Ukraine has detonated a massive underwater blast targeting the key road and rail bridge connecting the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula to Russia, damaging its underwater supports. read more
American manufacturers are having pandemic flashbacks: some say tariff disruptions are starting to stack up to the COVID era, with nearly as much difficulty securing critical inputs.
Surpassing that number would be a "stunning" and grisly milestone, according to a report by a prominent Washington think tank. read more
Hiring decelerated to the slowest pace in two years as sectors including business services and education and health shed jobs, pointing to a weakened demand for workers. read more
"It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We also discussed Iran, and the fact that time is running out on Iran's decision pertaining to nuclear weapons, which must be made quickly!" Trump wrote. read more
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the secretary of the Navy to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk, according to a defense official. read more
A self-described "MAGA girl," Gabrielle Cuccia began her post last week by stressing that "I was (and still am) unapologetically defiant in my support for President Trump." read more
Donald Trump's big, beautiful new plane from the government of Qatar has arrived -- but the US president says it's too big to be his personal perk. read more
Elon Musk's DOGE goons left a huge mess at the office of a nonprofit they illegally tried to take over, with staff allegedly finding drugs and evidence of cockroaches in the building. read more
Violent crime was already trending down from a covid-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has eliminated about $500 million in grants to organizations that buttress public safety, including many working to prevent gun violence. read more
President Donald Trump's big bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion but also increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. read more
A senior official who dismantled the US government's Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, The Telegraph can reveal. read more
Yunqing Jian (33) and Zunyong Liu (34), citizens of the PRC, were charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the US, false statements, and visa fraud. The FBI arrested Jian for allegedly smuggling into the US a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, a potential agroterrorism weapon. This noxious fungus causes "head blight," a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. In humans and livestock the toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects. Jian received Chinese government funding to research this pathogen. Jian's boyfriend, Liu, works at a Chinese university where he conducts research on the same fungus. He allegedly smuggled Fusarium graminearum into the US so that he could conduct research on it with Jian at the University of Michigan. read more
Supporters cite a prosaic DOGE announcement as evidence that a Social Security problem that never existed has been fixed. . read more
It's a tough time for the rank-and-file tech worker or computer science graduate looking for a job. The Silicon Valley giants have laid off tens of thousands in the past couple years. The longstanding threat of offshoring persists, while the new threat of AI looms. read more
Elon Musk on Tuesday tore into the massive tax-and-spending-cut bill backed by President Donald Trump, calling it a "disgusting abomination" that will explode federal budget deficits. "I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it anymore," Musk wrote in a post on his social media site X. "This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination," added the Tesla and SpaceX CEO. "Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it." read more
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