Calling it a “lab leak” makes the story feel tidy, but the real scandal might be the system that makes lab-origin disasters plausible in the first place. We sit down with independent journalist Sam Husseini to unpack gain-of-function research, why “potentially...
Ansar Allah announced that Yemen will begin preventing Saudi ships from transiting the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Riyadh has relied on its Red Sea ports to export oil following Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the Yemeni Armed Forces said it was...
President Donald Trump posted a poll that found over 60% of Americans support the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the US and Iran last month. Last week. Trump said he “couldn’t care less” that Iran terminated the MOU. When asked by Big Data Poll if they...
President Donald Trump declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not be arrested if he enters the US. Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes committed in Gaza by the International Criminal Court. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the...
US Central Command (CENTCOM) reports three US soldiers were killed over the weekend. According to CENTCOM, two soldiers were killed by an Iranian missile strike in Jordan, and a third is missing. Additionally, a third US soldier was killed in Iraq during the...
Sources told the Jerusalem Post that President Donald Trump is nearing a decision to expand the war against Iran. “It appears President Trump is preparing to expand the campaign against Iran,” one official said. “The remaining questions are...
President Donald Trump wants to add Iran to a bill that places massive tariffs on Russia. The recently deceased Senator Lindsey Graham authored the legislation. “Republicans should add Iran to the Russian Sanctions Bill. That’s what Lindsey wanted to do, and it...
Sources say that US Central Command (CENTCOM) did not engage in the standard review process for the strikes on a school in Iran that killed 168 children. According to officials speaking with CNN, the strikes on the Shajareh Tayyiba school in Minab only underwent...
The US is striking targets in Iran in an effort to give President Donald Trump more military options to escalate the conflict. Three US officials explained to Reuters that the current strikes against Iran are “shaping operations” meant to provide Trump...
Top officials said that the Iranian military would have a “decisive” response to US strikes. The ceasefire between the US and Iran broke down last week, and fighting has rapidly escalated. Iran’s top negotiator, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, explained that the...
The US Embassy in Lebanon announced that the State Department is offering grants of up to $250,000 to groups that help promote American propaganda. “The US Embassy in Beirut is opening a new Notice of Funding Opportunity for 2026,” a statement published on Tuesday...
Iranian officials told Vice President JD Vance that President Donald Trump’s lead negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, were exploiting their role for financial gain. Drop Site News reported on Wednesday, speaking with an Iranian official who explained the...
