Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy

President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.
Published: December 6, 2025, 12:29 am
Stampeding Turtles Might Have Made Fossil Tracks in Italian Cliffs
Researchers suggest that an earthquake spooked a mob of sea turtles gathered together in a prehistoric sea.
Published: December 5, 2025, 7:15 pm
Wary of Russia, German Defense Minister Pistorius Is Growing His Army

Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow.
Published: December 5, 2025, 5:18 pm
U.S. Warns of Europe’s ‘Civilizational Erasure’ Through Immigration

America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.
Published: December 5, 2025, 5:54 pm
Austria Forms Panel to Study Its Rights to Famed Florentine Diamond

The Hapsburg family claims the gem, which it secretly kept hidden for decades.
Published: December 5, 2025, 1:06 pm
Air Traffic Control Issue Briefly Grounds Flights at Edinburgh Airport

The airport, Scotland’s busiest, said it had experienced a technical problem with its air traffic control provider. An hour later, flights had resumed.
Published: December 5, 2025, 1:27 pm
Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption in Ukraine to Fester

Ukrainian leaders blame independent advisers for failing to prevent graft. A Times investigation found that President Volodymyr Zelensky’s own administration removed guardrails.
Published: December 5, 2025, 6:55 pm
Gianni Infantino Awards Trump a FIFA Peace Prize and Announces World Cup Draw

Gianni Infantino, head of soccer’s governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup.
Published: December 5, 2025, 9:13 pm
Amid Russian Sabotage, U.K. Points Finger at Putin Over Novichok Death

A British woman died from exposure to a nerve agent because of a botched assassination plot that the Russian leader must have authorized, an official report found.
Published: December 5, 2025, 1:42 am
Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.
Published: December 5, 2025, 6:08 am
Popular snack sold at Coles stores across Australia pulled from shelves after plastic found inside

Two flavours of the popular snack have been pulled from shelves over contamination fears.
Published: December 6, 2025, 1:14 am
Urgent warning to millions of diabetics as faulty monitors are recalled in 17 countries

Global healthcare giant Abbott is recalling faulty blood glucose sensors across multiple countries due to potentially life-threatening inaccuracies in their readings.
Published: December 5, 2025, 9:13 pm