Broadcom’s fiscal third-quarter 2026 results show how artificial-intelligence infrastructure is shifting from general-purpose acceleration toward customized compute and large-scale networking. The company reported AI semiconductor revenue of $16.7 billion, up 221% year over year and 54% sequentially. That expansion… Read...
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In 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law requiring large fossil fuel polluters to pay up to $75 billion in damages. However, after two years, a federal judge has ruled that the law conflicts with federal law and...
Regional integration is usually built through treaties, protocols and formal institutions. Yet integration does not always begin with a legally binding agreement. It can also take shape through joint ministerial declarations, memoranda of understanding and other forms of political commitment...
The fourth China-Africa Peace and Security Forum was held in Beijing, China, from September 15 to 17, 2026, coinciding with the 13th Xiangshan Forum and the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and African countries. Military...
Denmark announced that its sovereignty over Greenland will not be affected by an agreement with the Trump administration to expand the US military presence on the island. On Friday, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland reached a preliminary agreement aimed...
Lever Weekly: Everybody Panic, Nobody Regulate
Full ArticleThis is Lever Weekly , a recap of our work from the past week. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it. The Lever holds the powerful accountable through reader-supported investigative journalism that corporate media...
Raghu co-founded Enphase Energy with Martin Fornage in 2006. He has more than 25 years of experience in the clean energy and high‑technology industries, and has been at the forefront of developing Enphase’s leading integrated energy system—with solar generation, storage,...
Italy plans to ban face coverings in schools and limit the number of foreign students per class, according to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. During a youth event organized by her party, she emphasized her right-wing policies, noting that Italy faces...
Having secured the recognition of neighboring mainland Southeast Asian states, Myanmar’s military-led authorities are openly flouting ASEAN’s Five Point Consensus framework on Myanmar. Notwithstanding its lack of strong enforcement measures, the framework nonetheless represents the bloc’s two unprecedented developments: its...
We’re at the saturation point of the latest news cycle where everyone will soon tire of hearing about artificial intelligence and probably tell themselves the whole intensifying political debate is niche, inside baseball, kind of silly, and a distraction from...
For much of the postwar era, Japan treated military restraint as part of its national identity. Its Self Defense Forces were capable, the alliance with the United States provided strategic protection and the country largely avoided the image of a...
Far Away [Part 28] – Death In District Nine
Full ArticleJourneying into the poorest neighborhood in Herat, Darius comes face to face with tragedy, and makes a new friend. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |...
Africa is being torn apart by foreign interests, fighting their battles on African soil, using their weapons and destroying lives and countries. The continent does not need more deadly weapons from outside – it needs to build its own security...
On Monday, August 25, during a visit to Kyiv, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced that the UK would give Ukraine classified blueprints to produce its SCALP cruise missile (a variant of the Storm Shadow), for the explicit purpose of...
China is constructing what may be the world’s first dedicated mothership for extra-extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicles (XXLUUVs) at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard in Shanghai, multiple outlets reported. Satellite photos show the roughly 200-meter hull features a large internal hangar — likely...
The United States is preparing to tell dozens of partner countries that they may have to choose between American and Chinese approaches to cooperation in artificial intelligence. In effect, Washington is asking its allies and partners to take a clearer...
By: Majid Maqbool The People’s Republic of China has consistently utilized military pressure and gray-zone tactics against regional neighbors and global powers since its founding in 1949. Foreign countries that threaten Chinese sovereignty could be framed as adversaries, and the PRC’s...
Global maritime and energy markets are currently showing two significant developments. Both indicate they should not be treated as separate market stories, but as an intertwined sector. Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC investment arm, XRG, is reportedly considering acquiring up to 50%...
Moscow Notebook: A Dangerous Place to Lose Weight
Full ArticleLa Bottega Sciliano Moscow Let me give you a sense of what life in Russia is actually like right now — not the version you get from the wire services, but the one you get walking around, sitting down to dinner,...
The United Kingdom will need to invest heavily in expanding its electricity grid to meet rising power demand and ensure that new renewable energy projects can connect to it. The U.K. National Energy System Operator (NESO) has announced that more...
General Carsten Breuer from Germany has been chosen as the next head of NATO’s military committee, a key advisory body for the alliance’s political leaders. Military leaders from the 32-nation alliance elected him during a meeting in Copenhagen, and he...
Can Democrats Unite on AI Regulation?
Full ArticleIn a live interview for The Lever ’s subscribers, David Sirota spoke to New York Assemblymember Alex Bores, the author of New York’s landmark AI safety law . In addition to AI regulation, they discussed the launch of Who Decides,...
NATO’s top Military Authority, the NATO Military Committee, held its annual conference with Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the Chair, leading discussions among 32 Allied Chiefs of Defence and two Strategic Commanders. They focused on next steps from the recent NATO...
After years of delays and plateaued development timelines, it might finally be time for the small nuclear revolution. In a brand new report, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has once again increased its long-term nuclear power forecast, projecting that...
We’re going to try it a little differently this week and just embed everything. Anywho, this is me sitting down with my friend and editor, Cam Edwards. In this video, we talk about the challenges of raising at least three types...
Russians are participating in a three-day parliamentary election that is expected to confirm the ruling United Russia party’s control in a political system that limits opposition to the war in Ukraine. The election’s outcome seems certain, but it may serve...
Yemen’s civil war has returned to the centre of a much wider regional conflict. In September, the Iran-aligned Houthis launched a rapid offensive along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, overrunning forces aligned with the internationally recognised government. They captured the port...
Good things are happening! Big Tech gets schooled, civil rights report for duty, a fossil fuel revival hits the brakes, and The Lever sits down with a teen titan of First Amendment rights. You Love To See It is a benefit...
Awareness of environmentally friendly construction methods is increasing in Austria, which is reflected in the growing interest in sustainable garden sheds. The term “gartenhütte” refers to a garden hut or shed, typically a small structure used for storage, hobbies, relaxation...
In Hebron’s Old City, a Palestinian Woman Turns Herbs and Olive Oil Into a Business of Resilience
Full ArticleHEBRON, West Bank / PNN / In a small workshop tucked inside Hebron’s centuries-old Old City, herbs, olive oil and other natural ingredients take on a new life. Mariam Abu Turki has turned plants long familiar in Palestinian homes and fields into...
From Tantura to Naza: History Was Not Falsified, Nor Was Testimony Silenced by Dr Sania El-Husseini
Full ArticleThe Israeli documentary Naza attracted considerable international media and political attention after winning the Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, despite not yet having reached the wider public. Following its screening at the festival, the film received a 25-minute standing...
Three Years Without School: Gaza’s Children Return to Class, carrying a Childhood Interrupted
Full ArticleGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip /PNN / For the first time in three years, Gaza’s children are returning to classrooms.But there are few signs of the back-to-school season they once knew. The new academic year began Saturday with students returning to in-person education...
President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo was not a protocol visit. It was a doctrine declaration. At a highly sensitive moment: an open war in Iran, threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, and a sharp division within the BRICS...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Le Minh Hung traveled to New Delhi for the 18th BRICS Summit, where he met bilaterally with Narendra Modi and laid out Hanoi’s vision for international cooperation. The visit drew heavy coverage at home, but it did...
Dealing with borderless health threats
Full ArticleDiseases, as Covid and Ebola have demonstrated, do not respect borders. An outbreak in one country or region can quickly move across the continent. How can we provide health security against such threats? S tand at any border crossing, and the...
The SDGs’ roadmap to a better future
Full ArticleWhen world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, they set extraordinarily ambitious targets. There was real optimism that substantial progress could be made towards achieving them, but the various shocks of recent years have made them more...
The country has one of the highest femicide rates in the world, and women are yet again being asked to remove themselves from public life to counter it When I heard the authorities advising women in and around Kempton Park, the...
At any other time in American history, it would end the career of somebody like Scott Bessent, our limited-intelligence Treasury Secretary. It came out yesterday when Illinois Congressman Sean Casten was questioning him about the “billions of dollars” that Trump keeps claiming...
Seeing Rural Japan Through a Single Prefecture: Hyōgo Rural Japan is living through two forms of population decline at once, and Hyōgo Prefecture distills the whole structure into a single frame. The first is the aging of business owners. Across Japan, hundreds...
This summer the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that restarting Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 — the plant synonymous with nuclear disaster since 1979 — would have no significant environmental impact. Constellation Energy now expects the renamed Crane Clean Energy Center...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 17 September 2026. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has established a Legal Support Fund with an allocation of approximately GHS 544,000. The Fund responds to growing concerns about the use of...
For most of this year I have been making an argument about a fraction of a barrel. Not the barrel itself — the flat price of crude has been a headline anyone can read — but the middle of it:...
The famous American MQ-9 Reaper drone often makes the news, and usually for rather scandalous reasons. Its appearance in the sky is always a harbinger of trouble — either immediately or shortly afterward. The Reaper is like a scavenging bird,...
“KEL Radio” vandalised in Lesotho
Full ArticleThis statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org on 15 September 2026. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Lesotho strongly condemns the reported vandalism and destruction of equipment and furniture at KEL Radio s tation over the weekend. MISA Lesotho is concerned...
Every export increasingly carries two products: the good itself and the evidence that makes it admissible. The cost of producing the second may determine who can sell the first. This is an overlooked consequence of selective US–China decoupling. Production costs...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 10 September 2026. In July 2026, Mozambique’s Constitutional Council ruled that before a government can justify an internet shutdown, it must first have lawful authority to order one. The ruling signifies that before...
The Middle East crisis has reverberated through key global shipping chokepoints thousands of miles away from the Strait of Hormuz. Following the crippled tanker traffic through the Middle East’s main oil and LNG export outlet, the Panama Canal and the...
The artificial intelligence energy crisis is catalyzing the development pipeline for space-based solar energy. As the world rushes to build up more energy production capacity in a scramble to keep up with skyrocketing demand from data center hyperscalers, the public...
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