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Top economists including Paul Krugman criticized Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico.The pair said import taxes would damage trust in the US, while Robert Reich said Trump had ill intent.Steve Hanke said Americans pay for tariffs, and they don’t increase employment.Prominent economists including Paul Krugman, Larry Summers,…
Talk of AI agents is everywhere in Davos. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warned against them.Bengio said that agents with the power of AGI could lead to “catastrophic scenarios.”Bengio is researching how to build non-agentic systems to keep the agents in check.Artificial intelligence pioneer Yoshua Bengio has been at the World…
Russia is believed to be behind dozens of hybrid attacks on NATO going back years.These incidents — part of a so-called shadow war — have escalated since the invasion of Ukraine.NATO is now surging its efforts to respond to the attacks and monitor threats to infrastructure.Far beyond the front lines…
North Korean troops sent to aid Russia will likely be deployed to the most dangerous fighting spots.That’s according to South Korea’s defense minister, who said they’d likely be used as “cannon fodder.”North Korean forces have already taken casualties, per reports.North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces will likely be sent…
Two US Navy SEALs drowned during a January raid on a vessel smuggling weapons to the Houthis.A new investigation outlines a string of failures that led to that fatal outcome.”This incident, marked by systemic issues, was preventable,” a top commander said. Two US Navy SEALs drowned during a raid to…
Leftover debris from Hurricane Helene could make incoming Hurricane Milton even more dangerous.Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday, the second major storm in two weeks.The region has been scrambling to pick up as much debris as possible before it’s too late. Less than two weeks after…
A top US Air Force general said that Ukraine is not using its F-16s for the most dangerous missions because the pilots flying them are still new to the fighter jet.Ukraine’s F-16s flew in combat for the first time at the end of August when they helped repel a large…
Before Ukraine received its first batch of F-16s a few weeks ago, one of the big questions surrounding the transfer was how Kyiv would make use of its small inventory of NATO-provided fighter jets.When the jets arrived in Ukraine, initial imagery of the F-16s and their missile loadouts suggested Kyiv…
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -In December, Drew, a 36-year-old man from San Antonio, Texas, drove more than 250 miles (400 km) to Mexico to buy cheap Ozempic to help him lose weight. Going home, he checked the pens. They looked unusual, so he shared photos on social media. The verdict:…
Ever since the FDA approved the prescription of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, it’s been hard to get hold of the real thing.Demand is so high for semaglutide, a GLP-1 sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, that it almost immediately went into shortage after it was FDA-approved for weight control…
