Four Fingers News — Thursday, June 11, 2026
Day 104. Two nights of strikes, and the president says tonight makes three — “very hard,” plus talk of seizing Kharg Island, which is where Iran’s oil actually leaves the country. Tehran’s answer: the ceasefire is “meaningless” and Hormuz is closed to everything that floats. And yet oil eased — Brent near $92 — partly because the strikes have so far spared energy infrastructure, partly because we’ve been draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at the fastest clip since the 1980s: 70 million barrels in five weeks to keep the pumps quiet. That’s not calm; that’s a tab running. Qatari mediators are still in Tehran — the one door nobody has closed yet. I’m watching that door. Leave the bottle.
US strikes reached Kharg Island for the first time overnight — the loading dock for roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports — with jets also hitting surveillance and air-defense sites at Bandar Abbas, Qeshm and Sirik on the third straight night of escalation.
The S&P 500 added 0.2% and the Dow gained 0.45% on Wednesday, clawing back a sliver of Tuesday’s selloff — the Dow had shed 953 points as the 4.2% CPI print and the first round of strikes landed the same morning.
The 48-team tournament kicks off today at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City — Shakira, J Balvin and Alejandro Fernández on the pregame bill.
Jalen Brunson scored 36 and OG Anunoby tipped in the winner with 1.2 seconds left for a 107–106 steal that puts the Knicks one win from their first title since 1973.
Game 5 at PNC Arena in Raleigh makes it a best-of-three for the Cup.
Bill Gates testified behind closed doors before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday — the panel’s 15th Epstein-related interview — and said he met the financier five times between 2011 and 2014 while seeking philanthropy dollars.
The warrantless foreign-intelligence authority lapses Jun 12 after the Senate’s 47–52 stall, with seven Republicans joining Democrats over privacy objections and the Pulte nomination standoff.