Scientists have warned that Wednesday could be the shortest day of your life as Earth’s accelerating rotation is expected to move quicker than ever before. They found that three days this summer, July 9, July 22, and August 5, are expected to be between 1.3 and 1.51 milliseconds shorter than the standard day. This is because…
Donald Trump has said the US will send more weapons to Ukraine after an announcement last week that Washington would halt some shipments of critical arms to Kyiv. During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said he was “not happy” with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and that Ukraine was “getting hit very hard”….
Ukraine looks to withdraw from a major international treaty on anti-personnel landmines to bolster its defense on the battlefield, where its troops are trying to hold off Russia’s intensifying offensive. President Volodymyr Zelensky, on June 29, had requested that Ukraine withdraw from the 1997 Ottawa Treaty that banned the production and use of indiscriminate anti-personnel…
Rescue teams in central Texas scoured storm-ravaged terrain Monday for signs of life as the death toll from last week’s catastrophic flooding rose to at least 90 and bouts of heavy rain battered hard-hit areas. Among the dead were at least 27 children and counselors from Camp Mystic, a beloved all-girls summer camp in Kerr…
Elon Musk says he has formed a new political party amid his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump. Musk asked his 221.7 million X followers to vote in a poll deciding whether he should form the new “America Party” on Friday. The tech mogul first threatened to form a party earlier this week if Congress…
June’s nonfarm payrolls rose by 147,000, exceeding expectations of 110,000, while the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1%, signaling a robust labor market that may delay a July Federal Reserve rate cut. Government employment led with a 73,000 job gain, followed by health care (39,000) and social assistance (19,000), though a 329,000 increase in those not…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump complained Thursday that the United States provided too many weapons to Ukraine under the previous administration, his first public comments on the pause in some shipments as Russia escalates its latest offensive. Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a flight to Iowa, Trump said former President…
Despite two Republicans breaking ranks, the White House scored a major victory in the 218-214 vote. Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on Thursday, ending a monthslong political fight and delivering a significant win for the White House. Despite Democrats issuing an eleventh-hour call to action…
Greetings from Tyler, I’m writing this a day early, because we’re closing the office for the fourth. Who could have foreseen it? I can remember many statements about the end of the world. They were worried about having babies in the 1960’s, and what they’d have to go through. Well, it’s sixty years later and…
China’s expanding global port control threatens US security, economic influence, and free trade. Washington must counter Beijing’s reach with development financing, diplomatic pressure, and allied coordination before it’s too late. Seemingly innocuous shipping containers, filled with death. That has been the headline twice in a month, as both Ukraine and Israel utilized shipping containers to…