NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Kills Plan To Allow Robotaxi Operations Outside NYC

NATO Chief Challenged On The "Defensive" Alliance's History Of Offensive Regime Change After his Oval Office visit today, an affair dominated by foreign reporters speaking truth to power by clamoring for more global military spending, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had to defend his alliance’s often-touted moral assertion: that NATO is defensive in nature. Asked by ZeroHedge whether NATO’s good deeds in Libya and Iraq qualified as defensive, Rutte had this to say: NATO chief Mark Rutte often refers to his alliance as “defensive.” I asked whether Hillary Clinton’s regime war in Libya...

A high-level defense official told a House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the continuing operations against Latin American drug cartels were “just the beginning”, and left open the possibility of deploying ground forces. The official, acting assistant secretary of defense for the Department of Homeland Defense John Humire, told the committee that these operations–referred […]

Americans' Savings-Rate Slumps In April As Fed's Favorite Inflation Signal Soars After accelerating significantly in March, The Fed's favorite inflation indicator - Core PCE (a measure of price changes in consumer goods and services that excludes volatile food and energy costs) - rose 0.2% MoM in April (less than expected +0.3% MoM), but pulled up the YoY measure to +3.3% (as expected) - its highest since Nov 2023. The rise in Services costs (headlined by Housing & Utilities, Financial Services, and Healthcare) dominated the increase in Core PCE YoY... The headline PCE...