00:00:00 Speaker 1: I don’t particularly enjoy reading the news these days. It’s always something sensational, always something bad. But what saves me when I get the good sense to put down my phone and take a step outside is wildness. Henry David Thurrow wrote that in wildness is the…

Dr. Shannon Carpenter is a rare breed among doctors. She wants to see fewer patients. The shoulder and elbow surgeon at the Kansas City VA Medical Center is finding ways to prevent bone fractures before they happen. She told Military.com that fragility fractures pose a serious, under-discussed threat to aging…

A recent test at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) marks the first time an advanced microreactor design has achieved fueled criticality under the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Reactor Pilot Program. A step that moves one of the technologies discussed for hardening military bases against grid outages closer to reality. Antares Nuclear’s…

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​After Cory Brown left the Army in 2015 after serving more than 16 years, he felt lost and isolated, missing the camaraderie and responsibility he enjoyed in the military. Body and mind still flowing with adrenaline and nervous energy, Brown needed to find a way to channel his anxiety. He…

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency plans to release a binding directive on Wednesday that tasks the federal government with rethinking how it manages risks to its networks and prioritizing cyber vulnerabilities that demand the most urgency, agency acting director Nick Andersen said.The goal is to push agencies to focus…

The nation’s largest federal employee union last week urged House lawmakers to once again bar the Defense Department from implementing President Trump’s executive order stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of its collective bargaining rights.In March 2025, Trump signed an executive order banning unions at most federal agencies, citing a…

Congress is unlikely to approve a third multi-hundred-billion-dollar budget maneuver to pad the Trump administration’s defense spending, Senate Republicans said Tuesday.The occasion was a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense panel, where Air and Space Force leaders were testifying on the 2027 budget proposal. The committee chair, Sen. Susan…

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Despite a seemingly quiet start to 2026 (at least, compared to what’s coming in September and October), this year has actually been a huge success for the gaming industry. There have been very few misses and a ton of hits, from indie successes to triple-A bangers, and the year isn’t…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has protested China’s deployment of what Manila describes as a floating “structure” with personnel on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, fearing it could be a part of Beijing’s effort to turn the uninhabited atoll into an island base, Philippine officials said…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nordic and Baltic leaders who were in Estonia for a regional summit Tuesday, a visit that comes amid friction over Ukrainian drones straying into the region in recent months. The drones have crashed into the chimney of a power plant…