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It’s easy to find the best-selling cars, but harder to find which years of those models sold best.

Yesterday, news broke that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) focused on radically restructuring federal spending during Donald Trump’s presidency. What parts of government will be some of the easiest targets?

When it comes to military strength, many countries attribute much of this to the standing army of a country or its technological prowess. However, outside of most Western nations, there is another type of military force that often operates within these countries to great effect. Paramilitary units typically operate as auxiliary military forces within any given national apparatus fulfilling a number of roles like policing or security.

As of 11:30 a.m. ET, indexes are mostly in the green today. Let’s take a peek at their performance:

The United States Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps both employ an Osprey aircraft in their fleet. Each has a different variant — MV-22s for the Marines and CV-22s for the Air Force — but, regardless of variant, these aircraft play a role in cargo and personnel transportation. Now, the U.S. Navy is joining in the Air Force and Marine Corps’ footsteps by deploying its own Osprey variant (

Ramsey does not recommend withdrawing from IRAs early in order to pay off mortgages or debt. The fees just aren’t worth it!

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Out of all NATO Allied Forces, the United Kingdom ranks as one of the strongest. The backbone of the UK’s Armed Forces is the Royal Air Force, which has some of the most advanced fighter jets and aircraft in Europe. Not only are these jets technologically superior to most aircraft on the planet, but they are also some of the fastest as well.

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The West has reaped the fruits of the USSR’s loss, expanding NATO to take in all of Scandinavia and most of Eastern Europe. However, the economic and political situation in the former Soviet republics themselves remains fraught, in large part because Russia still considers these countries to be its own sphere of influence. Read on for stats on each of them to get up to date.