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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...

Hantavirus: The Virus That Kills One in Three — And Just Hitched a Ride on a Cruise Ship

Somewhere in the Patagonian steppe, a long-tailed pygmy rice rat scurried through a field and left behind a trail of urine. A Dutch tourist on a four-month road trip across Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay breathed in the wrong air. He probably didn't notice. He boarded the MV Hondius in Ushuaia on April 1, 2026, feeling fine. He was dead within eleven days. By the time the world learned what had happened — by the time the ship's doctors connected the symptoms, ran the tests, and notified the WHO — the MV Hondius was somewhere in the South Atlantic, carrying 147 passengers and crew, a dead man's body still in the mortuary, and a virus that health authorities would rather you didn't think too hard about. This is the story of hantavirus. And why the fact that you've barely heard of it is itself the most alarming part. A Killer With a 30-Year Head Start Hantavirus isn't new. It isn't emerging. It isn't something scientists discovered last Tuesday in a we...

11 American Scientists and Nuclear Insiders Are Dead or Missing. The FBI Just Got Involved. Here's Every Name and What They Knew.

They worked on asteroid deflection missions. Nuclear weapons components. Plasma fusion that could change the world's energy supply. Anti-gravity propulsion. And one by one, since 2022, they have vanished or turned up dead — leaving behind phones, wallets, glasses, and more questions than anyone in Washington wants to answer. As of April 2026, at least 11 individuals connected to America's most sensitive nuclear and aerospace programs are dead or missing. The FBI has now confirmed it is leading a coordinated investigation. The House Oversight Committee has demanded briefings from NASA, the Department of Energy, the Pentagon, and the FBI by April 27. President Trump called it "pretty serious stuff." Here is every confirmed case, what each person was working on, and why the pattern — particularly in New Mexico — is so difficult to explain away. The New Mexico Cluster: Four People, One State, One Year The detail that alarms investigators most isn't the deaths. It...

How to Make Money on Facebook in 2026

How to Make Money on Facebook in 2026 Facebook paid creators nearly $3 billion in 2025. That number went up 35% from the year before. If you've been ignoring Facebook as a place to earn money, it's time to take another look. In 2026, Facebook has more ways to pay creators than ever before — from guaranteed monthly payments for established creators to ad revenue, live tips, subscriptions, and brand deals. This guide covers every method, who qualifies, and exactly how to get started. Method 1: Creator Fast Track — Guaranteed Monthly Pay This is the biggest news in Facebook monetization right now. In March 2026, Facebook launched Creator Fast Track — a program that pays established creators guaranteed monthly income just for posting Reels on Facebook. How much does it pay? $1,000 per month if you have at least 100,000 followers on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube $3,000 per month if you have more than 1 million followers on any of those platforms Payments are guarant...

Facebook How-To Guide 2026: Change Name, Delete Account, Lock Profile, See History and More

Facebook has changed a lot since most of us first signed up. The menus have moved, settings live in new places, and Meta's Accounts Center now controls things that used to be buried deep in Privacy Settings. If you've been searching for how to do something on Facebook in 2026 and keep hitting outdated guides, this is the one you need. We've covered the most searched Facebook how-to questions all in one place — updated for the current interface. How to Change Your Name on Facebook (2026) Facebook now routes all name changes through the Accounts Center. Here's how to do it: On Desktop: Click your profile picture in the top right corner Go to Settings & Privacy → Settings Click Accounts Center in the left menu Click Profiles and select your Facebook account Tap your name to edit it Enter your new name, click Review change Select your preferred display format and click Save changes On Mobile (Android & iPhone): Tap the menu icon (three lines) Go t...