Think you’re behind in life? On this day in 1422, Henry VI became King of England at just nine months old. The kid couldn’t talk, couldn’t walk, but technically ran an empire. Shockingly, it didn’t end well. England wound up with decades of chaos, bad wars, and a ruler who never really grew into the job.

Six hundred years later, we’re not crowning infants, but the feeling is the same. Leaders are in over their heads. Big decisions with bigger consequences. And the rest of us left cleaning up the mess.

Now, onto today’s stories.

Cabinet in the Crosshairs

Israel just landed its hardest blow yet on the Houthis. On Thursday, airstrikes hit Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, killing Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and several other top ministers. The Houthis confirmed it on Saturday. Israel believes the strike may have wiped out nearly the entire cabinet in one shot.

It wasn’t just about the body count. The cabinet was reportedly meeting when the missiles hit, while Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi happened to be giving a televised speech. Symbolism doesn’t get clearer. The message from Israel was blunt: leadership isn’t safe, not even in the capital, not even on live TV.

Al-Rahawi was the highest-ranking Houthi official killed since Israel began targeting the group for its role in the Gaza spillover. The Houthis haven’t just been firing rockets at Israel. They’ve also been going after ships in the Red Sea, gumming up global trade routes and driving up costs for anyone moving goods through the region. The Israeli strike is part of a wider campaign to cripple Houthi leadership and infrastructure.

Don’t expect the Houthis to fold. Mahdi al-Mashat, head of their political council, promised revenge in a video statement. That likely means more missiles and drones aimed at Israel and more chaos for commercial shipping. For the rest of the world, it means higher insurance premiums, shipping delays, and ripple effects through global markets.

The bigger question is what Iran does. The Houthis are an Iranian proxy. Every time Israel kills off high-level leaders, it tests Tehran’s patience. For now, Iran seems content to let its allies take the hits. But each strike risks turning a proxy war into something larger, especially with U.S. support for Israel in the mix.

Bottom line. Israel didn’t just take out a handful of rebel officials. It decapitated a government in one strike. The Houthis will hit back, the Red Sea will get even riskier, and the war’s footprint just widened again.

Rapid Fire

⚖️ A federal appeals court just clipped Trump’s wings on trade. In a 7–4 ruling, judges said he illegally stretched emergency powers to slap broad tariffs earlier this year. The court made it clear: Congress never handed the president a blank check under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Translation: only lawmakers, not the Oval Office, get to throw around sweeping tariffs.

But here’s the catch. The tariffs stay put for now while Trump’s team weighs an appeal to the Supreme Court. On Truth Social, he blasted the judges as “highly partisan” and reminded followers that all tariffs are still in effect. This fight started back in May, when a lower court reached the same conclusion. Now it’s a showdown at the highest court that will decide how far presidents can go in using “emergencies” to muscle through trade wars.

🇺🇦 Andriy Parubiy, one of Ukraine’s top political figures and a former speaker of parliament, was shot dead Saturday in Lviv. Local police say a gunman opened fire around noon and fled the scene. Parubiy wasn’t just another politician, he was a central figure in Ukraine’s democratic movements, from the Orange Revolution to Euromaidan. President Zelensky called the killing a horrendous murder and vowed an investigation.

Why it matters: Lviv is supposed to be Ukraine’s “safe” city, far from the front lines. A high-profile assassination there rattles that sense of security and shows the war’s reach isn’t just about missiles. It’s about political stability too. This killing lands as both a gut punch and a warning… Ukraine is fighting for its survival not just against Russia, but against the chaos violence can unleash at home.

🙏 Israel plans to slow or halt aid into parts of northern Gaza as it ramps up its push against Hamas. Israeli officials say airdrops over Gaza City will stop and fewer relief trucks will enter the north. This follows Gaza City being declared a combat zone on Friday and comes alongside plans to push residents south.

Translation. Aid dries up where the fighting grows. Hospitals lose fuel. Families lose food. People get stuck between shelling and roadblocks. The Red Cross says mass evacuations are impossible under these conditions. Expect a harsher humanitarian crisis, louder international pressure, and a messy debate over corridors and pauses. Cut the aid during an offensive and the human cost jumps. So does the political heat.

World Watch

Europe can’t get on the same page about Gaza. At a meeting in Copenhagen on Saturday, EU foreign ministers openly admitted they were split. Some countries want to crank up the pressure on Israel with hard economic measures. Others flat-out refuse to go that far. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas put it bluntly: “We are divided about this issue.”

The debate centers on whether to suspend EU funding to Israeli start-ups, but even that modest step looks unlikely with members so dug in. The divide isn’t just about politics in Brussels. Protests across Europe have piled on public pressure, with crowds demanding governments call Israel’s campaign in Gaza what many experts now label a genocide. But for now, ministers are only trading views, not making decisions. The real takeaway? Europe knows it’s divided, says it’s divided, and is signaling to the world that when it comes to the Middle East, unity is still out of reach.

Today in What the Hell

Three Scottish brothers just rowed into the record books. Jamie, Ewan, and Lachlan Maclean landed in Cairns today after 139 days at sea. They left Lima in April and pulled more than 9,000 miles nonstop. First team to cross the full Pacific from South America to Australia. Fastest unsupported crossing on record. 

This was brutal. Storms. Seasickness. Injuries. At one point Lachlan was swept overboard and hauled back. They nearly ran out of food while raising more than £700,000 for clean-water projects. They also knocked off a mark long held by solo rower Fyodor Konyukhov’s 2014 run. Their first request on the radio as they neared shore was simple. “Do you have pizza and beer.” Same.

That’s all folks

If a baby could run a kingdom in 1422, you can handle whatever this week throws at you. The world may be messy, but people keep breaking records, pushing through storms, and proving progress doesn’t stop. So take a breath, keep your head up, and remember, chaos is temporary, momentum is choice.