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The White House is placing a hold on $2.1 billion in Chicago infrastructure projects after Democrats allowed government funding to expire on Tuesday. 

IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin declared Tuesday evening that “Hamas has turned Gaza City into the largest human shield in history” as Israeli forces expanded ground operations in the terror group’s central stronghold.

Extremists claimed destruction of power lines that left 50,000 homes without electricity for days, with repairs expected to take until 2026.

Days of “massive” disruption after bottleneck sabotaged twice, with a post-left ultra-anarchists claiming strike against the global economy. 

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) thanked the Trump administration for releasing more than $1 billion in grants for Pennsylvania infrastructure projects, reiterating his commitment to “work across the aisle.”

UK concerned about potential for domestic conflict but dresses up preparations with “logically absurd” pretext of a land invasion by Russia.

The Trump administration has pushed back on the media narrative that it is “delaying” the backlog of grants left by the Biden administration.

Keith Heaton, the executive director of the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, discusses his group’s victory in a Supreme Court ruling that limits the scope of reviews required by the National Environmental Policy Act.

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Billy Nolen, who served as acting FAA Administrator from 2022 to 2023, responded to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stating that despite the Biden administration saying they spent large amounts of money on infrastructure,

The United States got another reminder this week that despite billions spent by the Biden administration, crucial components of American transportation infrastructure are running on outdated technology.

A major power outage has been reported in Spain and Portugal, including their capitals.

The matter of Russian energy exports is being discussed in talks with the United States, Moscow says.

One of the world’s busiest airports is shut for an unprecedented full working day, disrupting air travel worldwide.

Russia said a partial or temporary ceasefire in its war on Ukraine would be “unacceptable” and launched a massive attack on infrastructure.

Police and first responders in Japan’s Saitama Prefecture struggled on Thursday to rescue a truck driver who became trapped in a gigantic sinkhole three days ago.

A populist proposal to auction off distressed federal government assets, such as loans, to pay for infrastructure and other policy priorities for working-class Americans is gaining renewed interest ahead of former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House next week.

Just how fragile is the modern world? More than most years, 2024 has seen a surge of headlines about the things that make civilisation work.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order this week for the Department of Public Safety to “target and arrest any criminals executing” Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence operations. The governor cited a CCP “Operation Fox Hunt” aimed at the forcible return of dissidents to China. The governor also issued orders to divest the state from Chinese assets and protect infrastructure.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s energy and power infrastructure with hundreds of drones and missiles, including Iranian-made weapons.

Officials are investigating why a concrete bridge collapsed in eastern Germany early Wednesday, disrupting a major traffic artery in Dresden.

Kamala Harris zig-zagged and evaded when asked to describe her border policy during her brief interview with CNN.

French government making clear it believes the “ultra-left” is responsible for taking out the railway lines leading into Paris last week.

French railway firm SNCF said it has made progress in restoring high-speed train services after acts of sabotage disrupted three major lines.

The Rapidan dam in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, partially failed Monday as a result of heavy rain and intense flooding.

President Joe Biden’s “floating pier” for Gaza is a dismal failure, and a symbol of how “infrastructure” has fared under his presidency.

Officials say a powerful solar storm will hit Earth on Friday and its arrival could cause infrastructure problems.

By taking out the power, the Kremlin aims to rob Ukrainian manufacturing of its energy, especially military plants, and crush public morale.

FBI director Chris Wray said at a security conference on Thursday that China’s legion of state-sponsored hackers “considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage.” 

A delegation from Ukraine arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, hoping to secure assistance from Taiwanese firms to rebuild in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.

Russia appears to be stepping up its campaign to deprive Ukraine of electricity, totally destroying a large power plant. 

President Joe Biden’s former chief of staff Ron Klain complained during a recent event that the president was too focused on taking victory laps on infrastructure projects and not doing enough to address voters’ immediate concerns, such as the price of groceries, according to a report.

The Lowy Institute of Australia published a report on Wednesday that found China’s funding for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Southeast Asia is about $50 billion short of its commitments, apparently due to a variety of causes, from political instability in BRI countries to reduced demand for fossil fuel projects.

A body has been discovered in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge as the U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for the six missing construction workers.

Chinese Communist Party-backed hackers are targeting U.S. infrastructure, like water treatment plants and electrical grids, to “wreak havoc.”

The Washington Post on Monday reported that concerns about China’s growing cyber-warfare assault on U.S. infrastructure systems are justified, as hackers linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have “burrowed into the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year.”