November 5, 2025

Australia to require age verification when using search engines

Beginning in December, Australians will be required to verify their age to use search engines like Google and Bing. Users will have to scan their face or do an identity check when using the search engine as a logged-in user.  The changes are a result of industry code, not rule changes from the country’s parliament, […]

November 5, 2025

The best offense? The Golden Dome and Ratel’s mine-laying drones

This week on Weapons and Warfare, host Ryan Robertson takes a look at the innovative agreement between AeroVironment (AV) and Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), while exploring their possible role in the Golden Dome initiative. Ryan also examines the potential of their partnership on national security and how it could help shape the future of national […]

November 5, 2025

Trump meets Xi: How media spins summits into win-loss contests

President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping has drawn sharply contrasting coverage from left and right-leaning media, exposing patterns of bias in how high-profile diplomatic events are reported. The two political sides of the media frame the facts differently. MSNBC largely emphasized U.S. weakness in its coverage, framing the outcome of the […]

November 5, 2025

US rep’s sudden election quit called ‘coronation’ move to lock in successor

Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García, D-Ill., has decided not to run for his seat again in the next election and has timed his announcement in a way that virtually guarantees his chief of staff will take his place, according to reports. Some people are criticizing this as an old-school, insider political move, where powerful figures often […]

November 5, 2025

Dozens of animals abandoned at zoo for 5 years receive emergency care: Report

Lions, tigers and bears reportedly struggling to survive in poor conditions for years at a now-closed zoo in Argentina are finally receiving the medical care they’ve desperately needed, according to The Associated Press. The animals being treated before their eventual transport to wildlife sanctuaries around the globe include 62 big cats and two brown bears.  […]

November 5, 2025

On Election Day in California, voters weigh in on Proposition 50

On Election Day in California, voters headed to the polls in a special election to decide whether to draw temporary congressional maps that could send more Democrats to Washington next year. The campaign to approve Proposition 50 attracted so many donations that its chief proponent, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, asked for people to stop sending […]

November 5, 2025

Democrats claim victory as 2025 election races called nationwide

Millions of Americans have cast their votes, and Democrats have claimed victory in multiple closely watched races. In Virginia and New Jersey, voters went to the polls to pick their next governor, and voters in the nation’s largest city selected who they want to be the next mayor of New York City. Virginia flips control […]

November 5, 2025

UK gov’t probes internal BBC memo alleging biased Trump, Gaza coverage

According to a whistleblowing memo now under investigation by British Parliament, the BBC allegedly edited President Donald Trump’s speech before the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021, in a misleading way, The Telegraph reports. The memo also claims that BBC Arabic, the BBC’s Arabic-language news coverage, was unfair in its reporting regarding the Israel-Hamas […]