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Advances in drone technology and artificial intelligence seem destined to transform defense planning and budgeting. But we shouldn’t assume these innovations will render obsolete manned weapons systems. It would be a strategic and costly mistake to cut the procurement of existing programs that we need in the short term. Given the real chance of great power conflict in the near future—well before new technologies now in the research and development phase are ready to use—the United States must continue fielding traditional combat-relevant systems and weapons while continuing to research and develop the next generation of defense technologies. This isn’t a...

VIDEOHours after our rather hectic arrival in Portugal we finally got settled down in the Moov Hotel in the Oeiras district of the greater Lisbon area. I asked the person at the hotel desk if there were any restaurants within walking distance and he told us there was a pizza place and a restaurant called Casa Da Silva. Naturally we chose the latter in order to experience Portuguese food. Annnnnd WOW!!!It knocked my socks off including the fantastic house wine. Casa Da Silva would be a big hit in any city in the USA and yet Portugal, as we found...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that President Donald Trump does not understand there were entire sectors of the U.S. economy “cannot function without immigrant labor.” Host Dana Bash said, “Officials say more than 20,000 demonstrators took to the streets in L.A. yesterday as part of the nationwide No Kings protests, which were largely peaceful. There was a pocket of unrest outside the federal building. How violent did things ge in reality last night in your town?”

Luigi Mangione’s job in federal lockup is cleaning showers — and he’s a one-man welcoming committee, according to a fellow jailbird. When Michael Daddea arrived at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, a guard told him he would be housed in the same unit as the accused assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he revealed in a video posted to X. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, he’s being a wise ass’. . . I look out the cell, Luigi is standing there and he’s like, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’ Like, super nice. Introduced himself to me first thing. I’ve literally...

A secret CIA project conducted bizarre experiments on wildlife in the hopes of creating an army of 'animal assassins' that could eliminate America's enemies. Called Subproject 94, the chilling plot saw scientists implant electrodes into the brains of rats, cats, dogs, monkeys, donkeys, guinea pigs, and birds in order to control their movements through electrical impulses during the 1960s. It was all part of MKUltra, an infamous CIA program led by chemist Sidney Gottlieb to develop mind control techniques during the Cold War. Declassified records about MKUltra have revealed how Americans were drugged and tortured during dozens of different experiments...

Israeli compound in Kirya, housing the IDF's secure command centre. Paper Dome did not prevent it from being nearly completely destroyed.

A Transportation Security Administration agent was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 79-year-old passenger at Fort Lauderdale’s airport, with police saying she was “forcefully pushing her,” a report said. Janiyah Wilson-Robinson, 21, of Margate, was taken into custody Wednesday following the incident at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to WPLG. The station, citing a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report, said Wilson-Robinson attacked the woman from Palm Beach Gardens by “forcefully pushing her,” causing her to fall to the ground and hit her forehead. The passenger, who was at the airport that day traveling on a JetBlue flight, suffered “minor bruising,” deputies...

Honey, are you sure you want to risk getting shot in the junk again? We need that Anchor baby, ya know A Rubber bullet ‘shatters’ an ICE protester’s testicle in downtown Los Angeles. A rubber bullet ‘shatters’ an ICE protester’s testicle in downtown Los Angeles. Breitbart Los Angeles protesters tell US Marines to leave LA. About 50 U.S. Marines squared off against hundreds of protesters in front of a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, with the crowd yelling in unison for them to go home. Trump admin, pauses ICE worksite enforcement for farming, hotel, restaurant industries. “Effective...

Vance Boelter gives sermon in Congo a few years ago.

Police in arrested an armed protester – who is a convicted felon and had warrants out for his arrest – after he tried to fight someone during Saturday’s “No Kings” demonstration in Huntington Beach. Information released by the Huntington Beach Police Department indicates that, around 3:30 p.m., officers patrolling near Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway – next to the Huntington Beach Pier – when they saw a man “actively shouting at a pedestrian and challenging him to a fight.” The man, who police say was waving a Mexican flag, was identified as 25-year-old Eduardo Pineda. Upon contacting Pineda, officers...

Who Did It Better: NBA Players or Anti-Ice Rioters?

White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung blasted the leftist “No Kings” protests that took place on Saturday across the nation, saying they had poor attendance while President Donald Trump celebrated the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary in Washington, DC, with a parade, music, and fireworks. The anti-Trump protests were planned to coincide with the patriotic celebration that was held on Flag Day and the president’s birthday, as Breitbart News reported.

As President Donald Trump’s military parade rolled through the nation’s capital on Saturday, millions of Americans across the country took part in the largest coordinated protests against the president since the start of his second administration. While Trump’s parade aimed to show America’s military prowess in its new era — remade under the administration’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion policies — over 2,000 protests planned for major cities and small towns nationwide were expected to outdo the president’s parade in scale. “These are not normal times in America. This is not a normal presidency,” Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.) told thousands of...

Father’s Day has always been straightforward for me. Three children, three reasons to celebrate, three sources of endless pride and occasional worry. Now, as I sit in the quiet of our home in Israel, the mathematics of fatherhood have become impossibly complex. I navigate between celebrating a miracle and still mourning an irreplaceable loss. On Oct. 7, 2023, my world shattered into pieces that I am still trying to reassemble. In the space of a few hours, our family’s life in Kibbutz Nir Oz – a place founded by my children’s grandparents – became a story of survival, loss, and...

When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it's easy to conclude that parents who don't vaccinate their children are misguided, selfish or have fallen prey to misinformation.As professors with expertise in vaccine policy and health economics, we argue that the decision not to vaccinate isn't simply about misinformation or hesitancy.In our view, it involves game theory, a mathematical framework that helps explain how reasonable people can make choices that collectively lead to outcomes that endanger them.Game theory reveals that vaccine hesitancy is not a moral failure, but simply the predictable outcome of...

🇺🇸Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem 🇮🇱(6/15/25)[Prayer]Water, Rivers, and Streams in the BibleDeuteronomy 2:26-2926 From the Desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying, 27 “Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left. 28 Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot— 29 as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us—until we...

June 11 (UPI) -- A Florida bear seen enjoying a resident's hot tub and taking a long backyard nap was later captured and relocated with the help of doughnuts. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said the bear was spotted in a Punta Gorda neighborhood on Sunday.

SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Two former Caltrain employees were sentenced to a collective six months in jail this week. Both men were charged back in 2024 with the felony theft of public funds after they embezzled money to build secret apartments -- one at the Caltrain station in Burlingame and the other at the nearby Millbrae station. "This is why I say to people, never say you've seen it all, because something new like this will come up," said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Wagstaffe tells ABC7 News the men lived inside the apartments for several...

Investigation uncovers 70 DNC affiliates organizing anti-Trump demonstrations across 21 states. Yesterday, as protesters readied to descend on city squares across America for a mass demonstration branded #NoKings, California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis took to MSNBC, praising the movement as a righteous stand for democracy. "People are very determined to get out there and be seen. This is the United States. We do not want a king," she said. What she didn’t say: The California Democratic Party is itself organizing today’s protests — from Orange County to Oakland — with the full institutional weight of the Democratic machine, and the...

(AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Donald Trump Saturday that Moscow was ready to hold a fresh round of peace talks with Kyiv after June 22, once the sides complete exchanging prisoners and soldiers’ bodies. Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile did not mention whether Ukraine would agree to the next round of talks, only saying that “the exchanges will be completed and the parties will discuss the next step.” Putin and Trump held a call for the fifth time since the Republican took office and sought to reset relations with Moscow, in a stark pivot from...