Nordic Leaders Hold Rare Putin Call, Suddenly Eager For Say In Ukraine Peace Talks

US Africa Command has launched at least 68 airstrikes in Somalia this year, the command told Antiwar.com in an email on Tuesday, putting it on track to break the record for annual US airstrikes in the country that the Trump administration set last year at 124. President Trump oversaw a dramatic escalation of US airstrikes […]

California Erects First Steel Mill In Half-Century Pacific Steel Group is building California's first new steel mill in more than 50 years, a Kern County rebar plant whose cost has grown by about $160 million since the project was announced. Typical California steel mill The company broke ground on the Mojave Micro Mill in March 2025. The governor's office says Pacific Steel won a $30 million California Competes tax credit in 2024 in exchange for committing to more than $540 million in capital investment and nearly 450 new jobs in the mill's...

FCC Set To Vote on Easing Satellite Power Rules, Boosting SpaceX's Starlink Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced Wednesday it will vote on an order to revamp satellite spectrum-sharing rules that would benefit low-Earth orbit broadband providers - and SpaceX stands to gain the most. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites is seen over Sebastian Inlet after launching from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2025. Sam Wolfe/Reuters “By discarding last century’s satellite regulations, we could see billions of dollars in benefits...