Five-Year-Old Reported Killed by Israeli Forces in Gaza as IDF Attacks Continue Across the Strip

A Leaner Federal Workforce Is A Win For Taxpayers Authored by David Harsanyi via The Epoch Times, One of the most unheralded policy successes of President Donald Trump's second term has been the purging of many unnecessary federal jobs. The U.S Capitol building in Washington on May 5, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesThe federal government has reduced its workforce by 300,000 jobs since Jan. 20, 2025, bringing it down to a still-bulky 2.7 million employees. Not since President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society vastly expanded the scope of the national government has the...

Amazon Warns Of "Degraded" AWS Service In UAE After "Power Issues" Amid Middle East Conflict Iran's retaliatory attack ramped up on Sunday after the U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday morning. Follow-on strikes were reported in Israel, across multiple Gulf states, and maritime incidents affected commercial shipping lanes in and around the Strait of Hormuz. One notable and unexpected point of disruption has emerged in the Middle East critical infrastructure on Sunday morning, with Amazon reporting that its Middle East (UAE) data center region has...

Bernstein Puts Timeline On When EU Rearmament Supercycle "Goes Boom" Readers by now know how we've laid out the looming rearmament supercycle in the West colliding with the "own the bottlenecks" theme, as resource nationalism makes industrial metals and rare earths scarce because of Beijing's export restrictions. Adrien Rabier, Bernstein's equity analyst covering European aerospace and defense, penned a note on Tuesday explaining why the European defense rearmament cycle remains a top investment theme and even outlined a timeline. In a report titled "European Defense: Beyond the order boom," Rabier said...