Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum on Thursday outlining $5.1 billion in cuts to Department of Defense (DoD) spending through terminated contracts.  The Pentagon leader said the contracts amounted to “non-essential spending” on third-party consultants for services “more efficiently” performed by the department’s workforce using existing resources.  "We need this money to spend on...

Thucydides’ maxim from the 5th century B.C. that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” seems to be the core of President Trump’s negotiating strategy.

Truckers who carry goods from Canada to the U.S. fear they will not be able to get enough work.

The federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to try to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, scolded the Justice Department for demanding more time to update the court on next steps. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday evening that upheld the thrust of U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis’s order,...

If the showdown between Xi and Trump persists, it will hurt both countries — one will have to break, and I’m guessing it won’t be Trump. 

Rigid, bulky batteries could one day be replaced by soft, flexible ones, a new paper argues. Scientists at a Swedish university have created a new form of a soft, fluid-based battery that can be shaped to meet any form, according to findings published Friday in Science Advances. “The texture is a bit like toothpaste," co-author Aiman Rahmanudin said...

Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) knocked Elon Musk for “bad messaging” about cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “I think the key here is bad messaging, right? ... I think people appreciate waste, fraud and abuse. Let‘s go after it,” Sununu said late Thursday on CNN’s “NewsNight with Abby Phillip.”...

President Trump's approval rating has dropped to -8 percent in a new poll, with more than half of Americans disapproving of his job performance, as he implements new trade policies and faces backlash from other countries.

The Justice Department is reconsidering its case against a former FBI informant who was indicted for fabricating a claim that former President Biden and his son Hunter Biden accepted a bribe. The admission came in a filing in the case of Alexander Smirnov, who pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI about the detail that...

Col. Susan Meyers, commander of the U.S. Space Force base in Greenland, was relieved of duty after sending an email in which she distanced herself from Vice President JD Vance’s visit.