In the Drill of the Night: “Nearly every night, it is the same drill. A call comes in that mobile missile launchers have popped up somewhere in Yemen near the coastline, preparing to fire. Except, aboard the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is not a drill.” The war America is fighting that we don’t hear that much about. A visual piece from the NYT (Gift Article): Aboard the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Battling the Houthis in the Red Sea.

+ Havana Hard Time: “Two rigorous government studies found no unusual pattern of injury or disease in the brains of people with the mysterious cluster of symptoms known as Havana syndrome.” The sufferers of whatever this is are like an extreme version of much larger cohort suffering from syndrome-like symptoms that no one has been able to figure out. The alarming rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms.

+ Call of Duty: “During a critical phone call Monday, President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Israel carrying out a planned military operation in Rafah.”

+ Junk Bond: “Trump’s attorneys said he has approached 30 underwriters to back the bond.” Trump is unable to make $464 million bond in civil fraud case.

+ Minor Trauma: “In many cases, the children shot themselves, while others killed siblings or friends, according to the gun control advocacy group.” Children unintentionally shot and killed at least 157 people last year.

+ Q and A-Less: “What is the universe made out of? How should we define death? Where did dogs come from?” 17 astounding scientific mysteries that researchers can’t yet solve.

+ Cycle of Life: “Five competitive cyclists – women in their 50s and 60s – met at the Tokul Creek trail north of Snoqualmie. At the yellow gate before riding into the deep forest, the women took a group selfie. They had no premonition that 19 miles in, a young male cougar would attack one of them, and that they’d spend 45 minutes in a battle for their lives.” Wow.

+ Airing Landry: “If he had to put money on it, Plemons said, most people probably know him as Todd, the genteel psychopath he played on Breaking Bad. But he’s also gotten Game Night, thanks to his meme-spawning turn as a creepy Machiavellian cop. Then there are those fans, particularly back in Texas, who will forever know him as Landry, the awkward smart-ass he played on Friday Night Lights. That role started small too—’sort of an afterthought,’ the show’s creator, Peter Berg, says. Just the sidekick to the star quarterback. But Plemons clambered into the main ensemble thanks to his almost supernatural ability to steal scenes. ‘Everything we gave him, he just made the absolute most of it,’ Berg said, so they kept giving him more.” And so did every other director. Texas Monthly: How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything.