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This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to build Europe’s strongest military. This is a difficult task for a country whose military has been neglected for many years. The coalition hopes that new legislation agreed last week will make this a reality and help strengthen Germany’s military in the face of a major shift in Russian threat perception and US foreign policy. Under the sweeping new reforms, Germany will increase its number of soldiers from around 180,000 now to 260,000 by 2035, and add 200,000 to its reservists. Initially, the initiative will focus on voluntary enlistment, with increased incentives for…

It’s natural to want to comfort your child when they cry. When parents see their children hurting physically or emotionally, they often want to do whatever they can to stop the heartache. As a dually certified child life specialist and therapist, I’ve heard parents and health care workers tell their children, “Don’t cry,” while wiping away tears during medical procedures and other difficult moments. It comes from the desire to heal wounds and make things better. However, children may feel that it is not okay to show emotion or shed tears, especially when they are in pain or distress. Instead,…

A British patrol vessel captured a Russian corvette and tanker after tracking them through the English Channel, the Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday, adding that Russian naval activity around British waters had increased by 30% in the past two years. According to the ministry, in the past two weeks the patrol ship Severn has captured the Russian corvette RFN Stoiky and the tanker Yernya while they were sailing through the English Channel. The Severn eventually handed over its surveillance mission off the coast of Brittany to an unidentified NATO ally. In addition to the ships stationed off the UK…

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo appear in Universal’s Wicked: For Good.universaluniversal “Wicked: For Good” defied gravity at the box office, earning an estimated $150 million from domestic ticket sales.This was the second-highest next weekend opening for a film released in 2025. Warner Brothers” “A Minecraft Movie” grossed $163 million in April. That also exceeds last year’s debut of “Wicked,” which grossed $112.5 million in the U.S. and Canada.The film’s box office sales set a record for the biggest opening weekend for a Broadway film adaptation. With additional ticket sales from overseas markets, Wicked: For Good is on track to gross…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 21, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Pratt | Getty Images Two factors pushed stock prices lower on Wall Street last week. A series of high-stakes numbers from Nvidia and the US employment report, which caused a bigger reaction than expected. But the leaves left behind after an investor was scalded by hot tea seemed to herald good news.nevertheless Nvidia’s The company’s third-quarter results easily exceeded Wall Street expectations, but they did not allay concerns about high valuations and an unsustainable bubble in the artificial intelligence…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives to speak at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Boeing South Carolina (BSC) manufacturing facility expansion in North Charleston, South Carolina, Friday, November 7, 2025. Sean Rayford | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the United States is at no risk of slipping into a recession in 2026, insisting that Americans will soon benefit from the Trump administration’s economic policies on trade and taxes. “I’m very optimistic about 2026,” Bessent said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “We are poised for a very strong non-inflationary growth economy.” Bessent…

Fifty students abducted on Friday from a Catholic school in northern Nigeria have successfully escaped and returned to their families, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) announced on Sunday. Armed robbers on Friday abducted 303 children and 12 teachers from St. Mary’s Private Catholic School in the country’s north-central Niger state, CAN news agency reported. The students are both male and female, some as young as 10 years old. “The students fled between Friday and Saturday and were reunited with their parents as they were unable to return to the school after escaping,” said Spokesman Most, chairman of CAN’s Niger…

The head of the nation’s largest port said the Trump administration has not offered any assistance following a fire that broke out on a container ship Friday and continues to burn outside the port.”Since taking office, we have been trying to set up a meeting with the Trump Cabinet and (U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer),” Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, told CNBC on Sunday.USTR, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Commerce did not respond to requests for comment.An electrical fire broke out on the lower deck of the Ocean Network Express (ONE) container…

meta Facebook has discontinued an internal study that found people who stopped using Facebook felt less depressed and anxious, according to a legal filing released Friday. The social media giant launched the study, dubbed Project Mercury, in late 2019 to “examine the impact of our apps on polarization, news consumption, well-being, and everyday social interactions,” according to legal briefs filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. This file contains new, unedited information about the meta. The newly released legal briefs relate to a high-profile, multidistrict lawsuit brought against social media companies like Meta by a…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on August 4, 2022.Source: New York Stock ExchangeStock futures rose in overnight trading Sunday as the market looks to recover ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday week after a decline that took the air out of this year’s AI bull market.Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 200 points. S&P 500 futures rose 0.6% and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.8%. The stock market will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving and will close early Friday at 1 p.m. ET.Stocks are looking to add to a strong rebound that began Friday after the…