Iran Bats Down 'Baseless' Trump Claim On Handing Over Enriched Uranium To US, As He Declares Hormuz 'Never Again' Closed

UPDATE 3/3/2026 at 8:00 am EDT: CENTCOM said on Friday morning that four of six crew member on board the KC-135 were confirmed dead. US Central Command said on Thursday that it lost a KC-135 refueling tanker aircraft over Iraq and that a rescue effort is underway, suggesting it may have crashed. “US Central Command […]

Despite Slumping Sentiment & Lower Gas Prices, The American Consumer Is Still Spending Strongly While headline spend at gas stations is expected to decline (due to tumbling pump prices), BofA's almost omniscient analysts forecast a stronger than consensus print for today's US Retail Sales data. After a big jump in May (revised up), June's Headline retail sales rose 0.2% MoM (as expected), with sales up 6.7% YoY (down modestly)... Gasoline Stations sales saw the biggest decline (along with small drops in Health Personal Care and Food and Beverage). Nonstore Retailers saw the...

Massive Cosmic Test Shows Newton And Einstein Still Explain Gravity Accurately Authored by Neetika Walter via Interesting Engineering, Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and found that it behaves exactly as predicted by long-standing physical laws. Galaxies and clusters trace gravity’s pull across the universe.iStock Photos Researchers led by University of Pennsylvania used data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope to examine how galaxy clusters move across vast cosmic distances. Their results show that gravity weakens with distance in line with the inverse-square law first described by Isaac...