ELIZA BLEU AND THE PERPETUAL TRAUMA MACHINE—PART 2

Biden's FBI Secretly Obtained Kash Patel And Susie Wiles' Phone Records, But NYT Says It's Cool When Special Counsel Jack Smith was investigating Donald Trump and people in his orbit, he ended up surveilling then-private-citizen Kash Patel, and Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during 2022 and 2003. Patel, now head of the FBI, told Reuters on Wednesday that he found out about this, and the FBI buried the files in a "Prohibited" category deep within the bureau's computer system so they would be extremely difficult to find. Getting down to it - the subpoenas targeted metadata...

A growing number of civilians are flooding out of towns and villages in southern Lebanon over the past 48 hours. Some 30,000 civilians were displaced already Monday, and the number is expected to grow markedly as Israeli troops launched a new ground invasion of the country. Israel had ordered evacuations in several locations in Lebanon […]

Grounding Planes 'A Distinct Possibility': Tightened Global Fuel Supply Hitting Asian Nations Hardest European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has again warned of a "critical energy situation" as oil and gas markets convulse, underscoring growing fears of supply shocks, at a moment President Trump early this week claimed the Strait of Hormuz could "reopen very soon" if talks with Iran succeed - though Tehran has flatly denied any negotiations are underway as confusion reigns over the status of backchannel dialogue.  Already one country says it is suffering a fuel shortage crisis,...