Economic growth was much slower than expected in the final three months of 2025 while core inflation rose to start 2026, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Gross domestic product, a measure of all the goods and services produced across the sprawling U.S. economy, rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted annual rate of just 0.7% in the fourth quarter, according to the department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The first revision of the GDP reading was a sharp step down from the previous estimate of 1.4% and well below the Dow Jones consensus forecast for 1.5%. It also marked a considerable slowdown from the 4.4% gain in the prior period.
Four of six crew aboard a US military refuelling aircraft have died after it crashed in western Iraq, US Central Command (Centcom) says. Read more
Florida AG James Uthmeier threatened the state will take action if Mayor Jane Castor (D) continues to enforce "sanctuary policies" on the Tampa Police Department.
Just Another Corrupt AG from Florida Like Pam Bondi
A woman in the US had her life upended after she was wrongly imprisoned for six months in jail over a bank fraud case. Angela Lipps, 50, from Tennessee, was slapped with criminal charges last year when police jailed and later flew her to North Dakota after facial recognition showed she was the main suspect in an organised bank fraud case. Despite having never been to North Dakota or stepped on an aeroplane in her life, Lipps was apprehended and thrown behind bars. Lipps was babysitting her four young children when a team of US Marshals took her away at gunpoint, according to a report in the Grand Forks Herald. She was booked into her county jail in Tennessee as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. After sitting in the Tennessee jail for four months, she was charged with four counts of unauthorised use of personal identifying information and four counts of theft in North Dakota.
The US is relocating parts of a missile defence system installed in South Korea to the Middle East, according to officials cited by the Washington Post and South Korean news outlets. The reported move comes 12 days into the US-Israeli war against Iran, and follows reports suggesting Iran had destroyed a key radar used by the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad, system in Jordan. Read more
Donald Trump bleated that Iran's national football team is welcome to compete in this summer's World Cup but warned it may not be safe for them to do so.
Donald Trump is Killing the People of Iran but Welcoming Their Football Team
An American military refueling plane taking part in the operation against Iran crashed in Iraq and rescue efforts were underway, U.S. Central Command said Thursday. It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties. A U.S. official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the developing situation, said the KC-135 aircraft that crashed had at least five crew members aboard. The crash was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire, the military said in a statement, which described the plane as "a loss."
The Israel Defense Forces dismissed the indictments of five soldiers accused of raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman prison in July 2024"an attack that sparked worldwide outrage. "Israel's military attorney general just gave his soldiers license to rape, so long as the victim is Palestinian," said one Israeli rights group.
Other IDF Soldiers Have Been Accused of Raping Palestinian Detainees
Nasa says it's on track to launch its Artemis II mission in early April, which will see astronauts fly around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The rocket had been set to blast off in March, but after a helium leak was discovered it was returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for repairs. Nasa says it's confident the problem is fixed, and is planning to roll the rocket back out to the launchpad on 19 March, with the earliest possible launch date of 1 April.
A drastic weather pattern change is about to induce an acute case of weather whiplash for most of the country. During the next few days, a record-setting Western heat wave will settle in while winterlike cold returns to the East. The heat wave in the West will dominate weather headlines for at least two weeks starting Thursday, as numerous locations are likely to set all-time heat records for the month of March. Read more
In a post on social media platform X, the Iranian president said the conflict could only end if Iran's "legitimate rights" are acknowledged, compensation is paid for damages and strong international guarantees are provided to prevent future attacks.
They're saying the quiet part out loud now.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of "highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat" while increasing the power of working-class men.
Secular Talk, posted today
In which MAGA self-owns while trying to target Talarico.
Drone Threats to US
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's neighbors are suing the Democrat, accusing him of stealing a slice of their land to erect an eight-foot-high security fence around his private residence in an "outrageous abuse of power." The neighbors, Jeremy and Simone Mock, are currently duking it out with the governor in court over a 2,900 square foot parcel of land located between their two homes in Abington, Montgomery County, court papers show. The Mocks alleged in a lawsuit filed last month that Shapiro and his wife, Lori, unlawfully seized the stretch of land after initial negotiations to buy it from them went up in flames.
A Skokie woman made headlines this week after her family and a local politician claimed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security detained her for nearly 48 hours before she ultimately ended up in Wisconsin " an extraordinary story disputed by accounts from the federal government, two sheriff's departments and her purported employer. Summer Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi's family alleges the 28-year-old woman was taken into custody Thursday morning at O'Hare International Airport after arriving on a flight from Istanbul. Naqvi, whom Cook County records show was born in Evanston
