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Maintenance costs have risen for many US weapons, including some crucial systems by Ukraine or likely to be deployed in a conflict with China. In particular, operating and support costs for the M982 Excalibur — a GPS-guided 155-mm artillery shell supplied to Ukraine — nearly doubled between 2011 and 2022 to roughly $100,000 per shell, according to a Government Accountability Office report. Such problems are baked into the military procurement system. The sticker price of a weapon, such as a jet fighter, only reflects a fraction of what it will cost to maintain that weapon over its lifetime. "Operating and...

Scottsdale police said the three suspects arrested over the last few days came into the country on the Visa Waiver Program.. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Three people from South America arrested in Scottsdale have been accused of breaking into homes in the East Valley as part of a professional crime ring based in Chile. "These are professionals," Scottsdale Police Chief Jeff Walther said during a news conference Tuesday. "These are Chilean burglary crews that are coming into the country on a Visa Waiver Program." The department used helicopters and drones to search neighborhoods near Pima and Jomax roads after it was...

A woman wanted in connection with several brutal, gang-related murders in Mexico was recently arrested inside the United States. On February 15, the combined efforts of the FBI Safe Streets Gang Task Force, the El Paso Police Gang Unit, County Sheriff's Narcotics Division, and Border Patrol resulted in victory when agents arrested Mexican fugitive Michelle Angelica Pineda, sometimes referred to as La Chely, in a motel in eastern El Paso, Texas. American and Mexican law enforcement officials believe that Pineda, a Mexican national, crossed the U.S. border illegally as part of a drug-trafficking ring perpetrated by the violent street gang...

A Haitian migrant who came to the US via President Biden's controversial parole program has been charged with the rape of a 15-year-old disabled girl. Cory Alvarez, 26, was arraigned Thursday in Rockland, Massachusetts after allegedly attacking the girl in a hotel-turned-migrant center the night before. Rockland Police took the Haitian migrant into custody at the hotel, where Alvarez had been living, and the 15-year-old was transported to an area hospital. The suspected child rapist arrived in the US last June through the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program, according to Fox News. The program has been criticized...

A massive wave of Haitians is reportedly heading toward Florida, with rumors suggesting a staggering 300,000 are on their way. Haiti, as you might have heard, is currently under the rule of a gang leader nicknamed “Barbecue.” And before you think it’s because of his amazing grill skills, it’s actually due to his penchant for burning people alive. So, it’s no surprise that we’re on the cusp of yet another massive wave of migrants flooding over. Among them, it’s likely we’ll find a colorful assortment of gang lords, all keen to avoid becoming the main course at “Barbecue’s” next feast....

Three illegal immigrants from Guatemala were charged in Florida with kidnapping a woman in their pick-up truck near a park and sexually assaulting her twice before she managed to escape. The arrests of Marcos Felipe Ramirez, 31, Darniel Ordónez Jimenez, 30, and Andres Felipe Morales, 29, prompted Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw to torch the federal government under the Biden administration for putting "the American people in jeopardy" during a fiery press conference on Wednesday announcing the charges against the trio. Ramirez, Jimenez and Morales were "apprehended for a series of heinous charges including sexual battery, false imprisonment, conspiracy...

A woman — whom Hazelwood, Missouri, police described as “here illegally from Venezuela” — is now charged with killing 12-year-old Travis Wolfe in a crash that left him and his parents fighting for their lives. Wolfe died on March 6. Endrina Bracho of Venezuela was charged in March with one count of first-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of child endangerment, and one count of driving without a license after allegedly causing a crash that left Wolfe dead and his parents, Timothy and Stephanie Wolfe, seriously injured. According to court records that FOX 2 Now reviewed,...

A 20-year-old Venezuelan woman has been arrested in connection with the brutal migrant mob beating of two police officers in Times Square — as cops continued searching for two more suspects. Edgarlis Vegas, from Brooklyn, was picked up by the police in Midtown Manhattan just after 8:30 a.m. Monday on a charge of assault on a police officer stemming from the Jan. 27 melee, according to the NYPD. A native of Venezuela, Vegas is suspected of kicking a police lieutenant during the shocking, caught-on-video attack. She was seen smiling wide in an image sent out by police searching for her...

FBI Director Christopher Wray 'very concerned' about smuggling network tied to ISIS .. FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday warned of a "wide array" of dangerous threats coming from the U.S. border, including drug trafficking, violent gangs and smugglers with ties to ISIS. Wray was asked by Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the threats at the border, including the Tren de Aragua gang from Venezuela. Wray said he couldn’t speak to a specific gang, but said that there were dangerous individuals entering via the southern border. "From an FBI perspective, we are seeing a...

In late 2022, the US began “preparing rigorously” for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What led the Biden administration to reach such a startling assessment was a collection of developments, analysis, and highly sensitive new intelligence. Russia was losing ground inside Ukrainian sovereign territory, not inside Russia. US officials were concerned Russian President Vladimir Putin saw it differently. He had told the Russian people that Kherson was now part of Russia itself, and, so, might perceive a devastating loss there as a direct threat...

CHICAGO (CBS) – In the past nearly year-and-a-half, Chicago has spent nearly $300 million responding to the ongoing migrant crisis, according to the city's latest numbers. That number does not include the cost incurred by other agencies like Chicago Public Schools, the Department of Streets and Sanitation, or Cook County Health. About $206 million of the total has gone to Favorite Healthcare Staffing to operate the city-run shelters. The group has come under scrutiny by some aldermen who have said the city was paying them too much.

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Space Force Lt. Colonel Bree Fram, 43, is claims that "inclusion is a national security imperative." Fram is trans and uses the platform of Lt. Colonel in the Space Force to broadcast the message of trans inclusivity. Fram gave these remarks in October when Fram was featured at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in October."We fight today," Fram continued, "and we are going to fight in the future using brain power. And if that brain, who's going to revolutionize the way we fight in space, we fight in cyber just happens to be in a trans body, you should want...

The Blaze journalist Steve Baker cuffed and taken into FBI custody allegedly for his reporting on J6. Baker previously said he didn’t know what the charges were against him but was told they were non-violent misdemeanors

Vladimir Putin has made a direct threat to nuke the West as he accused NATO and the US of 'preparing to strike' Russia in his annual address to the nation. The Russian president, 71, said: 'They, NATO and America, are active in other parts of the world, of course, and they continue to lie there, to deceive. 'They are preparing to strike our territory and, using the best possible forces, the most effective forces to do so.

Members of the press and Athens residents packed into the Athens-Clarke County Police Department headquarters Wednesday to discuss public safety and immigration with Mayor Kelly Girtz. The news conference followed the killing of University of Georgia student Laken Riley by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela, on Feb. 22 and was quickly taken over by questions about Athens’ stance on immigration. Girtz emphasized Athens’ lowering crime rates over the last several years, and said that data shows there is no link between immigration and crime. “I caution against conflating immigration and crime, the data demonstrates that the two...

Illegal Guatemalan national arrested in Boston, convicted of sexual assault on child under 14: 'Dire threat' ERO officials said the illegal migrant represented 'a dire threat' to Massachusetts residents An illegal migrant from Guatemala has been arrested and convicted of assault and battery on a child under the age of 14, the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston announced on Tuesday Officials said on Feb. 21, ERO Boston arrested a 34-year-old Guatemala national, who was recently convicted of sexual assault on a child. "This individual represented a dire threat to the residents of Massachusetts," said ERO Boston Field Office Director...

Police have released bodycam and security footage of the shooting in Lakewood church, showing the chaos and terror of the encounter. On February 11, 2024 Genesse Moreno entered Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church with an AR-15 and opened fire, causing people to flee and take cover. Minutes later, she was dead and two people were injured, including the shooter’s seven-year-old son, who was shot in the head three times and remains in critical condition. As soon as the shooting begins, the off-duty officers instantly start towards the gunfire, with one saying, “We need to approach. Father God, just be with us....

The illegal immigrant who is accused of killing University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley entered the US in September with his wife and 5-year-old son. They were bussed to New York City after entering the country illegally. He was arrested on child endangerment charges, released, and the record was sealed. Jose Antonio Ibarra's wife, Layling Franco, told the New York Post that they came to the US from Venezuela with her 5-year-old son, and entered through El Paso, Texas. The couple apparently married in order to join their asylum cases. According to police, Ibarra was arrested last August in...

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