You get a lot of conveniences when living in a city apartment – proximity to schools, shopping, and services. However, when the power grid fails, look out, you’re in for some challenges. Unlike some homeowners in suburbia, you can’t just break out the generator or avail yourself of a large propane tank.  The elevator may not work, the tap water may go dry, and managing sanitation may be an issue. The good news is you can prepare before anything happens. TL;DR: To prepare for a loss of utilities in an apartment, focus on space-saving water storage like a WaterBOB, use…

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The Department of Defense launched a team of elite private sector businessmen tasked with handling and approving defense contractor negotiations, aimed at fixing the former “broken Pentagon bureaucracy.”Dubbed “Deal Team Six,” the crew is tasked with creating better deals with defense companies to ensure their production of U.S. military equipment is not at the expense of the taxpayer, but that of the contractor, according to a Thursday social media video posted by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.Hegseth claims in the video that for decades, the department allowed contractors to “double-dip” when service members needed weapons, aircraft or ships, charging the…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  January, February, and March were insanely dry. In fact, in all of U.S. history, conditions have never been so dry during the first three months of the year. Just think about that for a moment. Not even during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s were conditions this dry. Many were hoping that 2026 would be the year when our multi-year drought would finally break. Needless to say, that hasn’t happened. Scientists are telling us that the southwestern U.S. is in the midst of the worst multi-year…

KYIV, Ukraine — She had walked for hours through the Lyman grey zone, past shell craters and the bodies of neighbors who hadn’t made it out, when the robot caught up to her. The 77-year-old saw it first as a blanket, then as the three words painted across it in an operator’s hand: “Grandma, get on!”Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps and its Cerberus unmanned ground systems unit ran the April 25 rescue with a reconnaissance drone overhead.The woman lived in the same house for 53 years before Russian forces destroyed it. Three other civilians from the same area were drone-escorted to…

President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine would temporarily halt fighting for three days beginning Saturday, though Ukraine publicly framed the proposed ceasefire more cautiously as part of negotiations over a large-scale prisoner exchange. In separate statements, Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the proposal would include a ceasefire running through May 11 and the exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each country. Trump described the ceasefire as the result of U.S. diplomacy, writing in a Truth Social post that the request “was made directly by me.” He then thanked both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskyy for…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. Best Overall The North Face Wawona Best Budget Kelty Rumpus A great camping tent can see your family through years — even decades — of outdoor adventures. For Outdoor Life, I’ve tested dozens of models, from four-figure canvas tents to bargain-basement Amazon models, finding great values across a range of brands and for every budget. To help you choose the best camping tent I’ve rounded up a number of my favorite picks here, plus a few new interesting models that should be on every camper’s radar. …

The Pentagon on Friday unsealed the first tranche of what it described as “new, never-before-seen” files related to otherworldly encounters, months after President Donald Trump directed the government to begin disclosing intelligence related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects.Trump, in a post on Truth Social, characterized the dissemination of the archives as an effort to achieve “complete and maximum transparency.” “With these new Documents and Videos, the people can decide for themselves, ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?’” the president wrote, adding, “Have Fun and Enjoy!”The Department of Defense — in coordination with the…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics One of the oldest cliches in fishing is that lures and flies have to catch fishermen before they catch fish. It is, however, an extremely accurate cliché. Once you take those crankbaits to the register, the company that made them won, whether you catch anything with them or not. This is why lure makers are constantly developing new baits and re-skinning old lures with modern holographic inserts, glow-in-the-dark stripes, flash-foil scales, realistic eyes, and limited-edition paint jobs. We shop for lures and flies with our eyes,…

Three soldiers with the Arkansas Army National Guard created tourniquets out of belts to save a fellow guardsman’s life after two heavy expanded mobility tactical trucks collided during training.Three tactical trucks were part of a convoy at Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, Arkansas, on Monday. The first two trucks came to a stop, but the third was unable to and collided with the middle truck, the Arkansas National Guard said in a release. Eight soldiers were injured, one seriously. First responders used the jaws of life to remove the seriously injured guardsman. Sgt. Eduardo Salazar, Staff Sgt. Ryan Niblett…

American forces fired on and disabled two Iranian-flagged unladen oil tankers on Friday after the ships attempted to cross a U.S. Navy blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS George H.W. Bush launched “precision munitions” at the smokestacks of M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda, disabling the vessels before they could reach an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman, according to U.S. Central Command.“U.S. forces in the Middle East remain committed to full enforcement of the blockade of vessels entering or leaving Iran,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM.The U.S.…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Search-and-rescue crews in Glacier National Park discovered the body of a missing hiker Wednesday. Officials are still investigating, but they suspect that he was killed by a grizzly bear. “The victim was located about 2.5 miles up the Mt. Brown Trail approximately 50 feet off the trail in a densely wooded area with downed timber,” park officials said in a statement on Thursday. “His injuries are consistent with those sustained by a bear encounter.” As part of its ongoing investigation, the…

Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace an outbreak of the hantavirus. The overall goal is “containment”, after the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that five confirmed infections had been identified among people connected to the cruise ship MV Hondius. Hantavirus Outbreak Kills 3 On A Cruise Ship According to a report by CNN, three people, a Dutch couple and a German national, have died since the vessel departed Argentina last month. The first suspected case was a 70-year-old Dutchman, who suddenly fell ill on the ship with a fever, headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, South Africa’s…

After time in storage and two years of “intensive” maintenance efforts, a B-1B Lancer is back in action, deemed combat capable.The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex at Tinker Air Force Base regenerated the aircraft following its time in the “boneyard,” according to a Thursday Air Force release.The “boneyard,” held at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, refers to Type 2000 storage that keeps aircrafts available to reclaim certain parts for active fleets.As the Air Force works to modernize its bomber fleet and nurture legacy platforms considered significant to current operations, this revival highlights the necessity of depot maintenance in extending an aircraft’s…