Utilities are planning for significant nuclear expansion while the public market turns sour...

The jubilation over the temporary increase in orders in German industry has already faded: According to figures from the German Engineering Federation VDMA, the current year will also turn into a bitter disappointment. Without an ideological change of course, the German economy will not be able to overcome the recession.

The view that Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions is more widespread in the United States today than six months after 9/11...

If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east.

"the next efforts will be to target" the three Saudi allies...

It is a bitter irony for Germany’s badly weakened chancellor: Greece, once the notorious sinner of the euro crisis, is now reminding its former German teacher of the importance of fiscal discipline.

• US President Trump said he had meetings regarding Iran and that Iran is not doing well; the Pakistani Interior Minister held consultations in Iran on efforts to advance the peace process.
• US Treasury Secretary Bessent said he will present US President Trump with a US-China AI pact, while Trump is to decide on a US-China AI deal this week.
• APAC stocks mostly gained following the advances on Wall Street, where the Nasdaq outperformed.
• DXY was little changed but held on to the prior day's gains; 10yr

...became obvious that agricultural data had become national security data, and that the old distinctions between threats to the state and threats to the food supply had collapsed into a single, uncomfortable reality.

The agentic wars have begun, although one wonders if Meta has done the math how much it will have to spend if its very popular product scales as expected. 

China's quasi-monopolistic control of critical materials can be used as geopolitical leverage.

"How could it stay short forever? Chinese capacity keeps coming onto the market. The supply shortage problem has already completely disappeared."

"Some model guidance has hinted at gusts of 60–70 mph from eastern New Jersey..." 

A Guizhou justice bureau requires lawyers to obtain approval before arguing that a defendant's criminal charge should be changed.

Socialist Mayor Katie Wilson refuses to support harsher punishments for repeat offenders who commit most gun crime.  Instead, she wants to disarm everyone else... 

China is on pace to overtake the US in nuclear power, and its new IAEA deal to share reactor tech marks a shift from secrecy to cooperation.

Entering a country that almost killed him just seven months ago...