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The British Armed Forces is underfunded, unprepared for war, and doesn’t even have a plan in place should one come, the Chief of the Defence Staff told Parliament. The United Kingdom enjoyed the “peace dividend” after the end of the Cold War but this has left the country militarily unprepared now politicians are talking about war again, it emerged from testimony of Britain’s top professional officer at the Parliamentary Defence Committee on Monday. Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, an “defence bureaucrat” engineer who hit headlines last year after he was selected to become the first Chief of the Defence Staff…

Volvo has issued an urgent safety recall for its 2025 EX30 electric crossover after discovering that faulty high-voltage batteries supplied by a Chinese manufacturer could potentially short-circuit and catch fire. Autoblog reports that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced a recall affecting 2025 Volvo EX30 vehicles equipped with defective battery systems that pose a significant fire hazard. The China-owned automaker is urging owners of affected vehicles to take immediate precautions while awaiting a permanent fix. These include not parking their ticking EV timebomb in their garage. The affected Volvo EVs were manufactured between September 6, 2024, and…

The Georgia Senate passed SB 204 Tuesday, targeting Savannah gun controls related to gun storage in vehicles and allowing citizens to sue local governments over similar controls in their cities. The Associated Press reported, “Mayor Van Johnson and Savannah’s city council voted unanimously in 2024 to outlaw keeping firearms in unlocked vehicles, with maximum penalties of a $1,000 fine and 30 days in jail.” The bill also allows citizens impacted by such gun controls to sue the local authorities who put it in place. Former state state Sen. Colton Moore (R) responded to the controls, saying, “Ultimately what Savannah was doing was regulating…

Senate GOP leaders are working overtime to quash a resolution requiring President Donald Trump to come to Congress before taking additional military action in Venezuela. They don’t yet know if they have the votes. Majority Leader John Thune said Wednesday they are in conversations with rank-and-file GOP members, five of whom voted with Democrats to advance the measure last week. The administration has offered “assurances,” he said, including by stating there are no U.S. troops currently in Venezuela and no plan to send them in. “These are consequential, big decisions and people want to feel like they’re honoring their obligations…

The Hungarian PM has rejected the EU-proposed loan for Ukraine, which he says will burden European taxpayers Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at what he called a “Brusselian war plan,” accusing the EU trying to force member states to finance Ukraine at the expense of their own citizens.The European Commission on Wednesday formally presented a €90 billion ($105 billion) loan package for Kiev for 2026 and 2027, to be raised against the EU’s common budget after member states failed to agree on using frozen Russian assets for the purpose. The controversial proposal – which Hungary, Slovakia and…

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress Former US President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have refused to comply with subpoenas to testify before the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.The committee had scheduled depositions for Bill Clinton on Tuesday and Hillary Clinton for Wednesday. However, in both an eight-page legal letter and a separately signed public statement, the Clintons declared the subpoenas “invalid and legally unenforceable.”“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is moving forward with plans to reduce its Reality Labs division workforce by approximately 10 percent, affecting more than 1,000 employees in the unit responsible for developing the company’s virtual reality and Metaverse products. TechCrunch reports that Meta is implementing significant workforce reductions within its Reality Labs division, the business unit dedicated to building the company’s metaverse experiences. The social media giant plans to eliminate roughly 10 percent of positions within the division, which currently employs approximately 15,000 people. The cuts are expected to impact over 1,000 employees. The layoffs represent a notable shift in Meta’s approach to…

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning that it is “vital for the golden dome” that the United States acquire Greenland. Trump took to Truth Social early in the morning to lay out the national security case for adding Greenland, which is a territory of Denmark, to the United States. “The United States needs Greenland for the purpose of National Security. It is vital for the Golden Dome that we are building,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social. Trump reiterated his concern that Greenland could fall into the hands of Russia or China: NATO should be leading the way…

Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Wednesday confirmed she is under federal investigation for her participation in a November video urging military members not to follow illegal orders. In a video response to the investigation, the Michigan Democrat said President Donald Trump was weaponizing the federal government against those who disagree with him. Slotkin is the latest video participant to face investigation from the administration. “To be clear, this is the president’s playbook,” Slotkin said. “Truth doesn’t matter. Facts don’t matter, and anyone who disagrees with him becomes an enemy, and he then weaponizes the federal government against them. It’s legal intimidation…

President Donald Trump wants to control Venezuela’s oil production and trade indefinitely The administration of US President Donald Trump is pursuing court warrants to seize dozens more tankers suspected of transporting Venezuelan oil without Washington’s authorization, several sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.The move aims to solidify Washington’s grip on the South American nation’s oil exports, following the capture of President Nicolas Maduro in a US special forces raid on January 3. The US military and Coast Guard have already seized five vessels in recent weeks in international waters, including the Russian-flagged Marinera northwest of Scotland.According to a Reuters report on…