Displacement: Hundreds of thousands of people have fled southern Lebanon and warplanes bombed Beirut as Israel kept up its assault on Hezbollah. The U.S. encouraged Syria to send forces into eastern Lebanon to help. Damascus doesn’t want to get sucked in, sources said. Israel’s military apologized for hitting a U.N. position in Lebanon with tank fire. Learn how Iran patched up Hezbollah after Israel mauled it in 2024.
Until when? Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks would resume once “our American partners” could pay more attention. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a Ukrainian negotiating team expects to meet U.S. officials today.
No rush: Cannabis-based medicines show little evidence of effectiveness in treating most mental-health and substance-abuse disorders, a review of past studies published in the Lancet shows.
Bean counters: Some experts say prices will fall in coming months. David Zaslav will be able to afford a large cup no matter what after a filing showed the Warner Bros Discover CEO could receive up to $887 million after the company’s sale to Paramount Skydance. McCormick made a Frank’s RedHot believer out of me, but buying Unilever’s food business? That’s a somewhat more ambitious task.
Fully loaded: Researchers discovered a software exploit planted on websites in Ukraine in recent weeks that could penetrate and steal information from hundreds of millions of iPhones. Two minors and a third person sued xAI, saying it knowingly designed its Grok image generator to let people create sexually explicit content by using real photos of others.
