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“The idea is that when an established, great power is met with a rising power, conflict between the two is certainly likely if not inevitable,” said Daniel Sutton, a classicist at the University of Cambridge who studies Thucydides, on Thursday.

Facilities tied to Coca-Cola, Cargill, Mondelez and others appear to have been deliberately hit. The Trump administration’s muted response has raised concerns.

Fervo Energy, which uses drilling techniques from the oil and gas industry to produce power from the earth’s heat, raised $1.9 billion in an initial public offering.

A new super PAC with ties to Republicans is intervening in Democratic primaries, in one instance helping a sex therapist in Texas accused of antisemitism.

A suspension of the tax would not necessarily mean a gallon would cost 18.4 cents less for drivers.

The fuel is generally taxed at a terminal before it’s distributed to gas stations, which makes it easier for the federal government to collect.

If drivers see any relief, “it’s going to have to be because that producer is then reducing the price that it charges to the gas station,” said Michael Negron, an economics fellow at the Center for American Progress, a research group.

Basically, a gas tax holiday gives money to the oil companies, not to drivers.

Given how oil and gas are traded globally traded, the fact that the US extracts more oil from the ground than it burns doesn't keep prices from rising. Only real insulation from this is to end the need to burn the stuff - that means bikes, ebikes, mass transit, and electric cars.

Male and female Palestinians describe brutal sexual abuse at the hands of Israel’s prison guards, soldiers, settlers and interrogators.

Opinion - Nicholas Kristof May 11, 2026

There is no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes. But in recent years they have built a security apparatus where sexual violence has become, as a United Nations report put it last year, one of Israel’s “standard operating procedures” and “a major element in the ill treatment of Palestinians.” A report out last month, from the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based advocacy group often critical of Israel, concludes that Israel employs “systematic sexual violence” that is “widely practiced as part of an organized state policy.”