The long list of more than twenty senior Pentagon officials who have resigned or been dismissed in the past year added a new name this Monday: Daniel Driscoll, the United States Army Secretary, has left the position after 18 months in office. The resignation occurs in a context of growing internal tensions in the Department of Defense, both due to the purge initiated by Secretary Pete Hegseth last year and because of the duration and decisions made in the Iran war, which has already lasted more than half a year and has caused shortages in the U.S. arsenal.

A woman, who had a known history of mental illness within the New York Police Department (NYPD), was fatally shot this Monday in Times Square after stabbing two people, one fatally, and confronting officers while violently wielding two kitchen knives and threatening to kill them, the NYPD reported.

On August 29, during a meeting with staff and students at a university in Moscow, Vladimir Putin commented that orcas feed on polar bears. “That is the food chain,” said the Russian president. “Children should be taught this, so they understand what kind of world we live in and why we are carrying out the special military operation,” his expression to refer to Russia’s war against Ukraine.

A dizzying election cycle begins in America and Europe that could change international politics