Kitchen Briefs - August 5, 2026 AM

Kitchen Briefs - August 5, 2026 AM Iran says talks with Oman are going well and one or two issues remain The Houthis claim to have attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea with ballistic missiles Israel has launched new attacks in southern Lebanon claiming a blatant violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah Israeli forces are also carrying out new raids in the West Bank and are detaining Palestinians A Russian strike on Ukraine has killed 21 Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the moon today and has left a 60 ft wide crater, ejecting lunar dust and rock An Associated Press investigation has revealed that 51 parents and spouses of active duty US troops have been detained since Trump came into office for the second time with at least 6 military family members being deported while 8 remain in federal custody Speaker Mike Johnson says he feels bad for Rep Max Miller The FAA is investigating after a commercial flight had an apparent loss of separation with Marine One Trump announced he’s rolling back the intended scope of the Endangered Species Act that the Radical Climate Activists were using to hold our great country hostage by The UK’s AI Security Institute has reported that Claude and ChatGPT attempted a backdoor project on GitHub and wrote malicious code that attempted to trick the humans into merging it with the project Michigan has said in its voting last night that they are not for Democrats who take AIPAC money and have put forward Abduel El-Sayed TKO Group Holdings, the parent company for UFC, says it lost $30M for its little rage cage match on the White House lawn Disney and TikTok have struck a deal to allow creators to use characters and scenes from Disney’s library for short form videos A big thank you to Angela for providing me with coffee for the week!!