Beretta Defence Technologies UK (BDT UK) is positioning itself as a leading contender in the British Ministry of Defence’s Project Grayburn. The initiative aims to replace the SA80 service rifle by 2030. The SA80, officially designated the L85A3, has served as the British military’s standard-issue rifle for decades. Now, the Ministry of Defence is seeking […]
Days before the deadline, the parliamentarian in the U.S. Senate is stripping portions of President Donald Trump’s tax and budget bill, referred to as the “one big beautiful bill,” after ruling that they’re not related to the budget. Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has released a series of decisions on several parts of the omnibus legislation. […]
Real estate giant Compass filed a lawsuit against popular home-buying website Zillow over one of its new rules. Compass is calling it the “Zillow ban” and claiming it violates antitrust laws. Zillow’s new rule Zillow announced the new rule in April, and it officially went into effect May 28. Zillow says when a listing is […]
Florida has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the state to enforce a new immigration law that lower courts temporarily blocked in April. The law makes it a misdemeanor for individuals to enter the state of Florida if they are in the United States illegally, granting law enforcement the authority to arrest them upon […]
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist and state assemblyman from Queens, declared victory Tuesday night, June 24, in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary. With 93% of scanners reporting, Mamdani held 43.5% of first-round ballots, ahead of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 36.4%, according to unofficial results. Although ranked-choice tabulations will continue through July 1, Cuomo […]
A cargo ship carrying 3,048 brand–new vehicles has sunk in the Pacific Ocean, weeks after a fire forced the crew to abandon ship. All 22 crew members evacuated safely on June 3, when a fire disabled the vessel. Authorities reported no injuries. What caused it to sink? The fire severely damaged the ship, named Morning […]
Axiom Space launched its fourth private mission to the International Space Station early Wednesday, June 25, in partnership with SpaceX for the flight. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lifted off at 2:31 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew consists of astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary […]
In August 2024, 14-year-old Landon Payton died after suffering a medical emergency and collapsing in his middle school gymnasium in Houston, Texas. Nearly a year later, local families, lawmakers and advocates still wonder whether his life could have been saved by a functional automated external defibrillator (AED), which treats cardiac arrest by sending electric shocks […]
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that multiple systemic failures at Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) led to the January 2024 door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9. The incident occurred six minutes into Flight 1282, forcing an emergency landing in Oregon with 177 people aboard. The NTSB identified […]
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic scored a major victory in court that could impact dozens of similar lawsuits. Despite the legal win, the company still faces piracy claims for allegedly pirating books to start a digital library. Fair use argument A group of authors filed a class-action lawsuit against Anthropic in 2024, claiming the company had […]
