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The Marine Corps has long insisted that it needs enough amphibious ships to keep three ready groups deployed at all times, but the demand for those units is much higher than that, the service’s commandant said Thursday.Every combatant commander—from U.S. Central Command to Africa to Southern—has requested an ARG with a Marine Expeditionary Unit on board, Gen. Eric Smith told an audience at the Modern Day Marine conference in Washington, D.C. “I won’t say how many of the ARG-MEUs our combat commanders ask for, but it is well north of three,” he said. “I’ll just say that it is well north…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of delays, the House voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and send the bipartisan package to President Donald Trump to sign, ending the longest agency shutdown in history. The White House had warned that temporary funding Trump had tapped to pay Transportation Security Administration and other agency personnel would “soon run out,” and that sparked new threats of disruptions for travelers at airport. DHS has been without routine funds since Feb. 14, causing hardship for workers, though much of Trump’s immigration agenda that is…

Catch & Build: Land of Pals lets you can build airships and explore unknown lands filled with surprises. The game offers over 10 classes, 8 major terrains, almost 100 different Pal types, home construction, vibrant visuals, and more. Joy Nice Games has announced the launch of their new strategic monster-catching adventure title, Catch & Build: Land of Pals, now available on Android. There is currently no information available yet regarding the iOS release. Catch and evolve unique Pals to build a home and battle others So, Catch & Build: Land of Pals is a new free-roaming monster-catching game set in a…

Apex wants to provide satellite buses to primes building proliferated constellations, which means building at scale, CEO Ian Cinnamon says.The company recently announced plans to make an XL version of its Comet satellite bus, adding power and mass yet still remaining small enough to fit 16 on a Falcon 9, Apex CEO Ian Cinnamon said in a recent interview.But, he said, “I think what everybody tends to forget about is the need to really build these at really high rate production. And that’s really the focus around Comet.”Cinnamon said Apex builds at scale by reusing avionics and other systems from…

Iran Press TV Thursday, 30 April 2026 7:01 AM The Iranian ambassador and permanent representatives to the UN Office and other international organizations in Vienna says the United States “falsely portrayed” the Islamic Republic’s peaceful nuclear activities as a danger in a bid to wage two illegal acts of aggression against the country. Reza Najafi made the remarks in a statement delivered at the 11th Session of the Review Conference of the Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday. He said that only in less than nine months in 2025 and…

Hungary has turned the page. After 16 years of rule by Viktor Orbán, opposition leader Péter Magyar has emerged as the winner by a landslide. Ryan is joined by Sándor Ésik, the lawyer and writer behind the Hungarian Muse, to understand how Orbán built his “soft-authoritarian” system, how it failed to stave off Magyar’s challenge, and what comes next. Of course, Orbán was anti-Ukrainian, pro-Russian, and antagonistic towards the European Union, so they also discuss what a post-Orbán Hungary means on those fronts. And, as a bonus, Sándor shares the bizarre story of how Orbán’s son — an Army officer —…

With the Russian-Ukrainian War now well into its fifth year, the ground war remains characteristically intense. Both sides have experienced significant losses in personnel and equipment. And yet, the front line has seen relatively minor adjustments. In November 2023, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, then serving as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, described how the war had become a positional-centric form of warfare. The war’s new character, including a host of unmanned systems, has limited the ability to execute large-scale maneuver. And attritional warfare based on limited maneuver and fought along a relatively static line of contact tends to favor…

Shock waves from the war Israel and the United States launched against Iran at the end of February have sent oil prices skyrocketing—from $64 a barrel a year ago to $106 a barrel now. This episode joins a long list of embargoes, oil-price shocks, nationalization waves, and resource wars that have made petroleum the textbook case of commodity-driven instability. Yet the kinds of economic and geopolitical volatility that defined the oil age may well look minor compared with the turbulence the critical minerals era is poised to unleash.Starting in the late nineteenth century, as the world industrialized and the internal…

It might appear that Cody Durden is the fighter the UFC calls whenever the promotion needs somebody to step up on short notice but after four losses in a row, he was cognizant that he was in a must-win situation for his next appearance in the octagon.Following a loss at UFC 326 in March, Durden received a call asking if he’d be interested in booking his next fight in China at the end of May. At the time, Durden was still dealing with some lingering injuries that he had to get checked out before he could give them an answer.“They…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org The Air Force has contracts in place for five additional E-7A Wedgetail airborne battle management aircraft, Secretary Troy Meink told lawmakers April 30. Meink also said the Department of the Air Force wants to work with Congress to find ways to continue to fund the E-7 next year and beyond, even though the department did not include any money for the program in its fiscal 2027 budget request. Meink, who was…