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This is the UFC 327 live blog for Dominick Reyes vs. Johnny Walker, the main card light heavyweight bout Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami.Reyes is No. 9 at 205 pounds in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings, while Walker sits at the edge of the charts at No. 15.It was a disappointing end to 2025 for Reyes (15-5), who had a resurgent three-fight win streak following four consecutive losses that threatened to send his UFC career off the rails. Knockout wins over Nikita Krylov, Anthony Smith, and Dustin Jacoby put Reyes on the cusp of another title shot, but he…

The Octagon returns to Miami for tonight’s UFC 327 event, a 12-bout fight card headliner by Jiri Prochazka vs. Carlos Ulberg. Prochazka (32-5-1 MMA) will be looking to once again be crowned the UFC light heavyweight champion when he collides with Ulberg for the promotion’s vacant 205lbs title this evening in Florida. The Czech standout has won two fights in a row, scoring stoppage wins over Jamahal Hill and Khalil Rountree Jr. in his most recent Octagon appearances. Meanwhile, Carlos Ulberg (13-1 MMA) will enter his first career title fight on a nine-fight winning streak, his most recent victory being…

The Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Wing accepted four additional KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling aircraft at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, expanding the unit’s fleet and sharpening America’s refueling capability in the Arctic region. The four additional aircraft bring the 168th Wing’s total KC-135 inventory to twelve tankers. The unit had previously operated eight Stratotankers, […]

Officials with the nation’s largest federal employee union on Friday raised concerns that a 2024 law enabling the General Services Administration to offload federal property based on low occupancy rates could mistakenly target busy Social Security Administration field offices for closure.In recent months, SSA has implemented a “badge in/badge out” system for measuring how many employees work at the agency’s various offices around the country. That’s part of the federal government’s broader effort to implement the provisions of the 2024 Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies Act—USE IT, for short.The USE IT Act requires federal agencies track the occupancy rates…

People’s Daily Online (Xinhua) 09:30, April 11, 2026 WASHINGTON, April 10 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday U.S. negotiators will discuss the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz with the Iranians in Pakistan on Saturday, asserting the crucial global energy waterway will reopen soon and “automatically,” with or without Iran’s cooperation. “That will open up automatically,” Trump told reporters. He later said he believed the waterway would be open “fairly soon.” “I think it’s going to go pretty quickly. And if it doesn’t, we’ll be able to finish it off one way or the other,” Trump said of…

KWU SENSHI Brazil will hold the fourth edition of the São Paulo Championship on May 24, one of the important events on the organization’s regional calendar in the country. The competition will take place in the city of Mogi das Cruzes, in the state of São Paulo, bringing together athletes and teams for another opportunity to promote competitive development and strengthen the martial arts community. The event will be hosted at Clube Náutico Mogiano, located at Rua Cabo Diogo Oliver, 758 – Vila Mogilar, Mogi das Cruzes/SP, a venue that will welcome participants for another edition of the state championship. Registration is open until April 24 and may be…

Chris Padilla put on a spectacular performance at UFC 327, defeating MarQel Mederos Despite coming into the bout on short notice, Padilla put on an exhaustive pace, staying busy with a slew of inside kicks and jabs. The constant pressure continued in the second round for Padilla, though it was a much closer affair than the first. Still, Padilla put Mederos in a position where he’d likely need a finish to walk away with a victory. Padilla had no interest in letting that happen, securing a takedown with just over three minutes to go in the final round. It didn’t…

Introduction There is a specific kind of magic in the hum of an old PC fan and the glow of a monitor late at night. For many of us, our first experience with leadership and high-stakes decision-making didn’t occur in a classroom, but rather within the pixelated battlefields of the late 1990s and early 2000s. The best part? These 15 great old games don’t require a modern powerhouse to run. Whether you’re using a budget-friendly laptop or a vintage desktop, these strategy icons are perfectly optimized for low-end hardware. 15 – Black & White 2 (2005) A literal god simulator.…

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on 11 April that USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) had begun setting conditions for a mine clearance mission in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. CENTCOM press release U.S. CENTCOM forces began setting conditions for clearing mines in the Strait of Hormuz on April 11, as two U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers conducted operations.  USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) transited the Strait of Hormuz and operated in the Arabian Gulf as part of a broader mission to ensure the strait is fully clear…

PARIS — France is in talks with manufacturers about an intermediary solution to replace the country’s aging Leclerc main battle tank, as a project with Germany to develop a next-generation tank is delayed, Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin told lawmakers on Wednesday.The French-German project for the future Main Combat Ground System, which was supposed to produce the Leclerc’s successor, is about a decade behind schedule, Vautrin told lawmakers in a hearing on Wednesday. The minister presented government plans to spend an additional €36 billion ($42 billion) on defense in the 2026-2030 period.The delay for the MGCS project is due to…