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America's top Army general warns the next war could reach American soil before troops ever deploy overseas.
Gen. Christopher LaNeve told Fox News Digital the military is rethinking decades of assumptions from Iraq and Afghanistan, where secure bases and supply lines at home were taken for granted.
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NEW: President Trump says the execution of the Fort Hood shooter will not be live-streamed as Sec. Hegseth had suggested.
Trump wrote on Truth social: “With all of that being said, I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device.”
“He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed. That said, the execution may be viewed in person by the immediate families of the victims, if they so choose. They deserve to witness JUSTICE!“
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BREAKING: New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia just announced from the podium that President Trump has asked Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign.
Charles Dickens, after witnessing a public execution in London in 1849, wrote to The Times about what he saw:
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The U.S. military has lost or sustained damage to at least 81 aircraft in the war with Iran — nearly double the 42 identified just five months ago — and a new Congressional Research Service analysis warns that replacing some of them could strain the military's ability to meet demands elsewhere.
The losses include 12 F-15E Strike Eagles, an F-35A Lightning II, seven KC-135 refueling tankers, an E-3 Sentry early warning aircraft that took a direct hit from an Iranian strike, and at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones. Some damaged aircraft have returned to service, but CRS flagged the aging E-3 fleet specifically as a capability gap that could increase risk in other theaters.
The tally comes eight months into a war that has already burned through an estimated $22.3 billion in munitions and raised hard questions about whether the U.S. defense industrial base can keep up with what the military is spending.
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Iraq's foreign minister warns ISIS fighters could cross the border from Syria — just one day after the last U.S. troops pulled out under Operation Inherent Resolve.
Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said Baghdad is closely watching recent ISIS activity in Syria and preparing its military to confront any movement toward the border.
Trump hailed the withdrawal as a decisive victory, saying ISIS had been "completely decimated." But U.S. officials acknowledge the terrorist group still maintains scattered cells across Iraq and Syria, and Pentagon assessments say Iraqi forces will now bear the burden of suppressing whatever threat remains.
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🚨HUGE action against Ilan Shor's A7 taken today. The proposed FinCEN rule will send a strong signal to Chinese, Emirati, and Kazakh banks that care a great deal about access to U.S. correspondent banking.
A7 was expressly designed to solve the problem created by Russia's exclusion from the Western financial system. That requires two things FinCEN is now going after:
- Liquidity outside Russia
- Foreign bank accounts capable of making apparently legit payments.
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NEW: Hegseth will announce a 20% reduction in general and flag officer billets during Wednesday's State of the Force address, doubling the Pentagon's previous overall reduction target, according to memos obtained by @FoxNews
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Based on the information collected by the Estonian Internal Security Service @kaitsepolitsei we can conclude with certainty that the arson attack on Milrem Robotics premises that took place on the night of 14–15 august in Tallinn was an act of sabotage ordered by the special services of the Russian Federation.
Such actions are absolutely unacceptable. In response, the @MFAestonia will today summon Russia’s Chargé d’affaires.
The perpetrators have been apprehended and no longer pose a threat to our national security. Estonia is a difficult environment for Russia to carry out such actions because we act decisively and swiftly to protect our state.
This act of sabotage is part of Russia’s broader campaign across Europe, aimed at intimidating us and weakening our support for Ukraine.
Our response will be the opposite. We will increase both our support for Ukraine and the pressure on Russia to end its aggression.
Let’s not lose focus and stay the course, because Russia’s actions are a clear indication that our collective exertion of pressure is working.
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Czech President Petr Pavel tells Fox News Digital Russia is testing how far it can push NATO — and warns that restraint risks being read as weakness.
“They respect power," he said, adding that NATO allies may need to start considering shooting down Russia planes and drones increasingly testing NATO boundaries.
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The Pentagon is rolling out a new warfighting evaluation for officers seeking promotion to general and admiral, testing how they make decisions in simulated combat scenarios.
More on how it works and my interview with Pentagon adviser Stu Scheller:
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New: Fox News Digital has details on Trump’s sweeping new Greenland deal — permanent U.S. military rights, authority to build new installations and provisions barring Russia and China from establishing military bases on the island.
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From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: According to the iPhone map app, you could drive from Madison, Wis., to Rochester, N.Y., in 11½ hours. But you could get there in only 16 if you flew American Airlines, writes @rkylesmith.
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Pentagon is seeking to buy 10X more PAC-3 and THAAD interceptors in 2027 than in 2026
Budget docs show 3,655 planned interceptors after years of much smaller buys
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“The math is not in favor of the West,” NATO SACT Adm. Pierre Vandier said in an interview, as Russia adapts to battlefield tech “on a weekly basis.”
“For NATO now, it’s a question of speed of adaptation. It’s a mind game.”
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Good @_phillipsmorgan scoop. As @theblackvault notes, now we see whether whistleblowers are serious about public interest or would rather keep making $$$ on the unyielding promise of unveiling long veiled knowledge. foxnews.com/politics/long-hi…
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EXCLUSIVE: President Trump has directed the Department of War and the intelligence community to waive nondisclosure agreements for former government employees and contractors who want to cooperate with federal UAP investigators.
The directive follows years of complaints from lawmakers and whistleblowers that people with firsthand knowledge were too afraid to talk. A new tranche of UAP files is expected "very soon."
The US is revoking the sanctions waiver on Iran’s oil after vessels were struck in the strait of Hormuz Monday and Tuesday
“Iran will only reap benefits if they exhibit good behavior. Iran’s actions in the Strait were wholly unacceptable,” a US official says
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🗞️🚨🗞️NEW: Rapidly advancing drone technology could become a national security threat in the near future, according to a senior FBI official.
It is "only a matter of time" before the type of drone attacks seen on battlefieldsoverseas reach the United States, FBI Deputy Director Chris Raia warned in an interview with Fox News Digital — as investigators race to prepare for upgrades that could eventually allow operators thousands of miles away to pilot unmanned aircraft targeting Americans.
"I think the biggest threat right now, kind of the five-yard target, if you will, is going to be that threat from a drone," Raia said.
Federal officials increasingly have become concerned that advances in commercially available drone technology are giving individuals and small groups capabilities once associated with larger organizations, lowering the barriers to carrying out potentially devastating attacks.
"I'm less concerned about a mass 9/11-style attack than I am a lone single person, a single attacker," Raia said.
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One detail in the White House's $80B Iran supplemental request for Congress - $672 million for uranium removal, nuclear inspections and verification
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