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Trump wants to preserve relations with Xi, but Iranian customs data show Chinese entities have made thousands of shipments of components used in drones and missiles This summer, when the U.S. and Iran signed a temporary truce, China touted its role in easing tensions in the Middle East. It said its foreign ministry made dozens of calls to nudge peace along, and that President Xi Jinping himself had intervened with suggestions to end the fighting.That same day, a plane from China landed in Tehran. It carried a shipment for Iran’s Ministry of Defense that included electronics components that can be...

PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. -- A Pensacola charter fishing group made an unusual catch on Saturday -- a large drone pulled from Gulf waters. It came from testing at Eglin Air Force Base and is now back in the military's possession. VIDEO AT LINK..................... "Hot Spots Charters" said the group was on a six-hour trip when it found the drone about 20 miles southeast of the Pensacola pass and gathered it in the aircraft. "It looked like a boat was upside down," Captain Daniel Arsenault said. "We thought it was an upside down skiff or something. So we changed our course...

Microsoft Corporation has indeed announced new changes within its gaming division. Nearly three hundred employees will be affected by these layoffs. According to a statement by XBOX Content Director Matt Booty, the layoffs will take place at Halo Studios and several other studios — the full list has not been disclosed. They will also affect the management tier of XBOX and the central office. Layoffs are not the only changes Microsoft is implementing. Certain XBOX subsidiary studios are set for reorganization: Obsidian will now become part of Bethesda; the Microsoft Casual Game division, which works on games like Minesweeper and...

Israel is treating the new documentary “NAZA,” by the Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, less like bad publicity than a national security crisis. Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, pledged to use “every tool at our disposal” against the documentary, which features anonymous interviews with 24 intelligence officers and soldiers, most involved in remote strikes in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for legislation that would let the state strip Abraham and Szor of their citizenship. Israel’s culture minister has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate them for treason. Activists and staff members...

Maryland’s chief medical examiner has officially ruled that a Black man found hanging from a tree in Prince George’s County on Sunday morning died by suicide. The ruling came Monday, just one day after the body was discovered high in a tree in front of an industrial business on the 9300 block of D’Arcy Road in unincorporated Upper Marlboro, WTOP News reported. Police and fire crews arrived around 7:55 a.m. Sunday. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Because of the height of the body and the need to wait for the medical examiner, many drivers passing by saw...

A bombshell sworn declaration filed in federal court is raising new questions about the Biden-era COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed on America’s military. According to TrialSite News, Army Lt. Col. Theresa Long, a retired Army flight surgeon now serving as senior medical military adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and reporting to War Secretary Pete Hegseth, filed a sworn declaration in Adirim v. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency et al., in the Eastern District of Virginia. Long told the court she has firsthand knowledge of more than 29 service-member deaths after COVID-19 vaccination and that she has been tasked with...

A load of copper worth nearly $600,000 was recovered on Sept. 11 after investigators followed a trail from Illinois to Kentucky and Ohio, wrapping up the initial search only about eight hours after the theft was reported, according to Yahoo News. The case began when a shipment scheduled to travel from DeKalb, Illinois, to Rock Hill, South Carolina, never made it toward its intended destination. Authorities believe whoever collected the freight had presented themselves as an established trucking company, using genuine business information to make the pickup appear legitimate. The breakthrough came from location data tied to Schneider National equipment...

Days after President Trump asks Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries, Zelenskyy takes the attacks up a notch and brags about all of the different NATO country missile systems being used to attack Russian oil refineries.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X, “One of Russia’s key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine. The systems used included FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palianytsia, Vendetta, Liutyi, Bars, Flamingo, Sichen, and Pelican.”Everyone can see this game for what it is.Everyone can see it.After weeks of various...

President Trump said on Sunday that he has agreed to convert plans for a massive triumphal arch into a "top grade Military Complex," equipped with snipers and drone storage. "At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch," Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Work on the 250-foot-tall arch was expected to begin this month, with plans to...

The whole world knows when we're about to do something militarily because of a big spike in Pizza orders to the pentagon? Clearly we need in house pizzaria at the pentagon. They could use government cheese to make it economical.

Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data. Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS. A sixth official, who like the...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On Sept. 18, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) joins a grateful nation in celebrating the 79th birthday of the United States Air Force and honoring the generations of airmen whose service and sacrifice have helped defend America at home and around the world.Born from the U.S. Army Air Forces, the Air Force was established on Sept. 18, 1947, with the signing of the National Security Act of 1947. In the nearly eight decades since, airmen have built a proud legacy of courage, innovation and excellence while answering the nation’s call in times of war and...

Mark Sutherland interviews Dr. R. Mark Mark Musser, a missionary currently serving in wartime Ukraine. Dr. Musser has served in the former Soviet Union for 30 years, living in four different countries.

Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude technology to break into OpenAI’s ChatGPT systems, underlining the immediate dangers of AI even as regulators fret over its long-term risks. The effort, part of a bug-hunting program, was the latest in a series of cybersecurity breaches aided in large part by fast-developing AI technology, The Wall Street Journal noted. Axios cited business executives and ex-government officials voicing worry over AI-powered cyberattacks threatening critical infrastructure, while The Washington Post noted the Pentagon’s “antiquated computer networks” had resulted in an explosion of cybersecurity risks. As a new research paper put it, recent breaches have been the result...

Ukraine has carried out its deepest drone strike of the war against a major gas facility in Russia’s Arctic, demonstrating that its expanding long-range strike capabilities can reach the heart of the country’s strategically important Yamal-Nenets gas-producing region. Ukrainian Special Operations Forces said drones struck the Novy Urengoy condensate treatment plant and the nearby Purovsky gas-condensate processing plant on September 9, traveling more than 3,000 kilometers from Ukraine. Russian regional authorities confirmed a drone attack and a fire at an industrial facility in Novy Urengoy, although they did not initially identify the target. Ukraine subsequently claimed responsibility. The strike was...

>IMG SRC="https://wltreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/hitler-enigma-museum-collage-final-1536x864.png">width=65%> An encrypted Nazi military message sat unread for decades. GPT-6 Astra helped break it in roughly 10 hours. The 82-letter German Army transmission was sent on July 10, 1941, while Adolf Hitler’s forces were driving deep into the Soviet Union. Its contents were not a grand strategy or a secret order from Hitler’s headquarters. They were more immediate: a field message asking for a route of march, reporting a position in Rosenow and demanding an immediate reply by radio. That modest plaintext had remained hidden behind one of the most notorious encryption systems of World War II. Carter...

* The Mitsuoka LA1 is a C1 Corvette impersonator based on the ND MX-5. * It pays tribute to iconic American styling without going overboard. * The official debut of the Japanese roadster is scheduled for November 26. ============================================================= Mitsuoka has shared more photos and information about its upcoming two-seater roadster. The Mitsuoka LA1 marries the styling of the C1 Corvette with the modern RWD underpinnings of the Mazda MX-5 ND. The official premiere of the LA1 is scheduled for November 26, but the company has already unveiled the exterior design through a dedicated website. The renderings depict a two-door...

Two new malaria cases have been registered this week near Frankfurt airport, two months after cases first emerged. A person living near the Schwanheim district of Frankfurt died of malaria, local authorities said on Thursday. The incident is the third such death after a recent cluster of malaria cases linked to Frankfurt Airport emerged. Two airport workers died of the disease in July and August. Malaria is a life-threatening disease transmitted by mosquitoes and causes hundreds of thousands of deaths per year, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease is not common in Germany. Schwanheim district, which borders the airport, registered...

About 245 Air Force members now hold a rank the service eliminated in 1980.The Air Force spent 45 years without warrant officers, the last one retiring in 1980 and the ranks disappearing from an Air Force that decided senior NCOs and commissioned officers could cover the same ground. That changed in February 2024, when then-Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall announced that the ranks were coming back.The service has about 245 warrant officers as of September 2026, in ranks ranging from Chief Warrant Officer 1 to Chief Warrant Officer 5 at multiple commands, an Air Force spokesperson told Military.com....

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) — A evacuation order is now in effect near a reported plane crash in Blair Township. Grand Traverse 911 says residents along County Road 633 from Jefferson Place to Blair Townhall Road should shelter indoors and close their windows and vents. The order applies only to people in the indicated area. Traffic remains shut down near the crash scene, and drivers should avoid the area. Emergency officials have not released information about injuries or what caused the crash. MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK.......................