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Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Moscow and its surrounding regions Sunday as Russian voters cast ballots on the final day of parliamentary elections. Moscow’s mayor called it the biggest drone attack on the capital since the war began — Russia intercepted more than 1,900 drones — with strikes ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on Sunday before this week’s high-stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Bessent said he was looking forward to “focused, fulsome, and constructive talks” with He that would “set the ...

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi fighters struck Saudi Arabia over the weekend as Iran warned against new US attacks, threatening to ignite another round of regional escalation. According to Fox News’ Trey Yingst, US President Donald Trump is in “deciding mode” on Iran: “My question is, if and when do I blow ...

Germany’s governing CDU suffered its worst result in 80 years in regional elections Sunday, which Chancellor Friedrich Merz called a “disaster” for his party, as both the far left and far right surged. The AfD expanded on strong recent results, which analysts believe could portend far-right victories in upcoming European ...

President Trump took a victory lap on his administration’s work on drug pricing today, announcing all 50 states will participate in the “most-favored-nation” program, saying “this one thing alone should win us the midterms.” But health policy experts question whether the changes will directly save consumers money, and for how ...

by Sharon Weinberger. Veteran security journalist Weinberger chronicles Silicon Valley’s takeover of the military industrial complex “in uncomfortable detail,” with chilling insights into the intricacies of drones, surveillance systems, and autonomous AI agents, as well as the CEOs and companies behind them. This “superb new book… describes how the US ...

The Scene A prominent researcher is warning the world is on the verge of a massive transformation thanks to the emergence of a new technology that could drastically benefit society or cause massive destruction. No one quite understands how it works, or whether governments should step in. It’s 1941 in ...

Reed’s view There’s a groundswell of people in Silicon Valley and Washington claiming the AI doomer narrative sweeping the nation is part of some carefully coordinated “psyop.” I don’t buy that. Some inside OpenAI and Anthropic were “blindsided” by an apparent agreement over the weekend that both companies would slow ...

The Scoop The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New Hampshire’s Jeanne Shaheen, has blocked an arms sale to Israel since July and continues to withhold consent for advancing the $2.8 billion transaction, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor. Shaheen has asked the Trump administration how ...

Yinka’s view The African diaspora is often discussed as a vast reservoir of capital and goodwill waiting to be tapped for the continent’s development. But that may undersell its value. The numbers are there: the broader sub-Saharan African diaspora in the US has swelled to roughly 4.8 million people, tripling ...