During his first term, Donald Trump made the rehabilitation of relations with Pyongyang a signature foreign policy ambition. Between 2017 and 2019, he met Kim Jong-un three times and, as a gesture of goodwill, scaled back elements of the joint…
Tensions between Washington and Tehran have been building for well over five months, ever since the present conflict began and American naval assets moved to assert dominance over one of the world’s most strategically consequential waterways. The Strait of Hormuz,…
What actually happened in Germany? During the Combined Resolve exercises held in April and May this year, Ukrainian drone operators repeatedly destroyed a 3,500-strong US armoured brigade — forcing exercise officials to “resurrect” eliminated vehicles simply so the drills could…
On a Tuesday morning in Washington, a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump set in motion a significant shift in federal health policy. The announcement was brisk and unambiguous: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would no…
Springfield, Ohio, was never supposed to become a symbol of anything. For most of the twentieth century, it was simply a working midwestern city — factories humming, payrolls steady, population holding firm at nearly 82,000 in 1970. Then the manufacturing…
Half a million hectares burned. Hundreds of thousands evacuated. A bill approaching £16 billion. Europe’s 2026 wildfire season has moved well beyond seasonal misfortune into something that demands serious institutional reckoning. The conditions that produced this summer’s catastrophe did not…
A Consequential Confirmation The United States Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as Attorney General by a margin of fifty votes to forty-nine, elevating President Trump’s former personal defence counsel to the nation’s most senior law enforcement position. The confirmation, which concluded…
Passengers travelling on Lumo’s West Coast Main Line services between London Euston and Stirling have been enduring journeys of more than five and a half hours without access to functioning onboard toilet facilities, after the FirstGroup-owned open-access operator acknowledged a…
Italy’s Health Ministry has placed all 27 of its major cities under a maximum red warning as the country endures its fourth heatwave of the summer, with temperatures climbing towards 39C and forecasters offering little prospect of relief before next…
There is a certain symmetry to watching an administration that lost at the highest court in the land simply reach for a different legal hook and try again. That, in essence, is what twenty-five Democratic-led states are alleging in a…