The rush to build electricity-sucking AI data centers has overwhelmed the energy industry, as we reported in articles including “AI’s Insatiable Appetite for Electricity” (16 Jul 2024) and “By 2030, AI Will Need More Electricity Than Japan, IEA Says” (6 May 2025).
Continuing its campaign to expand the role of its currency in global finance, over the past five years Beijing has sharply increased the number of loans it has made in its own renminbi currency.
In the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk, many folks who dared to express views of him and his work outside the mainstream lost their jobs, professional standing and State Department visas as they were fired or otherwise disciplined by employers or bureaucrats who concluded that anti-Kirk views could harm the employers’ businesses or were inconsistent with institutional values.
Unusual Machines, a drone company backed by Donald Trump Jr., just won its biggest contract ever from the Pentagon to produce 3,500 drone motors and other equipment—with another order expected in 2026 for an additional 20,000 components, the Financial Times reported.
A European human rights group accused Israel of continuing to stonewall international journalists from entering Gaza to prevent the world from seeing the atrocities and destruction caused by the IDF with the full backing of third states.
U.S. beef prices are setting records due to shrinking beef herds amid steady consumer demand.
The IDF killed another six people in Lebanon in recent days, after killing three in strikes across the country on Thursday, as it appears to be ramping up its attacks in violation of the ceasefire announced in November.
In September, sales of existing U.S. homes rose 1.5 percent from August to 4.06 million units, the most since February, the National Association of Realtors reported.
Scope, a major European rating agency, reduced the U.S.’s creditworthiness by one notch last week, pointing to the continued deterioration in fiscal conditions and a growing inability to govern.
The IDF did not violate the Gaza ceasefire when it launched a deadly strike in central Gaza’s Nuseirat because it claimed the attack targeted a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad who was preparing an alleged attack on Israeli forces.