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Updated Aug 26, 2026, 6:58 PM EDT By following these guidelines, individuals and organizations show respect for the American flag and the values it represents. The U.S. Flag Code is not legally enforceable, but adherence to it is considered a sign of patriotism and respect. The code formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the U.S. flag, and the code also gives specific instructions on how the flag is not to be used. By following these guidelines, individuals and organizations show respect for the American flag and the values it represents. Questions and Answers About Showing…

Muscle growth depends on hard training, but hard training only works when your body can recover from it. Many lifters understand progressive overload, yet they make the mistake of assuming that more sets, more exercises, and more sessions will always produce more muscle. That approach can work for a while, especially when training volume is sensible. Eventually, though, fatigue can build faster than your ability to adapt. A deload week is a planned short period of easier training. You still train, but you reduce the total stress. This usually means doing fewer sets, using lighter loads, staying further away from…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Advance Auto Parts is rebidding all of its carrier contracts as the retailer looks to optimize transportation productivity, according to an Aug. 20 earnings call The auto parts retailer expects to work with 70% fewer carriers, President and CEO Shane O’Kelly told analysts. “This initiative is expected to generate tens of millions of dollars in cost savings, which will support margin expansion in 2027,” O’Kelly said. Dive Insight: Several shippers have been rethinking logistics contracts to save costs and improve…

Army officials have selected five firms to build nuclear microreactors at U.S. military bases as a bid to create energy independence, though the nation still relies heavily on imported enriched uranium for such projects. The service and the Defense Innovation Unit unveiled the initiative, dubbed “Project Janus,” at last year’s Association of the U.S. Army Conference in Washington, D.C. Now, officials are awarding up to $2.2 billion to the pool of five companies through a milestone-based Other Transaction Authority contract with fixed-price milestones to build out their microreactor technology on Army bases. Those firms and bases, announced on Wednesday, are:  Antares…

Key PointsPAE Munitions, a Department of the Navy organization, issued an RFI for a new standoff torpedo called Silent Anvil that aircraft could launch from farther away.Companies have until September 29, 2026, to respond, with the Navy seeking a working prototype within 18 months of any award.The U.S. Navy is looking for companies that can help it build a new torpedo that aircraft and drones could launch from far away to hit enemy submarines, according to a notice posted publicly this week. The Naval Air Systems Command, working on behalf of the Navy’s Strike Weapons Program Office, is calling the…

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In 2025, Rob Geist Pinfold wrote, “The March Massacres Show That Syria Urgently Needs Solutions, Not Sanctions,” in which he argued that sanctions relief was a major way the West could positively engage with the new Syrian government. A year later, after sanctions relief materialized and the United States removed Syria from its list of terrorism sponsors, we asked him to revisit his arguments and reassess President Ahmed al Sharaa’s leadership, both foreign and domestic. Image: Voice of America via Wikimedia CommonsIn your 2025 article, you argued that one way the West should engage with post-Assad Syria was through sanctions relief.…

Two House lawmakers are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to restore dedicated LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator positions and specialized support networks after the agency changed the structure of the program earlier this summer.Reps. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., said in a letter Wednesday to VA Secretary Doug Collins that recent department directives eliminated dedicated LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator positions, dismantled specialized support networks and restricted tailored healthcare resources for LGBTQ+ veterans. The lawmakers asked VA to bring back dedicated coordinator positions across its health care systems, rescind restrictions on LGBTQ+ support groups and staff training and…

Objectives Medicare Advantage (MA) Star Ratings influence bonus payments and health plan enrollment. Current approaches to accounting for enrollee social risk may not fully capture differences in beneficiary populations. This study assessed how MA contract performance rankings for statin receipt and adherence change under a social risk–weighted scoring approach. Study Design Cross-sectional analysis of 2019 MA encounter, prescription drug, and enrollment data for 165 MA contracts. Methods Contract-level statin receipt and adherence scores were calculated for disability and dual-eligibility subgroups and aggregated using empirically derived weights from a constrained optimization framework that equalized each subgroup’s contribution to overall contract performance.…

The Army is looking for a weapon that is similar to the existing Hellfire and Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, according to the Army’s Sources Sought notice. The deadline is Sept. 15.The missile should be “capable of integrating with joint manned and unmanned air, ground and waterborne platforms using a M299 launcher or equivalent,” the Army said.The specifications for the missile mirror that of the Hellfire, with a minimum range of 1,640 feet (500 meters) and a maximum range of 2,6246 feet (8,000 meters) or greater. Potential targets include “heavy/light armor track vehicles, command and control nodes, air defense artillery radars, Counter-Unmanned…