
Peter Aitken
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🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. President Donald Trump on Sunday complained in a Truth Social post about the state of Hollywood, saying that a tariff would be a great way to resolve the "dying" industry. Newsweek reached out to the White House by email on Sunday evening outside of normal hours for comment. "The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death," Trump wrote.
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The Trump administration is initiating a $36 billion overhaul of the U.S. Army, modernizing systems and updating weapons-such as next-generation tanks and helicopters-that will bring about a "generational change," an Army spokesperson told Newsweek. Why It MattersThe Pentagon has repeatedly raised concerns about the state of the U.S. military in relation to China over the past two administrations, with officials and leadership labeling China a pacing challenge for the U.S. military.
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Current and former staffers to Democratic Senator Jon Fetterman's raised concerns about his health in an article published by New York Magazine's Intelligencer on Friday, with his former chief-of-staff Adam Jentleson telling a Walter Reed medical director in 2024 that he worried the senator "is on a bad trajectory." In the article, Fetterman called the various concerns and allegations raised by staffers "past and present" as "disgruntled employees saying things that are either untrue or, so,...
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