With the annual U.S. budget deficit already climbing toward $2 trillion, Republicans in Congress dug the budget hole even deeper by passing Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” tax-cut legislation, which the latest projections say will add $3.4 trillion to the national debt by 2035.
Javier Milei, the Argentine president, has escalated attacks on unfavorable journalists in the country—following the lead of President Donald Trump, who is famous for calling out what he sees as “fake” journalists.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says humans will soon live with a 24/7 AI companion. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting people will wear it as part of an augmented reality experience in some version of AR “smart” glasses that will supplant smartphones.
President Donald Trump seemed to brush aside Elon Musk’s decision to fund a viable third party in the U.S., saying the world’s richest man could have “fun with it,” but called the idea “ridiculous.”
Russia carried out its largest aerial attack on Kyiv since the start of the war on Friday as its forces applied new pressure on Ukrainian troops in Kostiantynivka, a strategically important city in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
Denmark promised to commit to a “maximum pressure campaign” against Hungary to get Budapest to agree to European Union (EU) membership for Ukraine, which was granted “candidate status” four months after Russia invaded.
The Ukrainian military carried out a fatal drone attack on an industrial plant about 620 miles outside Moscow, killing at least three and injuring 35, according to the Associated Press.
Mark Rutte, the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands who played the role for nearly 14 years, and now the head of NATO, sold the bullshit last week that Americans should care about the strength of the alliance because Russia is preparing to attack the U.S.
Iran decided last week to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after claims from Tehran that the UN agency provided Israel with diplomatic cover to go to war over its nuclear program and accused Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s head, of “malign intent.”
Friedrich Merz, the warmongering German chancellor, drew criticism from Iran’s top diplomat for cheering on the Israelis during the brief war over Tehran’s legal nuclear program, stating that Iranians have already been “put off by Germany’s Nazi-style backing of Genocide in Gaza.”