On the night of Aug. 4, an employee at Leipzig/Halle Airport in eastern Germany found a drone carrying an explosive device inside the secured cargo area, beside the southern runway. It was sitting next to an Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft — the Ukrainian carrier that flies military supplies. Federal police brought in a bomb-disposal robot […]

On July 27, a regulation took effect in Brussels whose only real purpose was to postpone a different European law due to apply six days later. The law being postponed is the AI Act, passed in 2024 and sold to the world as the first comprehensive rulebook for artificial intelligence. The rescue is Regulation (EU) […]

ARE MIDTERM RESULTS ALREADY BAKED IN THE CAKE? President Donald Trump will gather Republicans in a rare midterm convention starting Wednesday in Dallas. It’s a chance, GOP organizers hope, to fire up voters and reset a campaign in which Republicans appear to be trailing in several key races. It’s reasonable that Republicans would want to do […]

The New York Times and The Washington Post recently published investigations built on some 150 leaked documents, photographs, and intercepted messages from inside the Sudanese Armed Forces. The picture is chilling: a program, launched in mid-2024, to build chlorine bombs; a stockpile of roughly 290 munitions at Merowe air base; indications that more than 100 […]