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The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USInvesting juggernaut Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting began this weekend with CEO Warren Buffett revealing that he will step down this year. The billionaire investor, who will turn 95 in August, announced Greg Abel as the man to take over back in May 2021, though a specific timeline for when the reins will officially be handed over has yet to be announced.Buffett said earlier this year that…

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailGet our free View from Westminster emailThe 2025 local elections have seen unprecedented success for Nigel Farage’s Reform party, which won 677 council seats across England. The Liberal Democrats nearly doubled their seats up to 370 overall, and winning majority control of three councils.But the third-party players’ success came at a price for the Conservatives and Labour, both of which lost two-thirds of the seats they had in 2021. This spells trouble for Sir Keir Starmer, whose newly-formed government are…

It is 2028. An infantry company, acting as an advanced guard, maneuvers to support an attack in the Indo-Pacific. Each platoon consists of manned-unmanned squad teams using autonomous ground vehicles equipped with sensors, mortars, and loitering attack drones. The company commander, analyzing real-time data from small reconnaissance drones, satellites, and predictive terrain models, quickly identifies key terrain to secure the flank. He assigns a platoon to the position and directs others to adjust fires in support of the main effort. As orders flow, algorithms assess terrain, readiness, doctrine, and historical cases to generate engagement area options. These recommendations include named…

Germany’s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, following his criticism of Germany’s decision to label the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party as a “confirmed rightwing extremist group”.On Thursday, Rubio took to X and wrote: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy – it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD – which took second in the recent election – but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.”Rubio went on to say: “Germany should reverse course.”In…

A British nursing student studying in the US has been found stabbed to death in an apartment in Houston, Texas, just days before she was due to graduate, say police and her family.Elizabeth Tamilore Odunsi, 23, was discovered on 26 April by officers who had gone to her flat to check if she was OK, said Houston police. Police said she had multiple stab wounds. A man was found in another room with at least one stab wound and he was taken to hospital in a critical condition.Ms Odunsi had a TikTok account, Tamidollars, where she posted to her 30,000…

Pritzker Millitary Museum & Library The special operations teams of Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO) captured some of the most unique and telling images of the Vietnam War.In 1962, President John F. Kennedy authorized the activation of DASPO. Their duty was to provide the government with an unbiased view of military subjects all over the world. The photographers and videographers of DASPO put their lives on the line to document an important perspective of on-the-ground operations.All photos and stories of the photographers are courtesy of the Pritzker Millitary Museum & Library in Chicago, which features an extensive…

Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) has reintroduced the Limiting Immunity for Assisting Backers of Lethal Extremism (LIABLE) Act, which would allow for lawsuits against international organizations whose officials or employees materially support terrorism—just as sovereign countries can be sued for such conduct. Since Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, victims have sued numerous alleged abettors. Just this week, over 200 American victims and their next of kin, represented by the prominent law firm Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, filed a lawsuit in federal court against a prominent Palestinian billionaire, accusing him of building commercial properties that were used to house and…

Israel has accused Syria of failing to protect the Druze as Israeli forces occupy and attack parts of the country.Overnight Israeli air raids on Syria have killed at least two civilians as Israel has stated it is carrying out attacks to protect the Druze minority from government violence, a stance the Syrian Druze community itself rejects. At least eight people were also reported injured after some 15 air raids hit multiple areas in Syria after midnight Saturday, with at least eight attacks hitting its capital Damascus. The Israeli military confirmed the attacks on Saturday, saying its forces “struck a military…

Iran Press TV Friday, 02 May 2025 6:15 PM Ireland has slammed as “unconscionable” Israel’s ban on humanitarian aid into Gaza, as Palestinian children there are “starving”, calling on the occupying regime to allow goods and supplies into the besieged territory. In a statement on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland (Tanaiste), Simon Harris, said, “Children are starving. Hospitals are running out of basic painkillers,” as no humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza in more than eight weeks as a result of the Israeli blockade. Noting that the World Food Programme has said that its food stocks are now…

There was a time when any election campaign featuring the name Nigel Farage would have featured the word “Brexit” just as prominently.And yet, almost a decade after Farage orchestrated Britain’s great EU schism, and with the Reform leader emerging as a bigger political threat than ever, at this week’s local elections Brexit was not a word on the lips of voters.This is all the more surprising given many votes took place in working-class settings where voters are feeling the adverse effects of a limping economy which, some say, is hampered by the UK’s trading status outside the EU.But if Farage…