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Danny and Derek round up the week's global news, from Iran, Gaza, and Yemen to Sudan, Ukraine, Myanmar, the ICC, and shifting US-China influence.

Foreign malign intelligence.

Yet Democrats such as Haley Stevens, Angie Craig, Wesley Bell, and Greg Stanton are still voting for blank checks. Their primary rivals have something to say about that.

A World Cup victory will not just feel like a soccer triumph but a national triumph. For that reason, fans should support Pedro Sánchez's Spain over Javier Milei's Argentina.

From Korea to the Strait of Hormuz.

An expensive, ruinous conflict resumes for no other reason than one octogenarian narcissist's inability to face reality.

Fifty years after Pinochet's henchmen assassinated her and Orlando Letelier, finally a judicial reckoning.

Baller.

Israel is carrying out its Gaza strategy in yet another war.

If the pointless war on Iran is a historical marker equivalent to Suez in ignominy, the question becomes, what do we do with this "Decline of Empire" moment?