Geopolitics & international affairs
Trump storms out of NBC’s Meet the Press after host challenges his election lies Donald Trump walked out of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday after a heated exchange in which host Kristen Welker repeatedly challenged his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and pressed him on compensation for […]
Trump tells Netanyahu to hold fire as Israel-Iran escalation spirals This is a follow-up to this morning’s article on the Iran-Israel missile exchange. What follows is the next chapter in that story. As Iranian missiles streaked toward Israel on Sunday evening, President Donald Trump picked up the phone. His […]
Kosovo holds third election in 16 months as political deadlock deepens Kosovans went to the polls on Sunday for the third general election in less than 18 months, the latest symptom of a political crisis that has paralyzed the youngest country in the Balkans and stalled its path toward […]
Tehran launched its first direct missile attack on Israel since the April ceasefire on Sunday, after Israel struck Beirut in retaliation for a Hezbollah attack. President Donald Trump responded by publicly urging both sides to stand down. The day’s events unfolded in a cascade across three countries, pulling the […]
Iran is already preparing for the perilous transition from wartime unity to peacetime fracture. After 100 days of war with the United States and Israel, the country faces hyperinflation, a 10 percent economic contraction, rolling blackouts, and a regime debating whether it can survive the peace better than it […]
Armenia voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the country continues its slow pivot toward Europe or falls back into the orbit of a Kremlin that has spent weeks applying economic pressure and warning of a “Ukrainian scenario” if the pro-Western government wins. Polls opened […]
The Pentagon has quietly designated Israel a “critical” counterintelligence threat — the highest level — amid growing evidence that Israeli intelligence is targeting senior Trump administration officials to uncover internal White House deliberations about ending the war with Iran. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) raised Israel’s threat assessment from […]
For years, NATO’s move into AI-enabled warfare has been synonymous with one name: Palantir. The American data analytics company’s Maven Smart System, derived from the Pentagon’s Project Maven, has been the alliance’s first AI command-and-control platform since NATO began training with it in August 2025. It ties together massive […]
Thomas Weir Pauken II, 50, stood in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia on Thursday and admitted what the US Department of Justice described as a seven-year conspiracy to gather intelligence for the People’s Republic of China. Pauken had lived in China since 2010 and worked for multiple Chinese […]
The shaky ceasefire between the US and Iran has been tested further, with American forces targeting Iranian drones and radar sites, and Iran firing missiles at US bases in the Gulf. The fragile US-Iran ceasefire took another hit on Saturday as the two sides exchanged strikes across the Gulf. […]
