President Donald Trump’s new Space Force uniform proposals have sparked comparisons to Nazi military attire after Trump said the science fiction movie Starship Troopers inspired the design. Trump created the Space Force in 2019 during his first administration. The service falls under the Department of Defense (DOD) and is the smallest of the major branches, with an authorized end strength of 10,400 in Fiscal Year 2026. The service is in charge of securing U.S. space interests. Trump posted an AI graphic on Sunday on Truth Social depicting the proposed “next generation” Space Force service dress uniform, which showed dark peaked…
The amicus brief submitted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Viramontes case claims to be in support of neither the plaintiffs nor the defenders of “assault weapon” bans, which is an odd take considering what the bishops actually have to say. There’s little doubt that the clergy would like to see the challenged gun bans upheld by the Court. The gist of their argument is that the justices “should reject the view that gun ownership figures alone can place a category of weapons constitutionally and irrevocably beyond all regulation.”Amicus takes no position…
MIAMI (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio begins a three-nation tour of Latin America on Tuesday, visiting U.S.-aligned conservative leaders as the Trump administration steps up military operations to combat drug trafficking and seeks further inroads in the Western Hemisphere aimed at improving America’s energy standing and combating illegal migration. Just a week after sealing a massive oil deal with Venezuelan leaders after a U.S. military operation in January deposed then-leader Nicolás Maduro, Rubio was traveling to neighboring Colombia to meet President Abelardo de la Espriella. Colombia’s new leader has embraced President Donald Trump’s policies on issues ranging from…
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) made errors in about one-third of the cases it reviewed involving reductions to veterans’ disability compensation, according to a report from the agency’s watchdog. The VA Office of Inspector General recently found that claims processors made one or more errors in roughly 34% of proposed and final decisions to reduce veterans’ service-connected disability compensation during the 2024 calendar year. In some instances, benefits were slashed without giving veterans the advance notice the law requires. Federal law is supposed to guard against exactly that kind of mistake. Under a regulation known as 38 CFR 3.103,…
Darren Bailey and his running mate Aaron Del Mar, the Republican nominees for governor and Lt. governor in Illinois, are already the underdogs given the dominance of deep-blue Chicago on the state’s political leanings. One TV station seems intent on tilting the scales even further in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s direction by trying to manufacture a controversy over Del Mar’s support for the Second Amendment. Del Mar recently shared a video showing him shooting a machine gun, which became a topic of conversation when he sat down with KSDK-TV in St. Louis.Del Mar, a Palatine township…
The Pentagon is using military medical and personnel records to identify service members with current or past diagnoses of gender dysphoria as it moves to separate transgender troops under the Trump administration’s ban, according to a Federal News Network investigation published Monday. The effort has led commanders across the military to receive notices identifying troops in their units who may fall under the policy and directing them to begin the separation process, per the report. The outlet cited multiple service members, advocates and internal military documents. An internal Air Force email obtained by Federal News Network said the Office of…
The Marine Corps confirmed a five-year growth plan that adds more than 6,500 billets across infantry battalions, drone units, air defenses, and new occupational specialties. The extra structure is meant to staff the systems the Corps has already bought and the units it is still building. A Sept. 1 statement from Marine Corps Combat Development and Integration laid out the Force Structure Review in public for the first time. The service said it has an executable plan for 4 percent end-strength growth by 2031 and assessed another 1 percent the following year. Those Marines will be spread across 64 initiatives.…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former defense minister were sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a case alleging Yoon ordered drone flights over Pyongyang in 2024 to heighten tensions with North Korea and justify declaring martial law at home. The Seoul Central District Court found Yoon and his ex-defense minister, Kim Yong Hyun, guilty of aiding an adversary and abusing their power, saying they sought to provoke North Korea into launching armed attacks or other serious retaliation against South Korea to manufacture a national emergency. It said the moves…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has long been looking for this weekend to be a big one for his presidency. The World Cup returns to the U.S. on Friday for the first time in 32 years after Trump threw himself into winning the bid to co-host the soccer tourney during his first term. He’ll be feted Sunday, his 80th birthday, during a UFC fight night that’s expected to draw thousands to the White House grounds. Hours after the final bout, he’s scheduled to jet off to the G7 summit in the French Alps for talks with several world leaders…
Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries, depots and pipelines. Tanker trucks attacked and left ablaze along the land corridor from Russia to Crimea. Motorists waiting in long lines at gas stations. In a new blow to the Kremlin’s narrative that Moscow is winning the 4-year-old war in Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces have targeted supplies to Crimea, triggering the worst fuel crisis on the Black Sea peninsula since it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. The persistent attacks reflect the growing intensity and efficiency of Ukraine’s drone strikes and have caught Russia off guard and struggling for a response. As the country…
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For veterans Rachel Hughes and Michael Deardorff, relief from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the physical toll of serving in the military was somewhat unexpectedly relieved by a four-legged friend. Hughes, an Army veteran, and Deardorff, who served in the Marine Corps, both received service dogs through Dogs, Inc., a company providing highly trained companion dogs to veterans. Hughes, who retired as a master sergeant after 22 years in the Army, was matched with Byner in 2023. The dog not only helps Hughes manage her PTSD, but he also gives her motivation to get out of bed each morning and…
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The US Virgin Islands is one of the most anti-gun territories in the United States. They seem to have no respect for gun rights, with might not be relevant if they weren’t a US territory and thus subject to the Constitution. I’m not sure the lawmakers there really seem to understand that, though, with their history of gun-grabbing, but it doesn’t make it any less true. And they’re at it again, this time with a bill containing numerous provisions, including a “vampire rule.”That’s led the Second Amendment Foundation to tell them they really should back…
Ohio gun owners who feel the need to temporarily remove firearms from their home will soon be able to turn to gun stores or their local police departments for help. Lawmakers in both the House and Senate have unanimously agreed to allow “any owner of a lawfully possessed firearm or a person authorized by the owner of a lawfully possessed firearm” to store a firearm with a federally licensed firearms dealer or with a law enforcement agency “upon application and agreement.” These voluntary off-site storage measures are, thankfully, becoming increasingly popular in red states as…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he had called off new military strikes on Iran, suggesting progress had been made in talks to end the war just hours after the American leader threatened to escalate the conflict by seizing control of Iran’s oil industry. Trump said in a social media post that he made the move after a breakthrough in negotiations, and that significant points under discussion “have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved.” The announcement came after two days of back-and-forth attacks between the U.S. and Iran had…
