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During an on-background telephone call today, officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Aviation Administration and the Joint Staff provided comment and answered questions from reporters about the drone sightings. A spokesperson from the Joint Staff acknowledged that there had been sightings of drones over two military installations in New Jersey, but said such sightings are typical. "We have had confirmed sightings at Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle," the spokesperson said. "This is not a new issue for us. We've had to deal with drone incursions over our bases for quite a time...

One of the enduring sci-fi moments of the big screen—R2-D2 beaming a 3-D image of Princess Leia into thin air in "Star Wars"—is closer to reality thanks to the smallest of screens: dust-like particles. Scientists have figured out how to manipulate nearly unseen specks in the air and use them to create 3-D images that are more realistic and clearer than holograms, according to a study in Wednesday's journal Nature . The study's lead author, Daniel Smalley, said the new technology is "printing something in space, just erasing it very quickly."

I am pleased to announce Richard Allen Grenell as our Presidential Envoy for Special Missions. Ric will work in some of the hottest spots around the World, including Venezuela and North Korea. In my First Term, Ric was the United States Ambassador to Germany, Acting Director of National Intelligence, and Presidential Envoy for Kosovo-Serbia Negotiations. Previously, he spent eight years inside the United Nations Security Council, working with North Korea, and developments in numerous other Countries. Ric has a B.A. from Evangel College and a M.P.A from Harvard. Ric will continue to fight for Peace through Strength, and always put...

Shoot to kill. A growing chorus of local officials in New Jersey and New York are demanding the feds stop gaslighting locals and finally shoot down a drone. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) demanded Saturday the Pentagon open fire on one of the nearly 1,000 drones that’ve been spotted above the Garden State since Nov. 18, so answers can be had. “Why can’t we bag at least one drone and get to the bottom of this?” Smith wondered aloud during a press conference in Seaside Heights. “Why can’t we even track a suspect drone to its origin? Have we so little...

Yup. It's the Deep State/WEF/big, honking corporations. Transcript linked below video.

“I am now calling on Congress to pass the Counter-UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization act,” she said. “This bill would reform legal authorities to counter-UAS and strengthen the FAA oversight of drones, and would extend counter-UAS activities to select state and local law enforcement agencies.” She said extending those powers to New York and its peers is essential. “Until those powers are granted to state and local officials, the Biden Administration must step in by directing additional federal law enforcement to New York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and...

Six Druze villages, in the portion of the Golan Heights occupied by what was formerly Syria, have reportedly decided to request that Israel annex their village. Many have family and friends in the many existing and very successful Druze communities in Israel, where they enjoy the benefits of citizenship, including civil rights, freedom of speech and religion and equal protection under the law. Is it any wonder that they would like to join them and become a part of Israel? If Israel accepts this proposal, then the US and other nations should approach the matter with moral clarity and rightly...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that Iran will not be allowed to get a nuclear weapons capability, and “We had tried to do this through diplomacy. Obviously, that didn’t work, because the Iranians were not willing to negotiate in good faith.” Kirby said, “President Biden has made it very clear, we will not, will not allow Iran to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, and we will not take any option off the table to prevent that outcome. I’m not going to speculate here today and tell...

Civilian death counts in the Gaza war have been inflated to portray Israel as deliberately targeting civilians, an independent group of researchers at the Henry Jackson Society found in a study published on Saturday. The study, titled Questionable Counting: Analysing the death toll from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza, found that leading global English-language news outlets failed to distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties and relied on statistics from the Hamas-run Health Ministry when reporting on the war in Gaza. Some of the key findings include men listed as women to inflate female fatalities, adults registered as children,...

Military aircraft flying over the Dam Neck and Croatan areas of Virginia Beach is not uncommon, but the aircraft John Knight and his son, Benjamin, saw Thursday after dark was unlike any other they’ve seen. ... Croatan sits between two military installations: Naval Air Station Oceana Dam Neck Annex and State Military Reservation (formerly Camp Pendleton), a Virginia Army National Guard facility. Knight spotted the flying object over the ocean in front of the Dam Neck Annex and watched as it slowly moved over the military reservation and behind the trees towards Owls Creek, he said. “It flew like a...

[Catholic Caucus] Fr. Gerald Murray slams Pope Francis’ making pro-LGBT Timothy Radcliffe a cardinalFr. Gerald Murray told Raymond Arroyo this week that Pope Francis’ naming of pro-LGBT Dominican priest Fr. Timothy Radcliffe to the cardinalate is causing him 'great anguish.' EWTN contributor Fr. Gerald Murray told Raymond Arroyo this week that Pope Francis’ naming of pro-LGBT Dominican priest Fr. Timothy Radcliffe to the cardinalate is causing him “great anguish.”“The faithful are being misled when they see people promote homosexuality, promoted in the Church,” Murray, a priest of the Diocese of New York, remarked. “Cardinal Radcliffe is a particularly offensive defender...

The University of Michigan has fired a director in its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office owing to antisemitic comments she made to Jewish professors at a spring conference. The New York Times first reported the firing, which a person with insight into the university’s governing body confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Friday. The development comes amid widespread tensions over how Jews fit into DEI programs at universities and other institutions. The staffer in question, Rachel Dawson, was the director of an office for multicultural initiatives. She was officially fired on Thursday after multiple members of the school’s Board...

There is a big reason supporting the idea that the so-called “drones” are actually advanced technology. A report from law enforcement Friday night indicated they do not have a heat signature. This should be impossible for a vehicle with an 8-foot wingspan that can sustain flight and move as rapidly as they do. This leads to two possible conclusions, assuming the equipment used and operators manning the heat-tracking drones were not faulty. The first possibility is advanced technology of some sort… definitely not a regular drone. The second is that the “drones” are illusions, like holograms projected in the sky....

President-elect Donald Trump is weighing a bid to save the failing Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Washington, DC – and rebrand it once more as a Trump International Hotel, The Post has learned. Three sources familiar with the situation said that the incoming commander-in-chief’s company, the Trump Organization, is weighing options that include a licensing deal or even possibly buying back the lease on the government-owned, 125-year-old Old Post Office building. “Our family has saved the hotel once. If asked, we would save it again,” Eric Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview. The luxury lodge at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. –...

ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit. The network will pay $15 million to a charity and will issue an apology. The settlement was filed publicly Saturday and reveals ABC will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a “presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for the Plaintiff.”......... The judge wrote in August 2023 that Trump “raped” her in the broader sense of that word, as people generally understand it, though not as it is narrowly defined by New York state law.

A Wisconsin mother is taking legal action against her school district for racially discriminating against her dyslexic son by putting minority students first. Colbey Decker recalled how her child struggled with reading from early on in his education. “He was exhibiting all the classic signs of dyslexia, where learning basic letters was really challenging,” she explained. “My son is in the 17th percentile, [but] he’s being pushed out of services for children who are higher performing.” The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), which is representing the Deckers, found the Green Bay Area Public School District’s policy explicitly prioritized...

The Louisiana Department of Health said on Friday it has detected the first presumptive positive human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1, in the US state.

DeSantis is on the field, avoiding being in the booth with Trump, Thune, Johnson, Vance, Musk and Hegseth. Is DeSantis upset that he isn't SecDef pick? Is he too socially awkward to be around politically powerful people? DeSantis needs to learn how to interact with powerful people, even those he doesn't like.