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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Army pilots who flew near Kid Rock’s Nashville home will face no punishment after an initial suspension and planned review were dropped.
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Donald Trump’s latest threat to reconsider America’s role in NATO has reopened an old European fear: what happens when the U.S. stops carrying the security burden? In Brussels, the answer still looks messy, expensive, and a little too improvised for comfort.
Moscow says its forces have taken all of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, while Ukraine has not commented. The claim comes as drone attacks killed two women in Kherson and raised fresh concerns about spillover into neighbouring countries.
Reports in the Daily Mail claim Bryon Noem exchanged messages with fetish performers, shared provocative photos and sent them money. Kristi Noem’s aides say she is devastated and asking for privacy.
Sports minister Andrea Abodi said Italian football needs to be rebuilt from the ground up and that the first step should be a change at the top of the Italian Football Federation.
Keir Starmer said Britain’s long-term interests point toward a closer partnership with the EU, arguing that war in the Middle East and a more volatile world have forced the government to think more ambitiously about Europe, defence and trade.
A new class of space companies is raising money to extract Helium-3 from lunar soil, even as scientists question the economics, the law, and whether the moon should become the next place humans dig up first and ask questions later.
Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at tightening mail-in and absentee voting rules, setting up another likely legal fight just as the midterm cycle starts to loom. The order ties federal agencies to a new voter list and threatens states that do not comply.
A federal judge has frozen Donald Trump’s plan for a 999-person, $400 million ballroom at the White House, rejecting the administration’s claim that the president can reshape the building at will. Trump responded by blasting preservation groups as “left-wing extremists” and taking another shot at Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve.
Bruce Springsteen opened his 2026 E Street Band tour in Minneapolis with a three-hour set, four political speeches and a clear message: he was not planning to play neutral background music for the moment.
The BA.3.2 subvariant, nicknamed “Cicada” by scientists online, has spread quickly across more than 20 countries. In Italy it has been present since at least December 2025 and has been dominant since February, although without a clear surge in hospitalisations so far.
NASA says Artemis II is cleared for launch, with weather now the main variable. The four-astronaut mission will loop around the moon, test the Orion spacecraft in deep space and push the agency one step closer to a permanent lunar presence.