LA Police set to deploy aerial drones in year long experiment

The LA Police department is embarking on a 12 month test using aerial drones. Despite vociferous protest, the Los Angeles Police Commission — the civilian board which oversees the department — voted 3-1 in favor of the LAPD using the pilot program. The drones are set to be deployed by the LAPD’s Metropolitan Division SWAT Team […]

WALL: Trump border wall prototypes rolled out in San Diego

Several prototypes of the long-promised “Trump Border Wall” are currently under construction in San Diego. Six companies have been granted contracts from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to design the eight separate prototypes, which must be complete by October 26th of this year. President Trump has championed the building of an all-encompassing border wall along […]

Maryland suspect evades capture, shoots one more, is taken into custody

After shooting five coworkers, and killing three of them, an employee at a Maryland based construction business managed to evade police long enough to drive to Delaware, where he shot one more former colleague before being taken into custody. Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, walked into his place of employment, Advanced Granite Solutions at the Emmorton […]

Trump offered a grieving military father $25,000 in a phone call

President Trump, in a personal phone call to a grieving military father, offered him $25,000 and said he would direct his staff to establish an online fundraiser for the family, but neither happened, the father said. Chris Baldridge, the father of Army Sgt. Dillon Baldridge, said that Trump called him at his home in Zebulon, N.C., a […]

Breaking: Manhunt underway in Maryland after 5 shot in business park

Police are on the hunt for a single gunman that shot five people in Maryland this morning, killing three. Law enforcement believes Radee Labeeb Prince, 37, opened fire at employees of Advanced Granite Solutions at the Emmorton Business Park in Edgewood, Maryland just before 9 am local time.  Officers arrived just four minutes later, but […]

FBI: murders and attacks on police officers spike in 2016

Murders and attacks against law enforcement officers in the United States sharply increased in 2016, according to a report issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday. The annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) report showed that 118 officers were killed in the line of duty last year, 66 of which […]

China makes moves on the Arctic with milestone icebreaking mission

A major milestone was achieved in China’s long-term Arctic strategy last week when a Chinese icebreaker successfully navigated the Northwest Passage. This passage through Arctic waters is seen as one of the first steps in establishing a Chinese presence in the resource-rich region of the Arctic. Snow Dragon, China’s lone icebreaker, became the first Chinese […]

Spike Aerospace performs test flight of new commercial supersonic jet aircraft

Spike Aerospace announced it has conducted a test flight of a scaled down version of its proposed commercial supersonic jet aircraft. An unmanned prototype of the 18 passenger S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet has taken to the skies for its first ever flight. Spike Aerospace, the firm behind the radical new “son of Concorde”, said the maiden […]

Austrian elections and why we should care

Vienna—The ballots have been sealed. The conservative ÖVP won the Austrian legislative election with 32%.  The socialist SPÖ, with 26.9% and right-wing FPÖ, with 26%, contest for second place.  Final results will be announced on Thursday. But it matters not since the ÖVP and FPÖ will be most likely forming a right-leaning coalition with Sebastian […]