India Targets Five Small Modular Reactors By 2033

The US Is Still A Decade Away From Breaking China’s Rare Earth Hold The U.S. is still at least a decade away from meaningfully reducing its dependence on China for the most critical rare earth minerals, despite billions of dollars in new investment and political pledges to move faster, according to a new report from Bloomberg. While Washington has pushed to build domestic mining, refining, and manufacturing capacity, analysts say China is likely to retain its dominance over heavy rare earths—particularly dysprosium and terbium—until at least the mid-2030s. Those minerals are essential...

Indonesia is preparing 1,000 troops to deploy to Gaza as part of a potential peacekeeping force by April, a spokesman for the country’s military told Reuters. Indonesia has said it could potentially deploy a total of 8,000 troops to the besieged Palestinian territory, and the spokesman said the full force will be ready by June. […]

Trump Admin Proposes Excluding Illegal Immigrants From Census Count Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration is proposing to change how the U.S. Census is conducted by excluding illegal immigrants from the population totals that are used to determine political representation. The Census Bureau posted a proposed rule on Wednesday that said it also wants to prohibit the inclusion of questions about race and ethnicity or sexual orientation on the census in "short-form questionnaire or any questionnaire used for purposes of the enumeration." The proposed rule said that questions...