In late February, a $35,000 autonomous drone built by an Arizona startup flew over the Persian Gulf and hit its target. No pilot. No last-second confirmation from a commander. The U.S. military called it Operation Epic Fury. Analysts called it something else: a preview of what war looks like from here on out.
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Defense, claiming it was unfairly blacklisted from certain government contracts.
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Since his first administration, Trump made it no secret that he wanted America to take control of Greenland, occasionally make militaristic threats of invading. This became reality recently when Trump escalated to a point where many considered the idea of America controlling Greenland to be a possibility, not through a hot war but through a trade war.
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In the middle of massive protests, the government of Iran flipped the switch and cut millions of people off from the outside world. Phones stopped working, social media went dark, and messages/videos to the rest of the world wouldn’t send. And while the rest of the world saw and heard nothing, something horrific was happening inside the country.
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Within the modern digitized world, digital infrastructure serves as a backbone for the global economy as we know it. This infrastructure also provides daily life and national security, yet this system is fragile. Liabilities concerning the infrastructure include concentrated dependency, physical weak points, and geopolitical tensions, all leading to increasing risk systematically.
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A quick note on scope and confusion: early analyses suggest the $100k surcharge focuses on new H-1B petitions, not extensions or changes for folks already here. But the rollout has been murky, so legal teams are treating guidance updates like breaking news. That uncertainty is itself a cost—hiring freezes while lawyers parse memos.
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The United States first put a price on information leading to Nicolás Maduro’s capture on March 26, 2020, when federal prosecutors in New York unsealed narco-terrorism and drug-trafficking indictments against the Venezuelan leader and several allies.
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This week brought the sharpest movement in months: Donald Trump said Xi Jinping has “approved” a deal a U.S.-controlled TikTok that would avert a shutdown. Beijing hasn’t confirmed that narrative, and reporting remains split on whether there’s a final agreement or just a political green light to keep negotiating. In short: momentum, not closure.
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Thaddius A Gamueda Staff Writer Donald Trump’s administration has begun to cut funding to high profile colleges in the United
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As the 2024 election season approaches, the influence of celebrity endorsements in politics has taken a troubling turn. While many voters look to public figures for guidance, fake celebrity endorsements are threatening to distort the political playing field.
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