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Max Holloway has earned a sharp and cheeky response from Islam Makhachev for calling the Russian out for ‘having two belts’ while just defending one. UFC 330 recently concluded, and Makhachev successfully defended his welterweight title against Ian Machado Garry. The 34-year-old won by unanimous decision in a fight that entertained only in parts. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – AUGUST 15: Ian Machado Garry of Ireland punches Islam Makhachev of Russia in a welterweight title bout during UFC 330 at Xfinity Mobile Arena on August 15, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) Following his win, in the post-fight interview,…

Three hotlines offering Americans mental health crisis support saw the quality of their services remain consistent and their communications increase, even as the federal agencies managing them saw a slight decline in staff, according to a Government Accountability Office report published on Aug. 6.The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, Veterans Crisis Line and National Maternal Mental Health Hotline generally saw calls, texts and chats increase in fiscal 2025 compared to fiscal 2024, the watchdog found. Performance metrics remained largely consistent across the three hotlines amid the spike in communications, according to the report.The 988 Lifeline saw answer rates — the percentage…

Abstract Ukraine’s experience following the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion reveals that military innovation extends far beyond weapons and tactics into distributed behavioral, organizational, and institutional adaptations that sustain combat power, yet remain invisible to formal defense institutions. Existing systems fail to detect these edge practices because informal, tacit solutions fall outside current reporting frameworks. Closing this gap requires reorienting existing mechanisms toward discovery of non-technical adaptations emerging at the operational periphery. Introduction Ukraine’s drone war has its own folklore: a fix improvised in one brigade — a jammer setting, a new way to rig a first-person-view drone — spreads to…

Welterweights Sean Brady and Gabriel Bonfim are set to clash in a five-round main event headed for the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on Nov. 7.The fight was announced during the UFC 330 broadcast on Saturday.A constant presence in the welterweight top 10, Brady has anxiously been awaiting his next assignment after he pulled off an impressive and lopsided win over Joaquin Buckley in his last outing in May. Overall, Brady boasts a 19-2 record including wins over Leon Edwards, Gilbert Burns and Kelvin Gastelum.As for Bonfim, the 28-year-old Brazilian is seeking his sixth win in a row overall while…

For Dermot Kennedy, creating music and performing it are two very different experiences. The Irish singer-songwriter has built a career around emotionally charged songs and powerful live performances, but behind the music is an increasingly deliberate approach to fitness, recovery, and maintaining his physical health. With his third studio album, The Weight of the Woods, now released and a world tour underway, Kennedy is balancing the demands of life on the road with a training routine that helps him perform at his best. Much of that preparation comes back to running. Kennedy recently partnered with Brooks Running for the DK5K…

The Catalina SPAR’s Kestrel could have a maritime patrol and SAR role. (Catalina Aircraft Company)Building on the legacy of the iconic long-range WW2 Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat, the Florida-based startup Catalina Aircraft Company is developing a state-of-the-art amphibious aircraft designed for transport, maritime patrol, search and rescue and firefighting operations. Worldwide, governments and emergency-response organisations face increasingly complex access challenges. Coastal communities, island nations, remote regions, disaster-affected areas, and maritime operating zones require aviation platforms that can move people, supplies, equipment, and mission systems without depending on traditional airfield infrastructure.Catalina Aircraft Company has announced that it has adopted the Modular…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: With blanked sailings outpacing capacity growth, ocean shippers could be facing a market with less space to book their cargo, according to Sea-Intelligence’s Blank Sailings tracker from July 24. Despite injecting new capacity into the market, ocean carriers have increased blank sailings by up to 4.5 times higher to execute tighter supply control during the first half of 2026 compared to the same period in 2019, per Sea-Intelligence. The research, data and advisory firm found that although scheduled capacity grew by 46%,…

Five years ago, the Chinese housing market crashed, leaving thousands of apartment buildings unfinished across the country. A generation of Chinese citizens who had bet all their savings on indefinite expansion suddenly found themselves homeless. Over time, however, some intrepid people moved into the ruins of these edifices, setting up tents on the concrete floors, using bed sheets as walls, cooking on makeshift stoves. The Chinese call these abandoned structures lanwei lou, a phrase that literally means “rotten-tail buildings,” signifying a project gone awry, a plan in suspension. The inhabitants of rotten-tail buildings repurpose the old and improvise to find…

Army officials plan to resume Apache training flights in days, after the fleet was grounded following a crash that left two soldiers dead in Texas, according to an internal memo reviewed by Defense One.The two soldiers, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Deontre T. Huey and Warrant Officer Seth L. Olmstead, died during a maintenance test flight out of Fort Hood on Aug. 12. On Friday, Army officials announced a stand down of AH64 Apache training flight operations and said in a news release it “will remain in effect until we have a better understanding of the root cause of the accident.” However,…

A rifle introduced in the 1970s still looks like it came from a science-fiction movie. That is part of what makes the Steyr AUG so distinctive. Its green polymer body, bullpup layout and integrated optic looked radically different when most military rifles followed far more conventional designs.But the AUG was more than an unusual-looking rifle.Austria adopted it as the StG 77 in 1977, replacing the 7.62×51mm StG 58 and moving to the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge. Steyr combined the new caliber with a compact bullpup configuration, polymer construction, integrated optics and an interchangeable barrel system. More than four decades later, the Steyr…