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Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Friday that Washington is awaiting a response from Tehran on a proposed peace framework, saying the U.S. expects to hear back from Iran today. The diplomatic pressure signals the administration is pushing hard for a resolution, with the timeline now measured in hours rather than weeks.
Shifting to defense, Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf is stepping into a rare moment of public visibility. The cofounder has quietly built one of the most consequential defense technology companies in the country since two thousand seventeen, starting with autonomous surveillance towers in the California desert. His story reflects a broader surge of private capital moving into national security infrastructure.
And for those just entering the workforce, financial advisors are urging new graduates to treat the earliest earning years as the most powerful window for wealth building. Intentional saving habits formed now, before lifestyle inflation takes hold, can compound dramatically over decades. The advice is simple but the discipline, experts say, is everything.
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