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The Professional Fighters League will kick off the 2026 PFL MENA season at Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, where fans can expect a night of tournament action, showcase bouts, and potential breakout performances from across the region. In the featherweight tournament main event, the United Arab Emirates’ Mohammad Yahya will face Tunisia’s Mehdi Saadi in a high-stakes clash to close the show. With both men looking to make an early statement in the bracket, the bout is expected to carry major implications for the road to the featherweight final. PFL MENA 9: Pride of Arabia The co-main event will feature a…

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A federal appeals court last weekend upheld a March ruling that restored collective bargaining rights to Veterans Affairs Department, though not a later requirement that the department “comply” with its contracts with the American Federation of Government Employees.U.S. District Judge Melissa DuBose previously found that VA Secretary Doug Collins violated the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act last year when he terminated the department’s collective bargaining agreements with AFGE in connection with President Trump’s executive order banning unions from most federal agencies under the auspices of national security.The VA appealed that decision, along with a second order enforcing the…

By far the most common resistance exercise known to man for working the abs is the rope crunch. It’s also the ab exercise done most incorrectly. This is because there are two ways to crunch the cable (assuming you’re doing them on your knees, as you should). One way is to pull the weight down by bending at the waist. The other is to lock your hips and crunch your sternum toward your pubic bone by rotating your spine and driving your elbows downward. One way works your hip flexor (psoas)—a muscle you can’t see. The other works your rectus…

Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about Colby Covington after his abrupt retirement. Former UFC welterweight title challenger Colby Covington informed the promotion of his decision to retire following a long hiatus from competition. After Covington was excluded from a spot on the upcoming White House card, the polarizing star’s future remained uncertain. Covington hasn’t fought in MMA since a TKO loss to Joaquin Buckley in December 2024. If his MMA retirement remains steadfast, Covington’s final win came against former teammate and friend Jorge Masvidal at UFC 272. During his controversial…

The U.S. Navy’s oldest active aircraft carrier just surpassed the retired USS Enterprise to claim the title for the longest-serving carrier in the service’s history.The 51-year-old USS Nimitz was commissioned on May 3, 1975, while the USS Enterprise, or “Big E,” was commissioned on November 26, 1961, and inactivated on December 1, 2012.The new record holder was set to be decommissioned this year, but the Navy announced in March that it was extending its service life to March 2027.The carrier left Naval Base Kitsap, Washington, on March 7, 2026, as part of a final scheduled homeport shift to Naval Station…

On May 22, the Heavy Vehicles Factory in Avadi, a city outside Chennai in southern India, rolled out the 1,000th T-90 Bhishma main battle tank built on Indian soil, completing a production run that began with Russian blueprints and foreign components two decades ago and ends with a tank that is roughly 80 percent Indian […]

Issued by Defence Media 24 May 2026 The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has joined a multinational effort to detect and deter illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) across the South-West Pacific this month. Under Operation SOLANIA, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) C-27J Spartan and supporting personnel deployed to the Cook Islands and Tonga, working alongside the Royal New Zealand Air Force, to support the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency’s (FFA) Operation TUI MOANA. Operation TUI MOANA is one of four annual Pacific‑led maritime surveillance operations coordinated by the FFA and supported by the ADF and Pacific Maritime Security Program…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org Space Force has awarded a $90 million contract to Rocket Lab for satellites to host payloads that tracks objects in geosynchronous orbit. The award, announced by Rocket Lab and the Pentagon on May 21, will expand the Space Force’s space domain awareness capabilities in a critical orbit. The satellites will carry a small optical sensor called Heimdall—the Space Force first awarded a contract to GEOST to develop a low-cost “hosted” payload…

There are fighter jets… and then there are aircraft that become mythology with wings.The Sukhoi Su-27 belongs squarely in the second category.Even people who couldn’t identify a MiG from a mailbox have probably seen footage of a giant twin-engine jet pulling impossible maneuvers at air shows, nose pointed skyward, seemingly hanging in midair like gravity forgot to clock in.That airplane was usually the Su-27 Flanker. And when Western pilots first saw it perform in the late Cold War years, the reaction wasn’t casual curiosity. It was concern. Real concern.Because the Soviet Union hadn’t just built another interceptor. It had built…