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A former UFC welterweight champion has shown interest in facing top contender Carlos Prates. Prates is currently riding a three-fight knockout streak and has knocked out former UFC champions Leon Edwards and Jack Della Maddalena in back-to-back fights. Prates is highly expected to challenge 170-pound titleholder Islam Makhachev next, potentially later this year, or before Feb 2027. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – AUGUST 16: Carlos Prates of Brazil reacts after his victory against Geoff Neal during the UFC 319 event at the United Center on August 16, 2025, in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC) Meanwhile, a former champion on a…

Dawn Armstrong is the founder of ThinkSafe Seminars in Tucson, Arizona, where she teaches civilian situational awareness, conflict management, travel safety, workplace violence prevention, and basic physical defense. She holds a 4th-degree black belt in Kenpo and is certified as a Situational Awareness Specialist, with additional training through Gavin de Becker and Associates and Vistelar. She works with corporations, organizations, and the public, and also works with 500 Rising, which is why her material sits next to what martial artists already teach on prevention and women’s self-defense. The second part of our talk with Q&A from my Patrons is here…

The Defense Logistics Agency is piloting AI agents that work autonomously—bots that its CIO calls “digital employees.”“This is a new frontier for everyone,” DLA chief information officer Adarryl Roberts told reporters at DLA’s Industry Collider Day on Sept. 9 in Alexandria, Va.The move builds on DLA’s increasing use of robotic process automation, or RPA, and the generative AI tools available to its 25,000 or so military and civilian personnel. In 2025, bots saved DLA an estimated 300,000 hours of work—some working around the clock to help the combat support agency get everything from food and fuel to medical supplies and clothing where…

Many former military members will use old fitness test standards as a model to maintain after service. After having coached many “average Joes,” I have a few exercises and events I like to help people build up to and maintain. Many of these standards come from similar military exercises and events that this gentleman asked about this week: Do you have something akin to PST standards for average Joes? Like how many pushups should someone in their 40s be able to do, how far/fast should they run a mile, etc? Thanks! Joe Joe, great question. However, I will say that…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is slated to launch a voucher program to reduce the cost of zero-emission drayage and yard trucks. The port is allocating up to $39 million of Environmental Protection Agency grant money for the point-of-sale discounts with OEMs and dealers. A fact sheet lists the Class 8 drayage truck voucher amount as $230,000 and off-road terminal truck discount as $150,000. The effort is slated to start this fall with OEMs picked on a rolling…

Story September 10, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Bryan Giraldo A military mechanically steered radar must physically reposition its antenna to scan different sectors, which limits how quickly it can shift attention between threats arriving from multiple directions. Today’s electronically scanned arrays and networked sensors are designed to overcome that constraint, enabling defense systems to track and respond to multiple threats across a much wider field of view simultaneously. A single radar can no longer see today’s saturation attack coming by itself. During a saturation attack, the attacking side tries…

For years, the United States’ political dysfunction has been attributed to large-scale social and economic changes. Experts point to the failures of globalization, rising inequality, reduced social mobility, or the long aftermath of the “China shock” more than two decades ago to explain today’s extreme polarization, collapsing trust in institutions, democratic erosion, immigration backlash, and struggling middle class. Yet there is another widely overlooked factor that is equally central to understanding the United States’ current predicament: the war on terror.Typically, when policymakers and analysts speak of the global war on terror—the defining fact of international affairs for two decades—they discuss…

The first Boeing CH-47F Chinook for the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) was handed over at El Alamein Air Show on September 8. The helicopter delivered in May, has since been followed by a second in June, while four more are currently at the Alexandria port being assembled. They are all part of a 12 aircraft order believed to be worth around $426 million The EAF took delivery of 18 CH-47D Chinooks in 1981, and these according to Boeing will continue in service for the foreseeable future. It is possible that another order could follow that would allow all the CH-47Ds…

At El Alamein International Airshow 2026, HAVELSAN and Egypt’s Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) signed a sales agreement for the HAMZA-1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, developed under the two organisations’ cooperation in autonomous systems. HAVELSAN and the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) have taken a further step in their cooperation in unmanned systems with the sales agreement signed at El Alamein International Airshow 2026. The HAMZA-1 programme brings together HAVELSAN’s engineering and technological expertise in autonomous systems with AOI’s local manufacturing capabilities in Egypt. The new agreement follows the strategic cooperation agreement signed by HAVELSAN and AOI on 26 August 2025,…

In-Depth Research & Reports September 11, 2026 • 1:27 pm ET Print this page By Britt Gronemeyer and Celeste Kmiotek Many in the international community have long recognized the importance of asset recovery in corruption-related offenses, yet too often repatriation structures have failed to effectively return funds to victims most harmed by those offenses.   Last month, the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Litigation Project (SLP) sought to address some of these gaps, providing recommendations to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the return of ill-gotten funds and the use of those funds for the sustainable development, and the realization of economic, social, and cultural rights. Incorporating lessons learned from past repatriations of illicit…