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Townhall’s Julio Rosas is on the ground in Minneapolis this week, reporting on the protests and riots. Tonight he’s reporting that the riot police and the National Guard have abandoned a perimeter they had set up earlier in the day, chased away by the rioters. For the fourth night in a row, protesters and rioters have descended on Minneapolis to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer, who was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter on Friday afternoon. The city is under a curfew order, but rioters are refusing to disperse. The...

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests. Soldiers from Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Drum in New York have been ordered to be ready to deploy within four hours if called, according to three people with direct knowledge of the orders. Soldiers in Fort Carson, in Colorado, and Fort Riley in Kansas have been...

IAF receives largest Heron UAV - the Shoval The IAF will soon unveil the Eitan UAV for intercepting ballistic missiles. Amnon Barzilai 7 Mar 07 16:26 The Israel Air Force (IAF) today took delivery its first new generation Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI). The IAF has named the UAV “Shoval”. The new Heron is a qualitative jump in the IAF’s operational capabilities for the wide range of missions thanks to the UAV’s special features. The new Heron is a large UAV, the most advanced of its kind in the world, and able to carry...