Palestinians Mourn Dead After Sand Embankment Collapse as Israeli Attacks Continue in Gaza

Auto Stocks Slide As VW Cuts Outlook, Industry Urges Trump To Keep BYD Cars Out Earnings pressure and trade-policy uncertainty are weighing on auto stocks on Friday. Volkswagen shares fell as much as 7.5% after the struggling European automaker lowered its operating-margin forecast, reflecting a write-down on its Porsche stake and weak Chinese demand. Separately, US auto industry groups urged the Trump administration to maintain restrictions on Chinese vehicles, according to a Bloomberg report. "Allowing them to open a domestic facility would provide a foothold in the US market at the expense of...

What Are Russia's Top Three Strategic Challenges? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The new "cordon sanitaire" that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia's future. Putin wisely advised Russians during his keynote speech at the Valdai Club's latest annual meeting that "we certainly need a roadmap for our movement into the future. What we need is not wishful...

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...