Israel has just moved to widen its fight against Hezbollah, and the Israel Defense Forces aren’t being coy about it. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior military leaders say they are stepping up operations in southern Lebanon and have ordered a major evacuation of Tyre — a city the IDF says hides Hezbollah command centers. More

Two of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence have quietly changed their tune about one of tech’s scariest predictions: mass white‑collar job loss. Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic are now saying the apocalypse they once warned about hasn’t arrived — and they say they’re glad to be wrong. That shift More

President Donald Trump used his latest Cabinet meeting to make a bold claim: his administration “oversaw the largest drop in the murder rate ever recorded” in 2025. He also said the border is now the most secure in American history and repeated a striking number about “11,888 murders” brought in under the prior administration. Those More

This week the United States quietly told NATO it will shrink the pool of American forces and platforms available in a crisis. Reporters say a Pentagon envoy briefed NATO policy directors in a closed meeting and laid out cuts to bombers, fighters, warships, submarines and drones. If true, this is a clear message from President More

The latest media melodrama about abortion laws is predictable and cruel. ProPublica’s new claim that women are being denied care during dangerous miscarriages in states with abortion bans is not a shocking revelation; it’s the same playbook we’ve seen before — blame the law, not the doctors. The real story is not that pro-life laws More

Brian Graham of Lithia Springs, Georgia, was sentenced this week to 37 months in federal prison after admitting he lied on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) applications and spent the money on himself. A judge also ordered roughly $441,546 in restitution and forfeiture. The short version: a man took pandemic More