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Wednesday, April 01, 2026

Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military's most troubled space programs might finally bear fruit.


Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility's procedures by combining roles before midnight, according to a document seen by Reuters.


Tuesday, March 31, 2026

By Executive Order, Donald Trump ordered the creation of a nationwide list of verified eligible voters. DHS, working in conjunction with the Social Security Administration (SSA), will make the list of eligible voters in each state. The US Postal Service (USPS) will be barred from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state's approved list. Mail-in ballots will have secure envelopes with unique barcodes for tracking.


With total air superiority established, The venerable B-52 is having its way.


San Diego is home to the largest US naval base on the West Coast " hosting Navy SEALs that could be used to seize key oil terminals on Kharg Island and free the Strait of Hormuz from Irans iron grip. But sombre soldiers have been putting Trump's strategic mission in jeopardy by mistaking an exotic dancer for their therapist. "Something I've noticed lately is all the military guys are coming in and they're spending all of their money," Daze says in he TikTok clip. "It's sad. They're kind of depressed ... They're like, Oh yeah, we're gonna have fun, we're getting deployed next week'."


U.S. job openings fell more than expected in February and hiring dropped to the lowest level in nearly six years, government data showed on Tuesday.


The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four astronauts are preparing to take off on the mission of a lifetime " circumnavigating the moon and returning humans to deep space for the first time in five decades. After nearly two months of tests and troubleshooting, NASA appears to be on the cusp of firing its 322-foot-tall (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket to orbit. The current target for takeoff is a two-hour launch window that opens at 6:24 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Read more


Trump to provide important update' on Iran on Wednesday night, says White House White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has said that the US President will "give an Address to the Nation" on Wednesday night at 9 pm (0100 GMT on Thursday) which will "provide an important update on Iran." Leavitt made the announcement in a brief post on X without providing any further details.


Israel will destroy all homes in Lebanese villages near the border and 600,000 people who fled the south will not be allowed home until northern Israel is secure, the defence minister said on Tuesday, vowing to inflict Gaza-like destruction in the area.


Candidates with experience at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may not be hired for certain law enforcement positions under a proposed risk-based policy in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, a first-of-its-kind move outlined in a new memorandum that cites concerns about training standards, use-of-force data and potential financial liability.


Bible-era Roman shipwreck yields find of a lifetime " including iconic Gladius sword and other perfectly-preserved treasures

Divers in a Swiss lake were gobsmacked after uncovering a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck filled with iconic Gladius swords, olive oil jugs and other perfectly-preserved artifacts.


The leader of a sex-focused women's wellness company that promoted "orgasmic meditation" was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison for a scheme that a judge said exploited vulnerable women and coerced them into performing sex acts with the company's clients and investors.


A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend its construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House, barring construction work from proceeding without congressional approval. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a preservationist group's request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts President Donald Trump's White House ballroom project. Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, concluded that the National Trust for Historic Preservation is likely to succeed on the merits of its claims because "no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." "The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!," he wrote.


Citing the First Amendment, a federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, two media entities that the White House has said are counterproductive to American priorities.


Bryon Noem, the husband of former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, was accused on Tuesday of living a double life as a crossdresser obsessed with donning huge fake boobs and talking to fetish models online. In a jaw-dropping report published on Tuesday, Daily Mail chief investigate reporter Josh Boswell and senior reporter Ben Ashford published several photos of a man, identified by the newspaper as Noem, posing for the camera in large fake breasts and hotpants while pouting. The two reporters also spoke to several fetish models who claimed to have had an online relationship with Noem involving "bimbofication" " a kink centered around women becoming real life Barbie dolls with gigantic proportions. Read more


The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a bombshell new court filing states. Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk's murder at Utah Valley University on September 10. But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.' The defense team may now offer the ATF firearm analyst's testimony as exculpatory evidence, they said in a motion filed on Friday to push the preliminary hearing back at least six months, Fox News reports.


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