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Magic Chess: Go Go celebrates its first anniversary with Season 6: Dawnlight Celebration.You can earn the redesigned Layla “Blue Spectre” skin and other rewards for free.The new MRS Crew Clash event offers a US$50,000 prize pool for competing Crews. Magic Chess: Go Go (MCGG) is now celebrating its 1st anniversary with Season 6: Dawnlight Celebration, bringing various rewards, special events, and community-focused activities for players. As a thank-you to all the players who’ve supported the game since launch, the anniversary campaign introduces a redesigned Layla “Blue Spectre” skin, festive chessboards, a new competitive event with a massive prize pool, and…

The Defense Department would be required to report on the total cost of U.S. operations in Iran, including the costs of damaged property, expended munitions and unplanned deployments and mobilizations, under a proposal advanced by the House Armed Services Committee on Friday.The measure, which has bipartisan support, was added as an amendment to the House version of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, a massive defense funding and policy bill. After more than 14 hours of debate, the committee sent the bill to the full House, where it’s expected to go to the floor for a vote in July.…

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are handy for thinking about the past, but also because they make useful rules of thumb for imagining fantastical societies. So essentially here we are asking: how do societies end up with the sort of armies they have? This is going to take a few posts to get through because there are actually…

The UFC is back in the APEX, but this time it’s bringing a former world champion.On Saturday, the UFC returns to its home arena for UFC Vegas 118, headlined by a welterweight matchup between former champion Belal Muhammad and rising contender Gabriel Bonfim. But in the crowded 170-pound title picture, what does a win really mean?Ahead of this weekend’s action, MMA Fighting’s Jed Meshew and Alexander K. Lee preview the main event matchup between Muhammad and Bonfim, and discuss what’s at stake. Additionally, the MMA Fighting team breaks down the co-main event between Brendan Allen and Edmen Shahbazyan, discusses the…

A wrestling match between arch-rivals Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier is reportedly in the works, as per recent media reports and confirmed by Alfredo Auditore, CEO of ALF Global.Jones and Cormier served as opposing coaches on the latest season of ALF Reality. During the filming of the show, both former UFC champions shared several memorable moments. However, they have yet to bury the hatchet, for which Jones has always blamed Cormier. Image: @alfglobal/Instagram Now, Auditore, the CEO of ALF Global, is looking to set up a wrestling match between Jones and Cormier, which would finally give “DC” a chance to…

Agencies have a matter of days to fully implement Schedule Policy/Career, as they face a June 10 deadline to inform impacted federal employees of their reclassifications and update their personnel files. As that deadline approaches, many are searching for information about exactly which, and how many, career civil servants will be reclassified — but many of those details remain unclear. The White House has published an appendix, 229 pages long, listing the agencies, position titles and corresponding position description codes that are being transferred to Schedule Policy/Career. To date, it’s the best information publicly available on the types of roles…

Organizations representing federal workers and good government advocates were quick to decry President Trump’s move this week to formally strip around 8,000 federal workers of their civil service protections, making them at-will employees, though the exact contours of the initiative’s scope remain unclear.Wednesday’s executive order implements Schedule Policy/Career, a new job category within the excepted service — formerly known as Schedule F — designed for career employees in “policy-related” positions who lack the removal protections in Title 5 of the U.S. Code and of the right to appeal adverse personnel actions. Under Office of Personnel Management regulations that took effect in March,…

It’s important to recognize that ballistic helmets, especially those marketed as “rifle-rated” are not created equal. Rifle-rated helmets are the newest generation of ballistic combat helmets. Traditional combat helmets are designed to protect against fragmentation and handgun threats – commonly referred to as Level IIIA-type or HG2-type handgun threats. This means a helmet with a IIIA rating is designed to stop pistol rounds up to and including a .44 mag, 9mm, or 357 Sig. As the threat environment has evolved, the proliferation of intermediate-calibre rifles (7.62×39 mm AK‑pattern rifles, 5.45×39 mm and 5.56×45 mm weapons, mild-steel-core and other common rifle…

Report June 5, 2026 • 4:30 pm ET Print this page By Phillip Cornell Disruption to traffic from the Gulf is one of the most studied energy security scenarios, and so the scale of exposure is generally well understood. Roughly 20 percent of global oil and a similar share of liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade pass through the strait, making it the most critical chokepoint in the global energy system. In addition, the vast majority of those flows are destined for Asia, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) noting that nearly 90 percent of oil and LNG moving through the…

Josh Hokit, who has been enjoying playing the heel lately, recently criticised reigning UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall. Aspinall has been on the sidelines after double eye surgery, and to date, he’s not even cleared for contact training or sparring. However, the Brit remains hopeful that he will compete later this year. In his absence, Ciryl Gane and Alex Pereira will fight for the interim heavyweight title on June 14. TOPSHOT – Britain’s Tom Aspinall reacts after being hit in the eye while fighting France’s Ciryl Gane during their UFC heavyweight title bout at UFC 321 at Etihad Arena in…