A follow-up to yesterday’s rumors about Chinese President Xi Jinping suffering a stroke:

Last night Russia struck another massive blow to Ukraine’s power grid, triggering sprawling blackouts throughout a number of the largest Ukrainian cities, including Kiev

Although somewhat expected, it’s still hard to imagine what it feels like to be appointed prime minister, form a government, and then wake up to find it all fallen apart—only to resign.

During the latest Valdai forum presentation and Q&A, Putin gave some rare insight into the war’s casualty figures and how they play into general tactics, which is worth looking at.

Loved ones have identified the man who was fatally shot during a carjacking in a Louisiana parking lot while picking up his son from day care.

German police just detained three men in Berlin accused of working for Hamas and preparing armed attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets inside the country.

Last week, ex-Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny penned another informative strategic think-piece on the war in Ukraine, that serves as a technological update on his previous piece written in 2023.

Troubling developments have highlighted Europe’s continued slide into political turmoil and totalitarianism.

In his farewell address in September 1796, just five years after the First Amendment took effect, President George Washington warned his young nation of the dangers of factionalism.

Neocon godfather Robert Kagan has written a new column for the Atlantic—and his decrees on the Ukraine war usually presage a critical time, for which he is summoned to rustle up urgent support.