The Bank of America Institute released a report last week that found nearly 24 percent of households in the U.S. are considered to be living paycheck to paycheck, or homes that spend 95 percent of their income on essentials, like childcare and groceries.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has a big problem on his hands: young people in his country can’t find work and are beginning to voice their frustrations with what was described in a recent article as “generational inequality” that has been rejected by the youth in countries around the world in Gen Z protests.
President Donald Trump has watched his approval rating fall to the lowest point of his second term, according to a newly released Gallup poll.
Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of War, was under fire on Saturday after a report said he allegedly gave a verbal order for the military to carry out a second strike on an alleged drug boat that had two survivors.
Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) programs and infrastructure accounted for as much as half the U.S.’s economic expansion during this year’s first half, according to The Wall Street Journal. At the same time, investments in AI-related stocks have soared in value, vastly multiplying the household wealth of many Americans.
President Donald Trump walked back a post on Saturday, appearing to call for Venezuela’s airspace to be closed, and said a day later that people should not “read anything into it.”
Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues, despite the U.S.-backed ceasefire, as the Israelis continue to inflict conditions on the Palestinian population that are “calculated to bring about their physical destruction,” Amnesty International said in a new report.
German officials are reportedly working on plans to mobilize Europe against Russia over what officials in the country say is a high likelihood that the Kremlin will be willing to attack NATO states by 2029.
The Canadian government is militarizing its country in such a way that its armed forces will play a leading role in nearly all levels of society, from its economy to a larger reserve force in the event of a large-scale war breaking out, WSWS reported.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, seemed to cast doubt on the viability of the Washington-backed peace proposal if the document undergoes any edits that erase “key understandings” that he said Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with President Donald Trump during their Alaska summit in August.