3M is nearing a settlement to resolve more than 300,000 claims from U.S. veterans over the company’s combat arms earplugs. The complaints allege the earplugs, which were supplied to the U.S. military, did not adequately protect soldiers from hearing loss. People close to the discussions told The Wall Street Journal that under the terms of…

Eight of the 20 United States Marines who survived a helicopter crash that killed three in Australia on Sunday, Aug. 27 were still in the hospital as of early Monday morning, Aug. 28, Australian officials said. The first five to arrive at the hospital were in critical condition, but their current conditions have not been…

Florida residents braced for Tropical Storm Idalia as it develops into a potential hurricane, and paper straws may not be the better option over plastic after all. These stories and more highlight The Morning Rundown for Monday, Aug. 28. Tropical Storm Idalia expected to hit Florida as hurricane Florida residents have begun bracing for impact as…

Yevgeny Prigozhin may be dead, but Wednesday, Aug. 23 was a good day for Ukraine. The Ukrainian armed forces took out a major missile installation in Crimea. Prigozhin’s reported death marked the second occasion in the mercenary’s time on Earth when he reportedly died in a plane crash. The first happened in the Congo in…

Two months after his involvement in an armed mutiny against Russia’s military leadership, Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed to be dead. The leader of the Russian mercenaries, known as the Wagner Group, was reportedly on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Russia. It is yet to be verified whether Prigozhin had indeed boarded…

Call it a sign of the times for the Russian economy. A shopping mall is being turned into a factory to make kamikaze or suicide drones. At the same time, teenagers are being forced to build the weapons of war. Russia is using unmanned aerial vehicles like the Lancet and Shahed-136 in Ukraine to a…

Two months after Yevgeny Prigozhin led his mercenaries in an armed mutiny against Russia’s military leadership, the head of the Wagner Group appeared to be in Africa. The on-again, off-again Putin ally was back to his old ways of using social media to further the Russian cause. In the video, translated by Reuters, Prigozhin said,…

The U.S. dollar has been the world’s dominant reserve currency for as long as most people alive can remember. Dedollarization talk in the past has never amounted to much, but with renewed calls to dedollarize, is king dollar about to lose its reign? I should say never is a very long time. I shouldn’t say…

In the latest effort to counteract an ongoing recruiting slump, the Pentagon has begun plans to allow applicants to use calculators on the military entrance exam. The move could help with the slump, which has been attributed in part to young Americans not scoring high enough on the entrance exam to qualify for enlistment. “We…