The price oil over the past two days: Was at $91/barrel over the past weekend. Shot up to just under $116/barrel when the market opened yesterday. Then fell to $85/barrel at 5PM yesterday. Over the past 24 hours, there was  low of $78.5/barrel. At 3PM EDT today, the price was $84/barrel. During the past month: Oil sat at around $65/barrel. Was as low as $61/barrel a little more than a month ago, February 12 Was up to $67/barrel at the end of February. War started on February 28. On March 2 oil rose to $71/barrel and went up to $95/barrel on March 9. So you might say with that one skyrocket price yesterday, the price of oil went up $19/barrel since the war started. From  Wikipedia: The   price of oil , or the   oil price , generally refers to the   spot price   of a   barrel (159 litres) of   benchmark crude oil —a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as   West Texas Intermediate   (WTI),   Brent Crude ,   Du...

This is Day 6 of the War in Iran.  What is Google AI's impression? As of early March 2026, the U.S. and Israel are engaged in an intensifying, direct, and expanding military campaign against Iran following a rapid escalation. Coordinated U.S.-Israel strikes have hit targets across Iran and its proxies, including in Tehran and Beirut, resulting in significant casualties and damage. The conflict has widened regionally, with Iranian retaliatory strikes targeting U.S. interests, causing deaths among U.S. service members.   Key Aspects of the Conflict (March 2026): Coordinated Strikes:   U.S. and Israeli forces are conducting synchronized, high-intensity operations, with Israel launching airstrikes in Tehran and Beirut.  ( If you were wondering, Israel is about as large as the state of New Jersey .) Targeting Infrastructure:   The coalition is focused on destroying Iranian missile launchers, ships, and military infrastructure, reporting that thousands of drones and m...

  First, Happy Mother's Day. I recall growing up in Honolulu that there was some rivalry between Hawaii and Alaska to become the 49th state. Alaska was a Russian colony from 1744 until the USA bought it in 1867 for $7.2 million. Hawaii was a kingdom until 1893, became a republic in 1894, and through insider links with Congress, was ceded to the USA in 1898.  Much of what happened has continuously till today been contested by the local Hawaiian community for the illegality of it all. In 1893, Queen Lili'uokalani was deposed by a group of American sugar growers and missionaries through a coup d'etat, with the support of the U.S. Marines.  She was last in the long line from the Kamehameha dynasty founded in 1795 by King Kamehameha I. The sugar industry began to form after the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1778.   The first permanent plantation was on Kauai in 1835, in time called Koloa Plantation, where my father grew up. Over the next 30 years, the four major i...