U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday assured allies in the Indo-Pacific that they will not stand alone in the face of growing military and economic pressure from China, while insisting that they also contribute more to their own defense.…
President Donald Trump said he was doubling tariffs on steel to 50%, a sharp increase that could further boost prices for the metal used to make homes, cars and other goods. Mr. Trump spoke at U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works–Irvin…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called on Ursula von der Leyen to do more to stop Israel’s “illegal invasion” of Gaza, a day after the European Commission president called Israel’s wider war “abhorrent”. “One year after recognizing Palestine as…
The lead researcher of a widely circulated survey on EU media influence has told Euractiv that the US PR firm that commissioned the study misinterpreted some of its findings. The comments raise questions about the integrity of the EU Media…
THE FOURTH ESTATE For a professional class that prides itself on “holding power to account” and pursuing the truth “without fear or favor,” journalists are surprisingly susceptible to flattery. If you want to win over a tough investigative journalist, tell…
Falling cocoa harvests in Ivory Coast and Ghana have sent prices soaring in neighboring Nigeria. This has prompted office workers to leave their desks and become farmers, where they can earn much more in the fields. How long will the…
Rapper Kid Cudi is set to testify at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial in New York after one of the music mogul’s former assistants finished telling jurors about the threatening world he recalled encountering while working for Combs. Kadi’s…
House Republicans stayed up all night to pass a multi-trillion dollar tax cut package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying skeptics and uniting his ranks to push through President Donald Trump’s top bill. Thanks to last-minute concessions and stern warnings from…
US President Donald Trump ended a phone call with Vladimir Putin on Monday expressing confidence that the Russian leader wants peace, but few appear to share that optimism. Many senior Western figures were reportedly unimpressed by Putin’s vague references to…
VILNIUS – Germany has opened its first permanent foreign military presence in Lithuania since World War II, with Chancellor Friedrich Merz calling it “the beginning of a new era.” At the foot of Gediminas Hill, overlooking Vilnius’s old town, where…