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When three senior American officials told the Washington Post that Russia is providing Iran with classified information, including the exact locations of American warships and aircraft operating across the Middle East, they revealed more than just a tactical alliance. They exposed the structure of a new kind of war. A war without front lines. Wars were fought not with tanks and missiles, but with radar beams, satellite feeds, and encoded coordinates. In today’s Gulf, the battleground is the electromagnetic spectrum, with each side fighting above all to blind the other.Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly denied that Russia was sharing such…

President Donald Trump will decide whether the United States will participate in the International Energy Agency’s historic release of oil reserves to address supply disruptions caused by the Iran war, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told CNBC on Wednesday. “What we’re hearing from the IEA today, I think, is reasonable on the IEA side, but it’s obviously up to President Trump whether the U.S. participates or not, and he makes the final decision,” Burgum said in an interview on CNBC’s “Power Lunch.”President Trump said late Wednesday that he would tap into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to reduce energy costs.”We’ll do it…

Right foot, left foot, volley. It’s not a textbook perfect hat trick, but it’s probably an improvement over that. Fede Valverde was Real Madrid’s hero in their 3-0 victory over Manchester City. It was one of the great performances of the Champions League.This was supposed to be an opportunity for Josep Guardiola’s City team to prove their authority with Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham among the injured. Madrid had been touting the fact that they were by no means underdogs, but there were concerns about their form. Valverde entered due to the captain’s efforts. Talk about stepping up. He then…

Flash floods are one of the world’s deadliest weather phenomena, killing more than 5,000 people each year. They are also some of the most difficult to predict. But Google thinks it has solved that problem in an unexpected way: by reading the news. Humans collect a lot of weather data, but flash floods are too short-lived and localized to be comprehensively measured using long-term monitoring methods for temperatures or even river flows. This data gap means that deep learning models, which are increasingly capable of predicting weather, are unable to predict flash floods. To solve this problem, Google researchers used…

Kate Wieser | Moments | Getty ImagesHigher oil prices could push up inflation in the coming months, which could lead to higher estimates of Social Security cost-of-living adjustments in 2027.“Geographical and political tensions are currently driving up oil prices, which will continue to drive my COLA estimates higher,” Mary Johnson, an independent Social Security and Medicare analyst, said in an email.Based on new government inflation data from February, Social Security COLAs in 2027 could be 1.7%, Johnson said. This was up from the 1.2% Prime Minister Boris Johnson had predicted last month.Separately, the Coalition on Senior Citizens, a nonpartisan seniors…

A man wears a lobster hat representing the logo of OpenClaw, an open source AI assistant, at Baidu’s headquarters in Beijing on March 11, 2026.Adek Berry | AFP | Getty ImagesChina is rapidly deploying its popular artificial intelligence tool OpenClaw, with major tech companies and even local governments rushing to expand access to the lobster-themed open-source AI agent in recent weeks. AI agents are digital assistants that can handle tasks like sending emails, scheduling meetings, and making restaurant reservations with minimal human guidance. Unlike chatbots, which simply respond to prompts, AI agents can take proactive actions, but they often require…

Iran may have superior weapons and spending over the United States and Israel, but it has one major advantage: control of the Strait of Hormuz. By attacking ships navigating the narrow waterway, Iran has effectively shut down the shipping route through which a fifth of the world’s oil supplies pass. The British Maritime Authority said on Thursday that another ship had been collided in the Persian Gulf, the sixth such collision in two days. The Iranian government has reportedly dug mines in the strait, further blocking the passage of ships, marking a new escalation in the war. Here’s what you…

Top Shot – U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive for a meeting at Gimhae Air Base adjacent to Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to seek a ceasefire in their bitter trade war on October 30, with the US president predicting a “great meeting” but Beijing taking a more cautious stance. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP) (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesWith a high-stakes summit in Beijing less than three weeks away, the United States has…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. new york stock exchangedow futures Oil prices fell late Wednesday as they continued to rise in extended trading.Futures, which track the Dow Jones Industrial Average, fell 510 points, or nearly 1.07%. S&P500 futures Although it fell by about 0.84%, Nasdaq 100 futures It also fell by 0.85%. Late Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced that the United States would release 172 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Fuel delivery takes approximately 120 days. The announcement came after President Donald Trump said in an interview with Cincinnati…

Editor’s note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series dedicated to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet and their solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has partnered with CNN to promote awareness and education on key sustainability issues and inspire positive action. A walk through the Knepp estate in southern England will take you past beaver bogs, breeding herons and free-roaming Exmoor ponies, accompanied by the distinctive call of turtle doves. “It’s a sound that used to be part of our culture. It defined everyone’s British summer,” says Isabella Tree, who owns 3,500 acres in West Sussex with…