Jack Buckby

It weighed barely 570 pounds and ran on plutonium. Its electronics were 1970s vintage. And in September 1979, after six years and billions of miles, Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft in history to reach Saturn — having flung itself off Jupiter's gravity to get there, and discovering a ring around the planet that no telescope on Earth had ever seen. A small machine built by hand had touched the outer Solar System.

A day after Iran snubbed him in Switzerland, Vance called the talks a "very, very good day" — and said Iran agreed to let nuclear inspectors back. Iran says it agreed to nothing.

Iran's currency has collapsed past 1.2 million to the dollar, inflation hasn't been this high since 1942, and meat is now a luxury. But the regime still won't give in.

Crimea has completely cut off fuel sales to civilians — there's only enough left for the government. Ukraine's strikes are isolating the peninsula, and it's working.

Every time Russia retaliates against Ukraine's strikes, it burns through missiles it can't easily replace — including $5.6 million Zircons. Escalation is hard to sustain.

Putin's "coup-proof shield" is under more pressure than ever, with Russia's elite starting to split over the war — and every escalation feeds an economic "doom loop."

Russia's fuel crisis has spread from Crimea to Siberia — thousands of miles from the war. One in four gas stations has capped sales, and even the central bank is blaming Ukraine's drones.

Crimea was meant to be Putin's greatest achievement. Now half the peninsula has lost power, fuel sales to civilians are cut off, and it's a symbol of how badly the Ukraine war is going.

The Iran war was meant to topple the regime and free its people. Four months on, the regime is still standing — and Washington is negotiating from the weaker hand.

As many as 11,000 seafarers have been stranded in the Persian Gulf for months. They're finally going home — as Europe moves to reopen the Strait of Hormuz the U.S. avoided.