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Washington — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked an effort aimed at preventing continued U.S. strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats off the coast of Venezuela.  Democrats forced a vote on the issue under the War Powers Act. In a 48-51 vote, the effort failed to garner enough support to move forward.  The resolution, led by Sens. Adam Schiff of California and …

An Assassin’s Creed game set during and after the American Civil War? It apparently existed, according to a fresh report from Game File. We write ‘existed’ because the project was apparently cancelled last year, and the details are only just starting to drip out of Ubisoft. More specifically, this would have been the most modern Assassin’s Creed title to date …

When a General from the U.S. Department of War needs to check on an urgent matter with Secretary Pete Hegseth, there is probably a protocol that must be followed to make sure that communications are secure and that a reporter isn’t accidentally part of a chat group or a group phone call. For conversations that don’t need to be as …

Activision has announced an eye-catching free trial of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 that just so happens to clash with the launch week of rival first-person shooter Battlefield 6. The week-long free trial of Black Ops 6, which includes full access to the campaign for the first time ever, as well as all of Multiplayer (excluding Ranked Play) and …

Greenville, Illinois — It’s prime harvest season in southern Illinois, but for soybean farmers like Scott Gaffner, what’s usually a time of reward has turned into worry. “The great majority of [soybeans] coming from this area would be going to China,” Gaffner said, but “not this year.” China is the largest consumer of soybeans. The country purchased $12.6 billion worth …

Natalie ShermanBusiness reporter and Danielle KayeBusiness reporter Brad Smith Brad Smith, a farmer who grows soybeans and corn in Illinois, says government aid could help him stay in business Businesses across the US have been crying out for months about the damage inflicted by sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump imposed earlier this year. Now one group is poised to get …

The War Room newsletter: Are America’s military standards slipping?  The Economist What Women Heard in Hegseth’s Remarks About Physical Standards  The New York Times How Hegseth’s newly proposed military fitness standards compare to existing tests  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Experts react to Hegseth’s Quantico summit: ‘Wrong message, wrong time, wrong audience’  DefenseScoop Trump’s Outline of a Domestic War  Just Security …

Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump succeeded masterfully at Quantico last week in earning media attention. But all the finger wagging over “fat generals and admirals,” “dudes in dresses,” and the “warrior spirit” was a side show and a tactical diversion from the main event of the day – Trump’s call to arms against a new enemy.  Americans. While …

Pritzker says Trump officials’ Chicago crackdown is “making it a war zone”  Axios Border Patrol shoots woman on Southwest Side; agents, protesters battle for hours  WBEZ Chicago Woman shot by Border Patrol is charged; Brighton Park residents say feds antagonized the community  Chicago Sun-Times Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says  CBS News Wild …

BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan Hockey …