U.S. Marines and sailors reportedly drank an entire Icelandic city dry during NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018 two years ago today. The exercise, said to be the largest military exercise in decades, drew in military forces from 31 countries and sprawled from the Baltic Sea to Iceland, where some 7,000 American sailors and Marines marched into bars across the capital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Stars and Stripes reported at the time. Local blogger Eiríkur Jónsson said that owners of the bars were trying hard to serve up the American soldiers whatever they wanted but “they were fighting an overwhelming force.” An influx of thirsty American

A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama, according to an unsealed search warrant affidavit obtained by The Detroit News. The affidavit provides new details about how the FBI thwarted the alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer, a Democrat, and kill police officers by enlisting the help of confidential informants. One of the informants was a militia member who met a group of men accused in the kidnapping plot and became so concerned that the individual agreed to become an FBI confidential informant, according to

On Wednesday, the FBI said in an urgent warning that cybercriminals are using a wave of ransomware attacks targeting U.S. healthcare systems. The FBI issued a joint statement with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), describing continued ransomware attacks aimed at infecting Healthcare and Public Health Sector (HPH) systems with Ryuk ransomware. The statement came amid reports that at least five U.S. hospitals had been targeted within the last week. 'CISA, FBI, and HHS have credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers,' the statement

A C-17 Globemaster with markings of two Joint Base Lewis-McChord units made an emergency landing at Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan earlier this month. There were no injuries, and enemy activity was not involved, according to a statement from U.S. Forces in Afghanistan spokesman Col. Sonny Leggett. A video posted online Monday shows the C-17 landing with its nose gear still up. In the video, posted on YouTube by Country Living with MD, the landing gear doors are open but the gear itself was not lowered.   The C-17 landed on its rear landing gear and eased down onto the nose as it slowed to a stop. In

An unarmed U.S. Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California early Thursday morning and flew 4,200 miles before landing at a missile range in the Pacific Ocean. The Air Force Global Strike Command reported the launch in a Thursday press statement and the Air Force shared two videos of the launch. The first Air Force video contained footage and audio of the launch. The second video contained the same launch footage, along with commentary about the launch by 30th Wing Public Affairs member Michael Stonecypher. Stonecypher said the unarmed missile used in the launch was

Two Islamic extremist terrorists were sentenced to death Wednesday in Mali for carrying out one terror attack and planning two others, including the 2015 hostage crisis in which two gunmen killed 20 people at a hotel. Fawaz Ould Ahmed and Sadou Chaka pleaded guilty and expressed no remorse for the three attacks, French news agency AFP reported. Ould Ahmed, a Mauritian national, said he was personally responsible for a March 2015 attack where he shot five people at a restaurant in the Malian capital of Bamako, according to Reuters. Ould Ahmed and Chaka are best known, however, for planning the November 2015 attack on the Radisson Blu hotel in the capital.

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Whistle-blower Edward Snowden will become a father by the end of the year and his child is eligible to be a citizen of Russia, where the U.S. citizen has been living since in 2013 after releasing details of the U.S. electronic-surveillance program. Snowden's lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, said on October 29 that his client and his wife, Lindsay Mills, were expecting the child's birth sometime in late December. He added that 'at the moment, there is no information' about Snowden's possible intention to become a Russian

Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said 'Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past,' in a since-deleted tweet he posted after a terror attack in France. Mahathir made the remarks in a tweet that has since been deleted by Twitter for violating the platform's rules. The tweet was one of several criticizing French leadership following a recent beheading attack against a French teacher, Samuel Paty, who reportedly shared depictions of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The tweets came as another knife attacker killed three people in a Thursday

An F-16 fighter jet was scrambled to intercept a civilian aircraft in restricted airspace near President Donald Trump’s rally in Arizona on Wednesday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed the incident in a tweet on Wednesday afternoon, saying, “NORAD F-16 aircraft investigated a general aviation aircraft that was not in communication with ATC and entered the Temporary Flight Restriction area surrounding Bullhead City, AZ without proper clearance.” (2/2) The violating aircraft was non-responsive to initial intercept procedures, but established radio communications after NORAD aircraft deployed signal flares. The aircraft was escorted out of the restricted area by the

Democrats everywhere came completely unglued on Monday after Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Few were angrier than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “Squad,” who were quick to throw tantrums about Barrett’s confirmation on social media. Thankfully, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro stepped in to give Ocasio-Cortez the free history lesson that she […]

The former business partner of James Biden and Hunter Biden claimed in an interview aired on Tuesday that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and the Biden family are compromised due to business dealings with people and companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tony Bobulinski, the CEO of a former joint venture between James […]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reiterated it’s request for a federal judge to dismiss the case against former Trump adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. In his latest move, the district judge, Emmet Sullivan, ordered the government to certify to him that the documents the DOJ has relied on to dismiss the case were genuine. […]

Police in Philadelphia shot and killed a man on Monday, triggering protests that saw at least 30 officers injured, officials said. Police said they shot Walter Wallace Jr., 27, after responding to a call about a man armed with a knife. The responding officers ordered Wallace “several times” to drop the knife and he continued […]

How then can the United States get around the Iranian regime's adamant opposition to any restrictions on its nuclear or missile ambitions and secure a sound nuclear deal? Even if the United States secured a new nuclear agreement with Iran, or

One must also consider the "arguments" about the "evidence" of Russian disinformation. First off, we have unending "investigations" by various bodies and persons who are not qualified to investigate a price check at Wal-Mart. Here, I speak of persons

If Joe Biden is elected president, millions of gun owners would suddenly owe taxes on weapons they already own and millions would see the Justice Department deployed to confiscate their entire arsenal. Specifically, Biden has announced that as president he would require everyone who owns an AR-15 to register that weapon per the mandates of ...

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Over many decades, the United States has become

Wow. Another leftist teacher took time out to lecture a 13-year-old student for 10 minutes on why he should hate the president of the United States. Unfortunately, for the teacher the student was recording the lecture and later posted it on the internet. Now the leftist teacher is famous! Surprise!   Via Jason Rantz […]

This is the ultimate in bait and switch.  Raise the cost of tolls on bridges and special traffic lanes.  Then, instead of fixing roads, expanding  the freeway system, use the money on dirty, disease and virus laden crime machines—buses and trains—owned by government.  People have voted with their feet—they do not want government systems with …

Swiss and German economic deals might be aiding Iran's illicit nuclear weapons program.... The Swiss firm Ceresola TLS reached an agreement [in 2010] with the Rahab Engineering Establishment in Iran to deliver tunneling technology as part of a subway

Israel is a stabilizing influence in an unstable region of the world. It is a democracy, a military and technological innovator, an economically advanced country. It can assist its new allies in each of these areas, as it has already begun to do even in

This is the worst recovery ever. Debt is not being reduced. And things are getting worse. We have some hard choices to make. And those hard choices will bring turmoil.

There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered hundreds of the state’s National Guard troops to mobilize on Tuesday night to protect Philadelphia from riots. “At the direction of Governor Wolf, and PEMA, the Pennsylvania National Guard is mobilizing several hundred members in support of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management and assist local agencies in protecting life, property and the right to peacefully assemble and protest,” PA National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Keith Hickox said in a statement. “Assisting civil authorities during times of need is one of our core missions in the National Guard and our Citizen Soldiers and Airmen are

Protests turned to riots in Philadelphia on Monday night after police fatally shot a black man who they said was advancing toward them with a knife. Rioters responded by going after officers and destroying patrol cars. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Philadelphia police were responding to a report of a man with a knife before 4 p.m. Monday afternoon, when they encountered the man, identified as Walter Wallace Jr., 27. Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) spokesman Sgt. Eric Gripp told the Philadelphia Inquirer that officers told Wallace to drop the weapon and backed away as Wallace 'advanced towards officers' before firing. Video of

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The United States on October 26 imposed fresh sanctions targeting key Iranian companies, entities, and individuals active in the country's oil sector. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement that the activity of those sanctioned supports the Quds Force, the elite foreign paramilitary and espionage arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. 'The regime in Iran uses the petroleum sector to fund the destabilizing activities of the IRGC-QF,' Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in the statement. “The Iranian regime continues to prioritize its support for

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Armenia and Azerbaijan have again blamed each other for the collapse of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire in the month-long fighting in the separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region. 'I would like to state that the efforts of the international community, this time brokered by the United States, to establish a cease-fire, have failed. As a result of continuous shelling by Azerbaijan, civilians were killed and wounded in Artsakh (the Armenian name for Nagorno-Karabakh) today,' Pashinian said on Twitter on October 27. Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry on October 27 claimed

China announced plans Monday to sanction U.S. arms makers — including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Raytheon — over arms sales to Taiwan. CNN Business reported that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in a Monday press conference China will apply sanctions to 'relevant US individuals and entities that played a negative role in the arms sales.' Zhao specifically said sanctions would target Lockheed Martin, Boeing's defense contractor business, and Raytheon. In a statement provided to CNN Business, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said, 'We deplore Beijing's efforts to retaliate against U.S. and foreign companies for their sales that support Taiwan's legitimate self-defense requirements, the necessity of which

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. Suspected Russian air strikes on a camp in northwestern Syria run by Turkish-backed militia fighters have reportedly killed at least 50 people and wounded scores of others. Youssef Hammud, a spokesman for Syrian opposition groups, blamed Russia for the October 26 air strikes in the mainly rebel-held province of Idlib that targeted a military training camp for the Islamist group Faylaq Al-Sham. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the number of dead at 78, with nearly 90 wounded. The group said it suspected

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he did not see anything criminally wrong with Hunter Biden's foreign business activities. Reuters reported Putin said, 'Yes, in Ukraine had or maybe still has a business, I don’t know. It doesn’t concern us. It concerns the Americans and the Ukrainians.' 'Yes he had at least one company, which he practically headed up, and judging from everything he made good money,' Putin added. 'I don't see anything criminal about this, at least we don't know anything about this .' The New York Post has recently reported on a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter