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The Pentagon’s new AI task force is an inflection point: it could harden America’s most sensitive networks against rapidly evolving cyber threats—or quietly wire fragile, corporate-built AI into the heart of U.S.
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The stage is set for an unprecedented clash in the nation’s capital as cryptocurrency companies and traditional banking giants gear up for a fierce lobbying battle over the future of digital asset
In the shifting chessboard of 21st-century geopolitics, the Indo-Pacific has emerged as the decisive arena for global power. For the United States, containing Beijing’s ambitions requires more than naval patrols and economic
In a world where trade disputes can flare into economic wars overnight, Washington and Brussels have just signed what might be best described as a cease-fire. The newly minted U.S.–EU tariff agreement—capping
Hours before meeting Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump said he wanted to see a ceasefire in Ukraine and was “not going to be happy” if it wasn’t agreed today. The US
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When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet this Friday, headlines will inevitably focus on Ukraine. But in the shadow of that conflict lies another urgent matter, one that
Once lauded as a scientific breakthrough that helped curb the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines are now at the center of a sweeping shift in U.S. health policy. This month, Health and Human
While Wall Street pours champagne over record-high stock indexes, the U.S. economy is quietly swallowing a bitter pill: tariffs. The same markets that panicked in April are now shrugging at the reality
In a historic opinion issued in July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared that every country on Earth has a legal duty to protect the climate and prevent harm to
By any measure, Apple is one of the world’s most successful companies, but even it isn’t immune to the unpredictable costs of protectionist policies. CEO Tim Cook’s recent admission that tariffs could