
NATO’s thumbs-up for AWS shows Europe still needs America
The company has become the first cloud provider to win approval to handle sensitive data for all alliance members.
- favorable toward North Atlantic Treaty Organization · 76%

The company has become the first cloud provider to win approval to handle sensitive data for all alliance members.

The U.S. "will no longer permit threats to America to gain a foothold anywhere in the Western Hemisphere," Trump will say, according to his prepared remarks.

"If you don’t understand the history of Black women, you don’t understand the history of America." Those words from Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison open Sasha Bonét's debut memoir, "The Waterbearers". The New York writer traces three generations of Black women in her family: her grandmother Betty Jean, the daughter of formerly enslaved people in Louisiana who went on to raise eleven children; her mother Connie, who sought a middle-class life in majority-white Houston; and Sasha herself, now raising her daughter Sofia in New York.

The US president has moved fast to create the conditions for an authoritarian regime. America can fight back, but is running out of time, explains world affairs editor Sam Kiley

When parents gain the right to work from home, children do better in school, and the effects show up in outcomes that shape later opportunities.

Oscar-winning film-maker Barry Levinson’s docuseries Bucks County, USA examines the political divide in one town in a revealing and infuriating manner Like many teenage best friends, Evi and Vanessa have a penchant for finishing each other’s sentences. Whether enmeshed on a couch or telling a story, one, a red-headed musical theater nerd with a personality nearly as boisterous as her signature puffy skirts, collides with the other, darker in hair and disposition, their speech bubbling with indecipherable affirmations and giggles. In a heady chorus of “duuude” and “no, you!”, it can be difficult to tell where one girl ends and the other begins. Except, that is, at their respective homes. Evi’s mother, Lela, who like her daughter, espouses views considered left of liberal in the US context, speaks in support of LGBTQ students at local school board meetings and advocates for fact-based history lessons. Vanessa’s father, Paul Martino, is a right-leaning venture capitalist who likes to brag about installing school board members by spending $500,000 on local campaigns, an effort triggered by what he saw as unjustified school closures in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading...
“This journey across America offers a glimpse into a new era of aviation. Autonomy has an important role to play in the future of flight, allowing us to connect remote communities, deliver critical supplies, respond faster to disasters, support military operations, and keep pilots out of harm’s way.” Source: JoeBen Bevirt, Founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, in comments made as Joby Aviation announced that an aircraft equipped with its autonomy technology has completed the first-ever autonomous flight across the United States.

Germany is leading European drive to reduce dependence on America for space-based intelligence, says US group’s CEO

"America's Got Talent" is the latest TV show debating moving production out of California ... TMZ has learned. Sources close to production tell TMZ … the NBC competition reality show, judged by Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Howie Mandel, and Mel…

Polls show momentum for the Democrats heading into November elections, but winning control of both the House and Senate could still be tough.
SpaceX is one of a host of potential beneficiaries identified by Morgan Stanley as ways to play the intensifying AI power shortage.
The Trump White House’s guest list reads like a map of corporate America’s exposure to China — from Tesla’s Shanghai factory, to Nvidia’s blocked AI chips, to Citi’s long-awaited brokerage license.
Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick spent a decade mining tax data to identify an under-the-radar class of American wealth.

"It's always going to be a human that manages the airspace in America,” Duffy said.

Fuel price crisis triggered by president’s war in Iran rattles legislators from rural America’s heartlands
The Forbes 2026 list of America's 400 richest billionaires includes just 10 people under 40. Many owe their fortunes to the booming AI industry.

The writer-performer takes the country and its fractious multitudes to therapy in her new multicharacter solo show in Brooklyn.

‘Pests like this can threaten America’s resources and wreak havoc among our most important economic sectors,’ one official said

Following three decades of scaring each other to death, Americans are tired and longing for change.
Corporate America may be broadly using AI, but an analyst noted that some management teams are hesitant to bring it up with investors because it won’t translate to financial results just yet.