U.S. Central Command announced Sunday afternoon that it has struck more than 1,000 targets in Iran in two days of operations, including ships, submarines, missile sites, communications links, and the command-and-control centers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The opening strike was designed to take out Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his sons, as well as several gatherings of senior Iranian officials. A sense of disbelief fell over Iran’s capital, Tehran, as crowds gathered in the streets to celebrate his death, amid fireworks, dancing and cheering. Hours later, scores more tearful mourners came out to grieve, waving Iranian flags and holding photos of Ayatollah Khamenei. Finally, fresh waves of airstrikes began hitting the capital.

President Donald Trump said in a Sunday evening video address that “there will likely be more” U.S. casualties, after the military said three service members were killed in action and five seriously wounded. Israel followed up with another wave of strikes on Iran, and Iran carried out attacks on Israel and across the Persian Gulf region. Trump said combat operations would continue “until all of our objectives are achieved” but did not define what they were.

Israel also began attacking Hezbollah in Lebanon early Monday, shattering a fragile truce that had been in place for about a year and threatening to destabilize the region. Veteran Iranian politician Ali Larijani, said that a temporary leadership council would be set up, but added that the country will not negotiate with the United States. President Trump told reporters that Iran’s new leadership had let him know they wanted to speak to him and that he was willing to do so, but Larijani’s comments seem to contradict that.

According to Axios, the U.S. and Israel originally planned to attack Iran a week earlier than they did, but the opening strike was delayed for operational and intelligence reasons, according to senior U.S. and Israeli officials. The delay gave President Trump another week to choose between the two parallel tracks—diplomacy and war—he had been walking for nearly two months. Now we wait to see just how bad this could get.

The U.S. has recorded more than 1,100 measles cases so far this year, according to data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s a troubling milestone that has many in public health bracing for the worst. CNN reports that America is on track for another record-breaking year: The number of cases reported in the first eight weeks of 2026 is already six times more than typical for an entire year.

And as vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests. If measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next five years, the cost to the U.S. could reach $1.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health.

Dr. Dave Chokshi, chair of Common Health Coalition, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health group, told NBC News that a growing measles outbreak reverberates through all parts of “the health ecosystem.” Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. Since then, outbreaks here and there have generally been stopped quickly. But backsliding vaccination rates have increased the risk of massive eruptions and now threaten the nation’s measles elimination status. What’s more, measles can hide in the body for a decade before re-emerging by attacking the brain and nervous system. The condition, called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, is almost always fatal.

Phones at the table … are you pro or con? That’s somewhat of a trick question because most of us know that it’s considered rude to whip out your screen mid-meal, right? What’s more, Americans are spending less time with others than ever before, with daily phone usage increasing by 52% since 2022, correlating with a decline in shared meals and social engagement.

So a slew of eateries, from San Francisco and Chicago to Texas and D.C., are actively discouraging or prohibiting cell phone use to foster deeper, more present interactions among patrons. “Our relationship with screens is so complicated,” one restauranteur tells InsideHook. “We spend so much time comparing ourselves and our night to other people’s when we’re out, we can’t even be in the moment. And it’s this ever-present crutch if something gets awkward. I feel like it’s limiting our own capacity to communicate.”

Clearly, phones have trained us to be anywhere but present. It has changed our ability to focus on the moment and allow it to expand. By removing phones from the equation, many say the difference is immediate and obvious. Besides, we can all wait to check social media or work texts, at least for an hour, right? And no one really needs to see a photo of your appetizers or cocktail.

If you have enough money that you think about buckets for your capital…

Ever invest in something you know will have low returns—just for the sake of diversifying?

CDs… Bonds… REITs… :(

Sure, these “boring” investments have some merits. But you probably overlooked one historically exclusive asset class:

It’s been famously leveraged by billionaires like Bezos and Gates, but just never been widely accessible until now.

It outpaced the S&P 500 (!) overall WITH low correlation to stocks, 1995 to 2025.*

It’s not private equity or real estate. Surprisingly, it’s postwar and contemporary art.

And since 2019, over 70,000 people have started investing in SHARES of artworks featuring legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso through a platform called Masterworks.

My subscribers can SKIP their waitlist and invest in blue-chip art.

Just click this link

_{Investing involves risk. Past performance not indicative of future returns. Reg A disclosures at masterworks.com/cd}