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John Voorhees stood in the flickering glow of the Caesars Palace screen in Las Vegas. He just showed the world a ghost that breathes. The first trailer for As Deep as the Grave features Val Kilmer as Father Fintan. Kilmer is not actually on set. He is a generative AI creation authorized by his own estate. The image is crisp. The voice is haunting. It is the crowning moment of the Ghost Era. The film was designed entirely around Kilmer's…
Fifteen U.S. Navy destroyers sat silent in the Gulf of Oman this morning. They have officially encircled Iranian ports. The grace period for neutral ships is over. Any vessel moving without a hall pass from Washington is now a target for capture. This is Imperial Triage in action. The Americans…
Peter Mandelson is the man who never goes away. But the 72-year-old architect of New Labour might have finally run out of lives. He just lost his job as the UK Ambassador to Washington. It turns out he failed his security vetting. Officials warned he was a reputational risk. They…
Dr. Lisa Yanoff has a very expensive problem on her desk. She is the FDA deputy director looking at Foundayo. This is Eli Lilly’s new weight-loss pill. It was approved…
Seven Trump appointees just changed the look of Washington forever. The Commission of Fine Arts has approved the Victory Arch. It will be 250 feet of neoclassical muscle on the…
The war in Sudan has entered its fourth year as an abandoned crisis. Autonomous drones are now the primary weapons, recently liquidating 64 people at an East Darfur hospital. The UN calls it the world's largest humanitarian emergency, but the world is looking elsewhere.
The Western US agricultural baseline is in terminal liquidation. Snowpack levels have hit a record low of 22 percent. Elite chefs are scrambling as the supply of premium heirloom produce vanishes with the water.
A secondary market has emerged for the $166 billion in court-ordered tariff refunds. While families wait for checks, private hedge funds are buying up the debt. It is a masterclass in administrative arbitrage.
