US strategic bombers joined a fleet of Japanese fighter jets in a joint military exercise meant to demonstrate their military cooperation around Japan's airspace, defense officials said Thursday, as tensions with China escalate.

Wall Street forecasters are starting to get nervous about the 10-year outlook for US stocks.Some see a "lost decade" in which the S&P 500 remains flat or lags behind the rest of the world.Returns could be held back due to high valuations and the market's record-breaking run in recent years.

A troubled plant on the Great Salt Lake once supplied America with magnesium. Now it may shut down for good, with large implications for U.S. supply chains and Utah’s air.

Donald Trump has hit dozens of US trading partners with new tariffs while formalising recent trade deals with others, including the UK and EU. Analysts at Yale Budget Lab estimate that, overall, the US effective tariff rate is now at its highest level since the 1930s.

Mean tweets about US policy might mean no trip to Disneyland, under a new proposal that would see Australians provide their social media history for the past five years.

The truth is under there. A popular UFO-reporting app has recorded thousands of sightings of Unidentified Submersible Objects (USOs) near US waterways — phenomena which high-ranking US Navy officials warn could pose a threat to national security.

Trump’s press secretary suggested Trump was growing weary of process as Ukraine’s president under immense pressure to sign US deal – key US politics stories from 11 December 2025