This article was originally published by Belle Carter at Natural News.  Ukraine’s coordinated drone attacks on Russian air bases, planned for over a year, caused significant damage, including up to €6 billion ($6.8 billion) in destruction and the loss of at least 40 warplanes, including strategic bombers. These strikes targeted deep within Russian territory, including Arctic and Siberian locations. The attacks have raised alarms among U.S. officials, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who warned that they could provoke an “extreme” response from Russian President Vladimir Putin, potentially leading to nuclear escalation. The strikes have heightened fears of a…

Navy investigators and local authorities are searching for a missing sailor last seen May 29 on Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.The Virginia State Police issued a critically missing adult alert for Culinary Specialist Seaman Angelina Petra Resendiz, 21, who vanished after being spotted at her barracks in Miller Hall and hasn’t spoken to friends or family since.“The disappearance poses a credible threat to their health and safety as determined by the investigative agency,” the alert said.Resendiz is assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer James E. Williams, the Navy said.Resendiz is five feet tall, Hispanic, weighs 110 pounds and has black…

A pair of key House lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation Monday designed to simplify the defense acquisition process with the goal of speeding the fielding of new systems and technology to the military’s front lines. But the latest proposal is sponsored by the top Republican (House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Ala.) and top Democrat (committee ranking member Adam Smith, D-Wash.), making it a rare bipartisan priority in the chamber and an expected focal point of the annual defense authorization bill debate. “The current [system] is too slow, rigid, and bureaucratic to meet today’s urgent needs,” the pair wrote in…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. It’s calving season in Colorado, and wildlife officials are urging hikers, dog walkers, and anyone else heading outdoors to give moose plenty of space after several recent attacks — some resulting in serious injuries — across the state. Colorado Parks and Wildlife issued the warning following at least four separate moose attacks in just over a week, all of which involved dogs and cow moose with calves nearby. The first attack happened on Memorial Day near Colorado Springs, where a man and his two…

Ruler of the United States, Donald Trump, has said that the protesters in Los Angeles are “paid insurrectionists,” placing the blame on local authorities for a violent escalation. He now wants California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass to apologize for what he described as a “horrible” failure to control the riots and violent unrest in the city. In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump wrote: “Governor Gavin Newscum and ‘Mayor’ Bass should apologize to the people of Los Angeles for the absolutely horrible job that they have done, and this now includes the ongoing L.A. riots.…

The lawsuit — filed by Yale Law School’s Veterans Legal Services Clinic — asks for a return to the department’s health care policies in place at the start of this year, when hormone therapy was provided as part of a broad spectrum of VA medical services. Attorneys argue the abrupt change discriminates against transgender veterans and endangers their mental health. The identity of the veteran at the center of the legal fight has not been released, but clinic officials said she served for two years on active duty and nine years in the Army National Guard. In 2024, before separating…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. A conservation group in South Florida that’s working to reign in the state’s Burmese python problem announced a new milestone in those efforts Monday. After more than a decade of intensive efforts, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida says its team of scientists and trackers has caught, killed, and removed more than 40,000 pounds of the giant, invasive snakes from a roughly 200-square-mile area near Naples. That’s over 20 tons worth of Burmese pythons, which rank at the very top of Florida’s least wanted list…

TOKYO — An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnance at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers, though the injuries are not life-threatening, officials said Monday.The four soldiers sustained finger injuries while working at a facility that belongs to Okinawa prefecture and temporarily stores unexploded ordnance, mostly from wartime and found on the island, local officials said. One of the harshest battles of World War II was fought on Okinawa.Prefectural officials said the injuries were not life-threatening, but no other details were immediately known.The U.S. Air Force said in a statement…

One of the most infamous tweets that helped kick off the feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has been deleted. Musk appears to be responsible for removing the  X post claiming that United States President Trump’s name was in the sealed Jeffrey Epstein files, suggesting that this is the real reason they remain classified. On Thursday, the tweet heard around the world was posted. Musk wrote: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.” He added: “Have a nice day, DJT! Mark this…

At dozens of bases across the Air Force, troops are undertaking tried-and-true relaxation techniques — biofeedback, meditation — in shiny mirrored cubes that can project light patterns and even galaxies. The experience, as one researcher put it, is more like a “Disney ride” than a studio or clinical office.This is Lumena Mindgym, a flashy new curriculum-based therapeutic tool that’s taking the Air Force by storm. More than two dozens Mindgyms have been installed at base fitness centers and support facilities for about $100,000 apiece; Mindgym just marked its first installations outside the continental United States, in Kuwait and Turkey, earlier…

Congressional Democrats and administration critics condemned President Donald Trump’s decision this weekend to federalize National Guard troops in California as a serious breach of standards for the involvement of the military in domestic affairs. “Such unilateral action, taken without consultation with local leaders, risks escalating tensions rather than calming them,” Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement Sunday night. “This move sets a troubling precedent for military intervention in local law enforcement. “It is crucial that decisions of this magnitude are made with transparency, restraint, and respect for constitutional balance.”Over…

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has proposed creating a new political party called the “America Party,” marking a sharp shift in strategy amid his breakup with current ruler, Donald Trump.  The tech entrepreneur’s political shift comes as the rift between the two deepens. Musk has had an incredibly public falling out with Donald Trump recently, whom he strongly supported during last year’s election. Musk established and funded a pro-Trump political group, donating over $260 million to the presidential campaign. He was appointed by Trump in January to co-lead the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news and cutting-edge gear reviews. This story, “Hunting the 50th State: Goats Over the Gulches,” appeared in the June 1961 issue of Outdoor Life. THE AVERAGE MAINLANDER thinks of Hawaii only as a tropical paradise where hula dancers sway, trade winds blow, and luxurious hotels beckon. Few realize that there’s excellent big-game hunting here, especially on several of the “outside” islands. Take, for example, the island of Lanai-one of the lesser-known of the populated islands-where I put in a hitch as resident wildlife biologist for the Hawaiian Division of Fish…

A 24-year-old Army sergeant died as a result of a training accident near Camp Croft, Hungary, on June 5.Sgt. Aaron Cox, of Mabank, Texas, was an infantryman with the “Strike” 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).The sergeant died from wounds sustained during a vehicle accident during preparations for the upcoming Exercise Saber Guardian 25.The accident is under investigation.“The loss of Sgt. Cox is a tragedy for all of us on the Strike team,” said, Col. Duke Reim, commander, 2MBCT, 101st Airborne Division. “He was a strong soldier and leader, who quickly rose through the ranks while…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.  The Russians and the Chinese have both been developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles that can cause such immense destruction that they make the nuclear bomb that destroyed Hiroshima look like a child’s toy. The U.S. has been working on a new intercontinental ballistic missile, too, but it won’t be ready for quite a few years. Unfortunately, we are closer to nuclear war right now than we have been at any other point in human history. In fact, we are extremely fortunate that the Russians didn’t…

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But questions from lawmakers are unlikely to stay only on that topic. The defense secretary will be accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine in his first post-confirmation testimony, as well. Caine replaced Gen. CQ Brown after the latter was fired by President Donald Trump in February for unspecified reasons. Last week, Senate leaders said they didn’t expect specifics on the president’s defense budget plan for several more weeks. But lawmakers said they need to press forward on the issue now to have any hope of reaching a funding deal by October, the start of the new fiscal year.…

Protestors are clashing with law enforcement officers in California, and United States President Donald Trump has had enough. The U.S. ruler has ordered the deployment of 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles County following several days of violent protests and attacks against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, the White House announced on Saturday. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump has signed a Presidential Memorandum authorizing the National Guard deployment. He cited “attacks” against ICE officers and “lawlessness that has been allowed to fester.” Leavitt said the administration has a zero-tolerance policy toward violence directed at law enforcement.…

National Guard troops began arriving in Los Angeles early Sunday on orders from President Donald Trump in response to clashes in recent days between federal immigration authorities and protesters seeking to block them from carrying out deportations.Members of California’s National Guard were seen staging at the federal complex in downtown Los Angeles that includes the Metropolitan Detention Center, one of several sites that have seen confrontations involving hundreds of people in the last two days.Trump has said he is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell the protests, which he called “a form of rebellion.”The move…