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Palantir is a software company, and its national security work has driven its stock price to remarkable heights.You won’t find the most valuable national security contractor of them all on the standard lists of defense industry stocks.That would be Palantir, a rapidly growing company inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”The S&P 500 defense and aerospace sector contains big publicly traded companies like GE Aerospace, Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies). They make the weapons, ammunition and equipment that a nation needs to fight a war: missiles, bombs, tanks, rockets, aircraft, ammunition,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use of an artificial intelligence system to direct the hacking campaigns, which researchers called a disturbing development that could greatly expand the reach of AI-equipped hackers.While concerns about the use of AI to drive cyber operations are not new, what is concerning about the new...

SNAP payments delayed by the shutdown will resume, with USDA aiming to get all November benefits to recipients by Monday. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said all SNAP recipients should receive their November payments by Monday “at the latest” after a weekslong delay caused by the recent government shutdown. The suspension of SNAP benefits stressed millions of recipients and placed a larger burden on food banks trying to fill the gaps. It also sparked confusion among states as courts weighed whether the federal government was obligated to cover states’ SNAP payments during the shutdown. As a result, some states paid full...

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Large defense companies have "conned" the U.S. military into buying expensive equipment when cheaper commercial options would have been available, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said.Government accountability advocates and some lawmakers have long argued that defense contractors have overcharged the military. But Driscoll's comments were unusually blunt for a sitting government official speaking out against companies that supply the largest military in the world."(The) defense industrial base broadly, and the primes in particular, conned the American people and the Pentagon and the Army," Driscoll told reporters, referring to prime contractors that work directly with the...

Administration allies say they are fed up with the Defense Department’s third-most senior leader and his foreign policy surprises. More than a half dozen diplomats interviewed in Washington and Europe also complain that the Pentagon’s once steady consultations have slowed as Colby’s office crafts that strategy, along with a review of troop locations worldwide.That uncertainty deepened after the Pentagon quietly decided not to replace a rotational Army brigade in Romania, Hungary and Slovakia — a move the Romanian government learned of only two days before it was announced, according to a U.S. defense official and a Romanian official.One NATO diplomat...

Recently, President Donald Trump left many people concerned about the state of his eternal destination after stating that he was unsure if there was anything he could do to make it to heaven. In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Trump clarified what he meant by his statements. “When I made that statement, I was being funny, sarcastic, you know it’s bad for a politician to be sarcastic,” Trump said. “I was kidding, I was having fun. I don’t know if I will or not, I don’t know.” He also discussed the New York Times’ piece on his statements,...

Police and federal agents clashed with far-left protestors outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday. Several protestors were arrested after chaos erupted outside the Broadview facility. The protestors arrived at the Broadview facility on Friday after a radical Biden judge ordered the release of 13 detainees. 21 protestors were arrested. According to Fox 32, two police officers were injured during the violent protest. A CBS reporter claimed protestors were holding offensive signs with curse words. “But there are some signs here that we cannot show on TV because they have curse words,” a CBS reporter said....

Hailed as a revolution in air travel, the much-hyped A321XLR has had a bumpier first year than expected... On this day last year, the Airbus A321XLR took flight for the first time.The aircraft was described as a “game-changer” by Iberia’s CEO, Marco Sansavini, ahead of its maiden flight from Madrid to Boston. The Telegraph predicted it would ignite “a fresh new era for air travel”.There was good reason for all this fanfare. The XLR is a narrow-body, long-haul jet for the modern era, burning less fuel per passenger than any other jet on the market and offering a longer...

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins discussed data on food stamps and said that data from blue states is “going to give us a platform and a trajectory to fundamentally rebuild this program, have everyone reapply for their benefit, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through SNAP or food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.” Rollins stated, “29 states, mostly the red states, responded with their data sets, February, March, April. … But here’s the most unbelievable news I have really, just over the...

Explanation: Northern lights have come to Florida skies. In fact, the brilliant streak of a Northern Taurid meteor flashes through the starry night sky above the beach in this sea and skyscape, captured from Shired Island, Florida on November 11. Meteors from the annual Northern Taurid meteor shower are expected this time of year. But the digital camera exposure also records the shimmering glow of aurora, a phenomenon more often seen from our fair planet's higher geographical latitudes. Also known as aurora borealis, these northern lights are part of recent, wide spread auroral activity caused by strong geomagnetic storms. In...

Tucker Carlson has revealed that the young man who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania last year had a long record of espousing political violence.Comments posted by Thomas Crooks to YouTube from 2019 to 2020 show a detailed digital trail of violent threats that included calls for assassination and political violence, despite the Federal Bureau of Investigation's repeated claims otherwise, according to a mini-documentary Carlson released Friday morning. The posts were made by Crooks when was between 15 and 17 years old, Carlson's expose claims. The deep-dive from the former Fox News stemmed from a tip he received...

How ironic it will be if a brown American like Vivek actually helps to fix education and raise the prospects of white kids, while all the professional whiteys on X continue their idle boasting about how they too could get us to the moon, “just like some white dudes did in 1969.”

You can share an article by clicking on the share icons at the top right of it. The total or partial reproduction of an article, without the prior written authorization of Le Monde, is strictly forbidden. For more information, see our Terms and Conditions. For all authorization requests, contact syndication@lemonde.fr. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/14/swiss-gruyere-crowned-the-2025-world-cheese-champion_6747449_4.html The World Cheese Awards first prize winner, a gruyère AOP special over 18 months cheese presented by Swiss cheese maker Hitz Pius, from the Vorderfultigen cheese company, during the 37th edition of the World Cheese Awards, in Bern, Switzerland, November 13, 2025. GABRIEL MONNET / AFP A Swiss gruyère...

"An app with the tagline 'Invest like a Politician' should not be this popular," the co-founder of Autopilot tells The Daily Wire.WASHINGTON—When Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement, mixed in among the tributes to the former House Speaker were a lot of jokes about stocks.“‘America’s Greatest Investor’ gets dethroned!!!” conservative radio host Larry Elder wrote on X. “[Shout out] to Nancy Pelosi. [I]n Honor of your retirement, what other stocks should I invest in?” another user posted.Pelosi has come under fire in recent years for her prolific stock trading, which, by some estimates, has earned her $130 million while in Congress....

Cheeses from different countries pictured during the 37th World Cheese Awards, at the Festhalle in Bern, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (Anthony Anex/Keystone via AP) ============================================================================ BERN, Switzerland — The first thing that hits you at the World Cheese Awards is the smell. As the 37th edition -- part competition, part a celebration of cheese -- kicked off in Switzerland on Thursday, some visitors might wish the offerings had more holes. With descriptions of odors including "stinky socks" and "sick dog," it's clearly a festival — and a challenge — for the nose as much as mouths, fingers and eyes....

A monumental historic opportunity will be presented to Trump and the GOP – if they have the guts to seize it. While the common perception of the six-week-long government shutdown is that Republicans won and Democrats lost, the Dems did manage to squeeze one notable concession from the GOP. In return for the votes of eight Democratic Senators to reopen the government, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) promised to bring the reauthorization of COVID-era Obamacare insurance subsidies to a vote in December. And while Republicans have no appetite to further bankroll a program they have unanimously opposed for the...

The longest government shutdown in history is over, but appropriators still have a long way to go to get nine of the 12 necessary funding bills over the finish line by Jan. 31, 2026.The government reopened after 43 days, following the House’s passage, mostly along party lines, with six Democrats voting in favor and two Republicans voting against, of a legislative package that extended funding until the end of January and included three appropriations bills.However, with the new January deadline, appropriators are up against the clock, as both chambers must now agree on the nine remaining bills so they can...

A sweeping new analysis of tariff policy spanning 150 years suggests that the economic establishment may have fundamentally misunderstood how tariffs affect prices and employment, a finding with profound implications for understanding President Donald Trump’s trade policy and the proper response by the Federal Reserve. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examined major tariff changes from 1870 through 2020 across the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Their conclusion challenges the conventional wisdom that dominated economic policy debates in recent years: when countries raise tariffs, prices actually fall, not rise. “We find that a tariff hike...

A unanimous Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday revived the criminal case against six prominent allies of President Donald Trump who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors amid Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election. The justices concluded that Attorney General Aaron Ford properly brought the forgery case in Las Vegas, overruling a lower-court decision that found the case should have been brought in Carson City, where the pro-Trump elector nominees signed the false documents. The 6-0 decision comes just days after Trump pardoned dozens of allies — including the six defendants in Nevada — for any potential federal crimes...

I wonder what Bishop Marcel Lefebvre would make of Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrating the pre–Vatican II “Latin Mass” in St. Peter’s Basilica on October 25. Lefebvre, of course, was a seminal figure in traditionalist Catholicism, who early on distanced himself from the reforms of Vatican II and in 1970 founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to train traditionalist seminarians. The SSPX was canonically suppressed by the Holy See in 1975, but Lefebvre termed the action illegal and decided to ignore it. Then, in 1988, Pope John Paul II declared that Lefebvre was automatically excommunicated for consecrating four bishops...