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The U.S. defense secretary said there is "rightful alarm" of China's military build up. But he also struck a more moderate tone on U.S.-China relations – and notably sidestepped bringing up Taiwan.
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Public support for the LGBTQ+ community by corporations has become politically risky, public relations expert says.
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The Texas Senate race has become a national laboratory for anti-"woke" politics, testing whether voters still recoil from the language of 2020 amid the economic pain of 2026. Why it matters: Republicans came away from 2024 convinced they had won more than an election — they had broken through on culture, turning Democrats' progressive language and identity politics into symbols of elite detachment. - The durability of that culture-war coup is now an open question, as the GOP tries to redeploy the same playbook in a far more hostile midterm environment. Zoom in: Texas has produced a Senate race in which both parties see the other nominee as the perfect caricature of everything voters hate about the opposition. For Republicans: Texas…
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates ; Chart: Russell Contreras/Axios As exurban cities near booming metro areas explode in growth, hundreds of U.S. communities are losing residents at a pace that signals deep structural decline. Why it matters: The shrinking cities are a crisis in plain sight. - They concentrate poverty and tend to have aging infrastructure and limited job growth. - They struggle to attract doctors and teachers and have few of the amenities drawing younger Americans to boomtowns like Celina, Texas or Apex, N.C. Zoom in: An Axios analysis of census estimates found more than 600 incorporated places of 20,000 or more lost population between April 2020 and July 2025. - Many of the fastest-declining…
The events were canceled “to ensure public order and safety,” the authorities said. Jewish leaders had objected to the concert by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who has a history of antisemitic remarks.
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The president has wavered on whether to move ahead with an agreement with Iran to end the war. On Friday, he vowed to make a “final determination” soon.
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Pope Leo's first encyclical voices his concerns about technology and AI. The pope cautions about the illusions AI bots can create, and how important actual human relationships are.
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The humpback whale, nicknamed "Timmy" by German media, died following a controversial failed rescue effort. His carcass had been drifting near the Danish shore for two weeks.
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The story behind the beagles that went viral on social media and why activists say hundreds more still need to be saved.
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The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC: Nvidia is expected next week to debut the first Windows computers that use its chips as the main processor, sources confirm to Axios. Why it matters: Microsoft's first AI PC push stumbled , but Nvidia's arrival gives it a second chance, this time with the world's hottest chipmaker attached. Driving the news: Nvidia and Microsoft will unveil their joint work and the first computers running the chips at two key industry conferences — the Computex trade show in Taiwan and Microsoft's Build developer conference in San Francisco. - Nvidia-powered PCs are expected both from Microsoft's homegrown Surface brand as well as other computer makers, including Dell, sources…