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Update: This story has been updated with full results for all 20 days of the group stage as well as both days of the Playoffs. The Japanese Street Fighter League is kicking off again this year and will be going on for roughly three months until the end of November for the group stage of the competition. Players participating are FAV|Sako, FAV|Fujimura, FAV|Moke, FAV|Ryukichi, VARREL|Mago, VARREL|Mizuha, VARREL|YHC-Mochi, VARREL|Ts, CR|Dogura, CR|Shuto, CR|Kazunoko, RB|Bonchan, Zeta|Momochi, Zeta|Kakeru, Zeta|Higuchi, Zeta|Hikaru, RB|Gachikun,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September while carving out a temporary extension for Homeland Security funding, giving Congress two weeks to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country. With a weekend shutdown looming, President Donald Trump struck the spending deal with Senate Democrats on Thursday in the wake of the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. Democrats said they would not vote for the larger spending bill unless Congress considers legislation to unmask agents, require more warrants and allow…

Contracts ARMY Raytheon, Andover Massachusetts, was awarded a $1,025,100,000 modification (P00013) to contract W31P4Q-24-C-0024 for Year Two requirements for Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor production. The modification brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $1,025,100,000. Work will be performed in Andover, Massachusetts, with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2030. Fiscal 2026 other procurement, Army funds in the amount of $254,571,432 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity. Faxon Machining LLC,* Cincinnati, Ohio, was awarded a firm-fixed-price contract for Bomb Live Unit 136/B…

JANESVILLE, WI — In the latest effort to modernize the Defense Industrial Base (DIB), the Army has partnered with AMTEC Corporation to open a new 40mm grenade production line and test range at AMTEC’s Janesville, WI facility. This is another milestone in the Army’s ongoing campaign of industrial expansion and modernization of munitions production for the Joint force. The ribbon cutting ceremony was held on January 22 with Maj. Gen. John T. Reim, Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Agile Sustainment and Ammunition and Commanding General of Picatinny Arsenal, Mr. Mark Nielsen, Veterans and Military Affairs Constituent Services Representative for Wisconsin Senator…

WASHINGTON — SpaceX today unveiled an online tool, called Stargaze, for tracking space objects and warning of potential on-orbit collisions — with a promise to provide the system’s space situational awareness (SSA) data free of charge to other satellite operators. SpaceX recently faced a collision scare in December when a Chinese satellite nearby one of its Starlink communication birds made an unannounced maneuver. That and other near misses over the past year has prompted the company to lower some 4,400 Starlinks to about 480 kilometers where there is less congestion, in part because dead satellites and other debris falls out…

Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China Source： China Military Online Editor：Chen Zhuo Time：2026-01-29 21:18:00 BEIJING, Jan. 29 — “Facts have proven that any attempt to contain or block China is doomed to fail,” said Senior Colonel Jiang Bin, spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense, at a press conference on Thursday. Jiang made the remarks when asked to comment on the media reports that according to the 2026 National Defense Strategy released by the US Department of War, the US will deter China in the Asia-Pacific through strength, not confrontation, and seek a wider range of…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent threat to decertify and impose steep levies Canadian-made commercial jets is designed to pressure Ottawa, but it’s unclear if the fallout could also extend to planes used by the US military. “Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally, and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes ever made, we are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada, until such time as Gulfstream, a Great American Company, is fully certified, as it should have been…

Belgium’s delivery of 30 legacy F-16 fighters to Ukraine have been delayed to time with the Air Force’s acquisition of F-35s. Credit: Belgian Ministry of Defence. The US has contracted Sabena Aerospace Engineering to conduct maintenance for legacy F-16s earmarked for Ukraine Work will take place at the contractor’s facility in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium The aircraft originate from European fleets (among Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway) The US Department of Defence (DoD) contracted a Belgian engineering company, Sabena Aerospace, to conduct engine maintenance and material management for Europe’s legacy F-16s due to enter service in the Ukrainian Air Force. Sabena…

This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system across the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East during the 12th century (that is, the 1100s) BC. In the broader Mediterranean world, the Late Bronze Age Collapse is the event that probably comes closest to a true ‘end of civilization’ event – meaningfully more severe than the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West (although as we’ll see LBAC is also not as ‘total’ of a collapse as was sometimes supposed).…

Dan Hooker walks into UFC 325 with a home-field advantage, and he’s loving every minute of it. Emanating from Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Saturday’s highly anticipated return to The Land Down Under will be co-headlined by a lightweight clash between Hooker and streaking knockout artist Benoit Saint-Denis. While he hails from Auckland, New Zealand, the ‘Hangman’ sees fighting in Sydney as a hometown fight without all of the hometown pressure. “Yeah, I’m looking that this is a hometown fight without the hometown pressure,” Hooker told MMA Junkie. “It’s the support here is absolutely incredible. When Australia and New Zealand…