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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia since 2022 and allegedly tortured and injected with mind-altering drugs, slipped into a stupor in June and may be close to death, according to two hostage advocacy groups and his sister. The White House and the State Department have urged Moscow to release Robert Gilman, 32, so he can receive urgent medical treatment in the U.S., said Eric Lebson, chief strategy officer of Global Reach, an advocacy group representing his family. Gilman is being fed through a tube, he said. A source familiar with the matter told Reuters they had...

An armed man, said to be creeping around and monitoring “security-planning activities,” was arrested Sunday with a pistol and ammunition outside Trump National Golf Course Los Angeles — just two days before the president’s visit to the very same location. Jeanine John Taele, 38, from Downey, Calif., was taken into custody outside the Rancho Palos Verdes site by sheriff’s deputies after federal agents first spotted him lurking in the area, taking photos and videos, and monitoring security-planning activities, law enforcement said. When deputies assigned to the Lomita Sheriff’s Station first made contact with Taele, they determined he was being investigated...

Jeanine John Taele, a 38-year-old resident of California, was apprehended on Monday outside the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes. Law enforcement officials reported that Taele was found in possession of a concealed firearm while allegedly surveilling security operations in anticipation of President Donald Trump's visit to the venue.

A fighter jet crashed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Friday morning, sparking a small fire on the military base. The F-35B assigned to 3rd Marine Aircraft Group 11 went down around 10 a.m. in what Marine Corps spokesperson Capt. Steven Keenan called a "Class A mishap." The pilot, the only person aboard, ejected from the plane and was recovered, Keenan said. It was not clear if the individual was injured. Footage from SkyRanger 7 showed a plane in at least two pieces amid a football-field-sized patch of scorched earth, which fire crews doused in streams of water. It was...

An F/A-18D Legacy Hornet belonging to VMFA-323 crashed while flying the VR-1355 low-level route in Washington State, with the pilot’s ejection caught on camera. On Jun. 13, 2026, at approximately 12.00 PDT an F/A-18D Hornet aircraft assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, crashed approximately 55 miles southeast of Seattle, while conducting a routine training mission The pilot ejected safely and was recovered by the local sheriff’s department. “The cause of the mishap is currently under investigation,” says an official 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing press release. Interestingly, clips of the single pilot ejecting from the two-seat Legacy...

A veteran has sparked fierce controversy after publicly blaming Donald Trump for the deaths of school children in Minab, alleging that Tomahawk missile strikes caused catastrophic destruction. The explosive accusation has reignited debate over military accountability, civilian casualties and the human cost of conflict. The remarks are drawing intense scrutiny as questions grow over command responsibility, rules of engagement and the wider fallout from US military actions in the region. The claims have fuelled sharp political reactions, renewed outrage over civilian harm and fresh demands for transparency surrounding the deadly Minab incident.

After fighting for almost a decade to gain U.S. citizenship, time is running out for Marine Corps veteran Paul Canton. He’ll likely be deported soon back to his native New Zealand, despite serving in the U.S. military for seven years, and building a life in Central Florida for more than 25 years. Canton’s story first hit the news cycle in 2020 when his application for citizenship was rejected by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, even though the former Marine had no criminal record. Despite the setback, Canton and his family kept working on his citizenship case, gaining support from leaders...

Three elderly men, including two military veterans, were found apparently beaten to death with hammers in the basement of a suspected Detroit drug den, police said. The bodies of US Marine Corps vets Mark Barnett, 65, and Norman Hamlin, 66, were recovered along with the body of William Barrett 72, in the basement of Hamlin’s home on Edsel Street, Detroit police said. Although Assistant Police Chief Charles Fitzgerald refused to divulge specifics about the grisly scene, he said that all three men were killed by “blunt force trauma,” with at least one of them sustaining additional stab wounds, WDIV Local...

Samuel Nicholas benefited from a well-connected upbringing in Philadelphia, where he was born to an established Quaker family in 1744. After his father’s death in 1751, Nicholas attended the prestigious Philadelphia Academy with support from his uncle, Attwood Shute, who later served as mayor of Philadelphia. The school placed him among the city’s prominent families and future leaders of the American Revolution.1 After graduating, Nicholas was admitted to the Schuylkill Fishing Company, an exclusive sporting club, and helped organize the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, the first fox hunt club in North America. Both social clubs also made him a peer...

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SOUTHPORT, N.C. — Authorities have identified the suspect in Saturday night’s mass shooting at the American Fish Company in the Southport Yacht Basin as 40-year-old Nigel Max Edge of Oak Island, North Carolina. Edge, a former U.S. Marine veteran, is accused of opening fire from a boat anchored on the Cape Fear River around 9:30 p.m., killing three people and injuring at least nine others. Witnesses say patrons were dining and socializing at the popular waterfront restaurant when shots suddenly rang out, creating chaos along the busy marina district. Investigators confirm that Edge, who was accompanied by a spotted dog...

Lt Col Stu Scheller was thrown in the brig and then drummed out of the US Marine Corps for publicly condemning the chaotic military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Almost four years later, he is part of the team investigating the Biden administration’s handling of the evacuation that led to the deaths of 13 US troops in a suicide attack at Kabul airport. “Ironic that I will be investigating who should be held accountable for Afghanistan,” Lt Col Scheller, who was handed a senior role at the Pentagon by Donald Trump, said this week. It shows just how much Washington has changed...

The controversial move to ban National Rally leader Marine Le Pen from standing in the French presidential election has been accused of demonstrating double standards, with reports claiming that over a hundred other European politicians violated the same rules without facing prosecution. A Paris court enacted a five-year ban from running in any election against populist firebrand Marine Le Pen after finding her, and other members of her National Rally party ... one in five members at the time, had been found to have broken the same rules, the Times of London noted on Tuesday. ... BBC journalist Michael Crick...

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Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance invited recently acquitted Daniel Penny to the Army-Navy football game scheduled for Saturday ... Penny is expected to join Vance and President-elect Donald Trump in his suite at the game set in Landover, Md.,

JD Vance will be the first Marine in history to be Vice President of the United States.

More witnesses took the stand Thursday for day three of the manslaughter trial of Marine veteran Daniel Penny. *snip* A 38-year-old Brooklyn woman, who defense attorneys call their star witness, wrapped up her testimony. She testified when Neely was ranting his tone was so believable that there was a moment went she thought she was going to die. She described his behavior as satanic.

I'm a sailor, but these guys are still good with us.

Protesters accuse Marine vet of White supremacy as jury selection begins in subway vigilante case. Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Marine Corps veteran facing manslaughter charges after he appeared on cellphone video placing an erratic and aggressive subway passenger in a chokehold.

Arizona Democrat Representative and Senate candidate Ruben Gallego, whose father is a convicted Mexican drug trafficker, continues to come under fire over his ties to the cartels as newly discovered arrest records and details about his father come to surface. The Gateway Pundit reported that the Democrat Senate hopeful’s scandalous family ties were rehashed by a reporter during a press conference last week. While admitting that his father is a convicted drug trafficker, Gallego did not deny his “connection to drug cartels” when asked by a reporter. ... In 2008, Gallego changed his name from MarineLarena to Gallego to hide...