Global Defense Budgets Rise 2.9% As US Reduces Ukraine Aid
The world spent nearly $2.9 trillion on its militaries in 2025 — the eleventh consecutive year that figure has grown, and the clearest statistical portrait yet of a planet that has stopped believing in its own security. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released its annual accounting Monday, and the numbers tell a story that […]
King Charles’ US Trip Unaffected By Gun Violence
King Charles III and Queen Camilla are boarding their flight to Washington anyway. Twenty-four hours after a gunman rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives — forcing the emergency evacuation of Donald Trump and Melania Trump from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — Buckingham Palace […]
Iran Refuses Talks Under Pressure; Trump Scraps Pakistan Trip
Donald Trump cancelled a planned US diplomatic mission to Pakistan on Saturday and declared that Iran had offered concessions that fell short of American demands — before revealing that Tehran improved its proposal within ten minutes of the cancellation, a sequence that appeared to validate his stated belief that he holds all the leverage in […]
Mexico Says Slain CIA Agents Lacked Official Authorization
Mexico’s government declared Saturday that two CIA agents killed in a car crash in the northern state of Chihuahua last weekend had no authorisation to participate in operations on Mexican soil — a statement that deepened an already tangled diplomatic dispute between the two countries and raised fresh questions about what American intelligence officers were […]
Gunshots Ring Out At Press Dinner; Trump Emerges Unharmed
A gunman armed with a shotgun, a handgun and multiple knives charged a Secret Service checkpoint inside the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, setting off an exchange of gunfire and triggering the emergency evacuation of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner before the suspect was subdued and […]
DOJ Closes Criminal Investigation Of Fed Chair Powell
The Justice Department dropped its criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday, clearing the most significant procedural obstacle to the Senate confirming Kevin Warsh as his replacement — and prompting immediate accusations from Democrats that the entire probe had been a political instrument designed to deliver the central bank to Donald Trump’s […]
Altman Expresses Remorse For Canadian Mass Shooter Oversight
Sam Altman issued a formal apology Friday to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, admitting that OpenAI failed to alert law enforcement to an account it had internally flagged for disturbing content linked to gun violence — an account that belonged to the 18-year-old who killed eight people, including six children, at a local […]
Netanyahu Confirms He’s Cancer-Free After Prostate Therapy
Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed Friday that he had been treated for early-stage prostate cancer, revealing the diagnosis and its resolution simultaneously in a social media statement released alongside his annual medical report — and explaining that he had deliberately withheld the information for two months to deny Iran material for what he called “false propaganda.” The […]
Year After Tech Shake-Up, DeepSeek Unveils New AI Models
DeepSeek returned Friday with another model designed to make American AI executives uncomfortable, releasing DeepSeek-V4 with what the Chinese startup described as “drastically reduced” compute and memory costs — arriving more than a year after its original R1 model detonated assumptions about US dominance in artificial intelligence and wiped billions from the market valuations of […]
Meta Plans Job Cuts As Microsoft Offers Exit Packages
Meta announced Thursday it was cutting approximately 8,000 jobs — roughly ten percent of its global workforce — as the social media giant redirects billions toward artificial intelligence infrastructure and the elite engineers commanding the industry’s most extravagant salaries, making explicit what technology executives have been implying for months: the AI era does not need […]
US Set To Relax Cannabis Rules For $47bn Industry
The US Justice Department moved Thursday to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana, announcing it would immediately ease rules on state-regulated medical cannabis products and fast-track a broader reclassification of the drug — the most significant shift in American drug policy in decades, arriving from an administration that few in the cannabis industry had expected to […]
Microsoft Plans Unprecedented Australia Spending Commitment
Microsoft will pour $18 billion into Australia over the next three years in what chief executive Satya Nadella described as the company’s largest-ever investment in the country, channelling the money into AI supercomputing infrastructure and government cybersecurity systems as the technology giant accelerates its global push to dominate artificial intelligence deployment. Nadella announced the commitment […]