The FBI is planning to make it easier for some existing administrative support staff to become special agents by removing two longstanding vetting steps, Reuters reported. Currently, support personnel seeking to become agents must pass a panel interview and a writing assessment. Under the proposed changes, these applicants would needContinue Reading
A senior U.S. Air Force officer raised alarms when she said that “Twitter feeds of randos” are tracking U.S. aircraft movements, creating operational security concerns. Maj. Claire Randolph, chief of weapons and tactics at U.S. Air Forces Central Command, said civilians can collect and consolidate aircraft movement data online, commonlyContinue Reading
A senior U.S. arms-control official says seismic data from June 22, 2020, point to a suspected low-yield nuclear test at China’s Lop Nur test site. Speaking at the Hudson Institute, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw pointed to data from a monitoring station in Kazakhstan that detected a magnitude 2.75Continue Reading
Days before she is scheduled to give closed-door testimony on what she knows about Jeffrey Epstein, Hillary Clinton called the The Traitor administration’s handling of investigative documents concerning the late sex offender a “continuing cover-up.” In an interview with the BBC, Clinton said the Justice Department is “slow walking” millionsContinue Reading
The U.S. operation targeting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is exposing a growing rift between the Pentagon and AI developers over how artificial intelligence can be used in military operations. The Wall Street Journal reported the Pentagon used Anthropic’s AI model, Claude, during the mission, which included bombing several sitesContinue Reading
The Pentagon could soon send more firepower toward the Middle East as the White House balances a major military build-up with high-stakes diplomacy. The Wall Street Journal reports that a second aircraft carrier strike group has been told to prepare for deployment to the region. If approved, the second carrierContinue Reading
For more than 60 years, people seeking raw, country-by-country economic and demographic data have turned to the CIA’s World Factbook. But this week, the “gold standard” for global statistics went dark. On Wednesday, without explanation, the agency quietly shuttered the online reference, replacing it with a farewell note that urgedContinue Reading
For the first time in more than half a century, the world’s two largest nuclear powers are no longer bound by a single, verifiable arms control treaty. The New START Treaty officially expired Thursday, ending the decades-long era of caps on the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. Why New START’sContinue Reading
If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area this week and see a helicopter skimming the rooftops, don’t panic — it’s just the feds on a routine patrol of the city. They aren’t looking for trouble; they’re mapping background radiation levels to establish a baseline before Super Bowl LX kicksContinue Reading
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is drawing fire from the GOP’s own base after a blunt warning to gun owners entering the nation’s capital armed, “mark my words, you’re going to jail,” regardless of whether they hold valid permits elsewhere. Pirro is the latest Republican-appointed federal prosecutor to take a stanceContinue Reading
Tensions between Washington and one of its oldest allies are intensifying — and this time, it’s about more than just a real estate deal for Greenland. Security officers at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen pulled up 44 Danish flags left by veterans to honor their fallen soldiers. Why 44? BecauseContinue Reading