military

An Air Force F-16 just shot down a cruise missile with a laser guided rocket

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon successfully shot down a mock cruise missile over the Gulf of Mexico, marking the first airborne intercept of a cruise missile with a GR-20A Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System. As missile technology continues to mature, a number of national militaries have made missile defense a high priority; the […]

Veterans who served in stealthy base plagued by cancer

U.S. special operations forces who deployed to a military site in Uzbekistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks found pond water that glowed green, black goo oozing from the ground and signs warning “radiation hazard.” Karshi-Khanabad, known as K2, was an old Soviet base leased by the United States from the Uzbek government just weeks after […]

The Afghanistan Papers: Lessons learned or lost?

The Washington Post spent a lot of time and made many of Freedom of Information Act requests to dig up what they hoped would shed some light on what we’re doing in Afghanistan, why we’re still there and whether it is worth the lives of 2,400 — and counting — American military members and the […]

Landmark decision allows military members to seek medical malpractice

Green Beret SFC Richard Stayskal called it a “Christmas Miracle.”  The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act with an 86-8 vote on Tuesday. However, inside the bill is a provision, initiated by Stayskal, which will allow service members who have been victims of negligent medical care to finally be allowed to hold the government […]

US Embassy accountant in Haiti stole “hundreds of thousands” in cash

In the second scandal that rocked the U.S. Embassy in Haiti in the past month, an accountant who had been assigned to the United States’ mission in Port-au-Prince from 2001 to 2018, was charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Department of Defense. Roudy Pierre-Louis was issued an arrest warrant by a […]

African Migrant Apprehensions at Texas Border on the Rise

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials report a recent increase in the number of migrants from Africa being apprehended after illegally crossing from Mexico. “During last summer, Del Rio Sector experienced an increase in arrests of people from countries in Africa,” Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Raul L. Ortiz said in a written statement. […]

‘Tricked’: High-level defector warns Trump on Kim, nukes

A high-level defector from Kim Jong-un’s regime has sent a letter to President Trump warning that he has been “tricked” into believing the North Korean leader will ever denuclearize and that Washington should instead ramp up a “psychological warfare campaign” aimed at inspiring North Korea’s elites to replace the young dictator from within. The U.S. […]

Bill Clinton weighs in on Trump impeachment: Congress ‘doing their job’

Former President Bill Clinton, the only living American president to have gone through the same process, weighed in Tuesday on House Democrats’ bid to impeach President Trump — saying lawmakers are doing “what they believe is right.” “They’re doing their job as they see it and we should wait to see it unfold,” Clinton told […]

Netflix Christmas satire in Brazil sparks religious outcry

Sao Paulo (AFP) – A Christmas satire on Netflix depicting Jesus in a gay relationship has sparked a backlash in Brazil, where hundreds of thousands signed a petition calling for the film to be axed. “The First Temptation of Christ” by Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos began streaming on December 3, drawing criticism from […]

Google Chrome will now automatically tell you if your password is unsafe

Google added a new tool to Chrome that protects users’ passwords in an update released Tuesday. Chrome’s newest feature adds a functionality that warns users that their username and password may have been compromised in a data breach. A pop-up will appear asking if they want to change their saved passwords. The tool is an […]