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🇮🇷 Trump Threatens Iran Bridge, Power Plant Strike Per Hormuz Attack

President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to destroy one Iranian bridge or power plant for every attack on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, warning he was "not finished" with a conflict that has already cost Washington $37.5 billion.

"Any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The warning came hours before Trump was set to attend the return of four U.S. service members killed in Iranian attacks and related operations in Jordan and Iraq.

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🇨🇳 Rubio, Wang Yi Meet to Prep Xi's September US Visit

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Manila on Wednesday, saying talks focused on identifying areas of cooperation to lay the groundwork for a "very positive visit" to Washington by President Xi Jinping in September.

Rubio, speaking on the sidelines of an ASEAN regional gathering, said both sides have differences but that their job is to manage them and ensure they do not get out of control. President Trump has flagged a U.S.-China summit for the end of September. The South China Sea dispute between Beijing and Manila was also discussed.

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🇮🇷 Trump Threatens Iran Nuclear Strike as Goldman Warns $120 Oil

President Trump has vowed to attack Iranian nuclear facilities as the Middle East conflict escalates, raising the stakes in one of the region's most volatile standoffs in years.

Goldman Sachs warned that oil prices could surge to $120 per barrel if the Strait of Hormuz — a critical global shipping chokepoint — remains disrupted. The bank's alert signals the potential for severe economic fallout should the conflict intensify further.

The Strait of Hormuz handles a significant share of global oil flows, and any sustained disruption would reverberate through energy markets worldwide.

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🪖 Pentagon Names Soldier Killed by Iranian Drone Ordnance in Iraq

The Pentagon has identified the U.S. service member killed Saturday during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone at Erbil Air Base, Iraq.

Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of Fayetteville, N.C., died during the detonation procedure. The drone was of Iranian origin and had been shot down before the fatal incident occurred.

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🇮🇷 U.S. Strikes Iran Again, Reinforces Regional Air Assets

The United States has launched fresh strikes on Iran and is reinforcing its air assets across the region, as the conflict between the two countries continues.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has maintained an active strategy aimed at denying the U.S. Air Force safe use of regional runways. After five months of sustained airstrikes, that campaign shows continued lethal progress, according to reporting on the situation.

The strikes mark an escalation in a conflict now entering its sixth month, with both sides sustaining active military operations across the broader Middle East theater.

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🇲🇽 Sinaloa Cartel Co-Founder 'El Mayo' Gets Life in Prison

Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, co-founder and longtime leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, was sentenced Monday to life in prison by U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan at Brooklyn federal court.

Zambada pleaded guilty last year, admitting to shipping millions of kilograms of cocaine and other drugs into the United States over decades. At the sentencing, he called for an end to the brutal violence he used to build the Sinaloa Cartel into the world's largest drug trafficking organization.

He is among the most high-profile Mexican traffickers sentenced in a U.S. court since fellow Sinaloa leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman received a life sentence in 2019.

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🇨🇳 White House Eyes Ban on Chinese AI Models

The Trump administration is reportedly considering a ban on Chinese artificial intelligence models, as competition between U.S. and Chinese AI companies intensifies.

Chinese models are said to perform comparable tasks at significantly lower cost than U.S. counterparts. Officials are also weighing concerns that potential Chinese AI IPOs could reduce investor appetite for major U.S. listings, including those of Anthropic and OpenAI.

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