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Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. U.S. Postal Service customers serviced by agency facilities in Indianapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, may experience shipping delays over the next few weeks, according to agency notices published this week. The risk of delays is due to the Postal Service’s installation of new package sorting equipment, which will help the agency better handle the expected volume surge during the peak holiday shipping season, per the notices. At the Indianapolis regional processing and distribution center, the Postal Service is installing machines that can handle…

This week in Las Vegas, the Olympia is doing something it hasn’t done before. It’s crowning a Fit Model Olympia champion. And before the old-school bodybuilding crowd starts throwing chicken breasts at the computer, hear me out. The Olympia has been evolving since Larry Scott won the first one in 1965. It started with men’s bodybuilding. Today we’ve got Open, 212, Classic, Men’s Physique, Bikini, Figure, Wellness, Fitness, Women’s Physique, Women’s Bodybuilding, Wheelchair and now Fit Model. That’s 12 divisions. Apparently we finally found every possible way to stand onstage in your skimpies. Fit Model is interesting because the IFBB…

Elves Brener aims to knock out Josiah Harrell in their UFC Vegas 121 showdown Saturday especially after watching “The Muscle Hamster” get stopped back in February.Harrell suffered his first defeat in MMA via a first-round knockout by the hands of Jacobe Smith in a welterweight clash, and Brener expects a wild back and forth brawl in the octagon at Meta APEX.“We’re going to go out there and throw down, brother,” Brener told MMA Fighting. “That’s what I like to do, throw down, scramble if he wants to. Whatever he wants to do, I have twice as much.“Either I’m going to…

The U.S. Navy announced Thursday a new development center that will train sailors to use autonomous technology in preparation for robotic systems to deploy across the entire fleet.The service established the Robot and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Virginia, ushering in a new era that will teach service members to be technically proficient while developing and fielding new combat-ready robotic systems.“A prototype is not combat power,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle said in a C-NOte message. “Combat power comes when a trained sailor can employ a reliable system, supported by the right…

Fifty U.S. troops assisted Ecuadorian officials in arresting more than 30 members of a Mexican drug cartel. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. troops participated in an early-morning operation on Thursday to arrest members of a branch of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Ecuadoran Interior Minister John Reimberg wrote on X. Around 70% of the world’s cocaine passes through Ecuadorian ports, according to the Congressional Research Service. This trade is worth an estimated $30 billion a year, according to Ecaudorian President Daniel Noboa. Around 320 Ecuadoran police officers and 50 personnel from U.S. Southern Command took part in the…

Today Dr. Nathan Clough shows off a new prototype halberd based on a 16th century original, and compares it to the knightly poleaxes of the late medieval period. These two weapons are often confused in our current pop culture through video games and other media, but they are quite distinct in form and use. The fight book pictures shown in the video are from the 15th century Peter Faulkner fight book, and the Joachim Meyer mid 16th century fight book, both of which are available to view through the amazing resource of Wiketenauer. We encourage you to check them out…

Military families do not need another forum that acknowledges their struggles without confronting the policies responsible for them.Watching the Military Spouse Commission’s inaugural meeting on Monday, I wanted to see meaningful accountability. As a military spouse, mother of an autistic child and founder of the Military Family Advocacy Group, I have every reason to want this commission to succeed.But I came away disappointed.The meeting raised legitimate concerns about housing, spouse employment and income, childcare, continuity of medical and mental healthcare and veteran healthcare. Each deserves attention. However, what I did not hear was substantive discussion of the specific TRICARE barriers…

Key PointsLatvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs said Latvia expects to complete the purchase of Anduril’s Barracuda long-range cruise missiles after visiting the company.He also witnessed the signing of cooperation memoranda involving Latvia’s Ministry of Defense and Latvian drone maker Origin Robotics.Latvia is working to buy Anduril’s Barracuda long-range cruise missiles, President Edgars Rinkēvičs said after visiting the American defense company and meeting its founder, Palmer Luckey. Rinkēvičs wrote that he looked forward to completing the acquisition of the missiles and to further defense industry cooperation. During the visit he also witnessed the signing of memoranda of cooperation involving Latvia’s Ministry of…

PARIS — French defense-technology firm Thales is “quite advanced” in discussions with a number of NATO countries about using its artificial intelligence-powered command-and-control system HexaForce, said the company’s vice president for multi-domain operations, Patrick Moreau.Thales announced the availability of HexaForce last week, after testing it during NATO’s Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise, or CWIX, in Poland in June. The company is positioning the system as a multi-domain C2 “overlay” that can plug into legacy and national systems from the strategic to the tactical level, while allowing users to choose their own AI models and avoid vendor lock-in.NATO is increasingly turning to…

Pyongyang has a long history of conducting irregular warfare and asymmetric operations: Look no further than the 1968 Blue House raid or the 1996 submarine incursion as the most pressing examples. More often than not, North Korea failed to achieve the intended objectives of its missions and lost its commandos. Despite failures, the regime pressed on, and now, over thirty years after the sub incursion, it has the combat experience of its special operations forces in Kursk to leverage. For policymakers and analysts, the more urgent question is that of transferability and operationalization of the Kursk lessons to the Korean…