Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. One of TPG’s commandments for travel credit cards is to pay your balance in full every month — but sometimes that isn’t possible. You could have an unexpectedly large expense or face an involuntary layoff from work. In these instances, you …
Things have been going downhill for too long.
Russian attacks on eastern and southern Ukraine killed at least three people on Wednesday, officials said, as Kyiv called for more Patriot air defense systems to battle a surge in missile strikes. Moscow has escalated aerial attacks on Ukraine in the past few weeks, targeting key infrastructure -- including power
Russia launched a massive and deadly aerial attack against Ukraine early on Friday, firing a barrage of more than 150 missiles and drones at targets across the country.The assault included a mix of 88 cruise, ballistic, and anti-aircraft missiles, the latter repurposed for surface strike, and 63 Shahed one-way attack drones, according to the Ukrainian defense ministry, which said its forces shot down 92 of the munitions, including dozens of drones and cruise missiles.Kyiv, however, was unable to...
WASHINGTON — Facing a potentially devastating Democratic defection in the Senate, the White House is ramping up its fight to confirm an embattled judicial nominee who would be the first Muslim American to serve as a U.S. federal appeals court judge. The White House is touting a wave of new law enforcement endorsements for Adeel Mangi to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, building on seven similar organizations that have already backed Mangi, in an attempt to counter what it describes as a...
Masao Dahlgren in this op-ed offers reasons why venture capitalists and the Pentagon aren’t yet on the same page, and calls for them to work together so that both can reap the benefits.
After 9/11, Maryam Keshavarz realised she wanted to change the way Muslims were portrayed in the US media. She explains why she drew on her childhood for her award-winning new movieWhen Maryam Keshavarz was a young girl growing up in New York City in the 1980s, she would spend her summer holidays travelling to Iran, from where her parents had migrated. As well as her luggage, she would fly with small plastic bags taped to her body containing objects she would smuggle into and out of Iran.The...
U.S. Senators are demanding the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information on TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, citing "significant risks" to U.S. national security. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, shared a letter on X Friday that he co-wrote with Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, urging Director Avril Haines to declassify a report about TikTok "in order to better inform the American people about the significant risks the social media platform’s Chinese ownership...
NATO countries can and must do more to support Ukraine, otherwise in 2-3 years it will be too late, said Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen.
In the past day, Russian invaders attempted to launch two assaults on the left bank of the Dnipro River twice and made four attempts in the areas of Robotyne and northwest of Verbove in the Zaporizhzhia region. — Ukrinform.
France will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine and will boost its supply of shells to meet Kyiv’s urgent needs for ammunition to fight Russia’s full-scale invasion, the defense minister said Tuesday.
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