Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Tehran is in a "full-scale" war with the U.S., Israel and Europe, describing the country's diplomatic situation as "complicated and difficult." "In my opinion, we are in a full-scale war with America, Israel, and Europe; they do not want our country to stand on its feet," Pezeshkian said in a lengthy interview posted to the official website of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday.

Sangdong mine, South Korea — Over the course of decades, China has come to dominate the rare earths and critical minerals industries, virtually cornering the market on raw materials that are essential to every aspect of modern life, from cellphones to armor piercing ammunition and AI missile guidance systems.

For almost any other musical artist, The Renaissance World Tour would be a career peak. The three-hour, career-spanning journey through Beyoncé's discography was one of the concert sensations of 2023, grossing nearly $600 million and cementing her place, alongside Taylor Swift, as one of the biggest pop culture icons in the world.

There's a kind of nausea or vertigo I get when confronted by an extremely large number. Kant called it the mathematical sublime, the terror before something that is "large beyond all comparison". At a certain point numbers start expanding out beyond any ordinary experience of the world. I can eat three apples; three million apples is just an abstract enormity. It makes no sense. Kant's example was the "kind of perplexity that is said to seize the spectator who for the first time enters St. Peter's Basilica in Rome". It's just too big to fit inside the puny human skull; you can't comprehend the size of the thing without running up against some kind of unthinking awe.

Silicon Valley's wealthiest residents are once again threatening to leave California, this time over a proposed state wealth tax that tech founders warn could fundamentally reshape where innovation — and capital — call home. The proposal, backed by the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West, would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of California residents worth more than $1 billion.

Welcome to a special year-end edition of "Forgotten Fact-Checks," a weekly column produced by National Review's News Desk. This week, as we look toward a new year, we recap the biggest media misses of 2025. The BBC's Year Goes from Bad to Worse The network started out the year in hot water: Executives removed a documentary on the war in Gaza from the publicly funded broadcaster's online streaming service after an investigative journalist found the filmmakers had unwittingly profiled the son of a Hamas member.

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