By David Goldman, CNN

(CNN) — The clock is ticking for President Donald Trump to get a deal done with Iran.

Or maybe it’s the other way around: Iran could be dealing with a ticking time bomb – in its own oil wells! With just days to go before they’re destroyed.

That’s according to Trump, who can’t seem to stop talking about exploding oil.

• April 23, Oval Office: “If they don’t get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode. You know what that means? Because they have no place to store it and because they have no place to store it, if they have to stop it … something happens underground that essentially renders it in very poor shape and you never recover fully.”
• April 26, Fox News: “When you have, you know, lines of vast amounts of oil pouring through your system, if for any reason that line is closed because you can’t continue to put it into containers or ships, which has happened to them (they have no ships because of the blockade), what happens is that line explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth.”
• May 4, Hugh Hewitt Show: “You know, their oil, when you turn off the oil, underground, and the mechanical too, but underground has a tendency in like almost 100% of the cases, to literally explode and just destroy everything around it. And you can never get that oil again.”

What in the world is he talking about?

There’s a kernel of truth in what Trump is saying, although it wouldn’t happen the way he’s describing it – and certainly not in the short timeframe he laid out.

Iran’s oil isn’t about to go boom (on its own, anyway). But the war has created a challenging physics problem for the entire Middle Eastern oil industry.

Well, well, well

Shortly after Iran effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz to foreign tankers, local energy producers ran out of places to store the oil and gas that was piling up. Many neighboring Middle Eastern wells had to be shut off (the industry actually uses the term: “shut in”).

Iran had to shut in its own wells this month after the United States started blockading the strait.

Shut-ins are not like flipping off a light switch. They represent a complex engineering challenge that involves serious physics and meticulous planning over the course of days or even weeks.

When oil wells are shut in, the pressure underground can become imbalanced, deforming the underlying structure. Those changes can damage reservoirs, which can create similar problems for nearby wells, too. Water can seep in, reducing the well’s potential output.

Equipment can be damaged under extended downtime, too. Pumps and lift systems can easily become corroded. Sand and debris can settle into equipment. Concrete casing and tubing – used to seal and extract oil – can lose integrity, causing leaks and potential hazardous gas releases.

And, yes, in rare cases, explosions.

But serious damage – let alone an explosion – isn’t likely, oil industry analysts agree. Wells have been shut in for extended periods before, including in Iran.

During the early days of the pandemic, when basically no one was traveling anywhere, the world ran out of room to store fuel that no one wanted, and oil was literally selling for negative dollars. Producers, including Iran, shut in their wells without any significant or lasting damage.

Some Middle Eastern suppliers have also temporarily shut in their wells when OPEC production caps kicked in.

The oil industry, even in a country as economically battered as Iran, is well equipped to handle it.

“The US blockade of Iran’s oil exports will not cause catastrophic, or even very serious, damage to its upstream oil

By Davis Winkie, CNN

(CNN) — The Pentagon is feeling the financial squeeze and is struggling in some cases to carry out routine training and maintenance amid its ongoing operations against Iran, with uniformed military leaders pressing Congress to support additional funding.

The Navy’s top officer, Adm. Daryl Caudle, told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers earlier this month that his 2026 budget “didn’t bake in [Operation] Epic Fury” and that the Navy faces impacts on “routine operations” as a result.

That includes having to limit training exercises, flight training hours and training for new recruits, he said.

“My record recruiting is going to be thwarted without additional funding to [move] those individuals from boot camp and to pay enlistment and reenlistment bonuses,” Caudle told lawmakers.

The Army’s III Armored Corps, a Texas-based headquarters that oversees roughly 70,000 troops and hundreds of tanks, saw a nearly $292 million cut to its training budget in late April, according to an internal document reviewed by CNN. ABC News was first to report on the cuts.

The service’s medical schoolhouse cancelled dozens of courses and eliminated centralized funding for others, according to an April 27 memo also reviewed by CNN.

The Pentagon declined to comment for this story.

The military is normally required to pull money from specific buckets for specific activities unless Congress grants permission to move money around. Training typically comes from the “Operations and Maintenance” account.

Defense budget expert Todd Harrison of the American Enterprise Institute think tank said that the Operations and Maintenance account is used for everything from training and deployments to fuel, travel, equipment repair, and even to pay for some Pentagon civilian employees.

Harrison said that tracking real-time Pentagon budget expenditures from the outside is impossible, but “it’s completely plausible that they are having to make some tradeoffs and do things like cancel unessential travel or cancel training.”

Early in the Iran campaign, Trump administration officials discussed seeking supplemental funding for the military, with some putting the price tag at $200 billion. Administration officials have subsequently said that figure was too high, though they haven’t provided specifics for a request, and there are no signs that Congress is moving towards approving additional funding.

The Pentagon’s most recent estimate of the conflict’s cost was approximately $29 billion, acting Pentagon comptroller Jules “Jay” Hurst III told the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel on May 12. But that estimate was based on the cost of munitions and destroyed aircraft and didn’t include construction costs for rebuilding bases, Hurst acknowledged. Sources told CNN in late April that the full estimate is closer to $40-50 billion.

A defense official familiar with the budget issues told CNN that the military typically encounters funding challenges toward the end of the federal fiscal year that ends in September often resulting in a need to ask Congress to move money between spending categories, but that 2026 has seen the issue bubble up months earlier than anticipated due to rising costs and the ongoing operations.

Some of the issues the military branches are facing are more a sign of intensifying funding concerns than completely new issues.

Air Force chief Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, who testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, said that the Iran conflict has exacerbated existing readiness troubles.

Por Esteban Campanela, CNN en Español

La llegada de Lionel Messi al Inter Miami hace casi tres años revolucionó un equipo, una liga, una ciudad y un país entero. Puso la MLS en un foco mundial en el que nunca había estado. Muchos jugadores de primer nivel decidieron mudarse a Estados Unidos, se multiplicaron las suscripciones a Apple TV —empresa que televisa los partidos—, los precios de los tickets aumentaron de manera estratosférica, la “10” del equipo rosa se ubicó entre las más vendidas de Adidas en el planeta y Miami se convirtió en una inesperada capital del fútbol.

Desde que debutó, el argentino jugó 104 partidos y convirtió nada menos que 90 goles. Es decir, un promedio de 0,86 por juego. Además, brindó 51 asistencias (promedio de 0,49). Números brutales para un jugador brutal.

Si mirásemos las estadísticas en frío, en este equipo Messi tiene los mejores promedios de su carrera. En su largo paso por Barcelona también promedió 0,86 tantos por encuentro y el segundo mejor registro de asistencias lo tuvo en PSG con 0,45. Pero es una mirada engañosa. La exigencia de primer nivel que tienen las ligas europeas hace que esos números valgan mucho más que los actuales.

La llegada de Messi también obligó a las Garzas a desempolvar las vitrinas. Antes del argentino, el club no tenía títulos, pero desde su arribo levantó tres trofeos: la Leagues Cup 2023, el Supporter’s Shield 2024 y, el más importante, la MLS 2025. Además, participó en el Mundial de Clubes disputado en Estados Unidos el año pasado, donde el desempeño del equipo rosa fue sorprendente, llegando a octavos de final, donde fue eliminado por el poderoso PSG.

Tras su determinante rol en el campeonato del mundo obtenido con Argentina, el rosarino también levantó su octavo Balón de Oro, ya como jugador del Inter Miami.

En la temporada actual, el equipo de la Florida es el más goleador de toda la MLS. En 15 partidos han convertido 39 veces. El talento de Messi es la explicación. El crack es el segundo máximo anotador de la liga con 12 y el segundo máximo asistidor, con siete pases gol. También convirtió una vez en la Copa de Campeones de la Concacaf, donde solo disputó dos partidos, ya que su equipo quedó eliminado.

En los dos últimos encuentros brilló como de costumbre. Ante el Portland Timbers convirtió el primer gol con uno de sus sellos: descarga a un compañero, búsqueda de la devolución por el centro del área, definición y adentro. El segundo tanto fue luego de otra típica apilada de jugadores en un espacio súper reducido, para luego descargar generosamente con un compañero que solo tuvo que empujar el balón al arco. Messi en su máxima expresión.

En el último partido antes del receso por el Mundial pidió el cambio y detuvo la respiración de millones de fanáticos del fútbol. Sin embargo, su entrenador y posteriormente el club dejaron en claro que solo se trató de una sobrecarga muscular por fatiga. El 10 nunca quiere salir, pero esta vez eligió ser prudente. Una muestra más de que no piensa ir a la Copa del Mundo sólo a despedirse. Quiere competir y defender el título. Los 73 minutos que disputó le alcanzaron para dar dos asistencias dentro del área.

Disputar un Mundial con 38 años (cumplirá 39 durante el Mundial) al máximo nivel es un desafío muy grande. Hasta no hace mucho tiempo, eran muy pocos los jugadores profesionales que conseguían estirar sus carreras más allá de los 34 o 35 años. En la actualidad, los futbolistas tienen un comportamiento, entrenamiento y cuidado integral que le permite prolongar su actividad. Y, además, Messi se caracteriza por pulverizar límites. Sin dudas se está preparando para hacerlo. Rodrigo De Paul, su amigo, compañero de equipo y selección, reveló que ambos estuvieron haciendo una preparación especial para la Copa del Mundo, entrenándose doble turno con el objetivo de llegar físicamente al

By Mauricio Torres, CNN

(CNN) — Thousands of Cuban migrants deported from the United States have faced violations of their rights and are currently in “a legal limbo” in Mexico, where they have difficulties regularizing their situation and even obtaining medical care, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.

The HRW report, published Wednesday, is based on a review of deportation figures from January 2025 to March of this year, as well as interviews with authorities and deported migrants.

According to the report, since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, the US government has sought to increase its deportations and, to do so, has resorted to sending migrants to places other than their countries of origin.

Among those destination countries, Mexico has received the most migrants of various nationalities, with 12,977, followed by Honduras, with 1,352, and Canada, with 1,066, the report says, based on statistics obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Of the total number of migrants deported to Mexico, the largest group consists of people from Cuba, with 4,353.

HRW says it interviewed 41 of those Cuban migrants, and that many of them said they had lived in the US for decades and were detained while attending their supervision appointments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at their homes, on their way to work or after finishing prison sentences.

According to HRW, 35 of those interviewed said they lost their green cards because of a conviction, mostly for offenses such as driving under the influence of alcohol, falsifying documents, or minor drug-related charges. Others were convicted of more serious offenses, such as assault or weapons-related charges.

“The absence of deportation agreements with Cuba meant that these people could not be deported to their country of origin. Instead, they were allowed to continue their lives in the United States, and many came to believe they would never be deported,” the report says, adding many had work permits and lived with their families.

The report notes the situation changed from the start of Trump’s second term, with the tightening of immigration policy. Many Cubans began to be detained, mainly in Florida, where, according to HRW, they were taken to centers where they were held in “inhumane conditions” and were prevented from exercising their right to challenge the order to be deported to a third country.

“The people interviewed for this report described inhumane conditions of detention in immigration detention centers in the United States that are part of a broader pattern that Human Rights Watch has documented since 2025,” the non-profit organization said.

CNN contacted both ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for comment on the allegations in the report.

HRW cites as an example the case of Fermín, a 52-year-old Cuban who was in the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in Florida, where he said there was contaminated water, raw food, and many sick people. Previously, other human rights organizations have collected similar testimonies.

The report says that 15 interviewees said they experienced “episodes of verbal and physical violence, including beatings and prolonged periods of isolation, in different detention centers.”

One example of this, it adds, was the case of Alejo, a 50-year-old Cuban who said he was held in isolation for two weeks in a detention center in El Paso, Texas. “I spent 15 days detained in the hole, a punishment cell, (where) you don’t see the sunlight,” he recounted in the report.

The Trump administration has repeatedly defended the operation of federal migrant detention centers, arguing they provide adequate conditions and respect human righ

Por Associated Press

El Reino Unido y sus aliados corren el riesgo de perder un conflicto en el ciberespacio contra adversarios como Rusia a menos que los ciudadanos, las empresas y los Gobiernos traten la ciberseguridad con mucha mayor urgencia, advierte una jefa de los servicios de inteligencia británicos.

Anne Keast-Butler, directora de la agencia de inteligencia de comunicaciones GCHQ, advertirá este miércoles que Moscú está atacando sin tregua la infraestructura crítica, los procesos democráticos, las cadenas de suministro y la confianza pública en el Reino Unido y Europa.

En un discurso pronunciado en un centro de descifrado de códigos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial cerca de Londres, acusará a Rusia de robar tecnología y de planear sabotajes e intentos de asesinato.

Keast-Butler tiene previsto afirmar que los rápidos avances en inteligencia artificial significan que “el terreno bajo nuestros pies está cambiando” y que existe una “ventana cada vez más estrecha para que el Reino Unido y sus aliados se mantengan por delante” de países como China, una “superpotencia” científica y tecnológica.

Según extractos publicados con antelación por GCHQ, siglas de Government Communications Headquarters, su intención es argumentar que debe haber un esfuerzo “desde las salas de juntas hasta los hogares” para que la ciberseguridad sea “diez veces más urgente”.

Se trata de la última de una serie de advertencias de espías y expertos en inteligencia occidentales que señalan que Rusia está intensificando su actividad hostil en una “zona gris” que se sitúa justo por debajo del umbral de la guerra.

En los últimos meses, las autoridades de países como Suecia, Polonia, Dinamarca y Noruega han denunciado que piratas informáticos vinculados a Rusia atacaron su infraestructura crítica, incluidas centrales eléctricas y represas.

El director del Centro Nacional de Ciberseguridad del Reino Unido, Richard Horne, advirtió el mes pasado que estados hostiles como Rusia, China e Irán están detrás de los ciberataques más graves que enfrenta el país.

Añadió que estos ataques podrían aumentar drásticamente si el Reino Unido se ve involucrada en un conflicto internacional.

Keast-Butler planea destacar la importancia de las alianzas internacionales, ya que la política exterior de “Estados Unidos primero” del presidente Donald Trump y su desprecio por los aliados de larga data tensan la relación entre Londres y Washington.

Significativamente, el discurso anual de la directora del GCHQ en Bletchley Park tiene lugar en una mansión situada a 72 kilómetros al noroeste de Londres, donde cientos de matemáticos, criptógrafos, aficionados a los crucigramas, maestros de ajedrez y otros expertos trabajaron para descifrar los códigos secretos supuestamente indescifrables de la Alemania nazi.

Su trabajo contribuyó a acortar la guerra y a acelerar el nacimiento de la informática moderna.

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