UK Suspends Airport Slot Rules as Jet Fuel Shortages Threaten Summer Flights

The UK suspends airport slot rules under new government contingency plans announced Sunday, allowing airlines to cancel flights up to two weeks in advance without losing valuable takeoff and landing slots at Heathrow, Gatwick, and other major UK airports. The policy change responds to potential jet fuel shortages triggered by the Strait of Hormuz disruption, […]

Pentagon AI Deals: Seven Tech Giants Signed, Anthropic Excluded Over Guardrails

The US Department of Defense announced Pentagon AI deals with seven major technology companies on Friday, granting SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection contracts to deploy artificial intelligence tools across classified military networks. Conspicuously absent from the Pentagon AI deals was Anthropic, whose Claude model had previously been the only AI […]

Trump Rejects Iran Peace Proposal as US Gas Hits $4.45

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a new Iranian peace proposal to end the Iran war is unlikely to be acceptable, stating that Iran has “not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done.” The rejection of the Iran peace proposal came as the average US gas price reached $4.45 […]

KKR Raises $10 Billion for AI Infrastructure Firm Led by Former Amazon Cloud Chief

Private equity firm KKR & Co. has raised over $10 billion to launch Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company that will design, construct, own, and run data centers, power facilities, and connectivity systems for artificial intelligence workloads, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company will be helmed by a former senior executive from Amazon […]

US to Withdraw 5,000 Troops from Germany After Merz Criticism

The Pentagon announced plans to withdraw approximately 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next year, days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the United States was being “humiliated” by Iran. Berlin described the move as “anticipated,” signaling that the government had expected a retaliatory response to Merz’s public criticism of American military strategy. The […]

US Warns Shipping Firms of Sanctions for Paying Iran Hormuz Tolls

The United States Treasury Department warned global shipping companies on Friday that making payments to Iran for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz could trigger sanctions, extending the financial pressure campaign against Tehran as the strategic waterway remains contested. The alert from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) specified that prohibited payments include […]

Iran-US Talks Stall as Hormuz Pressure Reshapes Gulf Power Balance

Shipping insurance costs for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz rose sharply this week as diplomatic channels between Washington and Tehran remained silent, confirming that the strategic waterway—not Iran’s nuclear program—now dominates negotiations between the two powers. The disruption affects roughly one-fifth of global oil trade passing through the narrow strait, sending ripple effects through […]

Webflow AI 2026 Builds Your Site. Do You Still Own It?

ok so He opened Webflow. blank page. no template. no wireframe. nothing. typed one line. “modern agency site with cms for blog and portfolio.” The screen paused. like it was thinking. Then stuff started happening. hero section. navigation. cards. cms collections. everything connected. working. He didn’t click anything for a while. Just watched. strange. So […]

Celtics Up 3-2. The 8 PM Tip-Off Says They’re Vulnerable.

The schedule dropped on Wednesday. Game 6: Celtics at 76ers. Thursday night. 8 p.m. Eastern. Xfinity Mobile Arena. Peacock. NBC Sports Network. Not 7 p.m. Not the prime window. The late slot. The one that follows Hawks-Knicks and precedes Wolves-Nuggets. The one that gives Philadelphia another hour to marinate in what Game 5 meant. But […]

Trump Targeted Powell. Now He Stays on Fed Board Until 2028.

Jerome Powell’s term as Federal Reserve chair ends on May 15. He was supposed to retire. His bags were metaphorically packed. Decades of public service. A governorship that runs until 2028, but everyone expected him to leave quietly. Former chairs do. Then Trump kept pushing. And pushing. And pushing. On Wednesday, Powell became the first […]