Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has told Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky that Berlin will help Kyiv produce long-range missiles to defend itself from Russian attack. read more
Billionaire Elon Musk has said his time leading President Donald Trump's cost-cutting task force is coming "to an end". Musk has helped lead the Department of Government Efficiency - known as Doge - since its inception this year. He was designated as a "special government employee" - which allows him to work a government job for 130 days each year. Measured from Trump's inauguration on 20 January, he would hit that limit toward the end of May.
Showers and thunderstorms associated with an area of low pressure have continued to become better organized over the past 12 hours. Some banding features have become more pronounced over the southern semi-circle. Recent scatterometer data depicts that the system now has a well-defined low-level center. Thus, the system is now classified as a tropical depression, the first of the eastern Pacific season. The initial intensity is set at 30 kt based on a T2.0 Dvorak classification from TAFB.
The company successfully reused its Super Heavy booster, but it too exploded. read more
Ten people were shot and at least one other person was injured when a holiday weekend gathering at a charter boat in a South Carolina coastal community turned violent, according to police. read more
It never made sense to me that POTUS could unilaterally impose tariffs without accompanying legislation from congress.
But you'll be all good when SCOTUS overturns it?