Judge orders Trump administration to resume FEMA grants — for real this time
President Donald Trump’s executive orders have prompted lawsuits. A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday once again ordered the Trump administration to stop its freeze of Federal Emergency Management Agency grants to states. US District Judge John McConnell agreed with the Democratic attorneys general for 22 states and Washington, DC, who brought a lawsuit against…
Trump says he will extend TikTok ban deadline again
Trump said he would sign an executive order allowing TikTok to operate in the United States for 75 additional days. President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to extend the TikTok ban deadline in the United States. ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, originally had until April 5 to divest its US…
California is ready to fight Trump again — this time over tariffs
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump listen to California Gov. Gavin Newsom after arriving on Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles in January. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday said he will seek to talk to world leaders about why they should exempt his state from retaliatory actions…
Russia on track to build artillery shell stockpile triple the size of the US’s and Europe’s combined: top US general
The US hopes its monthly 155mm shell production will reach 90,000 to 100,000 by 2026. Gen. Chris Cavoli says the Pentagon expects Russia to be producing 250,000 shells a month. Russia may be losing weapons, tanks, and ammo at a staggering pace in Ukraine, but its defense production is going to easily make up for…
Countries near Russia are pulling out of a decades-old land mine ban as security concerns grow
A land mine warning sign in Donetsk, east Ukraine, in 2023. A growing number of countries bordering Russia are abandoning a long-standing treaty banning the use of anti-personnel land mines. On Tuesday, Finland became the latest country to announce it was withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention, the 1997 treaty banning the use, sale, and production…
Russia is flying fewer types of drones over Ukraine, making them easier to target
A Russian soldier with a Supercam drone in an undisclosed location in November. Russia is flying fewer types of drones than Ukraine, which is making them easier to recognize and defeat, a Ukrainian drone operator told B-17. Dimko Zhluktenko, a drone operator with Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, told B-17 that when it comes to some…
Tech ‘Armageddon’: One of biggest AI bulls says tariffs will be the end of Wall Street’s hottest trade
One of Wall Street’s most prominent bulls said Friday that Donald Trump’s tariffs will bring an end to the trade that’s propelled the stock market to years of stellar gains. Following the worst day for stocks in five years, analysts at Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives said he sees a dire cocktail of consequences stemming from…
A financially independent real-estate investor shares his ‘recession-proof’ strategy and the renovation that improved his cash flow by hundreds of dollars a month
Real estate investor Kent He and his family. When Kent He’s Section 8 tenant moved out of his single-family home in Fairfield, Alabama in 2024, the investor saw an opportunity to improve his property. He decided to add a room and convert the three-bedroom into a four-bedroom — and spent about $41,000 doing so, he…
‘Complete turmoil’: Ivy Zelman called the home-insurance crisis before the devastating California wildfires and warns 5 other states could see long-term property values erode
Megan Mantia, left, and her boyfriend Thomas, return to Mantia’s fire-damaged home after the Eaton Fire burned it down. Six months ago, Ivy Zelman made a bold, unpopular call, as she’s done throughout her career. The venerated real-estate analyst and founder of research firm Zelman & Associates said there was a looming threat to property…
