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Iran's navy declared the strait closed. U.S. Central Command said it was open. Six ships went through anyway. Here is how the deal was written to leave exactly that gap.

The phrase that sticks here is "public man-made death" — a term for what happens downstream when an aid agency simply stops existing. The accounting has started coming in.

You've read the construction a thousand times: it's not X, it's Y. Nobody can fully explain why every chatbot converged on it, and that's the genuinely unsettling part.

Welles spent decades on films nobody ever got to see finished. Gioia's claim is that the wreckage teaches more than the masterpiece — ten magnificent collapses, ranked.

Doom is having a commercial moment, so NPR did the boring, useful thing and sorted the catastrophes by actual probability. Good for recalibrating where your worry goes.