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Trump launches tariffs targeting Chinese drone technology
Financial Times: President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping new tariffs on drones and their components in an effort…
August 13, 2026
US justice dept shifts focus to govt programme fraud
Financial Times: The US Department of Justice is overhauling its approach to white-collar crime enforcement, shifting manpower and…
August 13, 2026
US accuses more than 40 countries of helping China avoid Trump’s tariffs
Financial Times: The White House has accused more than 40 countries, including Canada, Mexico and Japan, of helping…
August 13, 2026
Detroit automakers fear North American trade deal revamp could cost them billions
Reuters: U.S. car companies are still struggling to absorb the bevy of tariffs the administration implemented last year,…
August 13, 2026
US could not verify Israeli warnings of Iran plots against Trump, sources say
Reuters: In the case of the NATO episode, a Turkish official said the country’s intelligence agencies also did…
August 13, 2026
Trump orders Navy to restore older tech on aircraft carriers, costing billions
Wall Street Journal: President Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching jet…
August 13, 2026
Israeli officials stunned by Iran’s rapid military recovery after 2026 war. Iran, US make competing claims over control of Hormuz—AND MORE
Jerusalem Post: Four months after the main war ended in April, the Post understands that the IDF is…
August 13, 2026
Putin can no longer claim victory in Ukraine, Nobel Peace Prize winner tells BBC
BBC: “There will never be ‘victory’,” counters Muratov. “Because what has been going on for nearly five years…
August 13, 2026
Professor’s alleged role in China programs leads to ban from US funding
Bloomberg: A professor managed US funding of computer science research for more than two years while failing to…
August 13, 2026
U.S. investigated left-leaning groups during Minnesota immigration crackdown
New York Times: The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never…
August 13, 2026
Trump gives green light to U.S. companies to aim hacks at cybercriminals
New York Times: The Trump administration is encouraging American companies to conduct their own cyberattacks against criminal hackers,…
August 13, 2026
Bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed spy – but whose spy was he?
The Guardian: When exiled Russian opposition campaigner Igor Rogov was accused of working for the Kremlin, his friends…
August 13, 2026
General says China space weapons threat a major challenge
Washington Times: Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of the Colorado-based Space Command, said the space weapons deployed by China…
August 12, 2026
Ukraine destroys air defences guarding Putin’s holiday home
Telegraph: The S-400 “Triumph” anti-aircraft missile launch pad, located around 12 miles from the Russian president’s Italianate palace…
August 12, 2026
McDonald’s built 515-page dossier on me. It says I’ll never stop eating there
Wired: “McDonald’s secret sauce is really commercial surveillance,” says Jeff Chester, executive director at the Center for Digital…
August 12, 2026
U.S. and Ukrainian forces went head-to-head in exercise. Ukraine’s drones won.
Wall Street Journal: Battlefield drill shows Pentagon hasn’t fully absorbed lessons of Russia’s war…
August 12, 2026
Fiasco in factory: Taxpayers funded $533 million artillery plant that made nothing
Pro Publica: In a rushed process exempted from normal rules, the Army hired General Dynamics, which brought on…
August 12, 2026
2 ex-Chinese military service members arrested in South Korea for alleged espionage — accused of tracking US military movement
New York Post: Police said that one of the suspects, a Chinese national in his 60s, set up…
August 12, 2026
China’s “citizen external propaganda” pipeline put Chinese nationals inside Congress. They wrote lawmaker speeches, researched policy and responded to American constituents.
Natalie Winters: One participant was unusually explicit about what the opportunity represented. Beijing International Studies University graduate student…
August 12, 2026
Trump sued on First and Fifth Amendment grounds over paid Truth Social access
CNN: The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation jointly sued Trump and his White House social…
August 12, 2026