Trump:

If we win the midterms, we will provide a “Trump Dividend” — $5,000 for every adult citizen in our country.

Trump:

Please raise your right hand.

“I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States, who loves us so much he can’t even breathe. I will go out and vote.”

Trump:

You know what happens if you don’t vote: you go to hell.

I don’t want that to happen, so please go and vote.

Trump:

We took over Venezuela’s oil — 65 billion barrels of oil.

Trump on Iran:

We control the strait. “The Trump Strait,” I call it.

We control the Trump Strait.

NEW: Saudi Crown Prince MBS called Trump twice on Thursday urging him to strike the Houthis.

Trump said NO.

CENTCOM commander Admiral Cooper flew to Riyadh Thursday for emergency coordination.

Source: Axios

Anthropic's new threat report reveals that a cell in northern Yemen (highly likely Houthi-linked) used Claude Code as a substitute for an entire missile engineering team.

They ran multiple Claude instances simultaneously — one writing code, one researching, one reviewing — to develop guidance software for a tactical guided rocket, a 2,000+ km ballistic missile, and a hypersonic glide vehicle variant called "R2000."

The specific tasks: integrating open-source autopilot onto a phone-class flight computer, writing navigation and control software, running six-degree-of-freedom trajectory simulations, and using reinforcement learning to tune flight-control algorithms.

They compiled everything into a standalone offline executable so they could keep working without Claude.

They actually test-fired a guided rocket in Yemen.

It appears to have failed.

Within hours they were back in Claude doing post-test failure analysis on the telemetry data.

Anthropic's safeguards blocked many requests but the operators evaded them by hiding the end use, splitting work across many sessions, and using other workarounds.

Linked accounts were banned.

Anthropic says there's no evidence they fielded an operational weapon — but they already had an offline toolkit that no longer needed Claude.

This is one of six conventional-weapons cases in the report (three China, two Russia, one Yemen), alongside cyber ops, influence campaigns, a Mali-linked mass surveillance platform, bio-misuse attempts, and Chinese labs illegally distilling Claude.

Sign of the times: Qatar — the world's biggest LNG exporter before the war — is now in talks to buy U.S. LNG under long-term contracts.

That's a stunning reversal.

The Iran war knocked out two of Qatar's 14 LNG trains at Ras Laffan (3–5 year repair timeline, ~$20 billion/year in lost revenue), and the Strait of Hormuz is too dangerous for regular tanker traffic.

Result: A 96% drop in exports — just 18 cargoes shipped in six months versus 509 in the same period a year earlier, costing an estimated $24 billion.

Source: Bloomberg

After Saudi-backed forces retreated from Mokha following the Houthi takeover, they headed toward Aden — only to be blocked at the city's approaches by UAE-aligned southern forces.

The footage shows armed men stopping convoys, demanding weapons be handed over, filming the retreating fighters, and in some cases mocking them.

This is the Saudi-UAE fault line laid bare.

Some clips also claim to show retreating fighters selling their weapons in and around Aden.

Reporter: On the checks, the U.S. has $40 trillion in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote?

Trump: I’m doing it as a reward for people having to put up with five years of a horrible situation caused by Biden.

Reporter: You also offered tariff refund checks...

Trump: Not you. Not you.

Reporter: That didn’t happen.

Trump: Not you. You’re the worst.

Reporter: Is it possible that the Iran war will last the rest of your term?

Trump: No. There’s not even a chance of that.

Reporter: Do you have any concerns about AI leading to human extinction?

Trump: No, I don’t have any.

Kremlin:

The decision by Lithuania to lift the ban on the deployment of nuclear weapons, if implemented, would be a very serious escalation.

Lithuania will become a target for Russian nuclear weapons if it deploys similar weapons on its territory.