Football Gods
Argentina edged Cape Verde 3-2 after extra time in Miami on July 3, 2026. Lionel Messi scored, a 40-year-old Cape Verde goalkeeper starred, and an own goal by Diney Borges broke island hopes.
During the 1960s the CIA plotted dozens of ways to kill Fidel Castro, including poisoned cigars and contaminated diving suits. The schemes involved Mafia figures, Operation Mongoose and a 1975 Senate probe that exposed as many as 638 plans.
Football Gods
Brazil enters the World Cup knockout as five-time champions and heavy favorites. Japan arrives as an adaptable dark horse that beat Brazil last year and could shift the tournament and youth culture with an upset.
In 1979 Iranian students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 Americans for 444 days. A failed U.S. rescue, long Cold War resentments and election timing turned the ordeal into a political and diplomatic watershed.
Latin Casanova
American women are drawn to South American men for music, language and migration. The attraction mixes culture, dance, and real human cost, from arepas on a budare to the millions displaced since 2014.
History's Teeth
Senator Joseph McCarthy’s 1950 claim of 205 communists turned accusation into theater. Televised Army hearings in 1954 and a censure vote ended his power, but the Red Scare wrecked careers, fed U.S. interventions in Latin America and left a long shadow.
Fool’s Court
Bill Maher accepted the Mark Twain Prize at a Kennedy Center ceremony where comedians repeatedly targeted President Trump. The center’s controversial branding with Trump’s name had been covered by a tarp after a judge ruled the board acted improperly.
Socialist Democracy
Apple raised prices on MacBook and iPad models amid rising memory costs tied to the AI boom. Senator Bernie Sanders blasted the increases as corporate greed while shares plunged.
Ruling Class
A $1.6 billion U.S.-Kazakhstan tungsten deal has raised conflict questions after Donald Trump, his sons and allies took linked stakes. The timing, family ties and strategic stakes in tungsten have sparked calls for oversight and alarm in Washington.
History's Teeth
Up to 30,000 people vanished in Argentina’s Dirty War. Mothers and grandmothers have marched since 1977 to force answers. DNA and trials have brought some justice but many wounds remain.
History's Teeth
In April 1961 a CIA-backed force of about 1,400 Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs. The invasion failed within days, boosting Fidel Castro and embarrassing the U.S. government.
War Zone
A U.S. special operations strike on Sept. 2, 2025, destroyed a 40-foot boat off Venezuela. Eleven people died. Pentagon officials later admitted some may have been human trafficking victims.