Rubio in hot seat as he faces European leaders at NATO headquarters

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting NATO’s headquarters in Brussels for a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers, putting him on the front lines of the Trump administration’s push against traditional American allies in Europe. European leaders were already bracing for a contentious gathering. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull back aid from Ukraine … Read more

Pentagon watchdog launches probe into Signal chat

The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has announced it has agreed to a request from top senators and is launching a probe into the use of the commercial messaging app Signal by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other senior Trump administration officials to discuss an imminent U.S. military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen. Last week, Senate … Read more

‘Trust in President Trump,’ White House says, defending his tariffs amid backlash

The White House on Thursday was standing firmly behind President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff rollout despite markets nosediving, businesses recoiling and foreign leaders threatening retaliation. While Trump had no public events on his schedule a day after his dramatic Rose Garden announcement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Vice President JD Vance were deployed … Read more

Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has

When OpenAI debuted its image-generation feature in ChatGPT last week, social media exploded when users realized that they could make AI-generated images that looked like something out of an animated film from Studio Ghibli. Fans hoped that Studio Ghibli mastermind Hayao Miyazaki would take a stand, but the 84-year-old animator has remained silent. In the … Read more

National Security Council staffers fired after Trump met with far-right activist Laura Loomer: Sources

The White House has fired a handful of National Security Council staffers following a Wednesday meeting with far-right political activist Laura Loomer, who made recommendations to President Donald Trump about who he should fire, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Loomer met with Trump Wednesday, shortly before his tariff announcement in the Rose … Read more

Trump tariffs live updates: Stellantis to temporarily layoff 900 US employees

Among the list of nations hit with tariffs in Trump’s plan are several uninhabited islands with barely any permanent residents. For example, the British Indian Ocean Territory was hit with 10% tariff but the only inhabitants of the United Kingdom territory are American and British military personnel and contractors stationed at a joint defense facility. … Read more