SOMNIA - Spotlight on Military News and International Affairs

CBS News
Global military spending jumped more in 2024 than any year since Cold War

Defense One
Pentagon warns it’s not prepared for homeland drone attack

Defense One
The U.S. Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use

Defense One
After NGAD loss, Lockheed says it will ‘supercharge’ F-35

CBC News
Trump announces F-15EXs to replace A-10s at Selfridge AFB

The Associated Press
Black female WWII unit, ‘Six Triple Eight,’ receives congressional medal

MSNBC News
Trump fires former Doug Emhoff from Holocaust Museum board

NBC News
Trump's economy at 100 days: Unprecedented uncertainty reigns - More

MSNBC News
Trump tries to change the script on the economic promises that helped him get elected

MSNBC News
Trump administration’s plans for tariff relief are a tacit admission of failure

NBC News
Trump tries to evade blame as he feels economic pressure - More

NBC News
Stocks slide after report shows economy shrank ahead of Trump's tariffs

NBC News
Senate to vote on a measure to undo Trump's global tariffs

MSNBC News
House Republicans approve rule to block Democrats from forcing votes on executive oversight

NBC News
Trump, who promised Day 1 relief and lower prices, talks of a 'transition period'

CBS News
U.S. economy went into reverse in the first quarter

CBC News
This one auto part crosses the border four times on its way to your car

NBC News
The man who led Project 2025 gives his assessment of Trump's first 100 days - More

NBC News
After her defeat, Kamala Harris re-emerges to weigh in on Trump - More

Reuters News Agency
Trump says order to soften auto tariffs' impact will give a 'little relief' to industry

The Associated Press
UPS to cut 20,000 jobs, close some facilities

The Associated Press
Storm leaves three dead in Pennsylvania and about 500K customers without power

NBC News
Ukraine says it hopes to sign U.S. minerals deal within 24 hours - More - More

NBC News
Hundreds of North Korean troops killed while fighting Ukraine, Seoul says

BBC News
Pakistan claims India is planning an imminent military strike - More

Reuters News Agency
Celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City mark 50 years since end of Vietnam war - More

BBC News
Fifty years after the war, Vietnam faces a new US threat - tariffs

The Associated Press
Kim Jong-un watches missile test-firings from country’s first destroyer

BBC News
Xi's real test is not Trump's trade war

The Associated Press
Three astronauts return to Earth after six months on China’s space station

The Associated Press
Today in History: 01 May

CBS News
On this date: 1975 – The Fall of Saigon

This Day in Aviation
01 May

France 24
100 jours de Trump : le bras de fer avec Pékin

International Commentary

Jon Duffy | Defense One
I went to the Naval Academy to defend freedom, not to dismantle it

Dana Milbank | The Washington Post
Give ‘Sleepy Joe’ a rest. Trump has nobody to blame but himself.

Jamelle Bouie | The New York Times
Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt

Julia Angwin | The New York Times
‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State

Catherine Rampell | The Washington Post
No, thank you. I don’t want to appear on one of Trump’s ‘lists.’

Andriy Yermak | The Guardian
Russia has offered a short ceasefire in Ukraine – but here’s what Putin really wants

Mirza Waheed | The Guardian
A massacre has reignited the forever war between India and Pakistan

Sébastian SEIBT | France 24
100 jours de Donald Trump : DOGE, un outil aussi inefficace que dangereux

Book Reviews

Jill Lepore | The New Yorker
“In case of emergency, break open a book.”