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Song Yadong, the lights will be bright on Saturday night (well, morning for us in North America).The stage is set for Song to impress as he headlines in his native China opposite Deiveson Figueiredo at UFC Macau. Song has seen mixed results against elite competition at 135 pounds, coming off of a loss to Sean O’Malley and a win over Henry Cejudo that was marred by a nasty eyepoke. Just 28 years old, Song still has time to prove he’s championship quality, but as the saying goes, it gets late early in the rapidly moving bantamweight division.Figueiredo, the two-time flyweight…

Congressional Republicans and Democrats included a short provision in proposed defense legislation on Tuesday that provides more clarification on what is needed for the construction of Trump-class battleships.Lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee announced their $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, stipulating that the new battleship built in the president’s name will not begin construction until the munitions packages onboard are sound enough to deploy.The NDAA provides a foundational sum of money for the Trump administration’s proposed $1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 Defense Department budget.“The Secretary of the Navy may not enter into a contract or other…

The U.S. Air Force cut the number of specialties eligible for reenlistment bonuses offered to active-duty airmen by 73% in fiscal year 2026.The Selective Retention Bonus list contains only 24 specialties eligible for reenlistment bonuses, compared to 89 in fiscal year 2025.Last fiscal year, the career fields included were: maintenance, aircrew, cyber, medical and special operations specialty codes. There are only two maintenance fields for B-52 and B-1 aircraft and three medical specialties eligible for fiscal 2026.“The Air Force assesses manning requirements annually, updating the SRB list to retain the critical talent needed for global missions,” an Air Force spokesperson…

Kongthoranee Sor Sommai won the first fight on a split decision. Nong-O Hama won the second by unanimous verdict. June 26 at Lumpinee Stadium is the tiebreaker. Nong-O faces Kongthoranee in a flyweight Muay Thai trilogy bout at ONE Friday Fights 160, streaming live from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, on Friday, June 26. Their first meeting at ONE Fight Night 28 last February marked Nong-O’s debut in the flyweight division after his legendary reign as an eight-time ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Champion. Kongthoranee took that bout via split decision after a contest that had judges divided throughout. The…

Jose Souza makes his UFC debut almost three years after first signing with the promotion – and after his life turned upside down due to a positive drug test that led to a long doping suspension.Souza – also known as Jose Henrique – is slated to face fellow UFC debutant Ding Meng on Saturday’s Fight Night show in Macau, China, and he opened up on the troubled times he endured since testing positive for two metabolites of the anabolic agent nandrolone back in 2023.“It was really difficult,” Souza told MMA Fighting. “I went through a lot of difficulties, a lot…

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia is using GPS spoofing to steer Ukrainian strike drones off course and into NATO airspace, Lithuania said this week, days before one of Moscow’s own drones hit a Romanian apartment block and wounded two civilians — likely the first casualties on NATO soil since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Russia’s interference reached Lithuania’s capital on May 20, when a drone forced Vilnius into shelters, shut its airport and cleared parliament, the first such alert in the city since 2022. The jamming has been escalating for nearly three years, since Russia began disrupting signals around the 2023 NATO…

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The U.S. Trade Representative is leading a Section 301 investigation into Vietnam’s intellectual property protection and enforcement acts, policies and practices, according to a Friday Federal Register filing. The probe will examine whether Vietnam’s “persistent failure” to resolve concerns around IP protection and enforcement harms or restricts U.S. commerce, according to a USTR press release. Per the Federal Register filing, the investigation will evaluate practices related to online piracy, counterfeit goods, border enforcement, unlicensed software use, and cable and satellite signal theft.…

Building a bigger and stronger upper chest is one of the most common goals in strength training. The upper portion of the pectoralis major creates a fuller look across the collarbone area, improves pressing strength, and contributes to shoulder stability during athletic movement. While barbells and dumbbells often dominate chest training conversations, kettlebells can be an extremely effective tool for developing upper chest muscle mass. Kettlebells challenge the chest through unique loading patterns, instability, and increased demands on stabilizing muscles. Their offset center of mass changes the mechanics of pressing and squeezing exercises, forcing the upper chest and shoulders to…

Saronic today announced the launch of its first Marauder Medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV), designed to deliver dual-use autonomous capability far from shore across the full range of defense and commercial applications. Saronic press release The first Marauder hull moved from initial design to on-water trials in under a year, a pace not seen in American shipbuilding since World War II, validating both Saronic’s development approach and the integrated production model by which it was built. “I’m incredibly proud of our team for achieving this milestone. Designing, building, and launching an entire new class of ships in under a year…

For years, Army officials have complained that integrating the service’s various pieces of technology together is much more difficult than it should be, forcing soldiers to be their own integrators once they and their equipment reaches the battlefield. But over the last several weeks, the service has been testing an approach the service hopes will radically change that paradigm, urging vendors to “jailbreak” their own technology platforms in ways that create new interfaces between them — or opens up existing ones that the Army hasn’t been using. As the Army tries to move toward a future in which the new…