On Tuesday, workers at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle airport discovered a drone in a cordoned cargo zone near a runway. The drone carried a detonator and military-grade Semtex explosives, and it had landed beside a Ukrainian cargo aircraft. Around the same time, a second flying object apparently struck a diverted DHL cargo plane, which landed in Hanover […]
As Natalie Winters reported this week, numerous very high-ranking retired U.S. military officers engaged with a Chinese Communist Party front organization, The China Association for International Friendly Contact. Winters reports that “The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission found that the group performed the dual roles of ‘intelligence collection’ and ‘conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns.'” There […]
A U.S. military investigation found that there was no white phosphorus leak at an American military base in South Korea late last month, an episode that prompted local authorities to briefly order civilians to evacuate the immediate area. Officials in Pyeongtaek, just south of Seoul, on July 28 said residents close to Osan Air Base should move...
Washington, D.C., voters will decide in November whether to ban the sale of foie gras, setting up a fight between animal welfare advocates and the city’s fine-dining industry over the controversial delicacy. The D.C. Board of Elections on Wednesday certified Initiative 86, also known as the Prohibiting the Force-Feeding of Birds Act, officially placing the...
Senate Republicans on Thursday voted down an amendment that sought to open up Americans’ ability to sue pesticide companies over the health impacts of their products. The amendment to the Senate farm bill failed in a party-line vote. While the measure was backed by all of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Democrats and none of its...
Long-shot Democratic congressional candidate Kirill Basin was arrested last weekend following an altercation at a Maui beach ahead of the Democratic primary in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District on Aug. 8, where he's seeking to unseat two-term Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-Hawaii). According to the Maui Police Department, the incident began after a 61-year-old man asked Basin...
Vice President Vance met with Senate Republicans at the Capitol on Thursday to discuss how to move the Republican agenda, which has stalled in part because of a fierce intraparty fight over delaying a ban on hemp-derived, intoxicating products, such as delta-8 THC. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) invited Vance to speak to GOP colleagues at...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted to eliminate a long-standing rule capping the number of households a single broadcaster can reach nationwide, a move the commission said is necessary to better help television networks compete with the rapid growth of tech companies in the media sector. The now-scrapped rule, which had been in...
Conservative commentator Scott Jennings says it "might be time" for President Trump to weigh in on Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), an embattled lawmaker facing allegations of domestic violence. CNN's John Berman asked Jennings why Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) has been one of the few Republican lawmakers to call for Miller to resign, saying GOP members...
Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) broke his silence on the abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) Wednesday and called for his fellow Ohio Republican to drop his reelection bid and resign from Congress for the sake of his daughter’s wellbeing. Husted had largely declined to comment on the serious abuse charges leveled against Miller by...