Mario Nawfal

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺 Zelensky just confirmed to NPR that the Trump administration threatened to cut off intel-sharing unless Ukraine stopped bombing Russian oil refineries. Washington reportedly also threatened to freeze the program that lets European countries buy American weapons for Kyiv. Trump then announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, which Zelensky said was news to him. Kyiv spent years being hailed as the West’s frontline against Russia, so it must be baffling to now be told to stop hitting Moscow where it hurts. Writer: Julie t.co/YlPpMYoKBZ

I think the supplements may be overkill, given the amount of food this guy eats 😂 Writer: Ian t.co/tZ5KpJZ3XO

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸 Another night of Russian missiles hitting Kyiv, and Ukraine says its allies gave no warning again. The strikes hit an apartment tower and a power plant, killing at least 2 people, and Zelensky says the missiles were only spotted when they were already close. Trump recently said the U.S. is still sharing intel with Kyiv. So why no warnings? Writer: Daniyal t.co/PcynqJLuVl

🇮🇱 Netanyahu says almost every country around Israel comes to it for help. “There is almost no country in the Middle East that does not ask us for help.” And apparently, almost every Western country does too. For a country everyone supposedly turns to, Israel sure gets a lot of help itself, starting with $3.8 billion a year in U.S. military assistance. Writer: Daniyal t.co/mXOjNPFWvF

🇮🇱 Netanyahu is warning Israelis what happens if the opposition wins the election. According to him, they’d “establish a Palestinian state,” pull out of Lebanon and Gaza, and “do nothing against Iran.” He really needs this to land. With the vote on October 27, he’s trailing in the polls and has reportedly admitted he’ll lose “unless something changes.” So this is basically his pitch to voters: pick me, or get all of that. Writer: Daniyal t.co/KryYAL57nT

🚨BREAKING: 🇸🇦 Saudi authorities have issued an emergency alert warning of a hostile aerial threat over Riyadh. 2 loud explosions have reportedly been heard between the capital and the city of al-Kharj to the southeast. Source: Al Arabiya, @officialrnintel / Writer: Julie t.co/NWQfjuMzdg

🇮🇱 Netanyahu has a message for everyone thinking about voting him out: “If the opposition wins, they will establish a Palestinian state. They will withdraw from Lebanon, from Gaza. They will do nothing against Iran.” Israelis head to the polls on October 27, less than 2 weeks from now. Netanyahu’s campaign pitch boils down to “vote for me, or the wars might actually end.” Writer: Julie t.co/KryYAL4zyl

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Netanyahu just vowed Israel will flat-out block a Palestinian state. “What has happened in the West Bank is a miracle. What was supposed to become a Palestinian state will not become one today. It will not happen because we will not allow it.” He said it as much of the world heads in the opposite direction, with several countries formally recognizing Palestine last year. The International Court of Justice ruled back in 2024 that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory is unlawful. Decades of peace talks and 2-state promises, and he just admitted out loud they were never going to share the land. Writer: Julie t.co/1oeAWWmNAY

🇮🇱 Netanyahu has a message for the countries that walk out on his UN speeches and then come knocking for Israeli weapons. He says they condemn Israel in public, then quietly ask about buying Arrow, Israel’s long-range missile defense system. “Behave differently, and you will receive plenty. Give, and you will receive. Keep giving us these insults, and you will receive nothing.” Israel’s missile shield is up for grabs, as long as you kept your seat warm during Bibi’s speech 😁 Writer: Julie t.co/K1q0jKZZvj

🇺🇸 Trump just flooded his socials with dozens of campaign videos. They range from $5,000 promises and "never give up" pep talks to fighter jets, deportation raids, and MUCH MORE. Most campaigns spread their ads out over months, but Trump dropped a whole season's worth before most of America woke up 😆 Writer: Julie

🇺🇸 The S&P 500 is up 23% since March 30, and just 10 stocks are responsible for 70% of that climb. Nvidia did the heaviest lifting, single-handedly accounting for 13% of the gain after adding roughly $1.2 TRILLION in market value. Micron, Apple and Microsoft chipped in about 9% each, with AMD also among the leaders, per a Nomura analysis by strategist Charlie McElligott. The other 490 companies? They contributed just 30% of the rally. Combined. Nvidia alone now accounts for about 8% of the entire S&P 500, the biggest weighting for a single stock in more than 50 years. Meanwhile, chipmakers have gone from roughly 5% of the index in 2020 to nearly 20% this summer. So anyone buying the S&P for “diversification” is basically holding an AI chip fund with 490 passengers along for the ride. Sources: Nomura, Crypto Briefing / Writer: Julie

🇺🇸 A whale off Long Island was so locked in on lunch that it slammed right into a boat full of fishermen. Turns out the fishermen weren’t the only ones out fishing that day. Writer: Daniyal t.co/CC95ZbpCfY

Take a moment to think how you would feel if your son had climbed into a tiger enclosure and died, then Trump posts this days later, making fun of the incident Writer: Ian t.co/avmLFIlqVu

3 out of 4 Tesla owners in Norway buy another Tesla. That’s 72.8% retention in one of the most mature EV markets on the planet. Toyota is next at 51.8%. And this is actual purchase behavior from people who already know what owning an EV is like and have plenty of other options. They tried Tesla. Then they bought Tesla again. That says a lot. @Tesla @teslaeurope / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

Elon had two words for a new book on the “TRANSTIFA” group responsible for a string of murders across the U.S “SUPER CREEPY” “The Zizians: Inside a Trans Death Cult” by Andy Ngo dives into the diabolical beliefs and actions of the fringe, cultlike group associated with Jack “Ziz” LaSota, a transgender woman who has promoted radical ideas involving rationalism, veganism, gender identity, and AI. Their motto? “Kill your way to heaven.” Source: @MrAndyNgo / Writer: Marie

Venezuela officially opened the whole country to Starlink. And Starlink had already shown exactly why that matters. After June’s earthquakes badly damaged terrestrial networks, more than 1,600 kits were deployed and Direct-to-Device helped keep basic messaging alive through satellites. Now the emergency solution gets to stay. For rural areas, outages and disasters, Starlink's got the comms covered. @Starlink @SpaceX / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné

Can someone explain to me how the RAF Fairford incident was a foiled terror attack that Iran was behind if all SEVEN suspects walked on police bail and ZERO are being held in prison? Writer: Ian

🇺🇦🇧🇷 A Brazilian volunteer in Ukraine was recording himself while a Russian drone STRUCK the building he was in 💀 The footage is SO WILD. The sirens were already off, and he was in a hotel in Kharkiv with 4 other Brazilian volunteers. The impact damaged the place and left some of them with minor injuries. Luckily, they all made it out. Writer: Lucas t.co/eOcinG8wog

🇬🇧 A woman who snapped photos of the man minutes before he climbed into a tiger enclosure has now posted a video about it, and nobody can figure out why... Del Taylor says he was dancing with his AirPods in, asked her for pictures with the tiger behind him and thanked her before going in… then she spent the rest of the clip telling everyone to stop speculating online, in a video speculating online. The only people who need to hear her story are the investigators and his family… the rest of us were doing fine without the main character energy😂 Writer: Daniel, Lucas t.co/RJQhD4CA83

🇺🇸 Jaime West wants a seat on the Fayette County Council, so naturally she went on camera, slurred through a speech about firing every Republican, and closed with “We have guns too.” Happy hour must start early in Connersville😂 Writer: Daniel t.co/26X4t4XRuN

🚨🇺🇸 Trump’s new campaign video has everything: an eagle, a lion, Melania, cheering crowds and Biden with laser eyes😂 Writer: Daniel t.co/KUYVK3Ehes

🇺🇸🇮🇱 American leaders are DESTROYING the country for the sake of Israel Tucker and Jimmy Dore argue the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are accelerating an existing decline, while Washington shows little concern for either conflict’s details. When the UK and Europe sanctioned Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank, the U.S. threatened its own allies instead. They describe a country willing to damage itself and its oldest partners for a government that holds it in contempt. Source: @TCNetwork / Writer: Lucas

🇺🇸 Police and the FBI are excavating the backyard of a Philadelphia home tied to a MISSING WOMEN case. Crews began digging at the Olney house on Chew Avenue after weeks of searching for DNA and other evidence. The property belonged to the late Raymond Horsch and his son Eugene, who is in custody on unrelated drug and weapons charges. Investigators recovered a huge volume of digital files linked to the women, but no human remains so far. The search continues as authorities work to determine what happened to the missing women. Source: Fox29Philadelphia YT / Writer: Lucas

🚨🇺🇸🇬🇱 Trump says massive oil drilling is coming to Greenland as the US turns the island into a missile shield Fresh off a deal giving America a permanent military foothold on the Arctic island, Trump is promising an energy boom too: “Any future attack on the United States will have to come across Greenland, where our Defense will routinely knock down drones, missiles, or any other form of weapon not yet even conceived.” The defense side checks out, since the deal lets the US build bases and scout a Golden Dome missile defense site there. The oil is the harder sell... Greenland’s government controls its own resources and blocked a US company from drilling in August, so expect Washington to lean HARD on Nuuk for permits before anyone pumps a barrel. Writer: Daniel

🇺🇸🇸🇦 The hacked supertanker that lost its engines off Texas was carrying oil for Saudi Aramco's American refinery Bloomberg customs data shows about half the 2 million barrels on the VL Prosperity were bought by Motiva, Aramco's wholly owned Port Arthur refinery and one of the biggest in the country. The tanker loaded at Egypt's Sidi Kerir, routed through Gibraltar because Hormuz is a war zone, and was hit in early August. Coast Guard and FBI cyber teams boarded in the Atlantic on Aug. 21 and spent four days aboard, and investigators determined the hackers reached the propulsion system. Iran's IRGC-tied Mehr News broke the story on Aug. 20, weeks before Washington confirmed anything, describing how the attackers cut engine cooling, raised engine speed and tampered with fuel systems during a 30-hour blackout. Tasnim followed with "No American vessel is safe anymore." Attributing it to "unnamed crew" while publishing the playbook is how Tehran takes credit without signing its name, and US investigators are focused on Iran-linked hackers. A second Texas-bound tanker, the LPG carrier Kohaku, was boarded three days later over a related attack, and nearly 20 ships are now under watch. Two months on, the Houthis are hitting Aramco in Dhahran while Iran shows it can reach Aramco's cargo on the way to Texas. Source: Bloomberg, CBS News / Writer: Daniel

Someone please explain what the logic behind this decision was😅 They didn't want to break their rear window, so they just totaled their whole car instead? Writer: Marie, Daniel t.co/PQrHJ9CnvV

🇺🇸 2 gas stations next to each other in Georgia started a PRICE WAR and dropped fuel to under $1 The Amoco and Sunoco on Marietta Street in Powder Springs kept undercutting each other until regular gas hit 97 CENTS. Gas stations fighting over who can go lower is how drivers finally win. Christmas came early😂 Writer: Lucas t.co/1m9PYBbzpM