Iran Holds Funeral for Two Air Defense Personnel Killed by Israeli Attack

How Crowded Has Mount Everest Become? Mount Everest is seeing more human traffic than at any point in the last three decades of available data, according to Visual Capitalist's Sofie Gilbert. Successful climbs are now overwhelmingly concentrated in the spring, when favorable weather can funnel hundreds of climbers toward the summit within a matter of days. Meanwhile, the workforce supporting expeditions has grown alongside the number of people attempting the mountain. The data comes from The Himalayan Database, which tracks registered expeditions across the Nepal Himalaya. It shows how the scale, timing, and composition...

Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell's Last Press Conference With Kevin Warsh having won the backing of the Senate Banking Committee on a 13-11 party-line vote to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, it's pretty much a done deal that this will be Jerome Powell's final press conference as Fed Chair. And while The Fed took no action - as 100% expected - the question remains whether Powell will lean hawkish (oil crisis means inflation tsunami) or dovish (higher costs drag on economy and need support) despite the most dissents (3...

VP Vance Confirms Hormuz Strait To Reopen 'Toll Free', Says 'Israel Has Seat At Table' Summary: Vice President JD Vance Begins Optics Roadshow to Boost Investor Confidence On Deal  Iran Offers 60-Day Toll-Free Hormuz Transit As 100s Of Ships Await Reopening VP Vance Not even 24 hours after President Trump declared a peace deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and just 30 minutes before New York futures opened Sunday evening, the administration already had Vice President JD Vance beginning a media roadshow to calm investor nerves and boost confidence. Vance began the...