From the first tee of his own oceanfront course in Doonbeg, the President declares a unified Ireland "fantastic" and, per the White House, is, in the specific, the most qualified person in the room to say so Apple's new CEO unveils the foldable iPhone Duo at his first keynote, eight days into the job; the phone folds, the event hashtag trends higher than the phone, and Tim Cook, now executive chairman, applauds on cue Houthis seize the port of Mokha and the island of Zuqar, taking the Bab el-Mandeb strait; Saudi Arabia stands down its air force, which, per one regional official, is because it had not yet received a green light from the U.S. The Treasury announces it will spend $6 billion buying back its own bonds to push down the 30-year yield, now at a 19-year high, as the national debt hovers at the edge of $40 trillion The 2026 NFL season opens with a Super Bowl rematch — Seahawks 13, Patriots 10 — and the league, in its words, is "keeping the option open" on a third one, because trilogies are the safest bet it has 2,977 drones hold the shape of the Twin Towers over New York Harbor for the 25th anniversary, one light for each life lost; not one of them, in the middle of it, decides to form a duck Peru's 600-year-old royal tomb was so well hidden, even the looters couldn't find it; the team realized, one centimeter at a time, that the ground was doing the thing Nike's "Specter" jerseys are so bold that a fan group has formed to remember what the old ones used to look like, in high definition The emoji taste-test trend is turning entire diners into one very confused flavor experiment; the pickle and chocolate is the one people apologize for Scientists find the first Denisovan forearm bone — 1.7 inches, 40,000 years old, and, per the researchers, the part that makes them quiet