ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to deploy the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons, following a series of high-profile crimes on city trains. Hochul, a Democrat, said she will send 750 members of the National Guard, as […]
Florida’s rightwing Republican governor Ron DeSantis will deploy state troops to help with crowd control during the spring break season, warning that the Sunshine state will not “tolerate lawlessness”. About 140 state troopers will be sent across Florida to assist 17 law enforcement agencies, as thousands of college students make their way en masse to […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is eager to escape the chaos of a two-seat House majority. And he’s leaning on Donald Trump for help. During a February meeting with the former president at Mar-a-Lago, Johnson and his House GOP campaigns chief briefed Trump on several upcoming primary races, making the case that certain extreme candidates could blow […]
Ukraine is not talking to its partners about the possible deployment of their armies on its territory. Source: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a press conference following the Ukraine. Year 2024 conference Quote from Zelenskyy: “We are not talking to our partners about their armies being deployed in Ukraine. If Ukraine joins NATO, which would be […]
Feb. 24—GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE — Ninety-six airmen from the 319th Reconnaissance Wing will deploy overseas in April in support of the unit’s surveillance and global communications responsibilities. The airmen will be stationed at 20 different air bases for four to six months in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, according to wing commander […]
Sorry, space fans: We won’t be getting ground-level views of the first moon landing by an American spacecraft since the Apollo era. That epic touchdown came courtesy of Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus lander, which lowered itself onto the gray dirt about 190 miles (300 kilometers) from the moon‘s south pole yesterday (Feb. 22). The success was […]
A 73-year-old Arizona man died Wednesday while skydiving with his friends after his parachute failed to fully deploy, local authorities said. Terry Gardner, of Casa Grande, was on his third jump of the day with three friends and fellow skydivers around 12 p.m. local time when the incident happened, the Eloy Police Department said in […]
Heavy fighting is raging in all areas of the Kupiansk front, with Russian forces engaging in high-intensity assault operations and deploying new reserves. Source: Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of Ukraine’s Ground Forces, on Telegram Details: Syrskyi noted that he had made a working visit to military units and subunits defending the Kupiansk front. Quote: “The operational […]
Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Security Council Chairman, has declared that Russia will place new types of weapons on the Kuril Islands, which Japan seeks to return. Source: Medvedev on Twitter (Х) Quote from Medvedev: “The Kuril Islands will actively develop, and concurrently, their strategic role will increase, including the placement of new types of weapons there.” […]
Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence has intercepted a conversation among the Russian military that suggests that Russia is forming new detachments of Federal Security Service border personnel in order to reinforce the border with Ukraine. Source: Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Quote: “The newly formed units will be deployed in border-adjacent areas in Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod oblasts.” Details: […]
Yurii Ihnat, the spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force, has said that the Russians have deployed air defence systems to Crimea and the front line but have withdrawn them from other regions of Russia. Source: Ihnat in an interview with Focus Quote: “It’s 100% true that they’ve filled up the line of contact with it [air […]
Ukraine said it struck two hugely valuable Russian aircraft over the weekend. The planes seemed to go unusually close to the fighting, enabling Ukraine to hit them, one expert said. Russia will now be much more careful in how and where it uses its remaining ones, experts predicted. Russia’s loss of two valuable aircraft will […]