"Clearly A Concerted Effort": Foiled Terror Attack At BofA's Paris HQ Tied To Mideast War, France Says

The US War Department said on Tuesday that US forces boarded an Iranian-linked tanker in the Indian Ocean as the US continues to enforce a blockade against Iran, despite it being a major obstacle to peace talks. The Pentagon said that the tanker, the Tifani, was carrying Iranian oil and was previously sanctioned by the […]

Israeli attacks killed at least five Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, according to reports from the Strip, as the IDF continues launching strikes across the Palestinian territory despite the US-backed ceasefire deal signed in October 2025. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, three Palestinians were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a gathering of […]

How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years Over the last 200 years, economic leadership has shifted from China to the British Empire, then to the United States, and increasingly back toward Asia. This streamgraph, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, tracks how the share of global gross domestic product (GDP) held by major economies changed from 1820 to 2025. The visualization incorporates the latest available data from the Maddison Project Database, the COLDAT Colonial Dates Dataset, and the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. All GDP figures are adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), accounting...