Morocco and the United States are expanding their defense partnership through the gradual development of the African Multidomain Training and Experimentation Center (AMTEC), a facility designed to support military training, technology testing and the evaluation of emerging capabilities. A live-fire demonstration held in early August near Tan-Tan......
U.S. immigration authorities recorded a new monthly high in arrests of undocumented migrants in July, with approximately 51,000 people taken into custody, according to figures cited by U.S. media and federal sources. A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to The Independent that the July figure exceeded the previous......
The US housing market lost further momentum in July, with existing home sales declining for a second consecutive month as elevated mortgage rates and limited inventory continued to constrain activity. Existing-home transactions fell 1.7% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.06 million units, according to the National Association......
Chinese companies are beginning to recover part of the tariffs previously collected by the United States under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the legal basis used to impose the duties. Since early July, at least five publicly listed Chinese companies have announced......
Joby Aviation is expanding beyond the commercial air-taxi market with a $500 million acquisition of defense technology company Resonant Sciences, as the electric aircraft manufacturer seeks to build a larger presence in the rapidly growing military aviation sector. The deal, announced Tuesday, will combine Joby’s expertise in electric......
July 2026 has set a new temperature record in the United States, becoming the hottest July ever recorded across the contiguous 48 states, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The average temperature reached approximately 24.9°C across the lower 48 states, around 1.8°C above the 20th-century average......
A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for thousands of lawsuits against major social media companies, including Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap, over allegations that their platforms were deliberately designed to encourage addictive patterns of use. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected an appeal brought by Meta and......
Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind the Truth Social platform and associated with U.S. President Donald Trump, reported a net loss of approximately $238 million for the second quarter of the year, prompting the company to reconsider its expansion strategy. The loss for the three months ending in June was more than ten times......
U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly defended FIFA President Gianni Infantino, warning that replacing the football governing body’s leader would be a major mistake amid growing criticism of his leadership. In a statement published on Truth Social on Monday evening, Trump described Infantino as an outstanding leader and argued that......
The United States may have suffered losses estimated at around $13 billion as a result of damage to military equipment and facilities in the Middle East during the recent confrontation with Iran, according to an analysis published by The Wall Street Journal. The assessment, attributed to Seth Jones, head of the security and defense department......
US President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order calling for changes to the way childhood vaccines are recommended and administered, reviving a controversial debate over vaccination policy in the United States. The order advocates giving vaccines during separate medical visits and calls for the measles, mumps and rubella, commonly......
Oil prices climbed sharply on Tuesday as financial markets reacted to the continued disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and the absence of progress between Iran and the United States. The latest move pushed the benchmark Brent contract briefly above the $90-a-barrel threshold, highlighting renewed concerns about the security of one of the......
US President Donald Trump has described Iran’s economic situation as being in severe disarray, while outlining three possible approaches for dealing with Tehran as Washington continues to apply economic and political pressure. In an interview with Real America’s Voice, Trump claimed that inflation in Iran had reached 300% and......
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