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The DayThe Day: Friday, May 15, 2026
Trump and Xi close a summit with a framework but few signatures. Russia launches the war's largest drone barrage. Snack bags in Japan lose their color.
The DayThe Day: April 2, 2026
Iran strikes a Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai as the war expands into the shipping lanes of America's Gulf allies, and the price of the conflict arrives at the gas pump.