Deputy defence minister says new air defence systems will be completed in 24 months Poland plans to complete a new set of anti-drone fortifications along its eastern borders within two years, a top defence official has said, after a massive incursion of unmanned Russian aerial combat vehicles into Polish airspace earlier this year. “We expect to have the first capabilities of the system in roughly six months, perhaps even sooner. And the full system will take 24 months to complete,” the deputy defence minister, Cezary Tomczyk, told the Guardian in an interview in Warsaw. Continue reading...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault, which continued for nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.

Low-quality AI-generated content is now saturating social media – and generating about $117m a year, data shows More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found. The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop. Continue reading...

Trump is using the presidency as a branding opportunity. He’s slapping his name on as many buildings, monuments and government projects as he can

With scoops from the NFL, NBA and beyond, Torre’s hit show — and the way he makes it — is ruffling feathers across the sports landscape.

Businesses in vulnerable sectors found themselves caught between rising tariffs and beleaguered consumers.

President Trump's up-and-down tariff policy has not, so far, yielded the global economic disaster many feared, but it has contributed to a state of tension and uncertainty. Former International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Mohamed El-Erian tells Ali Velshi that "the trading system needs a certain amount of predictability" to function. He also warns that tariffs could lead to worsening inflation, noting that, if duties remain high, companies are "going to pass more through to the consumer." 

Recently, Andrea Lucas, acting chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, put out a call seeking anti-discrimination cases from white men, a striking message from an agency whose historic mission has been defending the rights of historically disadvantaged groups. MS NOW legal analyst and Georgetown School of Law professor Paul Butler tells Charles Coleman Jr. that the Trump administration is "using the bureaucracy and the ideology of the federal government to enforce white supremacy." "It's to foster this sense of grievance and victimization from white men," Butler says, "so they don't focus on how Trump is busting unions and taking away their healthcare." 

Since returning to office, President Trump has taken on a major role in the Middle East, from brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to deepening ties with Saudi Arabia. Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes calls out Trump's "massive corruption" in cozying up to "these rich, totalitarian or autocratic leaders in the Gulf." Former State Department Senior Advisor for Arab-Israeli Relations Aaron David Miller says that while the ceasefire is a major achievement, "building a bridge to a broader Israeli-Palestinian peace is going to be a very hard lift."