US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to reduce certain mortgage costs, including through the automatic cancellation of mortgage insurance for eligible future borrowers and a permanent
by Our Defence Affairs Editor The 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States published this week is framed as a repudiation of what it calls decades of “laundry lists of wishes”
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America has already lost the chip war with China, and the origin story explains why: the semiconductor stack was built as an instrument of state power—an architecture that fixed roles and chokepoints
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A very close friend of mine in southern California used to listen to Fox News pretty much non-stop. The Venezuelan Communists, according to Fox, were planning to invade the USA, he warned me.
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The US Central Command, a vital player in Middle East security, is now flying a clone of an Iranian drone. The US drone is a copy of the Shaheed 136, the same
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The late-November 2025 incidents involving Afghan evacuees from Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) exposed deep structural weaknesses within the United States’ (US) security and immigration systems. The attack by Rahmanullah Lakanwal – an evacuee who
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The United States has decided to halt plans to impose sanctions on China’s Ministry of State Security over a large-scale cyber spying campaign, aiming to preserve a trade truce reached earlier this
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Former President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that all documents signed using an autopen during Joe Biden’s presidency, including pardons, executive orders, memorandums, and contracts, are “null, void, and of no
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Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Technologies Inc., and his wife, Susan, will donate $6.25 billion to help fund so-called “Trump accounts,” an initiative created earlier this year under legislation backed by
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A severe worldwide shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence developers, cloud providers and consumer-electronics manufacturers into fierce competition for rapidly shrinking supplies, according to a detailed investigation by Reuters. The
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Russia said President Vladimir Putin has accepted some elements of recent U.S. proposals aimed at ending the war in Ukraine while rejecting others, according to reporting from Reuters. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
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With more than 550,000 dams in the United States, free-flowing rivers are an endangered species. We’ve dammed, diked, and diverted almost every major river in the country, straightening curves, pinching off floodplains, and blocking
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Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia is “ready” for a potential war with Europe as the United States prepares to deliver Ukraine’s latest peace proposal in Moscow on Tuesday. The message
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US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over
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Why is America so dependent on Chinese rare earths? This question remains puzzling even in China. Americans have debated their rare-earth vulnerability for more than fifteen years, and yet it is shocking
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From October 20th – November 21st 1962, a little-remembered conflict raged between China and India. The skirmish damaged India’s Non-Aligned Movement affiliation, firmly placing the country in the West’s orbit, while fomenting decades of hostility between the neighbouring
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