News Burst 17 July 2026 - Featured News
SpaceX shares dipped below their initial public offering (IPO) price on Wednesday, little more than a month after the company’s record-breaking market debut briefly made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Analysts attributed the selloff largely to growing doubts that SpaceX can generate enough profits to justify its trillion-dollar valuation. Forbes cited the widening gap between the company’s market value and losses in its launch and AI businesses, while valuation expert Aswath Damodaran described the stock as “embarrassingly overvalued.”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says America’s gold is “fully accounted for” and sitting inside Fort Knox. The only problem? The Treasury secretary offering that reassurance has no plans to personally inspect the vaults or conduct an audit to confirm the claim is actually true. The last genuine public inspection took place in 1974, when a congressional delegation and reporters were allowed inside. A smaller visit occurred in 2017 involving then-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Kentucky lawmakers.
New Delhi has asked shipping companies and vessel operators to refrain from deploying Indian sailors in vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz, where several ships have come under attack earlier this week. The advisory comes in the wake of attacks on two ships in the Strait of Hormuz that left two Indian crew members dead and eight others injured in the contentious waterway. The Middle East conflict has resulted in the death of nearly a dozen Indian nationals. Several seafarers have been rescued from ships and tankers that were struck. “Ship owners, ship managers and (hiring and staffing) companies are directed to avoid deploying Indian seafarers on vessels undertaking voyages involving passage through the Strait of Hormuz until further orders,” India’s Director General of Maritime Administration (DGMA) said in a notification on Wednesday.
Pinocchio and the Information Society – In many countries around the world, the number of children who do not attend school is rising. UNESCO has already recorded this alarming trend, and it demands an explanation. UNESCO regularly collects and publishes information on progress toward one of the key Sustainable Development Goals: The universal inclusion of school-age children in primary and secondary education. In recent years, negative developments in this sphere were often linked by experts to the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath. But the latest Global Education Monitoring Report 2026 allows the picture to be clarified significantly: It appears that we are dealing not with temporary difficulties, but with a change in the global trend – and the turning point seems to have occurred before the pandemic.
British MPs are fighting to end discrimination against regional accents, calling it “the last acceptable form of discrimination.” During a debate in Parliament, MPs argued that mocking working-class and regional speech creates barriers to employment and forces people to hide their identities. Northumberland MP Ian Lavery argued that mocking strong regional accents is the last socially accepted form of prejudice. Labour MP Jo Platt led the debate, stating that “our accents are not imperfections” and calling for an end to this prejudice. MPs emphasized that many workers feel pressured to change their speech patterns in order to advance professionally.
A major modern art collection once owned by Werner Merzbacher, a Swiss collector who passed away in 2024, is currently at the center of a legal battle centered on the entrepreneur’s will and who actually owns the paintings he owned. Merzbacher, who amassed his fortune through fur trading and currency trading, inherited many of the works from his father-in-law, Bernhard Mayer. His collection included high-quality works by German Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Fauvist, and Expressionist artists, including Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Max Beckmann, and Alexej von Jawlensky. Since 2018, much of the collection has been on long-term loan to the Kunsthaus Zurich, one of Switzerland’s leading museums. The collection is estimated to be worth 600 million francs, or approximately $742 million. As the NZZ reports, Merzbacher’s estate and art collection are the subject of a heated court debate, primarily centered on the entrepreneur’s will. According to the NZZ, the will was “repeatedly amended,” presumably to the advantage of his wealth manager, whose name was not disclosed in the article. “Instead of being divided into three parts (between his two sons and the descendants of his deceased daughter), the estate was allegedly divided into four parts,” the NZZ reports. “As a result, [the wealth manager] allegedly inherited a sum running into hundreds of millions.”
German conservative politician Jens Spahn (CDU) and his husband, Daniel Funke, became parents to a baby boy named Georg. The child was born in the United States using a surrogate mother. Funke is the biological father.The news sparked intense political debate in Germany. Surrogacy is mostly illegal in Germany, prompting criticism from within his own party.
For decades, Senator Lindsey Graham was known to Russia as a compromised pedophile, doing the bidding of Israel and the global elite, while shamelessly selling out his own country due to the extreme nature of the blackmail material they had on him. So when Russia captured sickening footage of Graham engaged in heinous acts with minor boys at a notorious Kyiv pedo nightclub last week, Putin’s Kremlin let him know, via diplomatic backchannels, that he was Russia’s bitch now. According to the Kremlin, just days after Israel learned that Graham was a burnt asset… that the compromised pedophiles had been exposed… he was dead. And despite what the mainstream media are telling you, Lindsey Graham didn’t even make it out of Ukraine alive. ~ The People’s Voice Community
Every year, millions of travelers flock to Italy, many drawn by its beloved cuisine. But while Italian food is popular around the world, few visitors fully understand the unique gastronomic culture that governs Italian dining. Italian cuisine is actually quite simple. It’s not overly spicy, and its dishes are flavored with local, seasonal ingredients. Meals are never rushed and are considered one of life’s greatest pleasures. Consequently, we have a set of unwritten rules that help bring out these flavors and ensure each meal is fully savored. If you want to eat like an Italian during your next visit, here are seven things you should never do at restaurants in Italy.
1. Don’t order a cappuccino after breakfast
2. Don’t alter the order of your meal
3. Don’t mix sea and mountains
4. Don’t ask for substitutions
5. Don’t leave the region
6. Don’t give up bitters
7. Don’t rush
Eating at a restaurant in Italy is a social ritual, not a simple digestive transaction. Lunch or dinner can last hours, allowing for breaks between courses, or perhaps even a lemon sorbet to cleanse the palate. The breaks are filled with lively conversation.
A selection of history’s greatest short stories. But first, what is a short story? The simplest answer is that it falls somewhere between a short story and a novel. While short stories can be read in a single sitting, a novel can last months and include an unlimited number of characters or narrative threads. A short story, on the other hand, is much more concise: it typically follows a central plot with just a few characters and can be read in 2-5 hours. What are the five short stories that have most influenced Western culture over the last 150 years?
1. Kafka's "Metamorphosis"
2. "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", Tolstoy
3. "Shadow of Innsmouth", H.P. Lovecraft
4. "The Old Man and the Sea," Hemingway
5. "Heart of Darkness", Joseph Conrad
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GRU Space is building permanent lunar infrastructure to make humanity interplanetary within our lifetime, starting with the first hotel on the Moon. Patent-pending hardware that turns lunar regolith into bricks and inflates modular pressurized habitats designed to withstand lunar temperature and pressure extremes. The first mission lands on the Moon in 2027 to demonstrate in-situ brick manufacturing and habitat deployment. A second mission lays the hotel’s foundation inside a lunar cave, and a third opens the first lunar hotel, targeted for 2032.
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone around its star, a monumental first. The rocky planet, called LHS 1140 b, is 48-light-years away from Earth and according to this new research, it has an atmosphere that contains helium. It is also the first rocky planet to have an atmosphere be detected directly. This is the first rocky planet to be found with an atmosphere that is also in the habitable zone, meaning it’s at the right distance away from its star for liquid water to potentially exist on the planet. As we continue to search the cosmos for planets that can be considered “habitable,” this planet checks more boxes than almost anything we’ve ever seen.
SpaceX’s Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas today — the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Apollo 11 moon mission, by the way — during a 90-minute widow that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT; 5:45 p.m. local Texas time). It will be Starship’s 13th flight overall and its second mission of 2026. Starship consists of a first-stage booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage vehicle known (somewhat confusingly) as Starship, or simply Ship. Both elements are made of stainless steel and are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. The stacked vehicle stands more than 400 feet (122 meters) tall and can carry more than 110 tons (100 metric tons) to Earth orbit. SpaceX thinks Starship’s combination of power and reusability will revolutionize spaceflight, allowing humanity to settle the moon and Mars, among other bold exploration feats.
News Burst 17 July 2026
| # | Наименование новости | Тональность | Информативность | Дата публикации |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Musk becomes first trillionaire on paper as SpaceX makes record market debut | 5 | 7 | 13-06-2026 |
| 2 | SpaceX is reportedly overvalued ahead of its IPO | 0 | 7 | 05-06-2026 |
| 3 | Message to community | 7 | 8 | 06-07-2026 |
| 4 | Маск стал первым в мире долларовым триллионером Компания Илона Маска ... | 5 | 7 | 04-07-2026 |
| 5 | Holding SpaceX Since The IPO? Why I'd Use The Strength To Sell | -3 | 4 | 18-06-2026 |
| 6 | #CNBC ПОМОГЛА МАСКУ ОБОКРАСТЬ РОЗНИЧНЫХ ИНВЕСТОРОВ 12 июня 2026 года ... | -10 | 7 | 15-07-2026 |
| 7 | Why SpaceX thinks it’s worth nearly $2 trillion | 0 | 5 | 09-05-2026 |
| 8 | Telegram: 12 июня 2026 | 0 | 7 | 12-06-2026 |
| 9 | Почему миллиардеры не инвестируют в ИИ и больше доверяют человеку? | -3 | 6 | 29-06-2026 |