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Trump administration, Newsom feud over planned live-fire military event  The Washington Post Shutdown fallout hits San Diego ahead of Vance’s Marine Corps visit  Politico A Military Celebration Sparks Another Newsom-Trump Feud  The New York Times VP Vance’s camp accuses California Gov. Gavin Newsom of disseminating ‘Fake News’ ahead of Marines celebration  Fox News JD Vance, Pete Hegseth to join Marines 250th birthday celebration Saturday …

SACRAMENTO  — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military anniversary celebration off Camp Pendleton’s coast in San Diego County — where Navy ships are expected to fire over the freeway onto the base. Newsom’s office …

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 …