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…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man was arrested and federally charged over the weekend after allegedly grooming a 13-year-old girl online to share sexually explicit images, with some content depicting severe self-mutilation, authorities announced Monday. Officials described Matthew Edward Pysher as a “sadistic” predator who…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A South Carolina judge has ruled that Charles Weldon Boyd cannot claim self-defense protection under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law in the 2023 shooting death of Scott Spivey.After a hearing that spanned four days, Circuit Court Judge Eugene Griffith ruled that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. forces launched a deadly operation in the Caribbean on Monday, striking a suspected narco-trafficking vessel tied to designated terrorist organizations, officials said.The mission, carried out by Joint Task Force Southern Spear under the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In most markets, removing a CEO rattles investors and drives prices up or down. In the global drug trade, taking down a kingpin barely moves the needle.Over the weekend, Mexican authorities said they killed one of the world’s most prolific traffickers, Nemesio…

China is urging the United States to remove all of its imposed tariffs that came in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision that officially struck down most of the tariffs enacted. In a statement on Monday, the Chinese Commerce Ministry urged Washington to lift the tariffs, arguing they now…

A 32-year-old Fort Madison man, Jacob Anthony Haage, has been jailed for domestic abuse after a minor child stabbed him to prevent him from choking their mother. The Lee County Attorney’s Office has ruled the stabbing an act of self-defense, confirming that no charges will be filed against the child…

On Sunday, Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense announced that its special forces had killed drug lord Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes. The death of Cervantes has sparked cartel violence across the entire country. Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho”, was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). He died from…

The Kremlin has announced that it will respond if NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) nuclear weapons are hosted by Estonia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Russia is not threatening the Baltic state, but will aim its nuclear weapons at it if NATO nukes are deployed there. Russia has…