Russia’s 6-day attack on Kyiv that started two days after CIA head’s visit to Moscow, culminates with massive ballistic missile strike on eve of school year
On 1 September — the day Ukraine marks Knowledge Day, when schoolchildren and students are meant to begin the new academic year — Russia launched a massive attack on Kyiv and its region with ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones. Moscow used different types of its fast, deadly weapons, including ship-launchedContinue Reading
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1650: Ukraine isolates 2,500 Russian troops on port-controlling spit
Exclusives Ukraine has five ways to stop Russia’s Iskanders. Only one arrives before the strikes on the grid begin. It means finding a launcher in a forest during the twenty minutes it spends above ground. A rare Ukrainian Bulat tank turned up in a brigade that never had them. UkraineContinue Reading
No One Knows All the Toxic Chemicals You’re Eating
More than 1,000 chemicals that migrate from packaging into food pose serious health risks, a new study shows. But the vast majority of chemicals lack enough information to tell if they’re safe. By Liza Gross Most people decide if it’s safe to eat an old tub of yogurt in theContinue Reading
Wevo’s WEVOPUR 60210 FL T polyurethane potting protects battery management PCBs
Wevo has developed WEVOPUR 60210 FL T, a polyurethane compound for the selective potting of multilayer printed circuit boards in automotive battery management systems. The system is applied by the dam-and-fill method and is built for boards that monitor and control voltages of up to 800 V in electric vehicles.Continue Reading
You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing
For Americans, it’s been a real tough summer for figuring out what foods are safe to eat. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced 26 notices for food products this August alone (not including pet food). Including drugs, that total increased to 46 recalls. That’s a notable increase from AugustContinue Reading
Kempower data indicates that more charging plugs drive higher public EV charging site utilization
There’s a growing consensus that public EV charging may just turn out to be a profitable business after all, and operators are squarely focused on utilization rates. How do we design charging sites to maximize customer utilization? EVSE manufacturer Kempower has released a new white paper that presents an analysisContinue Reading
Ukraine Is No Longer the Country Russia Thought It Was
Understanding a country’s strategic culture helps assess how it will react to crisis, negotiation, and national security events. Strategic culture generally is static and when it evolves, it happens slowly, as history, events, and culture accumulate over generations. In 2021, the prevailing view of Ukraine’s strategic culture was that itContinue Reading
What Six Years as an Iran Hostage Taught Me About the Regime
Since the start of Operation Epic Fury, I have watched and listened to nearly every piece of news coverage and analysis from U.S. policymakers, pundits, and the media. What continues to puzzle me is how often the Islamic Republic is treated as a rational government operating under conventional norms. TheContinue Reading
Israeli forces raze West Bank homes as EU weighs ban on settlement goods
Pogroms in the occupied West Bank continue, with Israeli forces demolishing homes and settlers attacking residents., Pogroms in the occupied West Bank continue, with Israeli forces demolishing homes in Birzeit and Nablus, and settlers attacking Palestinians. Israeli forces have demolished more Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, as settlersContinue Reading
Can Europe fill vacuum left in Lebanon as UN peacekeeping force winds up?
Analysts say Israel could benefit when UNIFIL’s mandate expires on December 31., With the nearly 50-year United Nations peacekeeping mandate in southern Lebanon set to expire at the end of 2026, proposals for a European Union mission to fill some part of the vacuum have attracted attention. Lebanon, still underContinue Reading
Headlines for August 31, 2026
U.S. Forces Target Iranian Launchers; Iran Retaliates Against U.S. Military Targets in the Region, U.S. Strikes Deal to Control 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil, Death Toll in Nepal-Tibet Floods Surpasses 900 People, Flash Floods Sweep Grand Canyon National Park, Killing One Person, ICE Plans to Spend $2 Million toContinue Reading
Seven new frog species were hiding beneath Madagascar’s forest floor
Scientists have discovered seven new species of Madagascar’s elusive diamond frogs, using DNA from modern and century-old museum specimens to solve a long-running biological puzzle. The findings reveal surprising hidden diversity and could help protect these little-known amphibians as their forest habitats disappear., Read MoreContinue Reading
Data centers offer growing career opportunities, labor unionist says
Don Slaiman, an American labor unionist and political activist, joins “On Balance with Leland Vittert” to share why he believes communities shouldn’t be against them., Don Slaiman, an American labor unionist and political activist, joins “On Balance with Leland Vittert” to share why he believes communities shouldn’t be against them.,Continue Reading