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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 17, 2026

Ukrainian drone attacks halted two refineries run by Russian oil giant Rosneft. Three of Russia’s six biggest diesel-producing refineries are now sharply reducing output or fully shut down.

USMC Used Its Expeditionary Operations Playbook In Combat For First Time During Epic Fury

Israel’s Most Consequential Election

Fuel Oil and Diesel Prices Are at Record Highs as Iran Conflict Continues

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Saudi Aramco Cancels European Crude Cargoes as Key Pipeline Stays Shut

German Intel: Hamas Planned October 7 Anniversary Terror Attacks in Berlin, Vienna

Japanese Bond Yields Surge To 30 Year High On Report Tokyo May Hike Defense Spending To 3.5% Of GDP

Rare Ebola Strain Spreads to Seventh Province in Congo

This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn’t happened in 175 years

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 12, 2026

With U.S. diesel above $6 a gallon, Trump urges Ukraine to stop targeting Russian production facilities

Fuel Riots Erupt In Syria As Instability Spreads Across Mideast

Anthropic Blocks Users After Claude Is Linked to Potential Bioweapons Research

How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works

A Hidden Form of Heart Failure Is Leaving Millions Breathless

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The Outlook Is Getting Grimmer By The Day For Oil Exports From The Red Sea

Earlier this year, an Iran-linked actor used Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model to scrape and analyze data with the aim of helping target U.S. naval forces in the Middle East. A group in Yemen – very likely Iranian-backed Houthi militants – also used Claude to assist with work on guidance systems for ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral. Typically, attacks begin with a simple CAPTCHA image, often masquerading as one from Cloudflare. After engaging with the box, the user sees a line of text, often obscured in a way to mask any malicious commands. Then the user is instructed to copy the text and paste it into the Windows Run, PowerShell, or macOS terminal and click Enter.

Diesel Crunch Set To Worsen As Refining Capacity Falls Short

Army Lasers Cut Cartel Drone Traffic 75% at Border

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 11, 2026

IDF Blows Up Underground Hezbollah Base Beneath Lebanon’s Ali Taher Ridge

Russia has a bear problem — attacks are reported almost daily.

US Treasury yields surge as $6 billion bond buyback disappoints markets

The 9/11 Falling Man: The story behind an image that shocked the world

How an injured bookkeeper helped save the lives of six firefighters on 9/11

Google Earth’s AI experiment lasted 24 hours.

‘I Have To Sit With That’: Gayle King’s Brain Divides By Zero After Holdout Clancy Juror Revealed As Black Man