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U.S. Military Kills 6 People in Another Attack on Boat, Trump Says  The New York Times Six killed after US strikes another boat off coast of Venezuela  CNN U.S. kills 6 alleged drug smugglers in new strike off Venezuela, Trump says  The Washington Post The new war on drugs  The Economist US conducts another lethal strike on alleged drug boat off Venezuela  ABC News – …

Johnson defends administration’s move to keep military paid during shutdown The House speaker has said that the Trump administration has “every right” to move around the “duly appropriated dollars from Congress to the Department of Defense”. The Pentagon and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has said that unspent funds from research and development accounts will be used to …

Authorities on Monday identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant last week, as investigators promised a painstaking process to figure out what happened by finding pieces of evidence that may now be miles apart. At a news conference, Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said people in the tight-knit community probably at least knew relatives of the …

Trump loyalist Steve Bannon blasted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement that the U.S. military will provide Qatar with access to an air base in Idaho. Hegseth made the surprise decision on Friday that a “Qatari Emiri Air Force facility” will be built at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, leading to an outcry on both sides …

Anduril, the military tech company founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, has announced the first hardware to come out of its recent partnership with Meta: EagleEye, an AI-powered mixed-reality (MR) system designed to be built into soldiers’ helmets. The modular hardware is a “family of systems,” according to Anduril’s announcement, including a heads-up display, spatial audio, and radio frequency detection. …

A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said. The explosion left a smoldering wreck of twisted and charred metal and burned-out vehicles at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant, which supplies and researches explosives for the military. The cause of the blast is not known. Investigators …

According to the plan that Defense SecretaryPete Hegseth announced Friday, Idaho’s Mountain Home Airbase will soon house a site for Qatar‘s Emiri Air Force pilots to train on F-15 jets, which angered some MAGA supporters who don’t trust the Qatari government and who (wrongly) believed Qatar was building its own base in the U.S. “Today, we’re announcing a letter of …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said his country would only use long-range Tomahawk missiles against Russian military targets, as the Kremlin expressed alarm over Washington’s potential plan to offer the weapons to Kyiv. Zelenskyy’s comment was aired by Fox News in the United States on Sunday, the same day he spoke to US President Donald Trump. Recommended Stories list of …

A military spacecraft launched 56 years ago was moved from its orbit – and nobody is quite sure who did it, or why. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. In 1969 the UK launched Skynet-1A, a military communications satellite placed in orbit above the east coast of …

Pentagon will pay military troops, Trump says, shifting $8B  Politico Trump says administration has ‘identified funds’ to pay troops next week  CNN Trump directs Hegseth to pay troops during ongoing government shutdown standoff as he rails against Schumer  Fox News Trump Says He Will Pay Troops Despite Government Shutdown  The New York Times Government shutdown continues as Trump directs Pentagon to use “all available …