Trump winces in pain during the loud military flyover as Xi shows no reaction

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ed Sheeran opens solo concert with comments about Gaza, says what's happening is 'catastrophic and unjustifiable.'

Many in the West expect India to be able to balance China. @PhillipsPOBrien in the Atlantic. This is presumably based on the demographic prior, together with rosy and fraudulent WorldBank estimates of the decline of poverty in India. There is no possibility of India balancing China. Here’s why. National power is a function of human capital and the general competence of national institutions. India has slowly made gains in both. But these gains are dwarfed by those made by China in both rapidity and magnitude. The average stunting rate for kids in Indian states is 36%. It is 12% in China. This does not only mean that we can mechanically ‘mark down’ their populations by the same factors (0.64 vs 0.88), which removes the entire population advantage. It also serves as a signal for the general scale of productive workers available to Indian and Chinese engineers, firms and governments. This is not mere theory. India has more men of military age than China, and is not far in the number of engineering and STEM graduates. But China dwarfs India in mfg va, advanced (ATP) mfg va, and intermediates mfg va; steel, electricity, and auto production. There is a possibility that the Indians will eventually figure out that they need to make deep investments in everyday people. If that happens, India may begin to close the gap with China. But this process will take many decades. There is no possibility of the gap closing any time in the next few decades. So, India’s not going to pull the West’s chestnuts out of the fire any time soon. In the underlying balance of power, the world today is unipolar with China as the unipole. Only the US is today within shouting distance of China. Roughly speaking, it is half as strong. No one else is in the running.

China’s Zhejiang University had a professor take off in a jetpack at its open day.

Robert Kraft is a pro-genocide billionaire with ties to Epstein. Pass it on.

The port city of Mokha has fallen to the Houthis The strategic port gives the Houthis complete control of the Bab al-Mandab strait

Yemeni armed forces claim to have taken control of the western coast

We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics. The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra. The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.

“Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost —taking out three of yours. We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” — Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander.

Gloria Steinem taught America that sexism is a symptom of a system that can be changed. From the fight for equal pay to abortion access and political representation, she showed that progress comes when people organize, build power and refuse to accept inequality as inevitable. She staged protests, established domestic violence shelters, created a magazine owned and operated entirely by women and helped build a movement that fundamentally changed this country. Her legacy is the millions of people she inspired to believe that a more just world was possible. She lived in New York for 70 years. We were lucky to have her. We mourn her loss and will carry her work forward.