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The Bomb That Couldn’t Be Disarmed: The Harvey’s Casino Extortion Plot

by Jose Campos It started under cover of darkness. In the early hours of an August morning in 1980, three men in white jumpsuits rolled a steel box into Harvey’s Resort Hotel and Casino in Stateline, Nevada. They told casino staff it was an IBM copy machine. It wasn’t. Inside …

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Threatening Skies: Countering the Drone Swarm Apocalypse

by Austin Lee Picture this: A swarm of cheap drones, hundreds strong, blotting out the Texas sun like a biblical plague of locusts. Each carries enough explosive to ruin your day, buzzing low over a sleepy border town. No radar pings, no warning; just chaos. This isn’t a Hollywood blockbuster. …

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Wrong Turn, Right Tactics: Surviving a Riot From Behind the Wheel

by Greg Chabot You didn’t plan to be there. Most people don’t. But one wrong turn, one blocked exit, or one unexpected surge — and suddenly, you’re in your car in the middle of a riot. Don’t panic. As riot season heats up, here’s what to do if you find …

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Howitzer Thunder: Marines Bring the Fire at Twentynine Palms

by Jose Campos TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — The desert air trembled as Marines unleashed the first rounds from a M777 Howitzer during Service Level Training Exercise this month. Dust plumes curled in the heat, smoke trailing each shell as it streaked toward a distant target. The SLTE is more than …

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How Drones Broke the Rules of War

by Susan Katz Keating A wave of drone attacks lit up targets on June 1 deep inside Russian territory – another clear signal that unmanned warfare is rewriting the rules in real time. But the idea of drones doing the killing – or at least the hunting – isn’t as …

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F-35s Escort Putin’s Plane Out of US Airspace: Kremlin Releases Rare Footage

Through the window of Putin’s presidential jet, two F-35’s slid into formation as they left U.S. airspace. It’s a view almost no one on Earth will ever see. America’s stealth fleet rarely shows itself—let alone escorting a Russian head of state out of U.S. airspace. History at 35,000 feet. The …

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Cartel Banker ‘Brother Wang’ Escaped Through Tunnel in Mexico While Evading US Warrant

by Jose Campos A high-value target for U.S. law enforcement — and an alleged vital cog in the money machine of both the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) — has slipped the net. Zhi Dong Zhang, a Chinese national with more aliases than a spy novel …

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‘You Will Wind Up Dead’: Inside a Combat Drone School in Russia

How do you learn to fly a kamikaze drone? In Russia, one answer lies inside a secretive training program run by Octagon, a drone school linked to remnants of the Wagner Group. Though Wagner technically no longer exists, Octagon claimed to continue running combat drone courses in Russia, even after Wagner …

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The FBI Failed to Examine Evidence in Clinton Email Investigation

by Susan Katz Keating The FBI failed to fully investigate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and her mishandling of highly classified information while serving as Secretary of State, according to a newly declassified government report. The report by the Justice Department’s Inspector General was released on Monday …

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I Went Looking for Smugglers on the Border – Here’s What I Found

by Heath Hansen It’s not often that the absence of a story makes my day, but today that’s exactly what happened. I had a free afternoon and decided to head Southeast, into the San Diego Mountains, looking for any indications of illegal entry, or drug smuggling, into the United States. …

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