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Given a rare chance to press top Pentagon leaders, senators from both parties on Tuesday pleaded with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to outline a strategy for the U.S. war on Iran or simply to defend his previous statements about it.  Hegseth responded at times combatively or evasively.The meeting highlighted growing frustration over the costly war and the Trump administration’s multiple and shifting rationales for it—all of which appear to be reducing lawmakers’ appetite for the White House’s unprecedented $1.5 trillion defense-spending request.  Lawmakers are not the only ones frustrated with Operation Epic Fury. Last week, 68 percent of the public said…

Polarizing boxing star Jake Paul claims multiple National Football League teams have reached out to potentially sign him as a wide receiver. Jake Paul’s boxing future remains uncertain as he continues to recover from a jaw injury suffered against former heavyweight champ Anthony Joshua last year. For the first time in his career, Paul was stopped in the ring as Joshua dropped him multiple times en route to a TKO win. Despite teasing multiple announcements about his return in 2026, nothing has come to fruition for Paul. He’s also hinted at potentially fighting former UFC superstar Nate Diaz in Mixed…

FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — As the battlefield continually shifts toward unmanned aircraft systems, Fort Indiantown Gap is expanding its UAS and counter-UAS training opportunities. Several ranges at the installation have been altered in recent months to allow for UAS and counter-UAS training so service members are prepared when they are deployed to hostile environments, said Kurt Spieles, the Gap’s range program coordinator. “Small, unmanned aircraft systems have become a defining and complex component of the modern battlefield,” Spieles said. “Soldiers and units training at Fort Indiantown Gap need realistic, hands-on experience operating UAS for their own missions and, just…

Event: GFN 1: Israel vs. The World: “Lineker vs. Gordon”Date: Mon., July 27, 2026Location: Menora Mivtachim Arena in Tel Aviv, IsraelBroadcast: MILLIONS.coStart Time: 11 a.m. ETJohn Lineker vs. Ahavat Gordon – Muay Thai BoutRuach Gordon vs. Maximus Bejenuta – Muay Thai BoutKibedy Gordon vs. Jose Alberto Quiñonez – Muay Thai BoutNatan Levy vs. Lando Vannata – kickboxing boutIlay Barzilay vs. Lucas Almeida – MMA boutNili Block vs. Isabele Celestrino – Muay Thai BoutItay Gershon vs. Danut Mihail – kickboxing boutMax Branis vs. Alexandr Scrob – Muay Thai BoutGuy Hagag vs. Natas Stupak – kickboxing boutZohar Hayut vs. Radek Štádler -…

Naval Support Activity Monterey, California, is now home to the Pentagon’s most powerful supercomputer. The base, which houses the Naval Postgraduate School, the Naval Research Lab and Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, received a DGX GB300 computer — billed as the highest-performing AI processing system available for enterprises — under a cooperative research and development agreement between NPS and AI giant NVIDIA that began in December 2024. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to launch the new system took place Wednesday afternoon with NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and the commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Samuel Paparo in attendance.Installed at…

Martin “The Martian” Fitzwater is looking to make a better showing of himself after a disappointing fifth-place finish at the 2025 Mr. Olympia final. And, with an early qualification to the 2026 event in Las Vegas, Fitzwater is building momentum by leaning into novel moves such as the cable Nordic curl. While this exercise requires some setting up, the big man says that it has become his favorite hamstring go-to. So here’s how to try it for yourself. “Cable Nordic Curls? Romanian Chair Hamstring Curls? I don’t know what you call it, but this is a new favorite of Brett…

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replaced his top general Tuesday, naming Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces and pushing out Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi after days of nationwide protests demanding Syrskyi’s removal over the rift that cost Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov his job a week earlier.Drapatyi, 43, is widely seen as a reform-minded, soldier-first commander whose habit of owning failures in public made him the counterweight to Syrskyi’s centralized, old world style.Protesters have chanted his name nightly along with the names of a handful of other popular commanders for the past week as anger over Fedorov’s…

Ahead of this year’s midterm elections, congressional leaders are taking earlier-than-usual steps to avoid a government shutdown this fall. Federal employees faced the longest government shutdown in history last year, followed by the longest partial shutdown, which impacted the Homeland Security Department. Both shutdowns led to federal workers missing paychecks. The House passed a continuing resolution on Tuesday that would keep the federal government funded through Dec. 4. The bill passed roughly along party lines in a vote of 220-205, with Republicans overwhelmingly voting in favor of the bill. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Tuesday that Republicans are looking to…

News July 22, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Condor XR2S 6U VPX Series via EIZO ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions introduced a series of 6U OpenVPX general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) cards for artificial intelligence, sensor processing, radar control, signal processing and video analytics, the company announced in a statement. The Condor XR2S series includes the XR2S-B5000, which uses two NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell Embedded graphics processing units (GPUs), and the XR2S-B4000, which incorporates two RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell Embedded GPUs, the statement reads. Each card combines the two GPUs with dual Microchip Switchtec PFX Peripheral…

As Brussels is preparing for its traditional summer ‘slowdown’, Europe finds itself with little opportunity for pause. The handover of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Cyprus to Ireland on 1 July signals the end of one institutional chapter, but certainly not of the multiple crises that continue to define European policymaking. If anything, the first half of the year showed that security is no longer one priority among many; it has increasingly become the organising principle through which almost every major European policy is now viewed. As Brussels empties, Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine continues,…