Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are meeting Thursday in South Korea, and frankly, it’s about time. The American president and China’s leader haven’t sat down face-to-face since Trump got back to the White House in January, and things have gotten…
Hurricane Melissa has grown into a terrifying category five storm, and it’s crawling toward Jamaica at a painfully slow speed that has weather experts deeply worried. The deadly hurricane is packing maximum sustained wind speeds of 165mph (270km/h), and the…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wants President Trump to create a special team of six senators—three Republicans and three Democrats—to solve the mess around Affordable Care Act subsidies that’s causing the government shutdown. The Kentucky Republican thinks Democrats should reopen the…
American sports faced another black eye this week after arrests of an NBA coach and a current NBA player for alleged ties to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games. Despite this latest example of players breaking rules, leagues and…
The Pentagon announced Friday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to South America, marking a major escalation of military power in the region. The aircraft carrier, currently in…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) believes the government should break up OpenAI, warning that artificial intelligence poses threats far beyond market competition. The Vermont senator told Axios that splitting the ChatGPT maker represents just one step in addressing what he described…
President Donald Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the Binance founder who served prison time for anti-money-laundering violations, sending shockwaves through financial regulatory circles. The pardon, issued Thursday, effectively erases the criminal record of a man whose crypto exchange facilitated transactions involving…
China’s desperate race to automate its manufacturing sector with over 2 million industrial robots isn’t about efficiency—it’s a last-ditch response to an impending demographic collapse that could shrink the country’s population from 1.41 billion to potentially 330 million by 2100,…
SpaceX has disabled approximately 2,500 Starlink devices being used by cyber scam syndicates in Myanmar, marking a significant crackdown on criminal operations exploiting the satellite internet service. The tech company, owned by Elon Musk, took action after identifying equipment near…
Russia just pulled off a major nuclear exercise the day after Washington postponed talks between Trump and Putin about Ukraine. The timing couldn’t be more pointed—Russia’s military flexed its atomic muscles right when everyone expected progress on peace. This stark…
US forces have killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug boat in the Pacific Ocean, marking the first such operation in Pacific waters. The Pentagon confirmed the incident, with defence secretary Pete Hegseth stating no American personnel…
Meta is laying off 600 employees from its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) division, with chief AI officer Alexandr Wang announcing the cuts in an internal memo shared with Media on Wednesday. The company confirmed through a spokesperson that the job…
The Trump administration is weighing a sweeping plan to curb software-powered exports to China, targeting everything from laptops to jet engines as it prepares to retaliate against Beijing’s latest round of rare earth export restrictions. A U.S. official and three…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Donald Trump had a phone conversation on Wednesday, with the US president confirming they talked trade as both nations try to patch up relations that went off a cliff in August when Trump raised…
Ukraine launched Storm Shadow missiles at a Russian chemical plant this week, and honestly, nobody saw this coming so fast. The UK-made weapons smashed through to hit the Bryansk chemical plant on Tuesday, getting past what Russia claims is a…
