This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. For the first time on record, the top 15 military spenders allocated more than $2 trillion to defense in 2025. Total global defense spending also reached a record $2.6 trillion, signaling a major shift in geopolitical priorities. Using data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, this visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, ranks the 15 countries driving this surge in military spending. While the U.S. still operates on an entirely different scale, the biggest shift is happening in Europe, where countries are no longer just maintaining military capacity but expanding it significantly. The…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal officers conducted a search Wednesday related to the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), federal officials told Fox News Digital.Investigators reportedly targeted Alberto Carvalho’s home in San Pedro and the school district’s downtown headquarters, LAUSD said. FBI agents…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! TUCSON, Ariz. – Federal prosecutors visited Nancy Guthrie’s property Wednesday to assist the FBI with a “routine legal process,” the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona confirmed to Fox News Digital.The federal agents were at the home for several…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The girlfriend of a college track and field athlete was arrested for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death. Kevaughn Goldson, a senior sprinter from Jamaica, was killed in a stabbing off Lincoln University’s campus in Jefferson City, Missouri. Goldson, 23, was found with stab…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Baltimore man faces first-degree murder and multiple armed robbery charges after authorities say he carried out a nine-day crime spree that left a convenience store clerk dead.Baltimore police said 52-year-old Brian Burrows was arrested in connection with a commercial armed robbery…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 22-year-old assisted living employee accused of disguising himself in long female wigs and executing an 87-year-old millionaire philanthropist he treated nightly, is now also charged with shooting at a Maryland state trooper Tuesday while on the run.The Montgomery County Department of…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Indonesia has freed and deported an American who spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend’s mother on the tourist island of Bali. Now, he’s facing federal charges in the U.S.Tommy Schafer, who returned to the U.S. on…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Cuba’s coast guard shot dead four people and wounded six others aboard a U.S.-registered speedboat in an exchange of gunfire off the island’s coast, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.In a statement, the ministry said a Cuban patrol vessel had approached the Florida-registered…
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A week after Bill Gates abruptly pulled out as a keynote speaker at a high-profile global AI summit in India, the left-wing billionaire finally mustered enough nerve to “take responsibility for his actions” over his ties to late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a town hall meeting with Gates Foundation…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A new report detailing the inner workings of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office says the Islamic Republic’s real command structure lies not in Iran’s visible government, but in a shadow apparatus designed to preserve regime control even if the supreme…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fact-checkers delivered a mixed verdict on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, backing some immigration and crime claims while disputing others on voter fraud, Medicaid and foreign conflicts.Reviews from PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, The New York Times and others found that Trump’s…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Emotions boiled over inside an Ohio courtroom Tuesday, after a judge sentenced a Cincinnati man in the shooting death of a teenager, setting off a shouting match that escalated into a courthouse brawl.The chaos unfolded after the families of Latrelle Rogers, 20,…
West Virginia Republican Senators Chris Rose and Zack Maynard have introduced Senate Bill 1071, known as the Public Defense and Provisioning Act, which would authorize the state to sell modern machine guns to law-abiding citizens. The legislation utilizes a specific federal exemption in the Hughes Amendment to create state-operated distribution…
Millions of people living in Somalia are struggling to find food as a severe hunger crisis grips the country. Six and a half million people are currently experiencing high levels of food insecurity, the United Nations’ (UN) World Food Program (WFP) reported on Tuesday. Officials from the UN and the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Fraudulent lookalike websites are impersonating a tropical island’s official entry portal by charging unsuspecting visitors a fee to complete a free form.Sint Maarten, the Dutch side of the Caribbean Island of Saint Martin, has issued a warning for travelers, flagging that scammers…
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Key Takeaways A woman shot a man in self-defense during a domestic dispute while waiting for police after calling 911. She retreated to a car as the man attempted to break in, fearing for her safety. Alabama’s Stand Your Ground law allows individuals to use deadly force when faced with…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The one-year anniversary of FBI Director Kash Patel’s term has arrived. As a badge of honor, Patel is under constant attack by partisan Democrats and other conspiracy theorists – including even some whackjobs on the right. Contrary to these smears, Patel has…
The United Kingdom and France have said that they will not deploy troops to Ukraine unless Russia consents to the move. Moscow has long claimed that it would not ever allow NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) troops to build any kind of military presence in Ukraine. Moscow views the Ukraine…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Attorney General Pam Bondi shredded Democrats for refusing to stand for the grieving mother of a murdered Ukrainian refugee during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.Iryna Zarutska was 23 years old when she was killed on a North Carolina train…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A retired FBI agent says the Guthrie family’s new $1 million reward offer puts “psychological pressure” on any potential accomplices to come forward with information.In an Instagram video on Tuesday morning, Savannah Guthrie announced a family reward of up to $1 million…
