Author: Press Room
The British Army will reportedly halt “non-essential” training exercises amid a budget crunch, while the government faces calls to cut welfare spending to meet the nation’s defence needs. According to a report from the state broadcaster BBC, citing an anonymous source within the British defence apparatus, the Army has been forced to cancel “nice-to-have training” sessions. This will include planned live-fire exercises in which platoons will practise large-scale attacks at training sites in Wiltshire and Wales. One such cancelled training session was reported to include practice for the Royal Tank Regiment with tanks and Apache helicopters. While the military is said to…
On Thursday’s broadcast of “NewsNation Live,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stated that there needs to be a “thorough review” of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s tenure by Congress, and this should include oversight of the firings of people within military leadership for “unclear” reasons. Host Nichole Berlie asked, “Do you think we need someone else at the helm? Are you confident right now in his leadership?” Cassidy answered, “I think Congress should do a thorough review of his leadership. We are in a seven-month — or a six-month war that was supposed to be six weeks. We’ve had a lot…
The announcement comes days after Mikhail Fedorov unexpectedly emerged as an adviser to Italy’s defense minister Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov has announced the launch of a new military technology company, with Palantir CEO Alex Karp set to become its lead investor.Fedorov has remained highly active in business and politics since Vladimir Zelensky dismissed him in mid-July amid reported tensions with then-commander-in-chief Aleksandr Syrsky. The former minister has also grown increasingly critical of Zelensky, claiming he was removed over his anti-corruption efforts and calling for elections, which have been repeatedly postponed under martial law.Last week, Fedorov unexpectedly emerged as…
The image of the Trump family presented by many of its critics is one of constant hostility, cold ambition, and personal dysfunction. Kai Trump’s latest video offers a very different picture. The 19-year-old granddaughter of President Donald Trump became emotional while preparing to leave her home in Jupiter, Florida, and begin college at the University of Miami. In a YouTube vlog, Kai filmed herself crying in her car as she prepared to say goodbye to family members and friends. “I’m not a very emotional person at all, so this is like really weird for me to cry,” she said. “I’ve…
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin described a plan on Thursday to build networks of data storage and processing centers in the country’s Arctic, alongside “small nuclear power plants” developed to feed the data centers energy. Putin made the revelation during an appearance at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), an event highlighting investments and business plans for eastern Russia held in the far-east city of Vladivostok. While development of the Arctic to build data centers has already become a popular idea globally, as the cold means the centers require less energy to keep the hardware from overheating, Putin’s comments follow growing interest,…
During an interview with ABC News on Thursday, Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) said that “It’s time” to end the war in Iran and “I don’t see it ending with a victory or a good outcome from the American perspective, because of Donald Trump’s failures.” Walkinshaw began by saying, “[O]ur brave servicemembers and their families have done everything asked of them and more. They have performed incredibly. They’ve been failed by their own leadership, Secretary Hegseth, Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and President Trump. It’s time to bring them home, end this war, and bring down costs for the American people.” Later, guest…
Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday curtailed the chamber’s preelection calendar, putting a number of priorities at risk of being delayed until the lame-duck period or axed altogether.Johnson cited premidterm political pressures and a lack of action in the Senate — which is due to return Sept. 14 — as reasons for canceling the House’s final two weeks of session before November.But that means House lawmakers have just one more work week in Washington before the elections, and a short list of priorities some members wanted to see action on are now in serious doubt:— DATA CENTERS: One key item that…
The demographic reversal is putting growing pressure on pension and healthcare systems, particularly in Europe The world’s elderly population has overtaken the number of young children for the first time in human history, according to a new US Census Bureau report. Europe, already the world’s oldest region, is at the forefront of the trend. People aged 65 and over accounted for 10.5% of the global population in 2025, surpassing children aged five and younger for the first time, the bureau said in its An Aging World: 2025 report. The reversal has been driven by longer life expectancy and falling birth…
Trump-appointed Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte just dropped the hammer on FICO’s longtime stranglehold over American homebuyers. On Thursday, Pulte announced that he is ordering mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to approve every lender seeking to use VantageScore as an alternative to FICO, effective immediately. According to Pulte, the price charged for an individual FICO credit score has skyrocketed by an astounding 1,800% since 2020. Enough is enough. “Since 2020, FICO has increased the price per a person’s credit score by 1,800%,” Pulte wrote on X. “FICO has enjoyed a monopoly. No more.” Pulte continued: Fannie…
The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1 percent. Economists had expected the economy would add 55,000 jobs and the unemployment rate would tick up to 4.2 percent from 4.1 percent in July. The previous month’s reported job loss was revised away. The July estimate was revised up by 44,000, from a loss of 23,000 to a gain of 21,000. The June gain was revised up by 11,000 to 31,000. After these revisions, employment in June and July combined is 55,000 higher than previouslyreported. The U.S. labor market has experienced a significant shift…