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On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) stated that “we should all be concerned when the Secretary fires so many senior general officers and admirals” due to the number of high-level vacancies and how long it’s taking to fill them and said that the firings have been done without explanation. He also stated that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “wouldn’t be my choice” for the role. Bacon said, “Well, we have a great military, we have great personnel at all ranks. But I think we should all be concerned when the Secretary fires so many senior…
Photo: Rebekka Gimm / Danish Armed Forces Trouble at the top of the world. As Europe undergoes a season of militarization and rearmament, and as the US is demanding control over Greenland, Denmark is moving its pieces north to increase its presence in the Arctic. It’s the first time in recent history that Danish conscripts have been deployed to their territory. Reuters reported: “The conscripts are part of the first cohort under Denmark’s new extended conscription program, aimed at producing soldiers able to operate in one of the kingdom’s most strategically important and challenging regions. […] Copenhagen has pledged billions…
An unidentified object exploded at a train station in the German city of Augsburg, Bayern, on early Wednesday morning leaving at least two injured. The object, which German media later reported as a hand grenade, exploded at 3:15am local time in front of a Turkish jeweller. The newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine reports the explosion occurred around 03:15 a.m. in a building passageway at Augsburg’s main train station. The newspaper identified the two victims as a 17 and 18-year-old young adults, who both suffered blast trauma as a result of the explosion, who are now being treated for acoustic trauma. Augsburger Allgemeine detailed that a bank…
Private-sector payrolls grew by 38,000 in August, human-resources firm ADP estimated in its latest monthly report. Goods-producing businesses shrank their headcounts by 10,000 in the month, including a steep 17,000 decline in manufacturing. Services providers expanded payrolls by 48,000, with solid gains in leisure and hospitality, education and health services, and financial activities. Economists surveyed by Econoday had expected to see 48,000 new private-sector jobs. The estimates are derived from the anonymized payrolls of the company’s corporate clients. The Department of Labor will report its estimate of job growth on Friday. Economists expect payrolls will grow by 55,000 after the…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that the Pentagon has “a valueless foreign policy,” and “We’re a much better country when we have values of free markets, freedom, and that we build our friendships around these values, and also our interests. It should be both.” While discussing the prospect of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth running for president in 2028, “I am much more interested in finding a Reagan-type Republican for the party in 2028. We have some great people who have more of traditional conservative principles, peace through strength. They know that our…
About 4,000 people remain missing seven days after a devastating flash flood hit the country’s northern border regions with China Rescue teams in Nepal continue to search water-logged hydropower tunnels in the country’s north, where hundreds of workers remain unaccounted for seven days after a flash flood devastated areas near the border with China.The death toll has risen to 1,003, Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) said on Tuesday afternoon.Nearly 4,000 people remain unaccounted for, the country’s Foreign Ministry said, adding about 590 foreign nationals from 39 countries are among them. Some 11,800 have been rescued. As…
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison speaks at the “Many Over The Money” rally in Minneapolis on Monday. Credit: LiveNOW from Fox screenshot Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to statewide office in Minnesota and a convert from Catholicism, has quietly returned at least $12,500 in campaign cash from Somali figures tied to the massive Feeding Our Future welfare fraud after a secret recording surfaced of him huddling with the same crowd to fend off state investigators. According to the Center of the American Experiment, the five refunded contributions included donations from Gandi Yusuf Mohamed and Liban Alishire, both…
A 42-year old Bengali man who sexually abused a 13-year-old girl in the Italian city of Turin over the weekend was released just two days later on Monday by a local judge because the offender said he was “sorry.” The judge’s shocking decision prompted outrage and condemnation from Italian government authorities, including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who expressed her solidarity with the victim. The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports that the heinous crime occurred on Saturday afternoon at a mini market located in northern Turin. The victim told police she went to the locale to buy a a fruit juice drink for…
The Pentagon has rolled out custom versions of ChatGPT and Grok to millions of Defense Department personnel. The Department of War has now replaced Anthropic’s Claude with access to multiple different AI platforms. TechCrunch reports that the Pentagon has launched military versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s Grok, giving the department’s 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools built around what officials describe as “warfighter needs.” The two tools, ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government, join GenAI.mil, a secure portal the Pentagon launched last year so War Department employees can use commercial AI models without sending…
Netflix announced Tuesday that it will release a documentary on President Donald Trump’s secret plane swap in Turkey, premiering the film Friday. The streaming service posted a trailer for “Instadocs: The Decoy Plane,” the third installment of its quick-turn documentary series. Netflix said the film covers the July incident through the eyes of the reporters traveling with the president. Netflix wrote that Trump “slipped off Air Force One in a catering truck and secretly boarded a different aircraft,” leaving the press to fly on without knowing he was gone. Associated Press chief White House photographer Alex Brandon described the scene…