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A 22-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, was arrested Wednesday on espionage charges.Taylor Adam Lee was arrested in El Paso, Texas, on criminal charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license.Lee holds a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, according to a justice department release. From May to the time of his arrest, Lee sought to establish his U.S. Army credentials and send defense information to Russia’s Ministry of Defense. In June, Lee allegedly transmitted export-controlled technical data on the M1A2 Abrams tank online and…

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This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffee at The Mises Institute.  President Trump caused a stir last Friday after he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) hours after it released a weaker-than-expected jobs report. In a post on his social media site Truth Social, the president blamed the Biden-appointed BLS commissioner, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, for manipulating jobs numbers to prop up Democrats and make his administration look bad. He promised to appoint someone “much more competent and qualified.” Many of his critics sought to frame the move as a childish yet dangerous attempt to brazenly warp reality to Trump’s liking. Even…

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On Aug. 6, 1945, a 19-year-old U.S. sailor was serving aboard the aircraft carrier Hollandia about 500 miles off the coast of Japan when he learned the U.S. had just obliterated Hiroshima with a new “super-weapon” — an atomic bomb with the force of 20,000 tons of TNT. A more powerful bomb was dropped at Nagasaki three days later.There is no record of what the aviation radioman third class said or thought when he heard the news, though he likely exhaled a sigh of relief. That seaman, along with millions of men preparing for the invasion of Japan, hoped the…

This article was originally published by Ava Grace at Natural News.  China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal (projected to exceed 1,000 warheads by 2030) and developing advanced capabilities like hypersonic missiles and a full nuclear triad, shifting from “minimum deterrence” to strategic dominance in Asia. Beijing aims to undermine U.S. alliances by sowing doubt over America’s willingness to defend partners (e.g., Japan, South Korea, the Philippines) in a nuclear conflict, pressuring them into strategic passivity. Investments in hypersonic missiles, Fractional Orbital Bombardment Systems (FOBS), and mobile launchers ensure a survivable second-strike capability, enabling coercion without direct conflict. China exploits…

Veterans Affairs leaders on Wednesday announced plans to terminate nearly all of its collective bargaining contracts with federal unions, upending employment agreements for hundreds of thousands of department workers. AFGE alone represents about 300,000 employees working for VA. About 80% of the department’s roughly 450,000-person staff are union members. Department officials said the move was made to “make it easier for VA leaders to promote high-performing employees, hold poor performers accountable, and improve benefits and services to America’s veterans.”In a statement, VA Secretary Doug Collins attacked the unions as inefficient and harmful to veterans’ care. “Too often, unions that represent…

Editor’s note: This is a developing story.FORT STEWART, Ga. — A sergeant shot five soldiers Wednesday at one of the country’s largest Army bases before he was quickly tackled by other Fort Stewart troops, forcing a brief lockdown, officials said.Few details were immediately available about what led to the gunfire, but officials said the shooter was Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, who used a personal handgun, not a military firearm.Radford opened fire where he worked but officials wouldn’t speculate about a motive, authorities said.The injured soldiers are stable and expected to recover, said Brig. Gen. John Lubas. The soldiers who tackled…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Dana Sanders was an environmental consultant for most of his working life. But after retiring two years ago, the 58-year-old Mississippi resident started guiding anglers on inshore fishing trips from his one-of-a-kind, 18-foot Carolina Skiff. The specially modified boat is wide and stable, and it’s part of the inspiration for his newest venture: offering charter trips for disabled anglers. “I named that boat ‘Jason’s Joy’ after my 20-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy,” Sanders tells Outdoor Life. Sanders says that he and his wife Adrian had…

The Nevada County Fair begins today, but one special event has been cancelled this year. H5N1, or the HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) bird flu, has been blamed for the cancellation of dairy and poultry shows. “The [U.S. Department of Agriculture], [California Department of Food and Agriculture] put out a ban on all poultry shows, meaning we can’t have our show at the fairgrounds,” said Katie Bielen, deputy manager for the Nevada County Fairgrounds, according to a report by CBS News.  The CDFA put out a statement earlier this year that said, in part, “due to the continued spread of…

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation to shield America’s public shipyards from federal hiring freezes and mass layoffs as the Trump administration has sought to shrink the federal civilian workforce.Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., along with Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, announced Tuesday the Protecting Public Naval Shipyards, or PSNY, Act, which would exempt certain jobs at public shipyards from workforce reductions.“Our shipyard workforce represents an essential component of our national defense and preparedness — they should have never been subjected to this administration’s ill-considered hiring freezes,” Shaheen said in a release.The…