Speaking on a Twitch livestream on Aug. 20, Piker stated, "If Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going to come around and take action." Piker added, "Not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews."
They alleged that they were fired both for "speaking up as private citizens in support of the press's freedom to cover military operations," and because of their reporting on rough conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. The lawsuit names Hegseth, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell and aide Andrew Brey as defendants.
"Joint Task Force " Southern Border (JTF-SB), operating under US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) in support of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), successfully defended US military personnel and CBP partners by mitigating three adversarial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) using directed energy capabilities this week."
Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL)
Congressman Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA-7th CD)-- who in April 2025 crassly blamed migrants for spreading measles in Texas -- has been accused of being a fabulist like disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY).
This smooth-talking racist xenophobe barely eked out a win on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024. Ryan Mackenzie is not a good human being
Nathan Vilas Laatsch (29) of Alexandria, VA, a former IT specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), pleaded guilty to transmiting national defense information (NDI) to a foreign government. The DIA counterintelligence threat posed by Israel to the US remains HIGH.
US CI Agents are still working hard under the incompetent Trumpf junta
The U.S. military is experiencing a "beyond critical" shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO countries to a potential Russian attack. The U.S. defense official said the most concerning shortfall involves Patriot missile interceptors, which can shoot down Russia's high-speed ballistic missiles. The NATO official confirmed the low inventories of Patriots among American and NATO forces in Europe.
President Donald Trump reportedly plans to skip a 9/11 commemoration in Manhattan after he was barred from delivering a speech, per insiders. A New York Times report published on Thursday and co-written by Maggie Haberman revealed that Trump is not planning to attend a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center. The reporting is based on information from four anonymous insiders.
Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) expressed concern over how election monitors from the US Justice Department observed the state's primaries last week, saying it was "aggressive" and "irregular." "I have asked the attorney general to start looking into, you know, kind of the nature of the visits and all that sort of stuff," he bleated.
Why Red State AIPAC-secure Wyoming?
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani paused the Trump administration's plan to use the Postal Service to limit the delivery of ballots.
Two LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers in the control tower left work early the night an Air Canada Express flight collided with an airport fire truck on the runway, according to a source familiar with the investigation into the March 22 crash. The two pilots of Air Canada Express Flight 8646 were killed when the jet collided with an airport fire truck just after landing. The fire truck had been crossing the taxiway to respond to an incident across the airport. Read more
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The classified assessment of the Kremlin's thinking preceded CIA Director John Ratcliffe's secret trip to Moscow this week.
August 27, 2026 at 5:26 p.m. EDT Today at 5:26 p.m
CIA Director John Ratcliffe's mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded by fresh U.S. intelligence indicating that the Kremlin sees the United States as weakened by the Iran war, offering Russia an opportunity to escalate action against American interests and allies in Europe, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read more
A man was sent to the hospital [in Danbury, CT] Thursday morning after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent deployed a Taser on him while making an arrest, according to the mayor's office and a 911 call recording obtained by CT Insider.
A federal judge in California on Wednesday invalidated a Trump administration rule that could potentially lower wages to foreign guest workers by as much as a projected $2.46 billion annually.
Republicans have been eager for the group to start spending its massive war chest ahead of the general election.
Florida's attorney general got a fiery rebuke and some ecclesiastical schooling from the state's Catholic bishops after he boldly threatened to block funding to Catholic schools unless the church bends to the state's anti-vaccine policies -- policies allegedly intended to uphold religious freedom.
