Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Germany will boost defence spending by more than two-thirds by 2029, outpacing France and the UK as Chancellor Friedrich Merz drives a massive rearmament of Europe’s largest country in the face of an…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US House of Representatives has warned staff members not to use Meta’s messaging platform WhatsApp due to privacy concerns. The warning marks a blow to WhatsApp, whose $1.8tn parent Meta has long…
Washington Wizards star Khris Middleton has picked up his $33.3 million player option for the 2025-26 season, sources told ESPN on Monday. A beloved three-time All-Star with the Bucks, Middleton was traded to the Wizards at the deadline last season as Milwaukee attempted to get younger at forward. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Middleton, heading into…
Insurance giant AFLAC confirms it has been hit with a cyberattack The attack looks to have been by notorious Scattered Spider group Increasingly infamous group targeted multiple UK retailers earlier in 2025 AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company), has confirmed in a statement it has suffered a cyber ‘incident’ in which hackers intruded into its…
When we look out into the universe, we know it can support life – if it couldn’t, we wouldn’t exist. This has been stated in different ways over the years, but the essential thrust makes up the core of a philosophical argument known as the anthropic principle. It sounds obvious, even tautological, but it isn’t…
Soon after Hamas attacked on October 7th last year, around a third of workers at Elsight, an Israeli maker of drone communications systems, were called up to fight in Gaza. A similar exodus took place across Israel’s tech sector, which accounts for over half of the country’s exports, a fifth of GDP—and a fifth of…
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to meet a new Nato target to spend 5% of the UK’s GDP on national security by 2035. At a Nato summit in the Netherlands, 32 member countries including the UK are expected to agree the 5% goal, with 3.5% to go on core defence and the remaining…
In the last several years, the Los Angeles Rams went from paying top dollar for several veterans to reinvesting through the draft where they’ve found young starters at a number of positions. Puka Nacua, Jared Verse, Byron Young, Kobie Turner and Kyren Williams have all become cornerstone players for Los Angeles, and the best part…
Amid the millions of distant stars and galaxies captured in the first images released from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are thousands of never-before-seen asteroids whizzing around the solar system. “These two beautiful galaxies were photobombed by asteroids,” said Željko Ivezić at the University of Washington in Seattle, presenting an image showing several asteroids streaking…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Sir Keir Starmer will pledge to Nato that the UK will raise spending on national security to 5 per cent of GDP within a decade, as members attempt to convince US President Donald…
