BOGOTA, Colombia — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas that his death was an extrajudicial killing.The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on Sept. 15, when he was sailing off Colombia’s Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights conventions. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights received the complaint Tuesday, and while the Trump administration has said it supports the commission’s work, the U.S. does not…

On Tuesday, the Pentagon released an open call to industry to rapidly obtain and deploy over 300,000 small one-way-attack drones — with the Pentagon hoping to put them into the field at such a pace that operators can learn to use them within two hours.The $1 billion initiative aims to have the one-way attack drones in the hands of service members by 2028. The RFI document calls for small drones capable of carrying a minimum of 4.4lbs in explosives and able to conduct strikes across both open terrain and urban environments. The drones are expected to prove they can maneuver…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. For years now we’ve heard from rifle and ammo manufacturers that the 6.5 Creedmoor is their most popular cartridge. It’s an excellent round for open country, and it’s found its way into plenty of Midwestern and Eastern deer camps, too. But there’s one consideration that’s become a head scratcher. A whole bunch of deer hunters are reporting sub-par blood trails — even on well-hit deer — shot with their 6.5 Creeds. Just ask full-time Wisconsin blood-tracker Dean Muthig. When I spoke with Muthig a…

United States ruler President Donald Trump has said he does not want Somali immigrants to come to the U.S. He urged them to go back to the East African nation, “which is barely a country,” and “fix it,” while he simultaneously referred to them as “garbage.” Trump slammed Somali and Democratic lawmaker Ilhan Omar, claiming they “contribute nothing.” His insults then extended beyond Omar to include all of the people of Somalia. Somalia has been plagued by instability and terrorism for decades, driven by the al-Qaeda-affiliated group Al-Shabaab and other militants. Many Somalis emigrated to the US in the 1990s during the country’s…

The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen, two people familiar with the findings said Wednesday.Hegseth, however, has the ability to declassify material and the report did not find he did so improperly, according to one of the people familiar with the report’s findings who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the information. CNN first reported the initial findings.The review by the Pentagon inspector general’s office was delivered to lawmakers,…

The U.S. Army Recruiting Command is set to become the Army’s main “force generation command” on Wednesday, and will now oversee the process of turning civilians into soldiers. The command will now control everything from the initial Army brochure a new recruit sees to their completion of their basic training.“From first contact made in an advertisement through initial entry training, USAREC transforms civilian applicants into U.S. Army warriors,” a service press release said. USAREC is being placed under Transformation and Training Command, or T2COM, as part of a sweeping Army modernization effort. T2COM was activated earlier this year after Army Secretary…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The wind was blowing the afternoon of Nov. 4, when 29-year-old Robbie Flint and his 18-year-old brother, Gage Boyington, headed toward a low-lying swamp in Maine. The spot is only about 30 miles from the coast, where Flint makes his living catching scallops and lobsters commercially. The property itself is owned by a friend of Flint’s, and he’s hunted there for 20 years. “I started hunting it with my dad and I know it pretty well,” Flint tells Outdoor Life. “We’d…

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The Department of Veterans Affairs last month scrapped a $77 million leftover green energy program from the Biden administration that would have put solar-powered charging stations for electric vehicles at VA medical centers and other facilities. In a Nov. 19 release, the VA made clear its opposition to federal funding for green energy programs in general and charging stations in particular, although the Trump administration in August was forced under court order to release up to $5 billion approved by Congress for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, program to build a nationwide network of charging stations along major…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream.  While many Americans are searching for the best online holiday deals and figuring out what to watch on Netflix tonight, a storm is gathering. Decisions that are being made right now could radically alter the course of human history, but most of the population is so self-occupied that they don’t even realize what is happening. We could soon find ourselves involved in multiple global wars simultaneously, and once we reach that stage, there will be no turning back. At this hour, a naval task force…

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Pete Hegseth barely squeaked through a grueling Senate confirmation process to become secretary of defense earlier this year, facing lawmakers wary of the Fox News Channel host and skeptical of his capacity, temperament and fitness for the job.Just three months later, he quickly became embroiled in Signalgate as he and other top U.S. officials used the popular Signal messaging application to discuss pending military strikes in Yemen.And now, in what may be his most career-defining moment yet, Hegseth is confronting questions about the use of military force after a special operations team reportedly attacked survivors of a strike on an…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. It had been a great deer season so far. I had already taken a nice buck out of some family land in northern Arkansas, and I wanted to focus on a little doe management in the same area. So one afternoon in December, I pulled up and parked my truck on the side of the road next to the family plot, which is about five acre. Several years ago, some folks subdivided the area and recut the dirt road to create…

The United States ruling class just announced that it will soon start bombing Venezuela’s land mass. The U.S. military has conducted a number of deadly attacks on boats it claims were linked to Venezuelan-led narcotics smuggling. These attacks amounted to war crimes. But now the “land strikes” announced by Trump will surely be seen as an act of war. U.S. ruler Donald Trump said that the military would soon start bombing alleged drug cartel targets on land. He made the comment to reporters in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The announcement comes amid a massive US military buildup in the…

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Citing a nationwide shortage of pennies, some stores have started rounding purchases up — or down — to the nearest nickel. Other stores, including military shops, acknowledge that at some point they’re going to run out of pennies and have made plans to address it. For now, military customers may want to empty those piggy banks before heading out to pay cash for holiday shopping.Beginning Jan. 1 — or sooner if penny supplies run out — cashiers at Army and Air Force Exchange Service stores will round cash purchases up or down to the nearest nickel or dime, according to…

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