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Australia to get no new, only old, Virginia-class submarines under AukusAustralia will no longer receive any new Virginia-class submarines from the US, with all three of the Aukus vessels to be second hand.The defence minister, Richard Marles, welcomed the new proposal alongside his US and UK counterparts yesterday.Australia had been expecting to receive a mix of old and new Virginia-class submarines for its own use in the early 2030s as it prepares to adopt nuclear-powered submarines.Marles announced the plan had changed in a joint statement on Saturday. It read: double quotation markThe Deputy Prime Minister and Secretaries welcomed the proposed…
I will admit that I am becoming somewhat obsessed with trying to get to the bottom of Mexico’s growth problem. I have been spending too many hours reading dozens of analyses and reviewing hundreds of slides by leading economists. The documents tend to dedicate most of their attention to the many things in Mexico that are not going well, and what the country can and should be doing better to help grow its economy. Of everything I read, two statistics in particular really caught my attention. The first is regarding per capita productivity. I have written at length about Mexico’s…
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is finally back in the market’s favor after a blowout first-quarter report that showed its fantastically high spending is leading to incredible results. There was a lot of good news, including triple-digit growth in its chips business and an 170% increase in client spend, quarter over quarter, on its Bedrock platform. But it has another business in the works that could add substantial value to the company. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a “Double Down” signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same “Total…
Could Taylor Swift be suiting up for her ‘Life of a Cowgirl’ era? The Swifties are buzzing with speculation after a mysterious Toy Story 5 billboard went up with the initials ‘TS’ and Andy’s bedroom wallpaper, featuring 13 clouds, which is famously the Grammy-winning artist’s favorite number. On Saturday, the Disney Pixar movie stoked the rumors with a video of cowgirl Jessie (voiced by Joan Cusack) dancing on the billboard. “She’s making those moves up as she goes!” they wrote with the clip, quoting the lyrics of Swift’s 2014 hit ‘Shake It Off’. Could Swift be recording a new song…
U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced on Saturday that it had prevented another vessel from docking at an Iranian port amid a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military “disabled” a ship flying under a Gambian flag on Friday after the vessel did not heed numerous warnings, according to a statement shared…
Stewart Adamson looked uncomfortable. It wasn’t that he had never appeared in a music video before. As a lanky 20-something, Adamson had previously jutted around with the Scottish punks who made up his early band, Skids, in the clip for “Into the Valley,” which climbed to No. 10 on UK charts. But in the footage for “In a Big Country,” Adamson looks like your coworker plowing through karaoke, contorting their face into pained shapes after a miserable week at the office. Imagine if, sometime in the winter of 1983, you had muted MTV to make a sandwich or use the…
Lorena Wiebes was disqualified from the women’s Giro d’Italia for a bike weight violation, just hours after winning the opening stage.The Dutchwoman, riding for Team SD Worx-Protime, had sealed the first maglia rosa – the leader’s pink jersey – of this year’s race by pipping Italian Elisa Balsamo and Irish rider Lara Gillespie to the finish line in Ravenna.But in a statement on Saturday night, race organisers said 27-year-old Wiebes, who won the Giro points classification in 2025, had been kicked out of the race for “use of a bicycle not in compliance with the regulations, specifically failing to meet…
Two of Mexico’s most politically prominent governors found themselves facing legal scrutiny the last week of May, as the Attorney General’s Office summoned Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos for questioning. Meanwhile, President Claudia Sheinbaum kept up a busy week at the mañanera podium — defending a call to boycott a major television network, announcing a multi-billion-peso pharmaceutical investment and, on Friday, giving away her own World Cup ticket. The economy offered some counterweight to the political turbulence. New data showed foreign direct investment hit a record high in the first quarter of 2026, and April…
Before Warner Bros Motion Picture Co-Chair Michael De Luca takes the stage at the Produced By conference this afternoon, the studio has unveiled that the title to the Legendary co-production Minecraft sequel is A Minecraft Movie: Squared. As previously announced Jared is returning to helm with stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Matt Berry, Jennifer Coolidge and Kirsten Dunst joining. The movie which came close to making $1 billion worldwide last year gets credit for this whole dynamiting of the under 25 demo/YouTube craving generation to the box office. Before Backrooms shorts, Minecraft and Roblox games were the thing,…
He’s fighting hard to restrict mail voting.