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According to Fox News, the high-energy counter-drone laser was in the possession of the the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs & Border Protection (CBP) when it was used to mistakenly shoot down a birthday balloon near El Paso, Texas earlier this week…
In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an agreement for the Pentagon to loan the directed energy counter-drone technology to Homeland Security, however, this does not appear to have been clearly communicated to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), sources have told Fox News.
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright meeting today with the Acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez in the capital Caracas.
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During today’s hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared to have several pages with the Epstein Files search history of a number of Democrat lawmakers on the committee, suggesting that the Justice Department is regularly tracking what documents and files in the Epstein Library are searched for by members of Congress, according to CBS News.
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Two KC-135 “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers with the U.S. Air Force have departed Kadena Air Base in Okinawa and are heading southwest, preparing to refuel two B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bombers that left Andersen Air Force Base in Guam tonight for a “show of force” directed at China near Taiwan. This is the second such mission by the B-52s forward deployed to Guam since the beginning of February.
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F-22 Raptors assigned to the U.S. Air Force’s 3rd Wing carry out flight operations during snowfall at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on February 10, 2026.
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Two Sailors suffered minor injuries Wednesday when the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Truxtun (DDG-103), and the Supply-class fast combat support ship, USNS Supply (T-AOE-6), collided while transferring fuel during a replenishment-at-sea in the Caribbean, according to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM).
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Good evening to all of my followers and subscribers, I would just like to let all of you know that I had a minor non-invasive surgery earlier today and will be resting and recovering over the next few days. Thank you all so much for the support as always, and I should be back to regular posting by Sunday.
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The U.S. Department of Defense announced this morning that forces under the United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) carried out a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Panamanian-flagged crude oil tanker M/T VERONICA III in the Indian Ocean early this morning without incident, after tracking the vessel - which was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels linked to Venezuela - from the Caribbean Sea in early January. The vessel has been listed on the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control Sanctions list since at least December of 2024.
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Iranian channels have published a video showing the ramp and runway of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base warning of "full scale war". The base in Jordan has become a central hub for the U.S. military buildup in the Middle East hosting several U.S. Air Force aircraft including 24 F-15s, 12 F-35As and 12 A-10Cs in addition to 6 U.S. Navy E/A-18Gs.
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Internal discussions between senior figures in the U.S. military and intelligence community have started to contemplate the possibility of supporting a fresh round of Israeli strikes on Iran, with deliberations focusing less on whether Israel could act than on how the United States might assist, including the provision of aerial-refueling for Israeli aircraft and the delicate matter of securing overflight permission from Arab countries along the potential route between Israel and Iran, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
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Iran has stated that an agreement which delivers economic benefits to both sides, including potential energy, mining and aircraft deals, is on the table in ongoing nuclear talks that are expected to continue this week with the United States.

The Deputy Director for Economic Diplomacy under the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Hamid Ghanbari, told the Iran state-run Fars News Agency, “For the sake of an agreement's durability, it is essential that the U.S. also benefits in areas with high and quick economic returns… Common interests in the oil and gas fields, joint fields, mining investments, and even aircraft purchases are included in the negotiations.”

Hamid claimed that the primary reason the nuclear deal in 2015 negotiated by the Obama Administration failed, was because it didn’t also secure the economic interests of the United States, interests which he states would be discussed during Tuesday’s meeting in Geneva between Iranian officials and the American delegation led by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the United States if Washington is willing to discuss lifting sanctions, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi told the BBC during an interview on Sunday.
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“The first-ever airlift of a nuclear reactor and ancillary systems via C-17, opening a wide aperture for strategic nuclear deployment around the World”

Three C-17A Globemaster IIIs with the U.S. Air Force’s 62nd and 437th Airlift Wings participated in the transfer Sunday of eight nuclear modules - parts of a “next-generation” miniaturized nuclear reactor built by the El Segundo-based energy startup Valar Atomics - in a Nuclear Energy Initiative conducted jointly by the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy dubbed Operation Windlord.

The C-17s transported the reactors from March Air Reserve Base near Riverside in Southern California, to Hill Air Force Base, located outside Salt Lake City, Utah, following a ceremony at March which included Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Michael Duffey, the Undersecretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, as well as the Founder of Valar Atomics, entrepreneur Isaiah Taylor.

Once on the ground in Utah, the modules, part of Valar Atomics’ Ward250, a next-generation reactor design that uses helium coolant and graphite moderators expected to operational by the 4th of July, will be moved to Utah San Rafael Energy Lab (USREL) in Orangeville for extensive testing and evaluation, under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, established in response to President Trump’s Executive Order 14301.
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