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In less than 48 hours, Nigeria suffered two attacks: 29 civilians killed on a football pitch by ISWAP jihadists, and 23 children kidnapped from an orphanage — revealing the state's powerlessness one year before elections.
On April 26, 2026, an armed man attempted to force his way into the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, wounding a Secret Service agent and forcing Donald Trump and JD Vance to be evacuated. The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a California tutor with a Caltech background, sent a manifesto to his family ten minutes before the attack, identifying himself as the 'Friendly Federal Assassin.' Authorities determined he targeted Trump and members of his administration.
The Justice Department publishes a 48-page memo to restart the federal death machine — using methods the rest of the world is abolishing.
Beijing launches an open-source model that rivals GPT-5.4 — and Washington responds by accusing China of stealing its technology.
Pope Leo XIV defuses the crisis with Trump by declaring he is 'not at all' seeking to debate. Trump responds by participating in a Bible marathon reading. The imminent meeting with King Charles III is shaping up under high diplomatic tension.
Trump posts an AI image of himself as a Christ figure, attacks the first American pope in history, then claims he saw himself as a doctor — even his evangelical allies are no longer following him.
Peter Magyar proclaims the 'liberation' of Hungary as Orbán concedes a 'painful' defeat — Putin's most loyal ally in Europe has just lost power.
Twenty-one hours of negotiations yielded nothing — the US-Iran ceasefire agreement unravels and Trump orders the US Navy to block the world's most strategically critical maritime passage.
US inflation jumps to a two-year high, the Bank of Japan freezes its rates, European airports warn of a kerosene shortage — the bill for the war in Iran arrives in wallets around the globe.
Chinese supertankers transit the strait under U.S. escort, but Iran asserts it has authorized no passage—a high-stakes standoff over the world's energy chokepoint is unfolding in real time.
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