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A Massachusetts teenager has been charged with vandalizing a Holocaust memorial in Boston, in what the city’s police commissioner called a “senseless and shameful” act, particularly after the neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. The Boston Police Department said the suspect, a 17-year-old from Malden, around six miles north of Boston, was seen on Monday night by witnesses […]
America’s top diplomat and the leader of its military penned a joint Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal last week, titled “We’re Holding Pyongyang to Account,” in which they laid the groundwork for America’s new strategy regarding North Korea under President Trump’s administration. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis joined […]
After a routine training run in Alpena County, Michigan in late July, US Air National Guard Capt. Brett DeVries survived the perfect storm of malfunctions to safely land his A-10 Thunderbolt II on its belly without the benefit of landing gear. During a training exercise where A-10 pilots practice dropping inert bombs and ripping the planes’ massive gun, […]
A Venezuelan politician may have ordered a plot to assassinate Florida Senator Marco Rubio last month, according to a memo disseminated to law enforcement sources from the Department of Homeland Security. Out of precaution, Rubio has had an increased security detail since details of the threat emerged, according to the Miami Herald. He was seen […]
One of the largest challenges a human mission to deep space would face would be the inevitable communications delay caused by the vast distances between Mission Control on Earth, and the spacecraft carrying the crew. During the Apollo missions, in which American astronauts visited the moon, that communications delay was only around 1.3 seconds each […]
The extremist hate group site “The Daily Stormer” has been given a 24-notice to move its content to a different web host after posting a story critical of a woman killed this weekend during the unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia. The current web host, GoDaddy, issued a statement via Twitter saying that the Daily Stormer had violated […]
I cannot believe it is 2017 and I am having to write this opinion piece, but it seems that it is needed. There will be no mincing of words here: the white supremacists, neo-Nazis, neofascists, and white nationalists who collectively marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12th, 2017, under the “Unite the Right” banner are […]
On Friday, Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon announced that the security and aerospace company has successfully secured an $8 billion U.S. Defense contract to serve as global logistics support for America’s Special Operations Forces. It is not uncommon for the U.S. military to rely on contracts with private sector organizations for support services like warehouse […]
Over the past 16 years, the United States military has maintained an extremely high operational tempo in multiple war zones, as well as countless regions that rely on the stabilizing effect of an American presence. Unfortunately, Congress under the Obama administration began wringing money out of the Department of Defense before sufficiently reducing its obligations […]
Police defend response; CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia on Sunday strongly defended the police response to the violent demonstrations here on Saturday, saying that law enforcement authorities had done “great work” in “a very delicate situation.” Mr. McAuliffe, in an impromptu sidewalk interview before addressing two church congregations on Sunday morning, said […]
According to news reports and emergency radio traffic coming out of the area, it appears that a helicopter has crashed in the vicinity of Charlottesville, Virginia. It was a Virginia State police helicopter and at least two are confirmed dead. At least one SOFREP source claims that the helicopter is likely a “Medflight” (EMS) helicopter […]
According to a source in the area of Charlottesville, Virginia, with access to first responders in the vicinity of Charlottesville, as of 4:45 Eastern Standard Time on August 12, 2017, there was still chaos in the Charlottesville area in the aftermath of a far-right white nationalist rally that occurred at the University of Virginia earlier […]
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