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SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq today under ticker SPCX, raising $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Shares priced at $135, opened at $150, and climbed above $160 within minutes, pushing the company's market cap past $2 trillion and making Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. Roughly 4,400 SpaceX employees became millionaires before noon.
Iran's state media published deal terms the White House says have "NOTHING to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing," prompting Trump to blast the Iranian delegation as "very dishonorable people." Despite the public friction, Iran's foreign ministry says the text is mostly finalized and a signing could take place as early as Sunday in Geneva. The framework requires Iran to dismantle its nuclear program, halt terror funding, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz before receiving any economic benefits.
A gunman opened fire in downtown Midland Friday morning, killing one person and wounding ten before barricading himself inside an abandoned veterinary clinic. A massive multi-agency response — FBI, Texas Rangers, Odessa PD, drones and robots — ultimately confirmed the suspect, identified as 45-year-old Victor Mata Villarreal, dead inside the building. The motive remains under investigation.
Federal immigration agents arrested convicted killers, a rapist, and drug traffickers across five states — New York, California, Virginia, Georgia, and Massachusetts — in a single day Thursday. DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said nearly 70 percent of all ICE arrests involve illegal aliens who are charged with or convicted of crimes in the United States. The administration characterized the operation as part of its ongoing push to remove what it calls the "worst of the worst."
British Defense Secretary John Healey resigned Thursday, accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to commit adequate military resources at a moment of rising global threats. In his resignation letter, Healey wrote that "the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources that the nation needs," warning the shortfall would "make the country less safe." His departure comes weeks before a NATO summit in Ankara, where U.S. Ambassador Matthew Whitaker has signaled Washington expects allies to hit 5 percent of GDP on defense.
South Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol — already serving a life sentence for insurrection — received an additional 30-year sentence Friday for allegedly ordering covert drone flights over North Korea to drop propaganda leaflets, a move prosecutors say he used to manufacture a pretext for declaring martial law. His former defense minister was sentenced alongside him by the Seoul Central District Court. The ruling caps one of the most dramatic legal collapses of any leader in a modern democracy.
The Israel Defense Forces struck more than 50 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Friday, eliminating at least 10 field commanders who had been leading operations against Israeli forces. The offensive continues even as Iran nuclear deal talks approach a potential conclusion, with Prime Minister Netanyahu vowing that Iran will not obtain nuclear weapons on his watch. Overnight, U.S. forces also shot down two Iranian one-way attack drones targeting commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
A woman who had lived with Alzheimer's disease for a decade — largely nonverbal, incontinent, and unable to walk independently — spontaneously initiated hours of autobiographical conversation roughly 19 hours after a dose of psilocybin mushrooms, according to a case report published in Frontiers in Neuroscience. Over subsequent days she regained mobility, continence, and the ability to retrieve contextual memories. Researchers stress the case has no control group and cannot establish direct causation, but call the findings worthy of rigorous follow-up study.
Google's Debug project is asking federal regulators for permission to release 32 million male mosquitoes infected with naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria into California, Florida, and New Jersey. The males can't bite and can't spread disease; when they mate with wild females the offspring don't survive, gradually collapsing populations of disease-carrying mosquitoes. The public comment period has closed and the EPA is expected to rule in the coming weeks.
A hiker named Daniel Crago was mauled and dragged roughly 20 to 30 feet by a large grizzly bear on Glacier National Park's Grinnell Glacier Trail — one of the most visited routes in the park — before the bear fled. Crago was airlifted to a hospital and has already undergone multiple surgeries, with at least one more expected. The attack has prompted the park to review trail safety protocols ahead of peak summer season.
