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Laser-guided 70mm Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) rockets have become the U.S. Air Force’s principal air-to-air weapon against drone threats in the Middle East. Air Force F-16 Vipers in the region first began using the rockets operationally in the anti-role last year, which TWZ was first to report, and that capability has now been extended to the F-15E Strike Eagle and A-10 Warthog.“It’s our primary weapon against a drone,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Derek France, head of Air Forces Central (AFCENT), the service’s top command in the Middle East, told TWZ‘s Howard Altman on the sidelines of...

Gary Cohen sparks backlash after questioning Cubs rookie Matt Shaw for missing a game to attend Charlie Kirk’s funeral.Gary Cohen stepped into controversy Tuesday night, taking aim at Cubs rookie Matt Shaw’s decision to miss Sunday’s matchup against the Reds in order to attend the funeral of his close friend, Charlie Kirk. The Mets broadcaster raised eyebrows by suggesting Shaw’s absence was ill-timed and hard to justify in the middle of a playoff race, per Heavy. Cohen’s comments came during the fourth inning of the Mets-Cubs broadcast, right as Shaw was at the plate. “Shaw had Cubs World in a...

Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel, praised President Donald Trump on Newsmax on Thursday for bluntly telling French President Emmanuel Macron that recognizing a Palestinian state while Hamas, which is backed by Iran, still holds Israeli hostages is tantamount to rewarding terrorism.Huckabee told "Rob Schmitt Tonight" that Trump's public rebuke Tuesday of Macron on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly was powerful and necessary."It was one of the great moments," Huckabee said. "The president was sitting with Macron and says to his face that what you're doing … is only rewarding Hamas and forgetting Oct. 7 [2023 attack on...

Peter Navarro, senior counselor to President Donald Trump for trade and manufacturing, during a special Founders Roundtable on Breitbart Fight Club said that President Donald Trump has proven the country could use tariffs to reduce its trade deficit.“We run chronic trade deficits which exceed a trillion dollars a year. Now, we’ve exported $18 trillion of wealth so far through the chronic trade deficit, and we’ve seen a reduction in our resilience, in our supply chains, our availability. It’s hurt our defense industrial base. It’s a national emergency in every possible way that you could think,” Navarro said in response to...

His post, which has since been removed, was picked up by the San Francisco Standard, and had reportedly said that Thiel argued that because we are increasingly concerned about existential threats, the time is ripe for the Antichrist to rise to power, promising peace and safety by strangling technological progress with regulation.

Oracle founder Larry Ellison keeps piling up wins. After briefly overtaking Tesla's Elon Musk as the world's richest person this month, the 81-year-old tech billionaire secured a spot among the U.S.-backed buyer group poised to take over TikTok. This announcement comes on the heels of the Ellison's son, David, overseeing a successful August merger between his Skydance Media production company and Paramount Global, which also owns CBS, and which the elder Ellison has a financial stake. The younger Ellison is also said to be working on a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO. Antitrust...

26 September 2025 Friday of week 25 in Ordinary Time The Basilica of Ss Cosmas and Damian, Rome Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green. Year: C(I).First readingHaggai 1:15-2:9'The new glory of this Temple is to surpass the old'In the second year of King Darius, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Haggai, as follows, ‘You are to speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high commissioner of Judah, to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people. Say this, “Who is there...

Left-wing terror attacks are on track to reach record highs this year — as Democrats have been accused of ramping up their harmful rhetoric in their opposition to the Trump administration, a disturbing new study has found. Violent plots planned or perpetrated by the far left in the US, as a percentage of all terrorist attacks and plots, hit a record high in the first half of 2025, and are on pace to reach a three-decade high, according to a study from the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Through July 4, 2025 — thus excluding the assassination of Charlie...

Behar: "It's funny, under Obama and Biden it was working. All of a sudden it's not working. Gee, what happened?!" ... Cohost Ana Navarro claimed that Trump had only gotten reelected in 2024 because he’d been out of office for four years, and in that time, people “had forgotten how bad Trump was. I think it meant a lot to people in 2020 when Joe Biden was first running because we were just surviving that first Trump term.”

Documents declassified by FBI Director Kash Patel directly link former FBI chief James Comey to false statements he made before Congress, independent journalist Catherine Herridge reported Thursday. Further, Herridge reported that the indictment against Comey had been "ready to go," but that former U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert had been "blocking" or "slow-walking" the charges. Lindsey Halligan, whom President Donald Trump named interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, removed the blocks. Patel declassified the FBI leak investigations, codenamed Arctic Haze, which Herridge reported show Comey orchestrated a calculated leak campaign to steer the Russia-collusion narrative and burnish his...

The process of mummification is often associated with the tombs of Ancient Egypt or the dry deserts of Chile. Many people frequently assume that the origin of this burial practice also traces back to these cultures. A new study in PNAS challenges these assumptions by suggesting that the people of southern China and Southeast Asia developed a different approach to this practice by curing bodies over low, smoky fires. Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence that these hunter-gatherers practiced smoke-drying their dead as early as 12,000 years ago. This discovery implies that early human societies were practicing mummification long before the construction...

U.S. — Democrats sounded the alarm over Trump's prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, warning that the prosecution of political opponents could set a dangerous precedent for America's democracy. "We're entering uncharted waters here," said Senator Corey Booker while waving his arms wildly and popping his eyes out to demonstrate how dangerous and uncharted the waters were. "If Trump can maliciously prosecute James Comey, where does it end? Just imagine what could happen! We've never seen anything like this!" Democrats and other experts claimed that if Trump opens this door, it could lead to malicious and frivolous "lawfare" that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to a new report, only three people in the crowd at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were not FBI agents. The FBI allegedly confirmed to Congress that, on the date of the protest that evolved into a riot, the enormous mob of plainclothes federal agents who stormed the Capitol Building was infiltrated by three MAGA voters. Those individuals were identified as Lectern Guy, Buffalo Hat Guy, and "the black guy from The Babylon Bee videos." Sources confirmed that everyone else involved in the incident was a federal agent. "This whole thing appears to have...

Don't mess with Texas! Unless, of course, you're a Mexican and/or Democrat who hates America and wants all your neighbors to know it? According to Freedom News, this is in Houston's 2nd Ward, which is heavily Hispanic and Democrat. I think it's safe to say that the folks in this house aren't exactly MAGA fans. The Mexican flag is just the icing on the cake.

Explanation: A new visitor to the inner Solar System, comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) sports a long ion tail extending diagonally across this almost 7 degree wide telescopic field of view recorded on September 21. A fainter fellow comet also making its inner Solar System debut, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), can be spotted above and left of SWAN's greenish coma, just visible against the background sea of stars in the constellation Virgo. Both new comets were only discovered in 2025 and are joined in this celestial frame by ruddy planet Mars (bottom), a more familiar wanderer in planet Earth's night skies. The...

Hey DeSantis, I hope you're watching this. I sure am glad the state attorney general is, because State Attorney Monique Worrell appears to be out of control. Yes, this lady's office dropped charges against a man who possessed infant and child pornography ... And then refused to prosecute a man who was pleasuring himself in the park in front of kids because she claims that act isn't illegal. [Warning: Language] All things that are wrong are not illegal. And I'm not standing here telling you today that what happened in that park was wrong. He was touching himself by the...

Crime In NYC @Crime_In_NYC Bronx September 24 An Allerton mother is demanding justice after her 11-year-old daughter was brutally attacked while walking her dog after school. Surveillance video shows a group of young people surrounding the girl, throwing her to the ground and repeatedly punching her, even kicking her 3-month-old puppy. A bystander eventually rushed in to stop the attack. The girl, who has epilepsy, suffered a seizure during the assault and was taken to Jacobi Hospital. The young girl also suffered several injuries to her face and body. Her mother says she had previously gone to the school district...

Reform is currently crushing both Labour and the Conservative Party, with Reform UK all set to grab more seats than Labour and Conservatives combined if elections were held today. Labour are set to have their worst result since 1931, Conservatives their worst result since 1670 (America hadn't even been created yet). Reason? Illegal immigration.

TV station Sinclair has announced it will once again begin airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! after refusing to air the program on its ABC affiliates for more than a week.The Maryland-based broadcaster announced the decision in a statement. The show will air on all of Sinclair's 38 ABC affiliates Friday night, the company said.Kimmel's show was pulled from all of ABC's airwaves on September 17 following his controversial comments about the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk.Disney made the decision to 'return' the show on Monday.The announcement from Sinclair leaves Nexstar - another broadcasting group with a total of 32 ABC affiliates...

EXCLUSIVE — A conservative organization is underscoring President Donald Trump’s work supporting homegrown agriculture production and food security amid his tariff war with China with a new advertisement campaign. The six-figure ad buy by the Protecting America Initiative, a nonprofit organization, on Friday comes after Trump this week announced that some of the $165.2 billion tariff revenue raised during this fiscal year to date would be redirected toward farmer relief.The 30-second spot, “The Real Enemy,” will air on TV and be amplified on digital platforms for the next three weeks in Washington, D.C. “The food on your table is at...