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gb defense 5 1h ago 4 min read

Ann Widdecombe Murder Investigation: Suspect Released, Manhunt Continues in Devon

Devon and Cornwall Police released the 26-year-old man arrested in the killing of former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe, saying he is no longer part of the investigation. Detectives are still hunting a suspect believed to be a white male and have stopped releasing details, citing risk to the case.

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us defense 9 2h ago 4 min read

Trump Threatens '1,000 Missiles' On Iran, Iran's New Supreme Leader Vows Revenge For His Father's Killing

President Trump says he has 1,000 missiles locked on Iran if anyone tries to assassinate him, a threat that came after mourners at Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral called for Trump's death. Iran's new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, responded Saturday with his own vow of revenge for his father's killing. A June ceasefire is unraveling fast, and the fight now is over who controls the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway carrying roughly a fifth of the world's oil.

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us defense 7 6h ago 4 min read

Trump Says He's Lifting Sanctions That Blocked Turkey's F-35 Purchase, Over Bipartisan Objections

At the NATO summit in Ankara last Tuesday, President Trump told reporters he's removing CAATSA sanctions that have barred Turkey from buying F-35s since 2019, when Ankara bought a Russian S-400 missile system instead. Ten members of Congress from both parties, plus Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, say the move hands Turkey and Russia a win. Federal law still requires Turkey to give up the S-400 before jets can actually be delivered, and Trump hasn't said how that gets resolved.

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us defense 7 9h ago 4 min read

Three Detainees Say ICE Shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo From the Side. DHS Still Has Released No Physical Evidence.

Since ICE agents killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on July 7, three eyewitnesses held in immigration detention have told their attorney that no officer was ever in front of the van and that shots came through a passenger window. DHS has produced no photos, no video, and no physical evidence to support its self-defense claim, while a DHS inspector general investigation is now underway.

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us tech 7 Jun 16 1 min read Updated

The Pentagon Is Betting on AI-Native Defense Firms. Here Is What a Neoprime Actually Is.

The Defense Department is moving frontier AI into its most classified networks and pouring nearly $55 billion into autonomous warfare. Legacy contractors built the hardware that won the last century of wars, but the next one will be decided by who can integrate trusted software into constrained, classified environments at speed.

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tr defense 7 10h ago 4 min read

Turkey Is Seeking Russia's Permission to Offload S-400s, Which Is the Only Thing Standing Between Ankara and F-35s

The 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara wrapped this week with a Trump greenlight for Turkey to rejoin the F-35 program, but a key obstacle remains: Russia must formally consent before Turkey can transfer the S-400 systems to Gulf state buyers. Congress also has to act before any sanctions relief or sale can proceed.

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us defense 6 13h ago 4 min read

Widdecombe Murder: Initial Suspect Released, Devon Police Say No One Is in Custody

Two days after Ann Widdecombe's body was found at her Dartmoor home on July 9, Devon and Cornwall Police have released the only suspect arrested and say he is no longer part of the investigation. No new arrest has been announced as of Saturday, July 11. The murder inquiry continues with no one in custody.

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us defense 9 15h ago 5 min read

U.S. Gives Iran a Saturday Deadline on Hormuz, Trump Says He Left Orders to Bomb Iran If Assassinated

Since fighting resumed in the Strait of Hormuz this week, the Trump administration has issued Iran a Saturday deadline to publicly declare the strait open and stop attacking commercial ships. Separately, Trump told the New York Post he has left instructions for a massive bombing campaign against Iran in the event of his assassination, while appearing to downplay Israeli intelligence about a specific plot against him.

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us defense 7 23h ago 4 min read

ICE's Three Eyewitnesses to the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Shooting Are Being Pressured to Self-Deport, LULAC CEO Says

Since ICE fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on July 7, the three men riding in his van have been held at an ICE detention facility in Conroe and are facing pressure to sign voluntary departure paperwork, according to LULAC CEO Juan Proaño. Those three men, including Salgado Araujo's brother Víctor Hugo, are the only known eyewitnesses. House Democrats sent a formal letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on July 10 demanding evidence preservation and answers on why witnesses are being pushed to leave the country before any investigation is complete.

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gb defense 6 1d ago 3 min read

Ann Widdecombe Found Dead at Dartmoor Home. A 26-Year-Old Man Is in Custody on Suspicion of Murder.

Former British MP and Reform UK spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe, 78, was found dead with serious injuries at her Devon home on Thursday morning. Devon and Cornwall Police launched a murder investigation Friday and arrested a 26-year-old white British man in Newton Abbot. Police say no evidence points to political motivation or terrorism.

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us defense 4 1d ago 2 min read

CSIS Schedules Back-to-Back Events on AI in Warfare and Cyber Defense for Mid-July 2026

The Center for Strategic and International Studies has two public events lined up for the week of July 14: a strategic landpower dialogue with Lieutenant General Frank Lozano and a half-day forum on AI-driven cyber defense. Both are open to in-person and virtual attendance.

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il defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

Israel Shared Intelligence on a Specific Iranian Plot to Kill Trump. The Secret Service Quietly Changed His Plane.

Since Israel passed new assassination-threat intelligence to the United States on or around July 9, two separate threads have converged: a reported 'specific' Iranian plot targeting Trump, and a mid-trip aircraft switch that the Secret Service requested as a security precaution. Neither the White House nor Israel's embassy has confirmed the intelligence publicly, but Trump himself has spoken about the threat repeatedly and on the record.

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us defense 6 1d ago 4 min read

Pentagon Wargames Keep Landing on the Same Answer: The U.S. Needs Smaller Tankers That Can Fly From More Pacific Airfields

Every major Pentagon wargame examining a Pacific conflict flags the same vulnerability: large refueling aircraft concentrated at a handful of bases that enemy missiles can reach in the opening hours of a fight. The Air Force's Agile Combat Employment concept was built to solve exactly this kind of problem, but it has never been seriously applied to tanker operations. Embraer is making the case that its KC-390 Millennium fills that gap, not by replacing the KC-135 or KC-46, but by operating from a far wider network of airfields those aircraft simply cannot use.

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us defense 7 1d ago 4 min read

Rubio to Host 60-Nation Counterterrorism Summit July 15 as G7 Allies Push Back on U.S. Strategy in Iran

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is navigating two diplomatic fronts at once. He is convening a 60-country counterterrorism summit in Washington on July 15 to address far-left political violence, while simultaneously managing deepening fractures with G7 allies over the U.S.-Israel war in Iran and the Strait of Hormuz crisis.

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ua defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

NATO's Ankara Summit Closes With Germany Buying Tomahawks, Europe Pledging $50 Billion for Long-Range Missiles, and Ukraine Still Outside the Alliance

Since the Ankara summit wrapped up this week, the concrete deliverables are coming into focus: Germany signed a deal to station U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles on its soil, a 12-nation European coalition committed $50 billion to build deep-strike weapons, and Ukraine walked away with $80 billion in military aid pledges and a Patriot manufacturing proposal. What Ukraine did not get is a NATO membership date.

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il defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

Israel Now Controls Nearly 70% of Gaza, Aid Groups Suspended from Northern Orange Zone

Since the October ceasefire, Israel has expanded its military footprint from roughly half of Gaza to nearly 70%, designating new restricted zones and pushing Palestinians into shrinking civilian corridors. Aid operations in northern Gaza's newly declared orange zone are suspended, and Trump's peace framework, nine months in, has produced no Israeli withdrawal. The civilians caught inside the expanding control zone face nightly shelling and daily uncertainty with no clear end date.

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us defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

Harris County Medical Examiner Rules Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's Death a Homicide. DHS Says He Was Not the Target.

The Harris County Medical Examiner has ruled the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo a homicide, three days after an ICE agent shot him during a traffic stop in Houston on July 7. DHS confirmed Thursday that Salgado Araujo was not the intended target of the operation, and the agents involved had no body cameras. No charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing.

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us defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

Grand Jury Indicts All 8 Alleged Conspirators in White House UFC Attack Plot, Including Sniper Arrested This Week in West Virginia

Since the thwarted attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House on June 14, federal prosecutors have now charged all eight alleged conspirators in a single two-count indictment returned in Columbus, Ohio on July 9. The eighth suspect, Chandler D. Scaggs, 21, was arrested this week in West Virginia after allegedly continuing to seek a ride to the event even after the plot's ringleader was already in custody. All eight face conspiracy charges for providing material support to terrorists and for murder on federal territory.

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us defense 7 1d ago 3 min read

Sen. Shaheen Calls for U.S. Military Response to Iran, Says Trump War Has Failed Its Own Goals

Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen told NPR on Thursday that a U.S. military follow-up to Iranian strikes on allies and Strait of Hormuz shipping is 'an important response,' while also saying Trump's war against Iran has accomplished none of its stated objectives. She wants the pressure to push Iran back to the negotiating table, not deepen the conflict.

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us defense 9 1d ago 4 min read

U.S. Strikes 170 Iranian Targets in Two Days, Nuclear Talks Continue Anyway

Since the U.S.-Iran ceasefire collapsed over Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, American forces have struck roughly 170 Iranian military targets across July 7 and 8. Trump publicly declared the memorandum of understanding 'over,' but a U.S. official confirmed technical nuclear talks are still ongoing — a contradiction that defines where this conflict stands.

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ir defense 8 1d ago 4 min read

Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Not Been Seen in Public Since the February Strikes That Killed His Father

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was appointed supreme leader of Iran in March 2026, days after U.S.-Israeli airstrikes killed his father, Ali Khamenei. Four months later, he has not appeared publicly once, raising concrete questions about whether he is functional enough to govern. In the vacuum, IRGC generals have consolidated operational control of the state.

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