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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…

Work will begin in the next two weeks on President Donald Trump’s planned European-style, 250-foot arch to be built in Washington, DC, his administration confirmed Thursday. Models of the towering creation show it mirrors the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. The White House confirmed in February it would be part of the president’s legacy to mark the 250th anniversary of America’s founding and 1776 declaration of independence from Britain. AP notes the proposed gold-accented monument is one of several projects the Republican president is pursuing that will leave his lasting imprint on the national capital. These include – but are not…

House Democrats’ top election leader has a message for states ahead of the midterms: count faster.“We are, I think, nicely trying to encourage people to do their balloting as quickly as possible, and that means hiring additional staff so that it doesn’t call into question results,” Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, said in a Thursday interview with POLITICO.The advice is just one part of Morelle’s efforts to secure the midterm elections. He said Democrats have wargamed over 150 scenarios of how the Trump administration could attempt to interfere or complicate the…