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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has introduced legislation to audit the Pentagon with years-long intentions to ensure that United States taxpayers are getting the most bang for their buck, according to a copy of the bill first shared with Military.com. The legislation, called the “Reviewing Every Check and Each Invoice Purchasing Troops’ Supplies” Act or the ‘‘RECEIPTS Act,” comes as President Donald Trump has openly called for increasing the current 2026 Fiscal Year defense budget as much as $600 billion, hypothetically totaling $1.5 trillion based on current numbers. Ernst is calling for that defense budget to symbiotically help both warfighters and...

Researchers describe the material as a cephalopod-inspired “smart synthetic skin” made from hydrogel and fabricated using a technique the team calls halftone-encoded 4D printing. Most synthetic materials—even advanced ones—are designed to do just one thing well. A coating might change color, a polymer might bend when heated, or a gel might respond to moisture. The term “4D printing” refers to structures that change after printing. Unlike conventional 3D printing, where a shape is fixed once fabrication ends, 4D-printed materials are engineered to transform in response to external stimuli, such as heat, solvents, or mechanical stress. ... The novel system is...

Federal judge reads threats she's received aloud in court, says, 'We will not be intimidated' A federal judge on Thursday upheld her order postponing the termination of temporary protected status for around 350,000 Haitians in the United States.The Justice Department appealed U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes' stay to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit but simultaneously requested that she rescind her order. Reyes heard arguments from both sides on Thursday. She said she was denying the government’s motion and would issue a written order before Feb. 19, which is the next deadline in the appellate court case....

SPECIAL SERIES: Religious Liberty Around The World. In deteriorating health and 78 years old, Jimmy Lai is not likely to survive the 20-year prison sentence that Hong Kong’s kangaroo court handed him on Jan. 9. The Chinese Communist Party has ensured that the voice of this prominent media mogul and ardent defender of democracy will never be publicly heard from again, on anything. It accomplished this by distorting the territory’s formerly celebrated judicial system and rule of law. Over a thousand democracy defenders have been imprisoned since Hong Kong’s draconian national security law was imposed in 2020 and, as a...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KFOX14/CBS4) — A Las Cruces woman has been arrested after police say she gave birth to a baby girl in a portable toilet at Burn Lake and disposed of the newborn in the holding tank, where the child died. Sonia Cristal Jimenez, 38, is charged with one felony count of intentional child abuse resulting in death, a first-degree felony. About 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 7, staff at Memorial Medical Center notified police that Jimenez arrived at the hospital and appeared to have just delivered a baby, but the baby was not with her. Police learned Jimenez’s boyfriend,...

As Elon Musk tries to sweep his Mars ambitions under the rug like an embarrassing teenage phase, he’s now shifting focus to the Moon — with no less eye-brow raising ideas. According to new reporting from the New York Times, Musk told employees at xAI — his AI company recently acquired by SpaceX — that it needs to construct a factory on the Moon to churn out AI satellites. And to launch the satellites into space, he says, it needs to build an enormous electromagnetic catapult. Sci-fi readers already know where this is going: Musk is thinking about building a...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from downgrading the military retirement rank and pay of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, finding that the government had "trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms."A retired Navy captain, Kelly drew the Trump administration's ire after he and five other Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military to "refuse illegal orders."U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's order prohibits the Defense Department and the Trump administration from taking any adverse action against Kelly to reduce his retirement rank and pay."This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have...

Video Transcript Summary Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin, who served 24 years on the bench including as presiding judge of the juvenile court's child protection division and was appointed to a national commission by President Obama, was entrusted with managing the finances of Oscar Lawton Wilkerson (also referred to as Lawton Wilkerson or Oscar Wilkerson Jr.), a Tuskegee Airman, WWII veteran, and longtime family friend (related through marriage as a niece of his former wife). This occurred after Wilkerson, then in his mid-90s, moved into a Southside/Orland Park retirement/nursing home around late 2020. Court records and reports indicate Martin...

Chaos erupted Thursday at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee oversight hearing when Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over the astounding levels of fraud uncovered in the state just months ago. During the contentious exchange, Hawley accused Ellison of blatant corruption, alleging he worked with individuals later convicted in the scandal to shield them from investigators, and accepted a $10,000 campaign contribution from them just nine days after pledging to assist their cause. "The people who ran the Feeding Our Futures program came to you in your official office in the state capitol...

Video Transcript SummarySenator Josh Hawley (R-MO) questioned Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing about the Feeding Our Future fraud case, involving $250 million in alleged federal child nutrition program fraud (part of broader state fraud claims up to $9 billion).Hawley accused Ellison of:Meeting with representatives of the group (including individuals later indicted/convicted) on December 11, 2021, in his official capacity.Pledging to help them by intervening with state investigators (citing a 54-minute recorded meeting where Ellison allegedly said he would contact officials, expressed concern, and discussed follow-up).Accepting $10,000 in campaign donations from linked individuals nine...

A flower deliveryman who allegedly threw acid on a woman and then wrote a song about it has been indicted five years later. Terrell Campbell, 29, of Brooklyn, was indicted on Tuesday on first-degree assault charges for allegedly throwing acid on Nafiah Ikram while she was walking up her driveway in Elmont on Long Island in March 2021, leaving her with significant burns. Campbell allegedly used sulfuric acid - a highly corrosive mineral acid found in lead-acid batteries - in the attack. symbol 00:55 02:12 Read More Surveillance video allegedly caught him running up on Ikram, throwing the acid and...

[Definisci proPal e poi definisci fascista. L’incitamento di Francesca Albanese]. Rights Reporter. Define proPal and then define fascist. Francesca Albanese's incitement. Written by Franco Londei. November 30, 2025 Francesca Albanese comments on the ProPal attack in La Stampa. The proPal assault on the editorial office of La Stampa cannot and must not be underestimated, even less so if the phantom UN special envoy, Francesca Albanese, starts inciting and justifying the attack on journalists who are "not aligned" with Hamas's press releases. Which, put like that, is strange. The daily newspaper La Stampa , along with Repubblica and all the left-wing...

Explanation: Dark, smooth regions that cover the Moon's familiar face are called by Latin names for oceans and seas. That naming convention is historical, though it may seem a little ironic to denizens of the space age who recognize the Moon as a mostly dry and airless world, and the smooth, dark areas as lava-flooded impact basins. For example, this telescopic lunar vista, looks over the expanse of the northwestern Mare Imbrium, or Sea of Rains and into the Sinus Iridum, the Bay of Rainbows. Ringed by the Jura Mountains (montes), the bay is about 250 kilometers across. Seen after...

Two U.S. Navy ships collided Wednesday in an area patrolled by the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), leaving two personnel with minor injuries, according to military officials. The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Truxtun and Supply-class fast combat support vessel USNS Supply collided during a replenishment-at-sea, Southcom spokesperson Steven McLoud said in a statement. The injured personnel sustained minor injuries in the incident and are in stable condition. Both ships have reported sailing safely and the collision is currently under investigation, McLoud added. The cause of the collision is unclear, along with the exact location of the incident. A replenishment...

Terrifying images show a passenger plane flying with an engine shredded and charred by a midair explosion before it managed an emergency landing. Passengers filmed the shocking view of the Arik Air Boeing 737’s left engine destroyed during a cross-country flight in Nigeria from Lagos to Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Some of the horrified 80 passengers could be heard screaming as the plane instead made an emergency landing in neighboring Benin, somehow limping to the ground safely on just one engine.

@BarronTNews_ BREAKING: Americans are FLOODING the phones of GOP Sen. Susan Collins after she REFUSED to support the SAVE America Act following House passage

Sanctuary officials released Mexican illegal charged with rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, purchasing sex with a minor Manuel Cruz-Ramirez presented false passport at Portland International Airport, feds say An illegal alien arrested at an Oregon airport was on the loose despite being charged with horrific sex crimes against a minor in the sanctuary state.On Feb. 3, a Transportation Security Administration officer working a terminal checkpoint at Portland International Airport encountered 38-year-old Manuel Cruz-Ramirez. Cruz-Ramirez presented a Mexican passport bearing a different name. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was alerted when the passport failed to return...

President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday announced the repeal of a 2009 policy allowing the federal government to regulate the emissions of fossil fuels by declaring them dangerous to public health. Trump called the repeal “the single largest deregulatory action in American history” and said it would “save American consumers trillions of dollars.” “We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers,” Trump said in the White House Roosevelt Room. “Effective immediately, we are repealing the ridiculous endangerment finding...

That controversy was ugly enough without a scoring debacle, but we absolutely got one courtesy of a single French judge in the finals. Jézabel Dabois, the judge in question, not only noticeably scored Chock/Bates lower than the rest of the panel, but more critically she vastly overscored F. Beaudry/Cizeron — and has been doing so for over a year.

Russian soldiers and military bloggers have railed against the Kremlin after it restricted access to the Telegram messaging app. Widespread disruptions to the app were reported on Monday and Tuesday as Roskomnadzor, the Russian state media regulator, said it would levy its strongest restrictions on Telegram’s operations yet. The internet watchdog said the move would safeguard Russian citizens against “criminal and terrorist” content, in Moscow’s latest crackdown on the free internet. Roskomnadzor, which has for years crusaded for a “sovereign internet” liberated from Western influence, has over the past six months imposed new limits on Telegram and WhatsApp at least...