destroying ship in Strait of Hormuz amid renewed tensions
Viral video is old, showing a US Navy strike on an Iranian Soleimani-class corvette, not Hormuz The claim that a viral video shows a ship recently destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Strait of Hormuz is false. PHOTO: VIDEO SCREEN SHOT Multiple pro-Iranian users, based on their display profiles and past posts, have been … Read more
‘They Fight’ Review: It Might Have Been a Contender
This real-life inspired boxing drama has muscular ambitions, but too little finesse.
Iranian army warns US to expect ‘surprises’ if escalations, memorandum violations continue
Iran said a US strike near a children’s cancer hospital in Ahvaz forced the evacuation of 211 young patients Smoke rises from an explosion at an unknown location, during what US Central Command (CENTCOM) says are strikes on Iran, in this screen grab taken from a handout video released on July 15, 2026. US Central … Read more
Global Opinion Shifts Toward Favoring China Over the U.S., Poll Finds
An annual survey from the Pew Research Center found that more countries felt positively about China than America.
As Argentina Holds Up Falklands Banner on Defeating England, Here’s What to Know About the War
Argentina and Britain fought a bloody war over the islands in 1982. Decades later, the dispute suffuses matches between England and Argentina.
Strait of Hormuz Tanker Traffic Erodes Further as Oil Prices Rise
[Very few ships passed through the waterway on the first full day of the U.S. naval blockade of Iran.
Duchamp Gave Up Art for Chess. At MoMA, He Inspires a New Gambit.
Susan Polgar, a chess grandmaster, will be playing 50 artists, critics and fans of Marcel Duchamp at the same time, in honor of his birthday, July 28.
Escalating Israeli strikes kill five people in Gaza, medics say
Witnesses said an airstrike hit a residential building in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, damaging nearby homes Palestinian man, Hamas Al-Hdabi, mourns holding the body of his father, Sohail, who was killed in an Israeli strike, as Hamas sits inside a car during the funeral, in Gaza City, July 16, 2026.PHOTO: REUTERS Israeli strikes killed at … Read more