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Will Jardell has always had to look the part of “fit” in order to get his next job and had no trouble doing so. The model and reality star, 35, recalls that many years ago, while appearing on America’s Next Top Model, he was in great shape and felt fantastic. Fast forward to Thanksgiving in 2021, when Jardell went to bed and woke up the next morning with immense back pain and suddenly couldn’t move, his entire world came crashing down. “I woke up and couldn’t walk, and my back was just insanely stuck, which really caused me to not…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: General Motors is investing $275 million into its Spring Hill Manufacturing Plant in Tennessee to support the automaker’s engine program for full-size and midsize trucks and for the launch of a future Cadillac model, the automaker announced in a June 24 press release. Roughly $150 million of the amount will support the future Cadillac model, which will bring the number of vehicles produced at the plant to five. The remaining $125M investment will be used to refurbish equipment, extend the…

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced a new cloud offering designed to run contractor-owned classified workloads, a first for the defense industrial base and select research institutions that historically have had to build and maintain costly on-premesis infrastructure to support classified programs.The AWS Secret Cloud for Industry, or ASCI, is designed to reduce the provision time for classified environments up to the Secret classification level from months to days, according to Dave Levy, vice president of AWS Public Sector. The cloud is designed for cleared U.S. defense contractors, research institutions, and other organizations in the National Industrial Security Program.”America’s defense…

One of the most significant missions in Fort McCoy’s modern history is now permanently preserved for visitors with the addition of a new Operation Allies Welcome exhibit at the Fort McCoy History Center.Installed by the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office on May 15, 2026, the exhibit debuted in time for the installation’s Armed Forces Day Open House on May 16 and has since been viewed by hundreds of visitors. The display features artifacts collected during the operation, including soccer balls, clothing, newspapers, humanitarian supplies, medical items, bilingual signs, and other memorabilia that help tell the story of the humanitarian mission…

Global Times By Global Times Published: Jun 30, 2026 09:51 AM On Tuesday, naval and air units of the PLA Southern Theater Command (STC) conducted readiness patrols in the territorial sea and airspace of China’s Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas, according to a release from the STC. Huangyan Dao is an inherent part of China’s territory. Since June, forces of the STC have enhanced readiness patrols in the territorial sea and airspace of Huangyan Dao and its surrounding areas. Such patrols serve as an effective countermeasure to cope with all sorts of rights-violation and provocative acts. They are meant…

It is believed that Taiwan will purchase ATR 42 airframes to fulfil an administrative transport role in the ROCAF. (ATR)Taiwan’s air force is allegedly planning the purchase of at least eight ATR 42-600 twin-engine turboprop aircraft to replace its three aging Fokker 50 and eleven Beechcraft 1900C aircraft.Both aircraft types currently comprise the special transport aircraft fleet of the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF), and they are used primarily for administrative transport duties.Two Beechcraft 1900Cs have been modified for testing and calibrating navigation aids, while another is assigned to the Flight Training Command for multi-engine training of prospective transport…

The U.S. Navy’s decommissioned Austin-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Juneau (LPD-10) was sent to the ocean floor during the ongoing Valiant Shield exercise taking place from June 22 to July 1.Sunk more than 200 nautical miles off the coast in the Mariana Islands Range Complex, the death knell to the Juneau came from a torpedo strike from a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine.“This SINKEX provided an outstanding opportunity for our joint team to integrate capabilities across domains, honing the lethal precision and coordination essential for high-end maritime operations in the Pacific theater,” said Rear Adm. Eric Anduze, commander of…

Amazon Web Services and Anduril are combining the tech giant’s on-site cloud computers and the defense contractor’s mobile data center to bring edge computing to the frontlines. Both have already been used during the Iran war.Anduril’s containerized command and data center, Menace-I, can now be outfitted with Amazon Web Services’s Outpost, the two companies announced Tuesday. With two people, the mobile data center “can stand up in under 10 minutes and moves by truck, rail, airlift, or helicopter sling load,” the company said in a press release.“Whether it’s an intelligence analyst in the field or whether it’s a flightline operator,…

CAMP GUERNSEY JOINT TRAINING CENTER, Wyo. — Airmen from the 90th Missile Wing joined personnel from Air Force Global Strike Command, Air Combat Command, U.S. Strategic Command and the Air National Guard for a counter-small unmanned aircraft systems firing qualification conducted in partnership with Joint Interagency Task Force 401, May 14-15. As the battlefield continues to evolve, tactics, techniques and procedures must adapt alongside emerging threats. One of the most rapidly developing areas is the C-sUAS environment, where technology, training and operational requirements are evolving quickly. In August 2025, the Department of War established JIATF-401 as the department’s lead organization…

Daniel Cormier missed out on a massive payday because Jon Jones wasn’t interested. Or at least, that’s what Cormier says.Cormier and Jones have one of the most heated rivalries in UFC history. Though Jones won both of their fights (the second was later overturned to a no-contest after Jones tested positive for a banned substance), the rivalry was one of the defining matchups of the UFC in the 2010s, so much so that even a decade later, both men are still cashing in on it.“The thing with Jon Jones: it wouldn’t be RAF, because they can’t afford to pay it,”…