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Over the course of a year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has become the most disruptive force in global trade since the 1930s. But the destruction of the post–Cold War trade order—a rules-based international trading system that sought to set economic principles for participating governments—provides a necessary opportunity to correct an overly rigid attitude toward trade.Between the end of World War II and the early 1990s, U.S. presidents generally supported free trade and encouraged other countries to lower trade barriers with initiatives such as the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which encouraged countries mostly outside the Soviet…

News January 26, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Image via L3Harris GREENVILLE, Texas. L3Harris Technologies delivered the first MC-55A aircraft to the U.S. Air Force following integration and mission system testing tied to Australia’s Peregrine fleet, the company announced in a statement. Australia is acquiring missionized business jets through a U.S. foreign military sales program intended to provide the Royal Australian Air Force with airborne electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, according to the statement. L3Harris said the first aircraft was delivered by the U.S. Air Force to the Royal Australian Air Force, while follow-on…

Three FSS vessels will be built for the UK, with the programme led by Spain’s Navantia. Credit: UK DE&S Navantia will begin building the modules of the first of three Future Solid Support (FSS) ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) FSS modules being built in Spain will later be transferred to the integration yard in Belfast Construction is taking place at Puerto Real shipyard in Cádiz, Spain, three years after the contract was first signed Navantia has started the construction of modules that will make up the UK’s first FSS ship due to enter service with the civilian-crewed RFA…

Justin Gaethje capped off the first UFC on Paramount event with an incredible performance to upset Paddy Pimblett to capture the UFC interim lightweight title in the main event of UFC 324. Following the chaotic main event, what’s next for Gaethje in Pimblett in the always-interesting UFC lightweight division?On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discuss where the UFC 324 headliners go following their Fight of the Night clash at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Additionally, future matchups are discussed for Sean O’Malley following his co-main event win over…

Dana White and the UFC are one show into the Paramount era and there are already questions about how the broadcasts are being presented.While UFC 324—the promotion’s debut event on the Paramount+ streaming service—mostly went off without a hitch and was capped off by an entertaining standup scrap between fan favorites Justin Gaethje and Paddy Pimblett, one complaint about that made the rounds on social media was the abundance of ads that played during the show. Making matters worse, the ads often ran over the fighters’ walkouts and between rounds when fans would typically get to hear corner chatter.Under their…

Tekken 8 was originally released worldwide on January 26, 2024. Indeed, we’ve now hit the two-year mark since the game was made available to everyone. The final character of the Season 2 Pass, Miary Zo, was released back in December 2025. As such, fans are now eagerly waiting on news regarding Season 3 content. Over on X, Bandai Namco highlighted how this is the second anniversary of Tekken 8. They…

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of PartSpace AI, a costing and cost analytics solution. Industrial manufacturers are under growing pressure to manage costs (tariff volatility is one of the drivers), increase transparency and accelerate sourcing decisions. Traditional cost engineering and procurement processes remain fragmented and data-poor. Most enterprises still rely on spreadsheets and manual analysis to understand cost drivers hidden in CAD drawings, technical PDFs and ERP records. The result is opaque supplier pricing, duplicated designs and untapped savings potential across thousands of components. PartSpace AI tackles this long-overlooked pain point with a data-driven, AI-native platform that…

Sweden’s Armed Forces detected two Russian Su-35S fighter jets and one Tu-22M3 bomber flying over the Baltic Sea on January 23, prompting a response by Swedish Air Force quick reaction alert aircraft. According to a statement published by the Swedish Armed Forces, the aircraft were identified by Sweden’s incident readiness forces, which were scrambled to […]

Iran Press TV Sunday, 25 January 2026 11:25 AM A high-ranking official from Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has cautioned against psychological operations of the United States and Israel in West Asia, stressing that they attempt to shape public opinion before any act of aggression against regional nations. Mohammed al-Farah, a member of the political bureau of Ansarullah, on Sunday warned about efforts being made by Washington and the Tel Aviv regime to sow seeds of division among regional nations, emphasizing that Americans and Zionists employ a destructive and systematic policy to shape public perception or influence opinions before any military…

UFC 324 went down last Saturday night (Jan. 24, 2026) inside T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, leaving several fighters feeling the post-fight blues. Among them was Derrick Lewis, who suffered a second-round technical knockout loss at the hands of Waldo Cortes-Acosta (see it again here), which was a puzzling showing from “Black Beast.”And Arnold Allen, who came up short against Jean Silva in a Featherweight showdown that kicked off the main card (full recap here). But, which fighter is suffering from the worst post-fight hangover now a few days removed from the show?Coming into his headlining title fight against…